Link Building Tools

These are all the tools I use for link building today. Last updated 8.9.12. If you have further suggestions/better tools, contact me.

• Open Site Explorer – Backlink Analysis/Competitive Benchmarking
• Ahrefs.com – Secondary backlink analysis tool, for quick diagnosis. Always have multiple backlink sources.
• SEO for Chrome – Page and domain-level SEO data
• Raven Tools – link reporting, keyword research, ranking reports.
• Citation Labs Tools – link prospecting, external link export, contact finder.
• Check My Links Chrome Broken Link Checker – For quick reporting of broken backlinks when pitching webmasters.
• ToutApp – Detects e-mails on a page for speedy contact information locating, also has capability to send e-mails quickly.
• Rapportive- Shows information about your e-mail inbox within your inbox, allowing you to get more rich data to use in customized contact of your link prospects.
• Scrape Similar Chrome Extension- Quickly pulls information from web pages, such as URL lists, for easy documentation and more efficient processes.
• Elance – For outsourcing SEO/link building tasks.