Best tool to calculate link distribution?
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What is the best tool to calculate the total link distribution throughout a site? I know opensiteexplorer.com's "top pages" breaks down the numbers for you? Are there any others?
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Yes, ok. Then I vote up Asim's answer becuase that's exactly what I do
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Thank you for the quick response. For example, if I want to find the below:
www.domain.com has 50,000 links from 3,000 domains. **Those 50,000 links point to x number of pages. **
Is there a tool to help you calculate the bolded statement? Thanks!
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Have you tried using Linkscape? It's a great tool that can help you distinguish how many blog links you acquired, nofollows, follows, directory links, .edu links, etc. That is assuming if you know how to use excel.
I could be misinterpreting your question so I do apologize in advance, but the way I usually find a link distribution on a clients website or a website I am working on, I would use linkscape than download the data in .csv and open it in excel.
Than using Distilled's awesome post on becoming a SEO Ninja on Excel http://www.distilled.net/excel-for-seo/, I would break up my links into blog links, .edu links, .gov links, directory links, etc and this would give me a clear picture on what my websites links distribution is looking like, or what my competitors link distribution is looking like.
Hope this helps
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Hey Michelleh, I'd like to help you. Can you be a bit more specific please?
"link distribution throughout a site" sounds like it could mean many different things (ie. follow vs. nofollow, external vs. internal, etc).
Thanks.
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