Number of backlinks throughout time

[Heydarian]

From what I understand one important aspect in link building is how those backlinks have been acquired throughout time. So if a website gets a large number of backlinks in a short amount of time, the value of those links are reduced in the eyes of search engines.

Is there a tool in SEOMoz (that i can't find) that would show the change of backlinks for my campaigns in the last one year?

[cbielich]

SEO and Page Rank are like Investing

Slow and Steady yields the highest rewards.

[johnny122]

The payday loan site probably just made the buzz with a great content ;).

[Heydarian]

Thanks Tom.

[TomRayner]

Unfortunately, I don't think SEOMoz provides this.  However, MajesticSEO does. The tool's index tells you when the link was first discovered, which you can export into an excel sheet, which allows you to sort by discovery and visualise when the links were discovered from there.

Majestic also does provide a visualisation tool to see the acquisition of links over time.  Here is an example:

http://i.imgur.com/s5AdrN9.png

And just for fun, here's a payday loan spam site

http://i.imgur.com/O0WqeeJ.png

Hope this helps