Competitive Analysis

http://www.windrosesoftware.com/optilink/

Tool: Optilink Total Link Analysis competitive analysis tool helps you optimize your linking strategy. Perform detailed analysis of the keyword density, inbound link profile and link anchor text of a high-ranking URL. Use the information to determine the types of links most valued by search engines within a specific category.

101 Ways to Promote Your Website

http://www.amazon.com/101-Ways-Promote-Your-Site/dp/1931644462/sr=1-2/qid=1170955043/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-0642033-7811146?ie=UTF8&s=books

101 Ways to Promote Your Website by Susan Sweeney, a web marketing expert and the author of several books on Internet promotion. Includes a chapter entitled “Developing a Dynamite Link Strategy” that discusses optimizing your site for linking, competitive link analysis and reciprocal linking strategies.

“Six Secrets From Competitive Link Analysis”

http://www.linkingmatters.com/link-analysis.html

Article: “Six Critical Secrets From Competitive Link Analysis,” by Ken McGaffin, discusses the initial steps in the implementation of a competitive linking campaign including finding potential link opportunities, assessing difficulty of competition with a domain, uncovering artificial link strategies, identifying business relationships, exploring competitors’ public relations and understanding competitors’ linking strategies.

Marketleap Link Popularity Check

http://tools.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

Tool: Marketleap Link Popularity Check allows you to enter the URL of your site and up to three competitors and then automatically generates a report displaying the number of links according to Google, MSN and Yahoo! and comparing the sites to other well-known URLs.

Link Harvester

http://tools.seobook.com/link-harvester/

Tool: Link Harvester is an open source link analysis tool that allows a user to analyze the link profile of a specific URL using the Yahoo! API. The tools provides information on the URL’s total inbound links, the number of deep links, the number of inbound links from .edu and .gov sites, the number of pages indexed by Yahoo! and more.

Back Link Analyzer Link Popularity Software

http://tools.seobook.com/backlink-analyzer/

Tool: Back Link Analyzer Link Popularity Software for download allows a user to analyze the link profile of a particular URL, including number of links, Alexa ranking data and anchor text analyses by aggregating link check information from various search engines and displaying it in a spreadsheet format.

Linkingmatters.com

http://www.linkingmatters.com/

Linkingmatters.com develops linking strategies for online companies. Site includes a newsletter, blog, online marketing news, the Linking Matters Report, and articles on linking topics such as article submissions, keyword research, and competitive analysis.

Link Building Category Archive

http://www.recommendedwebtools.com/index.php/archives/link-building/

Link Building Category Archive includes links to blogs, directories, and original articles on link building topics such as “link snobbery,” competitive analysis, and the future of linking in search algorithms.