Getting an accurate measurement of the number of backlinks point to your website is extremely valuable when working on your site’s SEO. For the most part I have primarily stuck to using Google’s Webmaster Tools, Yahoo’s Site Explorer, and Link Diagnosis to keep up with my backlinks. While I still highly recommend all three of these sites, I recently came across a new backlink analysis tool called WhoLinksToMe.
WhoLinksToMe is currently in beta stage and offers users a lot of good, free information. Once you complete the free registration, the site will allow you to enter the urls for any of your websites that you are looking for backlink information on. As with Google and Yahoo, WhoLinksToMe requires users to complete a site verification to prove that you own each of the sites you add. Once your site is verified, WhoLinksToMe will begin the data collection process of compiling all of your site’s backlinks. The data collection process an take 72 hours to complete, but users also have the option of uploading a csv export from Google to speed things up.
What really impressed me about WhoLinksToMe is the level of detail provided about your backlinks and the very clean, easy to read reports provided. The site makes is very easy to quickly learn key information about the links pointing to your site. I don’t really see the site as a replacement of the other backlink tools I use, but I think it is an excellent tool for those looking to quickly identify and understand the backlink information. I’m not sure if there are plans to begin charging for the service in the future, but I would not be at all surprised if some sort of premium level service is added. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the WhoLinksToMe website, it is well worth a look.
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There has been a lot of talk recently about how good SEO can improve your sites ranking, but I think that having a well coded layout is just as important. Your site should still make sense to people that have CSS and/or images disabled, and to achieve this the structure of your HTMl should be such that a plain html page can still be read and understood. This also makes it accessible to screen readers for partially sighted or blind people.
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Many thanks for sharing this post.
I have just added a wholinks to me account. Need to just add the code to the blog
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