Best tools for exploring links?

[imageworks-261290]

and not just every single link, but ones you know that Google is actually indexing. I find seomoz to be super easy, but there is no way to distinguish links that are actually counting "juice", or am i missing something.

What about majesticseo - any other similar tools you use when trying to find linking sites that pass juice?

[RyanKent]

The tool you are seeking does not exist, and likely will not ever exist.

The public does not know which links Google values and does not. The best we can do is guess. Even if we knew, it takes 2-3 weeks for SEOmoz to crawl the top 40% of sites on the internet, and then 1-2 more weeks for the data to be processed. Therefore we will always be 1-2 months behind Google.

The tools in existence are designed to locate links and then offer you detailed information about the links such as whether they are follow'd, are image links, etc.

In my experience the top 3 tools for analyzing links (outside of Google) are:

Open Site Explorer http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Raven http://raventools.com/

AHREFS https://ahrefs.com/

Another tool is offered by Bing. Sadly, Yahoo Site Explorer is gone.

Ahrefs is new but is off to a great start.

[DesignbysoapLtd]

Great response from Ryan (thumbed up!)

I'd also add Majestic SEO, the backlink tool there is excellent and I regularly use it in conjuction with OSE.

[RyanKent]

Thanks for adding them John. I have not looked at Majestic in a while. Thanks to your suggestion I'll give them another look.

[DesignbysoapLtd]

No worries Ryan : )

[imageworks-261290]

thanks, been using majestic SEO - pretty sweet actually as it has been finding links from 2007 that were actually broken so i could fix them