Poor Links - SEO SpyGlass
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Hello,
I have been using a free trial of SEO SpyGlass and from what I can see we have a few low value links...
Do you think we should get these removed?
Is SEO Spyglass worth its money?
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Sometimes you do want to get links removed if you suspect they are hurting your site. Richard Baxter wrote a great article today about how to determine the quality of your backlinks.
https://seogadget.co.uk/bad-backlink-checking/
Unless you've suffered a penalty, it's usually easier just to build up more good links than worry about the bad.
As for SEO SPYglass, to be completely honest, I've tried the free version of SEO SpyGlass, and although I can't say anything negative about the service, neither did I feel compelled to upgrade to a paid version.
That said, I appreciate Olga's comments. I'm not here to promote SEOmoz or provide product comparisons to a competitor. As an SEOmoz employee, We're both certainly biased, and truth be told, I've heard others say good things about SEO SpyGlass. (but of course, I've heard a lot of people say great things about SEOmoz.
You should try out both the SEO SpyGlass free version, and sign up for the 30 free trial of SEOmoz, and see what you like best.
Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO.
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Hi Warrantywise and DigiJoltMan,
thank you for discussing SEO SpyGlass, I'm always curious to get fresh first-hand feedback on SEO PowerSuite tools (disclaimer: I'm posting it as Link-Assistant.Com employee).
Here are several things I'd like to sort out for you:
1. "I have been using a free trial of SEO SpyGlass and from what I can see we have a few low value links..."
SEO SpyGlass has no trial, it is available in Free, Professional and Enterprise Editions. You should be using the Free edition, which lists up to 1,100 links per project. Paid versions provide unlimited number of backlinks, often 10k+.
As you can imagine, I can't be unbiased when discussing if the tool is worth itsmoney (yes, it is :)), all I want to say you can't judge of SEO SpyGlass Professional or Enterprise effectiveness from the Free version you're using - the capability is different.
2. "The benefit of joining things like SeoMoz or Raven is that the tools are always improving and staying up to date with the search engines. Where as with software you have no guarantee that the company who made that software will be in business in the future so they will not keep updating it. "
SEO SpyGlass is updated almost weekly - one of the major recent improvements is the addition of our own backlink database. We religiously follow our tools' compliance with search engine updates.
Link-Assistant.Com, the company behind SEO SpyGlass, has been on the market since 2004 and it intends to be there for its customers for years to come!
We have huge social media presence, we're absolutely open to any questions - you're welcome to shoot us those to any social media outlets of ours or through our support.
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When I was naive and innocent I looked into software and came to the conclusion it is a rip off. I feel the SEO SpyGlass is attempting to "cheat" and "manipulate" on a job that you can't really cheat on.
Are you adverse to joining SeoMoz? The benefit of joining things like SeoMoz or Raven is that the tools are always improving and staying up to date with the search engines. Where as with software you have no guarantee that the company who made that software will be in business in the future so they will not keep updating it.
All I can say is try the Free SeoMoz and Raven trails and see what you think of the tools. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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