Link grow from month to month

[inetteam]

Using SEOmoz tools what is the best way understand what are the new link only acquired from month to month?  For example if I had 450 links in February and then grew to 500 in March?  I would specifically like to know what those 50 are that grew.  How can i do that?

[scanlin]

I would like to know this too. The OSE (opensiteexplorer) db (well, Linkscape db) is updated about every 4 weeks and will show you the backlinks. But I dont think it says "this set is new from the last crawl" and that would be very helpful. Maybe go to http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/485551-improve-competitor-tracking-in-the-competitive-link-tool and vote for an improved backlink tracking feature.

[wissamdandan]

Dear  inetteam,

I use OpenSiteExplorer.org and i export my backlinks to an excel workbook.

• I paste the data on Sheet 1
• I Create a pivot table on Sheet 2 (left side bar are the links and I drop PA in Data Items fields)

Each time there is an update (monthly) i copy the data and paste them in the Sheet 1. then i go to sheet 2 and adjust the "Data Source" (list is bigger now) and i click refresh data.

normally all the new links will appear under the last link of last month.

I bet there is other Mozzers can do this in another way or better

[CPU]

I'd export the links into excel each month and then use VLOOKUP to check which existed the previous month with those that didn't being the new links.