How Do You Currently Analyze Outbound Link Profiles?

[cmooki]

So I'm looking at some potential guest blogging &/or article writing opportunities and I'm looking for a tool which will analyze the OUTBOUND links from the site....it would be handy if inbound were displayed too but not essential as there are many tools available for this.

When I ask for sample sites it is clear that a number of them (all?!) have been created purely for us content purposes, however it would be good to analyze the site further. A tool that could analyze its outbound links would give me a rough idea if the site is suitable or simply a glorified link-farm.

Also, if you have any useful links regarding industry averages on outbound links for blogs & article sites (eg Ezine) for benchmarking it would be good!

Thanks 
C:)

[KeriMorgret]

Hi! Just wondering if these answers helped solve your question, or if you'd still like some more advice.

[SEO5Team]

i second Xenu .Excellent tool for checking outbound links

Here's another interesting tool that checks all the outbound links on a particular page and validates them

[SebastianCowie]

Hey C,

I'd like to start my response by pointing out, if you're trying to aquire links from sites that you feel have been generated for content purposes only, then surely it would be better to target higher quality sites? Sure these sites are working now, but it's better to invest in real content on real sites in the long run, as the effectiveness of this epidemic of low quality guest posting is going to come to an end soon.

However, I'm not one to judge and we've all been there SO to answer your question - When checking outbound links I tend to use either screaming frog or xenu then dump the export into Scrapebox. I check for anomalies and whether the pages that the sites are linking to are cached (occasionally PR as well). From there you can export the links into your favourite backlink checking tool (LinkResearchTools / OSE API / Ahrefs) etc.

Other Outbound Link Checkers:

Xenu
Screaming Frog
Wintzell - http://www.wintzell.net/seo-tools/domain-outbound-links-check.php
Bad Neighborhood Tool - http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm (Checks external sites as well so can take a long time)

Not sure what the averages are, but I think a bit of common sense goes a long way in this instance. If the site has 100 guest posts, and 3+ outbound links in the author bio per page + sidebar links, you know it's overkill.

On the otherhand the site accepts occasional guest-posts and consists of high quality content, then they may have the same number of links as most good sites will link contextually to relevent sources. So averages / figures don't really help in this instance