The SEOBook Link Analysis Software (Beta)

It sure looks like a good deal of work has been put into it.

Now, let's see if they block this one like they blocked my little toy a few days ago.

It uses the API's...I don't see why they would block it. Are you referring to your spreadsheet claus? That used the API keys too correct? Why would it be blocked?

It doesn't say anything about system requirements?

What's it written in/for - can i run it on linux or do i have to mess with Windows?

Thanks for the kind post Todd

Now, let's see if they block this one like they blocked my little toy a few days ago.

It uses the API and other than mentioning sites I like (including TW - no paid ads) there really is nothing commercial about it...I hope they don't block it.

Windows... it says next to download link that it is for Windows.

Eventually I may see about making it cross platform if people like it enough.

Sorry, i missed that.

>cross platform

Yeah, have it written in Java if it becomes popular aaron! I'll try it out in the morning, thanks for making it available :)

May it bring you many links...

- it might be entirely wrong, and of course I hope they don't block this one, just as I hope that they haven't really blocked my little fun toy (yes, the spreadsheet).

Anyway, I've tried it, and it works nicely. Well done :-)

Btw. what's that about backlinkanalyzer.com and payment in the terms? Last paragraph mentions something about payment, although it's a free tool?

yeah... I need to unjack / update the old terms.

the tool was originally going to be a for sale one, that a friend was having made. I bought it off him, added a few features, and decided to make it free.

There are a bunch of things I wanted to do with the tool, but I just had to put something out on the market before I spent any more cash on development...to know if people thought it was on the right track or way out in left field.

Playing with it now, it looks fantastic Aaron.

Features I especially like:

Telling you whether a link is reciprocated or one way, with the options for crawl depth and size
The handy link to the whois
The ongoing update, especially of the summary.
Multithreading options (although I've yet to play with that)

Looks like thats my Sunday taken care of...

In a Y web search, it generally seems to stop at about 100 to 120 links - does it set the results
to 100 and crawl the first page? Is there a way to get it to pick up more links that I'm missing?

Telling you whether a link is reciprocated or one way, with the options for crawl depth and size

I am also thinking of adding the option to set a start page to crawl from (for when all their links are in one part of the site)

In a Y web search, it generally seems to stop at about 100 to 120 links - does it set the results to 100 and crawl the first page? Is there a way to get it to pick up more links that I'm missing?

Did you try using the API?

I registered Backlink-Analyzer as the Yahoo! API key.

?After messing around with it for a while I do have one suggestion (or maybe I just couldn’t find the info.)

In the summary there are a couple of numbers that I would like to see some sort of explanation for as to how the numbers were derived.

Total link popularity - where does this number come from? How is it calculated?

Reciprocal links - is this domain to domain or is it page to page?

total class C links - I think I get this one ;-), but you might think about putting an explanation as to just what a C block is and again, how you get this number.

I will do a bit more going back and forth with the developers to figure out how the numbers are calculated and refine them a bit to ensure quality, etc.

I will also explain them a bit better after I know exactly what is going on w them :)

This is sorta a beta launch, I just wanted to get a general feel for what people thought, and will do a bunch of refining here soon based on your feedback.

Please let me know if there are any other features you would like added... stuff like age of domain, whether or not it is dmoz listed, etc etc etc

Just downloaded and did a test run on Threadwatch without using any API's (couldnt be bothered to find my Keys for a quick test) and i thought it was WONDERFUL

Right up there with optilink - maybe better, i've not used optilink in a little while..

Love the oneway/recip thing - but how's it calculated? If the pages link back and forth, or the sites?

Also, some of those alexa rankings look well odd to me - Xan's blog has a rank of 2? - that's alexa though i guess, not the tool..

Very nice job aaron, and thanks for including TW in the 'resources' bit :)

must have cost a fortune to get developed...

PS: A prominent "this app dont phone home" garuntee would be a winner i think..

Love the oneway/recip thing - but how's it calculated? If the pages link back and forth, or the sites?

will get this info early this next week, and come up with a list of desired modifications / updates.

Also, some of those alexa rankings look well odd to me - Xan's blog has a rank of 2? - that's alexa though i guess, not the tool..

part of MSN... I think them Google & Yahoo! are like always in the top 3.

thanks for including TW in the 'resources' bit :)

I spend more time on your site than any other. It would be hard not to list it.

must have cost a fortune to get developed...

not thusfar, but by the time it is fully done it will probably be fairly expensive...but it will probably pay for itself in linkage.

PS: A prominent "this app dont phone home" garuntee would be a winner i think..

I still need to update the terms.

eventually I will give out the source code and will also mention there is no phone home sort of thing going on.

Top tool, Aaron - I've spent too much of today playing with it.

I guess recips is page to page - otherwise it's not picking up some that I know are there. I'm unsure of the worth of that measurement though as most "normal" recips run inside page -> homepage for both sites.

Gave a nice overview of what was going on - although in competitive areas, scraper sites mean you have to hack through the rubbish manually.

In all probability not possible with this tool, but would be nice to be able to input a number of sites and find backlink commonalities...

I agree with Nick about the phone home. And thanks for putting the tool out there.

In all probability not possible with this tool, but would be nice to be able to input a number of sites and find backlink commonalities...

have you tried Hub Finder 2.0?

I am thinking about maybe adding Hub Finder into this tool as it's own tab.

Surely it must be site to site, or there wouldn't be much point in being able to set crawl depth and size for that option? Or is it perhaps site to page?

I did indeed, and it seems to give at least twice as many links, I was just curious if there was a cut off for the crawl based option. It would make sense, since crawls could could take a very long time. Personally I'm happy to set a tool like that off and leave it all day if need be.