Backlink Analyzer for MacOSX

Just finished this backlink analyzer for MacOSX. The download is below.

How to use it

Simply type in an address (http … mandatory) or drag and drop something from your browser or text editor and click analyze.

After a while you should notice that backlinks appear and then all the anchor texts are searched that link to the page. In the third column you’ll see the percentage of the anchor text, that is how often this anchor text has been used in links to the page.

At this stage only the first 50 backlinks as returned from Yahoo are shown. Please also be aware of rate limitations.

Please note that the percentages of the anchor texts is already cumulated, that is a 50% besides “widget” means that “widget” was used as anchor text in 50% of all links.

What can you learn from this backlink analyzer?

• You can very easily see what phrases a page might rank for or is optimized for in regards to backlinks.
• You can see how a page gets its rank for a given keyword.
  E.g. I just analyzed a low profile phrase with a youtube video as #1. Looking at all the backlinks revealed that only a very tiny percentage actually had the phrase in the anchor text. So this page was mostly ranking by merits of on-page factors (the big fat h1 and the title tag) and the “general linking juice” of youtube. This made it pretty clear how it’s treated by the ranking algorithm and therefore which category it is. Which in turn proved that it’s probably a very low profile term traffic wise.

Please feel free to give feedback via the comment section below.

Compatibility

I developed and tested it on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I honestly don’t know much about compatibility with 10.4 or older versions. I didn’t use any apparent 10.5 only features such as GC or properties but I might have stumbled into some hidden traps here so please let me know.

Download
Backlink Analyzer.app.zip

Tags: analysis, analyzer, backlink, backlink analyzer, backlinks, link analysis, link analyzer, macosx, seo

7 Responses to “Backlink Analyzer for MacOSX”

• #1 Backlink Check Says:
  January 11th, 2009 at 11:41 am

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  January 11th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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• #3 Day Two Webdesign Says:
  February 16th, 2009 at 1:16 am

  Thanks for this great tool, it looks promising already.
  Are you planning for more than just 50 backlinks at once? If so, when is an update available for downloads?

• #4 Kaps Says:
  March 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am

  Thanks for your good work. Do you have any Windows version of this tool?

• #5 uberdose Says:
  March 21st, 2009 at 9:15 am

  @Day Two: While I could give it a quick hack to support more than 50, I don’t like the original arch anymore so I will have to rewrite it which will take some time, so I can’t any release date.
  @Kaps: No Windows version planned. There is OpenStep on Windows but I guess porting would still be a hassle.

• #6 Bookmark Software Says:
  May 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

  Also, may check with the developer of Bookmarking Demon.

• #7 bob Says:
  October 4th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

  Thanks for the information,it will come in quite handy for building backlinks to my site. Keep the info hot this helps people with business websites.

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