What is a Backlink Monitoring Tool
The Lookkle Backlink Monitoring Tool is an online service that displays a limited number of a website's top backlinks.
This tool has the advantage of showing the backlinks in a table clearly and precisely, giving the possibility of ordering each link according to its main characteristics.
Information displayed by each Backlink
- URL FROM.
Url from where the backlink comes from with its embedded page title. - URL TO.
Any Url of our website where the backlink links to. - ANCHOR TEXT.
Name of the link of the backlink from the page that is linking. You can check it by going directly to the linking page and look for the backlink directly.
It is important that most of the anchor text of all the backlinks that link to our page do not give the appearance of being fictitious, that is, do not have constantly the same texts that include keywords of our page. - IMAGE SOURCE.
Indicates if our page is linked from an image. - ALT.
In the case that our page is linked from an image, the ALT attribute indicates if this image has a title.
This can be comparable to the Anchor Text in the case of text links and from the point of view of search engines has the same utility. - DOFOLLOW.
It tells us if our backlink from the source page is relevant. In case it is not relevant the backlink will not have the same value for the main search engines. - LINK RANK.
It measures the authority of a specific webpage.
Link Rank is influenced by factors such as the number and quality of backlinks pointing to that page, as well as the overall authority of the domain.
Websites with high Link Rank are more likely to rank higher in SERPs for specific keywords.
For instance, a webpage with a Link Rank of 60 is more likely to appear on the first page of search results compared to a webpage with a Link Rank of 20. - DOMAIN RANK.
It is a measure of the overall authority and credibility of a website. It is calculated based on various factors such as the number of quality backlinks, the relevance of the linking domains, and the overall trustworthiness of the website.
Websites with higher domain rank are more likely to rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) and attract organic traffic.
For example, a website with a domain rank of 70 is considered more authoritative than a website with a domain rank of 30. - ESTIMATED TRAFFIC.
Web traffic or estimated visits of the page that links to us. A page with more visits is a page with a higher ranking and will have more importance for the main search engines.
A page with a large number of visits that links to us will probably also give us a large number of visits to our website, in addition to transferring part of its importance to our site. - IP FROM.
IP FROM indicates what is the IP address of the page that links to us.
The IP address of a backlink can be important because the higher the number of backlinks with different IP addresses a web page has, the higher the number of possibilities of increasing the ranking of our site, since it clearly indicates that our page is being linked from different sites.
Although this is not always true, because there are very important web pages that have the same IP with different domain names. - EXTERNAL DOMAINS.
This parameter indicates the number of external web pages that owns the page that has our backlink and that links to us.
A page with a large number of external links can be considered as a link farm page and can lower our ranking in the major search engines. So we would be interested in being linked from a web page with few external links. - SPAM.
This parameter provides insights into the quality and relevance of the websites linking to the site.
Toxic or spammy backlinks can have a detrimental effect on a website's search engine rankings and online reputation.
Toxic or spammy backlinks can be defined as links that are low-quality, irrelevant, or manipulative in nature. - REVISION DATE.
Date of crawling of the backlink
It is necessary to take into account that from the date of crawling of the backlink until the current date our backlink could have disappeared, which can be bad news from the point of view of the web positioning in the main search engines.
How to use the Backlink Monitoring Tool
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To use Lookkle's Backlink Monitoring Tool, you simply have to enter the URL for which you are interested in knowing the backlinks and press Enter.
After a few seconds, you will get a complete result of the main backlinks to that site. - In the table shown, it is possible to sort the backlinks according to the characteristic in which you are interested, you simply have to click on the up arrow or down arrow located next to the header of the column to be sorted.
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For Example, if we want to sort the backlinks according to the number of visits the backlinks receive, click on the up arrow located on the right side of the descriptive title "Estimated Traffic".
We will see at the top the backlinks with the most traffic, and those may interest us the most for our site.
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If we want to order the backlinks according to the ranking of each one of them, we simply click on the arrow next to the "Link Rank" headline.
- We can also know the IP address of a backlink, its Spam level, the number of external links, and if the page of that backlink is online simply by clicking on one of the links located on the right side of the table, for example, by clicking on "Check This IP" in the row where the page of our backlink in which we are interested is located.
Benefits of the Backlink Monitoring Tool
Competitor analysis
Lookkle's backlink monitoring tool allows you to view competitor backlink information. This information gives you the opportunity to obtain possible backlinks from the competition.
Analysis of the state of the links
The backlink monitoring tool allows you to track the link ranking and the domain ranking of the website containing that backlink.
This tool also allows you to identify broken links, spam links or backlinks that come from low-quality websites and have many outgoing links.
It is possible to see the IP address of each of the links since, in many cases, the backlinks come from different websites located at the same IP address.
Tracking SEO performance under link building
The backlink monitoring tool creates an online report that can be saved to the date it was run.
This report can be consulted whenever you want and allows you to see the evolution over time of link building for that website.
This allows you to see the current total number of links compared to the number of links in the past.
It also allows you to see the ranking of the sites that link, their number of links, and if backlinks have been lost compared to previous dates.
Sanctions prevention
Identifying backlinks on a web page allows you to see possible backlinks that come from spam pages with numerous outgoing links or a number of pages that come from the same IP.
Knowing these backlinks gives you the chance of eliminating them to avoid possible penalties from search engines, such as Google, that could affect the ranking of your website.