Where The Good Links Are
So it only makes sense that there is a big demand for scoping out good links, researching where your competitor’s got their good quality links and monitoring your own domain’s links to ensure they are good. There are already some back link explorer tools available to us at the moment, such as Yahoo Site Explorer (YSE), Open Site Explorer and now Majestic Site Explorer.
This brings value to site owners and SEO agencies as Majestic tends to show one of the most complete reports of overall links in a site’s back link profile. Free accounts are available, but you won’t be able to see all of the data that is available unless you sign up for membership. There is, however, still value for users with free accounts to use this program because you are still gaining access to useful data.
Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is an exciting tool which will show you the links passing the most link quality or an overview of 1,000 links for a standard premium account. Yahoo Site Explorer, the only totally free site explorer tool, has long been teetering on the brink of extinction when claims that YSE would work as an inner function within Bing Webmaster Tools after the Yahoo-Bing fusion, however, it’s still going strong today.