I’m not sure if this is old news or not but its good news for Link Building. I just discovered a great consolidation of tools that helps with link building. The two tools are Yahoo Site Explorer and SEO Quake.
While doing a backlink check on my site in Yahoo, I had inadvertently left SEO Quake on. (Usually I turn it off when I’m not using it because it slows my browser down) When the backlinks loaded, SEO Quake analyzed each back link that I have! This is great because it allows you to sort your links by PageRank, Age, Alexa, even by the amount of backlinks your backlinks have.
If you are going to use these two tools together, you have to be careful because the tool will query Google and yahoo pretty hard which allot of times will result in them shutting you out. (If this happens you’ll have to wait a couple hours until they let you back in.) One thing you can do is go into SEO quake, then go to preferences, advanced and where it says “parameters request delay” enter in “1500″ also enter “1500″ in notifications close delay. You should also check “use cash”.
This should let you query the engines without them getting upset and kicking you out!
If they still kick you out, download tor Identity anonymity This tool will swap your IP address with other tor users every 10 min. This should keep the engines from kicking getting mad at you!
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Hi David,
Please correct me if im wrong. You said this post as link building with yahoo, seo quake but in post you said that you analyzed back links for your site and know their pr,age, alexa etc using quake. Now my question is that is this process helps in getting new links ?
Great tip! I use these tools together quite often and didnt know how to tweak SEO Quake to stop it from getting me kicked out. Thanks!
@Prakash Balaji you can use the information to prioritize your efforts. See where you are getting good links by analyzing them, then sort your links by PageRank or Alexa or whatever you want. Then go back and reengage with those sites as they are giving you good links, and building relationships with bloggers and webmasters that give good links can’t hurt!
@ Bob White ya it gets frustrating when you simply want to get PageRank info but Google kicks you out.
Thanks for these tips. I was having the same problem with getting kicked out from too many queries for PR and all that. For some reason, it sometimes helps if I open a new browser window. The queries don’t go through in the old window but they do in the new one. Also thanks for that tor tool, I’ve been wanting something like this for quite a while and couldn’t find it.
the tool will query Google and yahoo pretty hard which allot of times will result in them shutting you out. (If this happens you’ll have to wait a couple hours until they let you back in.) One thing you can do is go into SEO quake, then go to preferences, advanced and where it says “parameters request delay” enter in “1500″ also enter “1500″ in notifications close delay. You should also check “use cash”.
“How to use this tool”
very interesting i will certainly certainly check it out considering i have never seen these before especially seo quake
SEO Quake is new to me, I’m going to give it a try.
Tor is seriously slow, I prefer downloading a TSV from yahoo site explorer and then using digixmas tool for getting PR and other such tools for getting backlink information.
Yahoo site explorer is gold in terms of building links. Some people swear by SEO Elite by Brad Callen, however, I prefer sorting through backlinks myself to see what I’m up against. Plus, Callen is known to spam his customers, a definite no no.
thanks for the tip about SEO Quake MS for not being ban, helps a lot.
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