Alexa tool

Arelis' link building tool

[andrewcheyne]

Has anyone used Alexa, Arelis' tool where you can research who is linking to sites similar to yours, used to build the popularity of your links and boost your Google page rank? I'm new to the search marketing game, and not sure what to make of them. This, or any advice on boosting page rank via link networking would be awesome

Thanks Andy

[jeremy goodrich]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Alexa.com, owned by Amazon.com, has some info on related links, etc for your site. The statistics they provide on the popularity of various websites are, um, perhaps good / perhaps not, it's been debated (here) a few times.

>>link buiding to boost PageRank

Build a quality site that people will want to link to, submit to directories such as DMOZ & Yahoo, and offer to exachange links with related sites to share traffic.

Do all that, and your PageRank - and more important, your overall traffic - will rise. Good luck!

[FredP]

I have the Alexa toolbar and view it's statistics as one part of the collective indicators of a web site's success. I have recently become immersed in link development and would be interested to hear your views on Arelis and any other link building software. Currently I am using my charm, and fabulously relevant and content rich web sites to attract incoming links but maybe there's an easier way!

[Kirby]

Currently I am using my charm, and fabulously relevant and content rich web sites to attract incoming links but maybe there's an easier way!

Yours may not be the easiest way, but it is the best way.

[jsnow]

I use Arelis. Don't find it particularly useful for finding the links but building the directory itself as long as you modify it works well

[layer8]

The tools is good for researching links period! The idea behind it is pretyy fantastic I have to admit, however I took this to the limits and tested it by doing the following:

Picking 7 topics and I pulled back 200 sites per topic, I employed people to look at the sites for quality content etc. (basically finding out if the sites are credible and are coming from a 'good' neighborhood sources.

The people I employed used the features in the program to send out personal emails that emulated me sending them myself, out of 1400 sites reviewed we sent out approx. 600 emails requesting link backs - I got about 5 link exchanges and hundreds of email addresses that were out of date with an autoresponder saying 'I will never read you email' etc.

Conclusion - the only way to do linking is to do all parts yourself without scripts, their is no short cuts

The software is good to get the info on your competition, if you were building a strategy of not duplicating the links of your competition then this is a useful tool, to find link partners it fulls short of expectations.