Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks

Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks

What benefit is there in knowing how to check backlinks from your competitors? As the great Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, said; “Know yourself, know your enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles without loss”. In this instance, we are talking about the war...

Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?

Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?

Since Google introduced the Penguin update to its algorithm in 2012, practices such as black hat SEO link building have, thankfully, been in decline. Widespread manipulation of a website’s ranking involving the practice of buying links, spam comments, link farming and...

What Are Backlinks in SEO & Does Link Building Still Work? [UPDATED]

What Are Backlinks in SEO & Does Link Building Still Work? [UPDATED]

If you are looking for an answer to, "What are backlinks and do they still help SEO?", you're in the right place. When it comes to how well you rank in search engines, there are many factors which determine your position. Historically, two of the main ones were...

Are Social Bookmarking Links Effective for SEO?

Are Social Bookmarking Links Effective for SEO?

What is Social Bookmarking? In the same way that individuals use bookmarks in a web browser to curate content, social bookmarking is an online service that allows registered users to do the same. In addition, users can also annotate, edit and share web pages; in...

How to Use Moz to Check Backlinks and Domain Authority

How to Use Moz to Check Backlinks and Domain Authority

The SaaS marketing company, Moz, has been operating since 2005 on the core principle of ‘making the web a better place’. They offer software services based around SEO, all of which are designed to help webmasters improve their SEO and check backlinks using...

How to Check Backlink Quality and Trust Flow Using Majestic

How to Check Backlink Quality and Trust Flow Using Majestic

Majestic is a link intelligence supplier based in the UK. Capable of delivering powerful link analysis data for any URL, Majestic SEO is a tool designed to provide ‘flow metrics’ and enable website owners to check backlink quality for their own website and...