Analyze your inbound links with ease
Overall Satisfaction with Open Site Explorer
Pros
- It links in with Moz’s domain authority concept, which we use as our main metric of how well our SEO works.
- It shows you which sites link to you, and ranks to them by domain authority. This helps us understand where our best inbound links come from, and to hopefully target those valuable partners for more links.
- It shows you which keywords you rank for, your position on the search engine results pages for each keyword, and how difficult it is to rank for those keywords. We use this to spot where we rank on the second or third page for medium difficulty keywords. We’ll then write content to target those keywords.
Cons
- You need to subscribe to Moz Pro to get all features, which is pricey if you aren’t using the tool regularly.
- I’ve found that competitor tools give larger lists of inbound links.
- You’ll need some understanding of how SEO works to maximize the tool. Would non-SEO specialists understand the difference between domain authority and page authority, or the difference between follow back, and non-follow backlinks? Moz offers lots of training resources, but it takes time to learn what you need.
- It helps us to track our inbound link performance over time.
- It shows us which inbound links are harmful (i.e. spam). We then remove them to increase our SEO performance.
- It has an awesome new feature called "link intersect," which lets you spot which sites link to competitors but not to your site.
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