Is there a tool that can take all your backlinks and categorise them into categories?

[clayts]

I am looking for a tool that can go through my site (and others) and categorise the backlinks into categories... such as Directory, Blog Comment, Social, Forum etc? To help you understand the backlink mix? Is there this functionality out there?

[RobMay]

As Russ said, there really isn't a tool for this. It takes time, patience and good data sorting after exporting the needed info. I currently have one of my SEO's working on a project very similar to this (researching, analyzing, exporting) back links and breaking the 5K down into categories so we can see the various information. Most of the backlink analysis was done with Moz, and Raven - and he did a great job presenting the data to me this week on Tues.

It's a long process, but worth the time, effort etc. You'll really get a good look at the data and with the various outputs from Moz in the OSE tool - you'll see domain and page authority as well to help prioritize them as you break them down into various spreadsheets.

I think if you go this route, your data will be much cleaner and prepped for use.

[HiveDigitalInc]

There aren't any perfect tools for this. Virante has an in house tool for this purpose but it is by no means perfect - essentially we determine the footprints of many common forms of websites that link, then spider all of the backlink pages to see if they meet any of those footprints. However, even this is imperfect --- how do you easily distinguish a link from a comment vs. the body of a blog post?  At best it will give you a high-level idea.

[generalzod]

Unfortunately I doubt anyone will point you to a resource that can do this.

First off, there are very few services that can give you an accurate representation of the links pointing to your site (you are however look at one site that can). Secondly, a link can be very hard to categorise because the site itself may not be in any particular category.

For example, I could have a webpage on my own site that I place links on as part of a link exchange. Then after 5 years, I've got so many that it becomes effectivley a directory.

A category for a type of link site is only a term given to it by humans in order to describe it. There is no semantic markup (none thats adhered to anyway) to describe the purpose of a site, be it directory, blog or otherwise.

Here's hoping that another mozzer proves me wrong, at which point I'll go and write an SEO tool that even Moz can't touch!