So its site update time again. First up is one of our main site’s pages that is starting to do fairly well now in longtail searches in a competitive SEO searchscape, & getting some OK traffic, including lots of return visits

- our SEO tools page.

Lots of people knock up SEO tools, or tools pages, hoping they’ll get linked to as a useful SEO resource, which would always be nice if it happened, but was never the reason for ours it, was actually first meant as a way for us to quickly access our favourite stuff from any PC whether it was installed or not.

“Make content for users”

- Well yes, we did, but the primary users were originally us. Nowadays however we get quite a lot of direct hits to the page, presumably from bookmarks, and so can only assume that our policy of listing only SEO tools we actually use ourselves in the day to day job, is proving valuable to some, at least..

.. which is nice..

One of the tools (amongst several others) that made the list this time is the Majestic SEO link intelligence suite. We’ve been playing with and using this for a while now following discovery of it via the SEObook SEO4Firefox plugin and theyve recently added some more excellent functionality to it in the form of the Compare backlink history module which produces some truly unique and invaluable information and reports, as below..

When logged in you can run side by side comparisons of your site and your competitors, then examine which of their links are the best and go after them

A while back we ran a side-by-side comparison of Majestic and Linkscape including a DP thread in which Rand himself dropped in and answered our questions personally)

Dixon Jones recently published a more in-depth review of Linkscape vs majestic  here if you want more info.

We think they are both very good, and although quite different in some ways, and with Linkscape’s data being undoubtedly easier to understand and use,  but Majestic having so much more of it to play with, -fortunately they often came to the same conclusions about the best links.

Linkscape is probably worth the SEOMoz pro tools fee on it’s own if you are serious about SEO, but if you just cant justify or afford the money, or have the resources to extract, filter and analyse huge amounts of data, then you should check out Majestic SEO.