User Guide

This tutorial will guide you though the steps that will help you promote your website by getting more link partners by analyzing the backlinks of your competitors.

As an example we will presume for this tutorial that we have a software product, let's say an image editor. We will use our targeted keywords to find our competitors and then get information about their backlinks.

First we will need to use our targeted keywords and check the backlinks of our competitors. In our example we will use the following keywords:

Now that we have everything we need let's start find some potential link partners by analyzing competitor's backlinks.

Go to the [Update] menu and select [Find link partners by backlinks...] and the "Find link partners backlinks" wizard will open in a new window. The first step is to choose the search engine used to gather potential link partners that match the selected keywords. Then enter the keywords in the "Search" section.

After pressing the [Next] button, Advanced Link Manager starts gathering results from search engines.

When the update finishes retrieving the results from search engines, we need to see which of the sites gathered we can use to analyze their backlinks. Delete the one you consider not to be relevant.

To gather backlinks only for some URLs, select the ones you do not need and then use the [Delete selected] button to delete them.

Select the [Next] button and the [Find link partners by backlinks] wizard will gather the backlinks from the pages you selected on the previous step and the relation with them.

Once the update finishes a list with all the backlinks from the pages you selected will be displayed. Select the [Gather additional information] button and the [Outbound links], [Onsite links] and [Page size] will be added to the list.

By selecting an website URL you will see to which pages that URL links. Those targets may be your competitors and if that URL link to them it may be possible to link also to you.

To filter the websites gathered we will first use the number of [Links] column. The links column will tell us what chances we have to get a link from that URL. The higher the number of links, the more chances we have to get a link.

You can also decide which website is relevant to you by retrieving additional information, like the number of outbound links, onsite links or page size.

From the list you can open the URL in browser, copy link address, delete selected URLs or assign URLs to a referrer category.

In order to keep these websites separated from the other websites from our project, we will assign them to a referrer category, for example [Important]. You can also create a new referrer category for this task from the [Project menu] -> [Manage referrer categories] dialog. We will create for our example a new category called [Found directories].

Now click on the [Add as referer URLs] button and the wizard will add all the URLs found in the projects as [Unverified Referrers] and their domains will be visible in the [Domain Information] report.

From here you can check the added URLs to see if they have a submit page or contact the website owners to get a link by filtering the URLs in the [Found directories] category.