Does anyone use Adgooroo to manage Back links?
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One of the top guys here is a friend of Matt Cutts and makes sure your links meet quality tests, etc. Also helps you find quality sites to get links from. I'm sure a lot of you manage links for your clients and and your own site. Any users out there or know of someone who uses it and gives you feed back/ Thanks
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I can afford both, so both it will be. Thanks a lot.
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Although I have only used adgooroo on and off over the past 12 months, it has come along way in that time in my opinion, which would suggest it has likely progressed a great deal since your trail i would think. They have added a lot of filters to it, including a follow/no-follow filter - and the ability to segregate trust/social/geo and spam - my input as a tester was largely on the user side of things as well.
2 years ago, I would have agreed that no-follow links were a waste of time - but as we have all seen recently the SE's are allegedly giving them some credit now.
Raven tools I have not used at all - so can't comment on that I'm afraid.
As for whether adgooroo can/does find links that SEOmoz cant - to be honest - I haven't done any direct testing with one tool against the other so it would be a little unfair of me to say either "wins" in that respect.
The links that come through from adgooroo can be a little puzzling initially when you look at them to start with - but then their methodology to link building does differ slightly to that of SEOmoz - I have found very high quality links using both tools - but SEOmoz does more as a general all round tool.
Adgooroo as a tool (in my opinion) is very specific and targetted - and well worth swapping out your competitor urls every couple of months to bring in fresh data - as long as you are able to find new competitors - it holds a lot of value - I found I exhausted my first set of competitor urls very quickly and when changed to a broader set of competitors - the volume of potential links came back to life.
If I were to start at a new company tomorrow with a tool budget - I would use both tools again. Adgooroo in my mind is only really limited by your own market sector rather than by what it can find. It is also handy to have a tool that will just go and crawl your competitors and look for their links while you get on with other stuff. If the budget was limited to one or the other - SEOmoz would win because of the other tools it provides.
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I appreciate your help. i understand a lot about the seomoz tools and I'm not new to seo, just a bit rusty on the changes in the last few years. The one month i was referring to was just to find out with links i have are bad.
I have a raven tools subsc. too and I'm looking at many things i can do to better mkt. My concerns with adgooroo is that i had a trial 1-2 yrs ago and quit because i couldn't see how no follow links can help. i was recently told by them that i could filter the results by do follow or not. I can afford the price, even though i do think it's pricey, but beyond raven and seomoz I'm trying to see the benefit.
Does it really scope out sites to link to that seomoz can't find? I'm still not clear on the extra benefit of using them along with raven and SEOMOZ...
thoughts on that?
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You could do a single month, but I suspect you would be looking at limited data, simply because of the size of job the tool is trying to do. (When I first used it we had 3 months in mind).
The mindset within adgooroo as you may have seen is along the lines of domain profile - looking at data across all of the links that point at you and your competitors - and if that mindset is maintained beyond just the simple acquisition of links - then yes, getting rid of links to your site from "bad" neighborhoods would make sense.
It will take the tool a good 10-14 days to show you usable data, from there - if you can afford to dedicate at least 2 or 3 hours a day to using it and doing the ground work to pursue the links it suggests, you will get value from it, our link profile has improved as a result.
The tool itself is based on the ideas/methods of Eric Ward (a serious link guy thats been around almost since the dawn of the web) his methodology is a little different to most (things like "anchor text is not important" and "no real difference between follow and no-follow").
Other tools - see this post here on seomoz a bit intense to start with, but not hard to set up - check the links/domains that you are targetting with the mozbar running and it will give you a good idea of the site value to you from an seo perspective.
Hope that helps!
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thanks for the insight, if it's on the high side, what else can find those sites to link to that they claim they are great it? also how important is cleaning out bad one way links from poor sites. Is it worth paying for a month?
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I have and do use adgooroo link insight - both paid for and as a beta tester pre "Qbot2".
I have found it useful - and sourced links I think I would have been unlikely to find as a result, so certainly brownie points for them there. Depending on your sector or niche - you can end up running out of new link targets quite quickly - which then calls for some "outside the box" thinking and switching your competitor urls to a broader sector, and changing keywords in the same fashion.
Its certainly not a 5 minute tool by any stretch of the imagination, it will will work better for some niches than others. (I found some areas very "noisy" because sites had simply press-released their way to the top as it were)
The tool does have the odd hiccup with a few false positives - but then in fairness I have yet to see a tool in this field that is 100% - the support from them as a whole is good too.
Price wise - I personally think it is a little on the high side - and you do really need to leave it to run for the first 2-3 weeks just to gather enough data (although again this will be dependant on sector), if you are in a highly competitive market then there is value to be gained from it provided you can commit the time to using it.
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