4 Link Building Tools of the Future
Search engine optimization can be a very tricky thing. Fully automated tools that SEOs use for link building usually can’t execute a link building strategy as good as someone would manually. On the other hand, manual link building can be really time consuming and most of the people just don’t have the time. However, I have high hopes for some tools that I want to see in the near future, that would make link building much easier and will save the users some time.
Here is my list:
1. Linkbait Campaigns – Finding a good linkbait campaign can be pretty tough. It would be great if someone could build a tool that automatically finds the best places for your linkbait campaign. Just imagine typing a few URLs and the tool shows you the most shared linkbait it can find. This will be especially helpful to people who have to work with niches unknown to them.
2. Guest post finder – We all know how time consuming finding the perfect place for a guest post can be. Instead of wasting time, looking for the ideal place for a guest post, wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool that can do all that for you? I imagine the tool like this: You have two options – provide a set of related domains or select a niche. That way the tool will search for blogs that allow guest posting and you will easily find what the best and most relative one is.
3. Contact Details – Retrieving contact details from a bunch of website manually takes a lot of time. Imagine how easy it would be to have a tool that can do that for us in no time. However, I am not sure if all this would be legal. If it is, there is another problem. It is extremely hard to make it reliable. For example, if you make the tool look for the “@” in an e-mail, it will bring back all the e-mails listed on that website and they could be a lot more than just the owner’s contact details. So how do you which e-mail is his?
4. 404 alert – Imagine a tool that will let you monitor the backlinks of your competitors and alert you if there is a problem somewhere. That will allow you to e-mail them and just let them know that this website is no longer working and offer yours as a replacement. That will make a good impression because you helped them remove a bad links and substitute them for a perfectly good working one.
In conclusion I would say that a fully automated link building is probably not a good idea, but having some tools that can do the job easier is a great one. Imagine how much time those tools will save you and how much they will improve your job as a SEO. Let’s just hope that we will get to see them in the near future.
There are many SEO tools (in Denmark, where I work, the people refer to them as SEO værktøj) that you can use in order to make your campaign successfull and without doubt we will have some of those I mentioned in my article at some point in the future. However, until then spend some time and find those tools that work great for you.
Note from editor: for more (similar) link building tool ideas check out our last week’s guest post at SEJ: Link Building Tools I Wish Someone Would Build
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Great write up – to me, nothing beats guest posting. Sure it takes a little more time but you get the anchor text you want, a solid PR backlink and exposure.
Yes Justin, getting a solid PR backlink and exposure is what link building is all about. Taking time to comment on good quality, relevant posts will help you to not only have your comment posted, but to also stay within your niche and stay away from spam. These are factors that will push your link building farther than the competition and create an overall good image of your link.
Great thought, but how can automated linking find the proper site to do an authoritative link, which is what Google is looking for. A link from a medical site to a medical paper has more authority that a link from a highly rated Automobile site. So how would an automated piece of software know what a site has authority for? There is a great FAQ on this: http://www.seo4internetmarketing.com/seo-faq
The manual way is still the best and reaps the greatest rewards, don’t you think?
nice thought, to me the #4 looks more realistic and we can have it soon or sooner.
nice work. keep it up..
#3 is handled by BuzzStream’s bookmarklet. It looks at not just the current page, but other common pages to find email (and it isn’t limited to just user@foo.com, it looks for “user (at) foo dot com” and catches those variations too), phone, Twitter, Linkedin, and other social profiles, and then you can save all this with one click. It sorts the emails by which appear most frequently. Generally you can sort of figure it out by looking at the names that appear most commonly in the email and social profiles.
Great write up and really gets you to thinking of what’s in store for us in the future. Let’s face it, people are creating new tools, plug-ins, products and services each day so I have no doubt that these could possibly be implemented sometime in the future.
Thanks for giving me something more to think about!
Adrienne
Thanks for such a great and informative post
Has anyone got myblogguest.com to work? All I get is some maintenance error atm.
Ann Smarty Reply:
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:46 pm
It works right now. Was an error there for a long time? Is it working for you now?
Nathaniel@Dedi Box World Reply:
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Yer its working for me now, I should have updated my post to let people know it was only down for about 2min
I can’t agree more. Link building is very time consuming. I am happy to have some VBA programming skills, so that I am able to programm some routine tasks. You might take a look at my blog: www.spletneresitve.com if something would fit your needs. Point 3 on your list can be done, point 4 is what I am already using.
Nathaniel@Dedi Box World Reply:
March 3rd, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Would you mind sharing what your using for point 4 please?
#5 I would recommend a tool which can check the quality of a link. it should alert based upon a SEO values of the destination(link back) page. The criteria of SEO value may be
1. bad links to that destination page.
2. change in page rank
3. more links added to that page
4. Change in content which is not relevant for us
5. change in destination page’s domain value(compete, Alexa. website grader)
Your really did a wonderful job?
I’ve taken it upon myself to create 2 such tools! Anyone want to see? They are just for me at this point (SEO personage)
G
Indrajit Reply:
April 11th, 2011 at 2:32 am
Hi Dan, i am in need of such type of tool, can I have a look on it?
Nathaniel @ UK Dedicated Servers Reply:
April 11th, 2011 at 7:51 am
Hi Dan,
I would be interested in having a look at the tools you have made if you wouldnt mind please?
find a great way
I really hope they will have such tools in the future because they can really help out bloggers. It would make blogging such an easy thing to do and I am very sure many people would join the blogging community.
Yes i need some of them for increasing link for my site.