Link Building Tools

Link building is perhaps the most time consuming part of the SEO process. The tools listed in this section have saved OptiTrex no less than hundreds of hours of time. SEO Elite is the #1 Choice of OptiTrex for any online marketing professional. This program not only has many benefits to save you time and money, but provides tutorials and extensive training of how to get your site to appear on the top of all search engines.

• $224: Optilink link analysis software. Optilink automates sorting competitotrs backlinks and displays the anchor text in links.
(http://www.optitext.com/)

• $167: SEO Elite – #1 Choice of OptiTrex - similar to Optilink, but also checks reciprocal link partners. Brad has been doing a good job of updating it and adding features to it. If you are torn between OptiLink and SEO Elite. OptiTrex
recommends buying SEO Elite, or trying them both and returning whichever one you do not like. (http://seoelite.com/)

• $50 per month: LinkItForward is similar to the Coop Ad Network in that it uses the power of many sites to help them all. Instead of reciprocating links with LinkItForward you link to some domains and for doing that get credits where others will link to your domain. I currently am not using LinkItForward on any of my sites, but feel it is worth mentioning.
(http://linkitforward.com/)

• $50 per month: LinkExplore helps you collect contact and linking details to trade links with people who have site details in the LinkExplore database. The LinkExplore database has over 10,000 entries and you can
search by keyword and category. LinkExplore also allows you to collect data from the search engines similarly to how SEO Elite and OptiLink work.

One of the benefits of LinkExplore over some of the other link analysis tools is that their database already has a number of people in it who are likely to want to trade links with similar related resources.
(http://www.linkexplore.com/)

• Arelis: link exchange software. It allows you to seek out link partners, their contact information, and email them.OptiTrex makes sure we do not customize any email that is sent out so as to avoid being accused of email spamming. Arelis also tracks your status with link exchange communications. Arelis also allows you to upload HTML pages with your link partners links on them, but I would not recommend using that feature on permanent
sites, or ensure I removed any footprints left by software which is designed specifically for link exchanges. It lets you chose the base template to match your site, but you will want to make sure the coding matches up well also.
When you exchange links it is a good idea to also link to related internal pages and quality resources that may not be linking back at your site.
(http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/)

• $175: Zeus is a link exchange manager / directory software similar to Arelis. Both offer a free trial. OptiTrex has not fully tested Zeus, but we would not put pages with link exchange software footprints on our sites.
(http://www.cyber-robotics.com)