How do I see competitor backlinks with SEOmoz?

[lbohen]

I want to get a report on all the back links to some of our competitors.

How can I filter out competitor back links that also back link to our site?

Does SEOmoz have instruction and/or a video on how to increase back links? Where?

[BenFox]

Hi Larry,

To get a report of all of your competitors backlinks you'll need to use Open Site Explorer (opensiteexplorer.org). Just input the domain that you want links for and you can access all of the data you need.

If you want to compare your links with their links I recommend going to the "Linking Domains" tab, selecting "Show domains with links to all pages on this root domain" and then downloading that report. Do the same for your domain and then compare the two reports in Excel.

SEOMoz is full of advice on how to get more backlinks. Two places I'd recommend are today's blog post (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building) and the beginner's guide (http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo).