Comments on: Linkbuilding Tool Tip – SEOmoz Link Intersect + Top Pages on Domain

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:23:25 +0000

I’ve been using this tool for a little while now and it provides a great look into your top competitive link opportunities. Excellent tool when starting a new link building campaign.

By: Meaghan Fitzgerald

Meaghan Fitzgerald — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:37:01 +0000

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Link Intersect tool on SEOMoz and really enjoyed your blog post about it as well but have been left with a few questions.

The idea behind the Link Intersect tool is fantastic but unfortunately it doesn’t actually seem to work on a page basis, but rather on a domain basis. In your example, you use a page on the http://www.gardenaction.co.uk site about pears, however in the results from Link Intersect, one of the pages that comes up is http://ask.metafilter.com/109407/Just-a-tree-please which links to http://www.gardenaction.co.uk, but not the page you specified.

This seems to make the tool much less useful, especially when you want to compete with specific pages on big sites.

A company might not want to compete with very large domains for head terms but do think they can take on big players for mid-level terms – and the only way to get an accurate picture of why certain pages on those sites are doing so well – and be able to compete with them effectively – would be to see the power links coming into that exact page on that site.

Am I missing a key feature of Link Intersect, or is there a better way to use it? Basically, I’m finding that any site that is big enough to cover a lot of different keyword topics has backlinks appear in Link Intersect that are not relevant to the page I am trying to improve.

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:57 +0000

That’s a really important point Tad, and perhaps something I should have made a note of in this post – those tools are “Pro” subscription tools – you have to be a paid member at SEOmoz to make use of them.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:05:55 +0000

Can’t access the tool, even see it. I get redirected to “my account” and can’t find it there.

By: Kyle Fabe

Kyle Fabe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:24:32 +0000

richard,

great article. definitely a headsmacking tip that should be remembered and used more often.

having used both tools, i know their value… however, using them as complimentary items yields amazing insights and opportunities!

thanks for the great read!

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:30:10 +0000

Sweet tutorial, Richard! Instead of simply looking for just any backlinks on a site linking to your competition, targeting those pages with higher authority is absolutely a great idea. I haven’t played with the SEOmoz tool yet, but thanks to you, it is on my must-do list.