To track the backlinks of Competitor is very important in SEO. This will help you to track the sites from where it getting traffic and link juice. This will also help you to track the link building techniques by your competitor. You can modify your plan according to that and get rank higher than you competitor by following the link foot prints. To find and filter links you need some tools and tricks.
You need SEOSpyGlass to find the links. Download SEO SpyGlass from official site of linkassistant. A complete SEO toolkit is available. You can use free or paid version. Their paid version is one time and then you will pay after 6, 12, 24 and 36 months for updates. For trial use free version. Download and install it. Open the program on your desktop.
- Link Assistant
- SEO Spy Glass
- Rank Tracker
- Website Auditor
Click "Next" and let the tool find links. A processing view will be appear. You can switch the view of processing. It has "Processing View", "Tree View" and Results View.
Spy Glass get links data from many search engines. Initially it gathered data from search engines Blekko, Ice Rocket. Now it can get data from google, alexa and from link assistant network. In free version of SEO SpyGlass you can view only 1100 links. At the end of process it can tell you total number of back links, but you can only view 1100.
Click "Finish" to view links.
Software update message will prompt. Say "No" if you want to continue with free version. A complete list of link appear. It shows link and source from where it get that information. In free version you cannot copy links to any external file. To view a link simple click on it. It will open automatically in you default browser.The best part is to filter the links. Through SEO SpyGlass you can find links from directories, home page, forum, blogs and social media.
You can also use "quick search" to only find links with words in URL like forum, blog. You can also use "Report" , "Rebuilt" and "Analysis" options. SEO Spyglass can save multiple projects and you can switch the projects also.
More SEO tips will be available on blog soon.