The Top Helpful Online Tools to Use!

 The tools below will not only help you find out about your competitors' backlink profiles, but they will also show you how to get backlinks that are relevant to your own site.

TOOL #1: Backlink Watch: The Backlink Watch Tool makes it easy to check a website's backlink URLs, anchor text, and the number of outbound links (OBLs) on the same page as that link.

Tool #2: Analyze Backlinks. This is yet another great way to find links to a competitor's site. This one gives you more useful options, such as the ability to filter out URLs from the same domain and look for things like how many times your target keyword is used near the links.

Online text tools make it easy to make changes to text in your browser. Text-Tool has tools for online editing of text. All text tools are free, easy to use, and can be found online.

No. 4: Using Google to search for something (link: yoursite.com) Similar to the one above, except Google's search engine ALWAYS says there are a lot fewer back links than Yahoo! But it is likely that the links that got into Google's results are affecting how they are ranked.

Tool #5: With the Alexa Backlink Checker, you can see how many domains link to a website and which domains those links come from. This Alexa tool is also a great way to learn more about websites.

Tool #6: Text Link Tool for Bad Neighborhood It's a great way to see what kind of links a website has, whether they're yours or those of a possible link partner.

Tool #7: SoloSEO Link Search. This is probably the easiest way to find back links that are relevant and easy to find online.

Tool #8: Backlinks for Web Confs Tools: There are more than 20 SEO tools on Web Confs. But this is the best way for them to get links.

Tool #9: Anchor text analysis of backlinks is the eighth tool. To use it, look at the text links on your site and compare them to those on the top site. Weren't they the same?

Web meetings are a great way to get things done.

Tool #10: The ninth tool is the Backlink Generator. Enter a keyword. Copy the list(s) as a whole, then paste it in Excel. Filter, or get to work.

Backlink to Webconfs: A short summary of what Analyze Backlinks and Backlink Watch found.

No. 11: A Firefox plug-in for SEO The SEO for Firefox Tool not only gives you instant access to the data of the top-ranking sites, but it also has a great feature that shows nofollow links in red, which makes it easy to see which inlinks count and which don't.

Google Webmaster Tools is the 12th tool. The Google Webmaster Tools show you how Google sees your website and tell you what links it has found and what their anchor text is.

Tool #13: Link Harvester: This tool is near the bottom of the list because it gives a type of data that the basic linker doesn't need. Even though it is old, it is still a good song.

Tool #14: The Search Combination Tool from We Build Pages. This isn't really an effort to build links. But adding words like "resources," "links," "favorite sites," "suggest url," etc. could make it more interesting.

Link exchanges: A tool that crawls a website (or a list of websites) and checks to see if any of them link to a certain domain.

Tool #16: Link Appeal Tool Should you link to your website? Use this tool to figure out, based on a number of factors, how valuable your website is. Get links from sites that are more important than yours.