Mar 27 2009

Identify Site’s Most Linked-to Pages

Knowing most linked-to pages of a site is a must if you want to gain value by getting internal links from those most powerful pages. 2 tools allow you to find pages with most links back:

1. Find most powerful pages linked to externally: SEOmoz’s “Top Pages on Domain” – this tool returns the list of subpages sorting them by the number of domains linking back to them (many thanks to Richard Baxter describing this tool possible uses):

2. Find most powerful pages linked to internally: Xenu (I’ll never grow tired of describing how many possible SEO uses this tool has):  for that sort the table by “Inlinks”:

And how would you use that data? Let’s discuss in the comments!

18 Responses to “Identify Site’s Most Linked-to Pages”

  1. TheZenBull (The Zen Bull) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

    Identify your sites most linked-to pages #SEOtip http://is.gd/pl2g

  2. bayareasea (BA Search Eng Acad) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

    #seotip Sage advice by @seosmarty http://tinyurl.com/dbuf3m regarding your linking strategy. Some good tools for doing some link analysis.

  3. Barry Welford says:
    March 27, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    This is a very productive exercise, Ann. If you have registered your website with Google Webmaster Tools then you can get the same information. Another way to check a given web page is to use the Yahoo Link: search with the URL. Whichever method you use, it should influence how you may edit web pages to optimize search engine visibility for important pages. Thanks for triggering these thoughts.

    Barry Welford’s last incredible blog post..You Have Won The Lottery

  4. seobag says:
    March 27, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Thanks, Ann!
    I know that Xenu is a great tool.
    But I have one question for you or someone who know.
    Do you know some tools for search most PR’s pages on site?

    Ann Smarty Reply:
    March 27th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    Try using SEOquake extension. Turn it on and browse the site, click on “Pages” and sort there by PR.

    seobag Reply:
    March 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks, it’s working.

    Aviva B Reply:
    April 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am

    I have the SEOQuake Plug-In installed, but I don’t see what you mean by the page browsing/sorting feature. How do you access that?

    Ann Smarty Reply:
    April 5th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Open any page with SEOquake activated and see the section called ‘Links’ to the end. Try clicking it and you’ll see the list of both internal and external links.

    Ann Smarty’s last incredible blog post..Search Cloudlet Adds Twitter Tag Clouds

  5. Fabio Ricotta says:
    March 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    I love to do is to compare the pages that have the most inbound links, then I re-optimize it, creating some new backlinks to other internal pages. This help me a lot with rankings.

    Fabio Ricotta’s last incredible blog post..Cloaking: Aplicação, Scripts, Blackhat e Questões Éticas

  6. geobak says:
    March 27, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    I will agree with Mr Ricotta…I would check which of my pages has the most backlinks and then i would reoptimise that page by adding a few links towards other posts of mine so as to take advantage of the link juice…

    On the other hand it would be useful to see which pages of yours don’t have many backlinks and if soem of them are important then you should build more backlinks…

    geobak’s last incredible blog post..?mage seo

  7. Steen Öhman says:
    March 28, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Use SEOmoz for most sites, but they are really not that strong when it comes to smaller/new European sites.

    Will try SEOquake

    Link sculpting can be very complex.

  8. Murthyseo says:
    March 28, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Xenu tool is good for find broken links. Useful information with demo.

    Thanks Ann!

    Murthyseo’s last incredible blog post..Keyword Research Ethics!

  9. Ceo Email Lists says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:35 am

    Hey even backlinkwatch is very useful.

  10. Fusion Unlimited says:
    March 31, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Google Webmaster Tools is another good one, as is doing a site: search with SEOQuake switched on.

  11. Steen Öhman says:
    April 5, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    Google Webmaster tools is perfect .. for your own sites, but to analyze other sites yahoo/excel works fine up to 1000 backlinks. Its free and will do the job.

    Steen Öhman’s last incredible blog post..Tips til Twitter 4

  12. Drupal Development says:
    April 9, 2009 at 9:45 am

    It’s great to find such a well laid out article.

  13. Drupal Developemnt Services says:
    June 20, 2009 at 7:45 am

    Very nice read. Thank you for the information.

  14. Chiropractic Care St Petersburg says:
    September 8, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Good tools for find most link back. I’ll check it out this tool.