Can I find out how many of a competitors 25k links are coming from which domains?
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Can I find out how many of a competitors 25k links are coming from which domains?You can see in the image I uploaded, the first competitior, Suzuki of Wichita, they have 25,000 total links.
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@Matthew,
It is easy.
Let's say that someone adds a link to your website to their blogroll. That link will be visible on all pages of that website.
Or, maybe they sponsored a theme, and they have a footer link, which, again, is on all pages.
But remember, those links are not natural links and these practices can trigger a Google penalty.
When someone naturally link to you, they mention you in an article, list you as a resource but is not likely to link to you from hundreds of pages.
Nofollow links do not pass link juice. I don't know how they got them, maybe they bought a link, paid for text link advertising, banner ads or so.
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Hello,
Because I am newish at this...how can they be getting these 850 links from each domain or just from 1 domain?
And can you also explain how they have these links that are nofollow?
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Hello Matthew,
In OSE you can check out how root domains are linking to that competitor. 25k links, without using some sitewide ads (banners, text links - which should be nofollowed) are not that easy to get.
When you see someone having 50k links from 50 domains, that means that he gets like 1k links from each of those root domains, which is not that good.
As I can tell by analyzing your attachment, they have 25602 links originating from only (!!!) 30 root domains. That is approximately 850 links from a domain.
However, if you take a look at that green circle which is representing the ratio between the dofollow/nofollow links, you can see that 60ish% of their links are nofollowed.
In OSE you can group all their links by domain, you should have like 30 results so you'll know who's linking to them.
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Ahrefs in my opinion would be the way to go, however, in order to have the full functionality you would need to pay for it. For something like finding out what the linking root domains are you would use this as well. Hope that helps.
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I have tried this in Open Site Explorer, looking at the Linking Root Domains and it is only showing 48 there.
I used Ahrefs and it only shows 30 domains.
When I look at the Competitive Domain Analysis Summary, under Root Domain Metrics, it shows they have 25,000 total links? Where is this number coming from?
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Yea, have you tried using OSE? This shows you the links to your competitors website: the exact page and the domain.
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Hi Matthew
You should be able to see this in the free version of Ahrefs. You might need to sign up, but it's free initially. Some features are limited, but not the one to check this.
Pop in the domain you want to check, then underneath "domains" click the referring tab.
This will then list all the domains linking to the site and how many backlinks in total are coming from that domain.
You can also do the same if you have a MajesticSEO subscription.
Failing that, you will be able to get all of the data if you export a backlink report of an entire root domain into a CSV file from OpenSiteExplorer. Open up the file, highlight the first row and go to the data tab, then click filter. Once the filters are in, click on drop-down arrow, select "text filters" and then "contains". Now simply type in the domain that you would like to see the total count for. Click OK and highlight the all of the resulting URLs - that's your total!
Hope this helps.
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