Best Link Analysis Tools for Competitor Benchmarking in SEO

Link analysis is one of the marketing tools used in the digital world for competitor benchmarking. Like in any other kind of marketing, link analysis is needed to understand where you stand in SEO compared to your competitors. Unlike in the past, now we have enough tools for link analysis in SEO.

This list of link analysis tools are for brands that would want to compare their SEO to that of their competitors. Before knowing about these tools, you should first have an understanding about the following:

l  No of links: The number of links you have on other sites is important when it comes to link analysis.
l  Anchor texts: The anchor texts related to your links are important to analyse the links of other websites.
l  Links of competitors: You should have an understanding about the links of your competitors, so that you can compare them with your own sites links.

Now let us discuss some of the link analysis tools for competitor benchmarking in terms of SEO.

Google Link

The insights provided by Google Webmaster Tools and advanced search syntax can help you find out the websites that have your links on their websites. Though this gives you only the data related to your website, it is helpful to understand the number of links you have on other websites.

Using Google advanced search and GWT has its pros and cons as well. It is quick, free and simple to use, but you may need additional plugins to pull all the data and it only gives you some data related to the links. It does not give you access to data like the Page Rank, etc that are important when it comes to SEO.

Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO is a link exploring tool that has its own web crawlers to analyse the backlinks, and is one of the leading backlink analysis tools available today.

This tool is partially free, quick in results, allows you to compare the data of multiple sites and allows you to compare anchor texts of various websites. Once you complete analysing 1000 links, you should subscribe for the tool by paying the subscription fee.

Open Site Explorer

The Open Site Explorer is one of the commonly used link analysis tools to compare the links of multiple websites and understand your SEO better.

This tool is easy to use, gives quick results, and can compare links and anchor texts of websites. It also can give you the details drilling down to specific pages. However, one of the flaws of this tool is that you cannot gauge the progress or improvement of the business over time.

Advanced Link Manager

Advanced Link Manager is a part of the Advanced Web Ranking tool which is one of the most popular keyword ranking tools. Beyond analysing the links of the website, it allows you to automate the link building done on the website. Despite its features, this tool is not among the most preferred link analysis tools for SEO.

Advanced Link Manager is a paid tool and is a software which cannot be accessed by web browsers.  

Link Diagnosis

Link Diagnosis is one of the link analysis tools that is easier to use, but one of the major drawbacks of the tool is that it functions only on Firefox.

The Link Diagnosis tool is free, though there are some advanced features that are available on payment. It is quick and you can analyse anchor texts using the tool. You can get the details of the pages drilled down to specific pages of a website.

Bing Webmaster Tools Link Explorer

One of the recent developments of Yahoo Site Explorer was its launch of Bing Webmaster tools. This tool allows you to analyse and track the reports of 6 months. The data available is up-to-date, free, quick and easy to use.

The above mentioned are the most used link analysis used till date. However, new tools keep evolving with new features to track the links of multiple websites, helping brands in improving their links.

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