Finding freshest backlinks
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Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance for your help, I am doing some competitor analysis and noticed that one of our competitors had a massive spike in the number of baclkinks it received in the past month.
Is there a tool or a method I can use to determine what links they have picked up in the last few weeks, by filtering by age of link?
Many thanks
Al
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Since discovered 'Advanced Link Manager' and its proving to be very handy.
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We use Open Site Explorer, also recently we have been using Hubspot which has a freshness ranking on the links, but we have found this to be very unreliable just from its analysis of our links.
We are looking into using Majestic SEO and just wondered if anyone had any recommendations of tools that provided this information.
Thanks
Al
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Never came across this kind of tool that can tell you when link went up or down. Your best shot would track them manually.
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What are you using to track links? Many back link checking tools offer the ability to see new links added over a time period.
Even if you have a simple excel file of the back links your competitor had on day x, you can run a new check on day y and filter out the ones that previously existed.
Hope this helps.
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