Best Link Building technique using SEOMoz tools & Open Site Explorer

[JonathanSmith]

Hi,

We've been with SEOMoz for a year or two now, but have have kept an eye out for productive link building tools to help the team.

To be honest we're struggling with Open Site Explorer because, although it enables us to discover competitors links it doesn't provide much link management functionality.

A simple example would be the ability for Open Site Explorer to show links to domains which my clients already have in a different colour, so that we don't waste time exploring dead ends.

I'd be very interested to hear tips how other people use the SEOMoz tools to manage their link building as I suspect we may be missing a trick or two...

Thanks in advance!

[Highland]

I'm not an expert in Excel, but OSE does provide a CSV export of the top 10,000 links. In theory you could export your links and your competitors and do a comparison between them.

[JonathanSmith]

Hi, thanks for the response, but exporting and then ploughing through Excel seems such a manual way of doing things. Rand and the team must have thought of the process when they designed these tools...I get the feeling I'm missing something.

Link building is such a key part of what we do somebody in the SEOMoz community must have figured out a neat way of using the available tools?