To Use or Not To Use this Data?

Have you ever needed to get the link data for a website and ended up having totally different results coming from similar sources?

Why didn’t they provide with the same results? How are you supposed to know which one are the REAL ones?

And if you think of all the hours you’ve spent just to get to this dead end….

And this is not the only inconvenience you have when querying the search engines for link data…

But there are solutions for these problems. Let me break them down for you:

Have certainty over your link data

The reason why the search engines and other link databases (such as OpenSiteExplorer) provide different results is because they are not too frequently updated and links have changed since the last time they were checked. Some new ones may have appeared and others may have been removed.

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3 Simple Things To Organize Your Linking Agenda

Mobile phones wouldn’t be so great if you would still have to remember all the telephone numbers stored in it, right?

Or if you would have to walk around, carrying a telephone numbers agenda…. That would be awful!

The same way, you should neither deal with enormous lists of emails to be able to contact your link partners!

Or search through your entire pile of messages (and I know you have one :D ) to find your latest conversation with some partner of yours!

Therefore I’ve put together a small list of features that will make your work easier and will get you addicted to this tool for keeping contact with your link partners. Continue reading

4 Keys to Better Manage your Link Building

Links to your webpages, come and go.

Maybe today you have gained a few links but also lost others.

You can never know what changes have been made within your link profile, unless you monitor your links. Of course, there are probably hundreds or thousands of them, but don’t panic.

Monitoring is not as hard as it is to build. All you need to do is to use the right tool.

So, let me resume the main things you should do on a current base to stay on top of your link profile.
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Evaluate your link profile with Advanced Link Manager

Have you ever wondered if your links are good enough or if your link building strategy is paying off?

To answer this you would probably have to:

  • Make a list of all pages linking to you and to your competitors and compare them
  • Evaluate the quality of these links (by page rank, mozRank etc)
  • Get an overall value of your website and your competitors websites based on the previous data you have gathered
  • Finally, discover the value of your link profile

Where to start from?

On the web there are several sources of link data you can use, such as OpenSiteExplorer, Yahoo! SiteExplorer, SEMRush. They can help you get the information you need for this type of analysis. But the bad news is that this data has to be manually processed in order to extract some insights out of it. Continue reading

How to increase link popularity using competitive analysis

Increase Link Popularity

Increase Link Popularity

Have you ever asked yourself how to find new ways of getting more backlinks? Everyone does.

Some people enhance search engine optimization campaigns using web stats software, conduct effective keyword research, analyze backlinks or write a better copy of their websites. But you can add extra value to a campaign by conducting a competitive link analysis.

Anyone knows the value of inbound links in a search engine optimization campaign and you bet your competitors already have some good backlinks pointing to them. But what if you could find those websites and get yourself the high quality backlinks they already have?

Sounds good, but let’s see how we can do this using Advanced Link Manager: by analyzing your competitor’s referrers to find you new link partners and find a way to get a link from them. Continue reading

Analyze Domain Quality

Analyze Domain QualityAnalyze Domain Quality is a new feature available from the version 7.0, which allows you to analyze the quality of one or multiple domains. They can be your own domains, your competitors domains or domains of your potential link partners from where you are looking to get links. The Analyze Domain Quality tool helps you check if a link from a specific domain can add value to your link popularity.

You can access the Analyze Domain Quality from the [Tools] menu. In the new window you can add domains manually, import them from a file or by parsing an URL. Continue reading

How I keep track of bloggers reviews with ALM

Track ReferrersYou may already know that if you are a blogger or an Internet columnist and write a review about Advanced Link Manager or Advanced Web Ranking, you get an Enterprise license free of charge.

From the time we published this offer we received lots and lots of emails from people who wanted to spread the word about our applications. To thank them for their efforts we rewarded them with a free license.

Since we started, I am managing and keep track of all these reviews. Sometimes this task becomes time consuming, but it’s worth doing it. In this short article I want to share with you the entire process of doing that.

In Advanced Link Manager I keep track of reviews, see if they are still linking back and keep details of the bloggers who wrote the articles.

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3 Easy Steps to Get New Inbound Links

Get New Inbound Links

Get New Inbound Links

Link building is an important step when striving to improve your website ranking,  because good inbound links from authoritative websites with appropriate anchor text can make the difference in your rankings.

But link building is not as easy as it appears to be. Link building involves market research, competitive analysis, in depth analysis of potential links and requires  a good ability to sell when asking people for links. However, by the end of this article you will discover new ways of increasing your link popularity, all because you will learn how to use Advanced Link Manager more effectively when conducting link building campaigns.

There are different types of links, which can range in quality and there are different ways to get them. Here are some important link sources and a briefly explained way to get them:

  • Links from authority websites – These links should be your start point in a link building campaign because they can make the difference in you rankings
  • Directory links – Try to stick to the most important ones, like Yahoo Directory, DMOZ, Best of the Web, Business.com and also add some  industry specific directories (you can search for those using your industry specific keyword and “directory”)
  • Blogs – Links from relevant blogs with targeted anchor text will add value to your link popularity
  • Online PR – Can have good value if you can use the targeted anchor text
  • Links from your partners or friends – Ask your partners and friends to link to your website and again use targeted anchor text
  • Review links – Companies producing software can get review links which can be obtained just because you are well known or by offering incentives

Conducting an analysis of your competitors and trying to get links from their referrers can also help you improve your link popularity. This will result in securing you a higher rank in search engines.

Now that you know what types of links you can obtain and have an idea where to get them from, let’s see how you can do it. Continue reading

Welcome to the ALM Blog!

Advanced Link Manager logoLast month we launched the Advanced Web Ranking Blog and as promised we are finally launching the Blog for our link popularity software.

We actively listen to our customers and this blog is the result of their requirements.

It will contain useful information that will help you discover how to effectively use Advanced Link Manager to find new link partners, conduct competitive analysis, manage your existing backlinks, improve your link popularity.

What do we want to achieve with this blog?

From the beginning we want to make clear the reasons why we decided to start this blog. We want to:

  • inform and educate our customers on how to best take advantage of Advanced Link Manager to improve their link popularity
  • improve communication with our customers and make them feel more comfortable using our product
  • receive feedback about how our customers use and interact with our product
  • add personality to our brand, giving you a more personalized product and service

Because we decided to encourage multiple folks from our team to post, you will read sometimes informal posting, but most of the time, comprehensive information and advanced tips and tricks.

Here are some of the benefits of reading this blog:

  • find out more about Advanced Link Manager, read tips and best practices from those who created it
  • stay tuned with the latest improvements and new features
  • get links to helpful resources

If you like what you read please subscribe to the RSS feed and let us know what you think. Any suggestions or questions you may have are welcome.

The Advanced Link Manager Team
http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/