SEO Tip for link building

We recently discovered, while working with a client, that Google WebMaster Tools now offer the functionality to download all the links to your website.

Example of where to download all links

Google place great importance on the links to your website to determine ranking.
The amount of links and value of the links is critical to rank well in Google.
For example a link from www.mg.co.za is more valuable than www.clickmaven.net

With this new download functionality you can export the full list of links and analyse them in Excel.
You can now see:

• Who linked to you
• The amount of links from each website

With this information you can now start to monitor and manage your link building efforts.
I would suggest that you:

• Receive links from as many as possible websites.
• The text uses in the link (anchor text) be one of your SEO keywords.
• Don’t receive links from suspect websites like link farms or affiliate websites.

Happy link building with Google WebMaster Tools!