Link Building Features/Tutorials

[Falconberg]

I am previewing this software and am getting a little lost in its features. I am really looking for something that will help me identify  link prospects, filter out the low-authority domains, and organize this information into an actionable list. Can anyone point me to resources (tutorials, etc.) on how to do that with this software?  Which tools should I be using and how can I use them to reach these goals?

[Falconberg]

Thanks for the responses.  Is there a way to run queries on OSE?  I understand how to use OSE to check out competitors links, but what if I want to do a ["submit site" + keyword] type inquiry.  Those are the result that I need help sorting through.  Can this be done through OSE?

[waynekolenchuk]

Hi Jack. My experience has been that aside from social signals and high value directory submissions, your primary method will be to use Open Site Explorer to reverse engineer the backlinks of your competitors. You can download the OSE results as an Excel spreadsheet and manipulate them there if you have some familiarity with Excel.

[SteveOllington]

Open Site Explorer. It shows you everything you need to know to work out which links are good and which aren't that your competition have.

[Falconberg]

Thanks for the responses.  I've used those tools, and the don't seem to have the functionality I am looking for.  For example, the link finder will help me generate a bunch of queries to identify sites that might allow me to submit my url.  But how do I separate the wheat from the chaff? Ideally, I would like to be able to export these results to a spreadsheet, filter out those that aren't worth considering, and focus my attention on the ones that are most likely to actually benefit my site.

I could generate the queries myself.  What I need is something to help me turn this into an actionable list of high value prospects. I was hoping that SEOmoz software would help me do this, and that's really what I am looking for from this preview.  Have I picked the wrong toolset?  Any other recommendations?

[SteveOllington]

Which software? The SEOmoz tools?

Here's a video by Distilled: http://www.distilled.co.uk/conference-calls/recordings/seomoz-tools.html

[aarondicks]

Check out the following resources:

• http://coolmarketingstuff.com/how-marketers-can-use-seomoz-tools-to-improve-seo/

Also, set up a campaign and request a custom crawl (just search custom crawl) - this will bring up any issues on your website which may potentially be holding you back.

Check out your competitors on Linkscape/Open Site Explorer - the links are ordered by worth - so the ones at the top are the ones you should be chasing

• http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php
• http://www.seomoz.org/link-finder
• http://www.seomoz.org/tools

Then read some of the blogs on the Daily Blog to get up to speed with how to use some of the tools to better effect, but as I said, check out the campaign area first..

Regards

Aaron