Search Engine Journal writer Ann Smarty talks about how exploration of competitors’ backlinks can give you an idea of your competition’s link building strategy and help you with keyword research among other things. She provides some tools for how to do this. The details are in the Search Engine Journal post, but the tools outlined are:

BacklinkWatch
Smart Backlinks
Analyze Backlinks
Link Diagnosis

What’s your favorite link analysis tool?

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