Link Research Tools
| Tool name: | Link Research Tools |
| Company behind the tool: | Cemper |
| Type of tool: | Advanced link analysis |
| Costs: | €20 for 3 days, or minimum €100/ month |
| Description: | Link Research Tools help you to get new backlinks and to optimize your existing backlinks. |
About the tools
Link Research Tools is a selection of 5 link building tools, brought to you by Austrian link builder Christoph Cemper.
The Common Back Links Tool finds link hubs, the Common Outbound Links Tool helps you to find authorities, the Back Link and Anchor Text Tool measures anchor text distribution, the Link Juice Tool measures link juice and the Strongest Subpages Tool finds the strongest subpages of a domain.
Both the Strongest Subpages Tool and the Link Juice Tool can probably be very useful to some, but not for me, unfortunately. The other three tools, however, can certainly help you to find new link targets, or to get more information about your (or your competitor’s) link profile.
Common Backlink Tools
The Common Backlink Tools is similar to both SEObook’s Hubfinder and SEOmoz’ Competitive Link Finder, and searches for websites that link to two or more of your competitors. You can enter up to 50 websites to check (depending on the package you’ve purchased), after which you can apply several filters too. Reports can take up to several hours before they’re completed, but when they have, you’ve got quite a list of potential link targets to wade through.
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Backlink and Anchor Text Tool
The Backlink and Anchor Text Tool (or BATT) finds all backlinks to your domain from different search engines. The tool also checks if these links still exist, if they are do-follow or no-follow and it shows several other parameters, such as IP distribution, too.
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Common Outbound Links Tool
This tool uses Bing’s linkfromdomain: to highlight important (secondary) authorities in or near your industry. It can help you to get indirect links from your competitors, and reveals important hubs that you could add to your link target list.
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My Opinion
Although at least three of the tools can definitely be very useful, it’s the price that is -in my opinion- the biggest disadvantage. The most extensive package costs €200 a month (about $265 at the moment), making it one of the most expensive tools on the market.
The Backlink Anchor Text tool provides interesting information, but either Link Diagnosis or Majestic SEO can pretty much do the same. However, the Common Outbound Link Tool and the Common Backlink Tool can certainly find you some very interesting link targets, but you’d have to ask yourself if that’s worth the $3,200/yr.
| Rating: | 70/100 |
| Pros: |
In depth analysis Uses lots of external data, incl. MajesticSEO and SEOmoz |
| Cons: |
Expensive The large amount of data and large table sets can be overwhelming |
Check out all the other link building tools I’ve reviewed too!
