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  1. How to download your backlinks from Moz

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    Moz (recently renamed from SEOMoz) have a tool called Open Site Explorer which is a good source of Link Data, to carry on with our tutorials on MajesticSEO and Google Webmaster Tools.     Lets visit Open Site Explorer and put in our website url This gives us lots of information but we only care about the Export to CSV link in the top left As you hover over it will show your account limits (our account can download a maximum of 10,000 links) Once you click the link, a pop up will appear and the file will begin processing, … Read More

  2. LinkRisk are looking for a Ruby Developer!

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    LinkRisk is a ‘big data’ analysis company, crawling and extracting data from the web for in-depth analysis, we are looking for some developers to come onboard and work with us. Our tech stack is currently; Ruby + Rails, Redis, MySQL, ElasticSearch Riak If some of those are technologies you’ve worked or played with then we want to talk to you. Bonus points for knowing / using technology such as; Puppet / Chef Javascript / JQuery Capistrano We are looking for someone passionate about the web who wants to learn from and contribute to a team with a startup culture, we … Read More

  3. Easily find the contact details from a website

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    It’s been just over a week since we officially launched LinkRisk, rather than take a break and mark the product as ‘done’ we’ve stepped up a gear, we’ve been pushing on average 15-20 updates a day to LinkRisk and testing a few out, last night a few people discovered the latest feature we’ve added to LinkRisk. The site information popup now shows you contact details for the website that we’ve found, we look for a contact email address and a contact form, we’ve been scanning this information for a few months but some recent tweaks have bumped the accuracy up so we … Read More

  4. Do’s and Don’ts of using Google’s Disavow Links Tool

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    If you are looking to clean up a bad link profile you want to ensure that your reconsideration request is successful first time round. But what if you are not sure where to start when it comes to using Google’s disavow links tool? Fear not. Below we discuss the do’s and don’ts of using Google’s disavow links tool and tips to increase odds that the disavow and reconsideration request process will work in your favour:   DO make sure that you upload you disavow links file in the correct format as a .txt file. DON’T upload your disavow links file … Read More

  5. More link credits across all packages.

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    Today we can announce that we have increased the number of link credits across all our packages so you can analyse more profiles with each package. You still get unlimited profiles but now you can add more of them within the credits you have each month.

  6. How to submit a disavow to Google

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    Once you have done all the hard work to understand what bad links your site has and worked to try to get as many removed as possible it is vitally important that you ask Google to disavow any that remain. ‘Disavowing’ your links means telling Google that you dont want some of the links pointing at your site to pass any ranking signal from now on. Basically what you’re saying is “I don’t think these links conform to the Google quality guidelines and I have been unable to get the link removed so please ignore them”. To tell Google what … Read More

  7. LinkRisk Beta Announcement

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    On the 6th of June, LinkRisk will fully launch to the public, it’s been an exciting and overwhelming few months of our beta with some fantastic feedback from the testers, although we added new testers each day there were still over 2000 people who didn’t get into the beta. We’ve all been a part of a beta signup where you signup and forget and the next email you receive is ‘we’ve launched, come and pay for our service’ three months later, we didn’t want to do that  so over the next week, we will be inviting all the beta applications who sign … Read More

  8. Add additional data to your LinkRisk Profile

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    This morning we deployed the next most requested feature on our todo list (after easier MajesticSEO Integration) “The ability to add additional data to a profile” when you look at a profile now you’ll see a button that says ‘Add Additional Data’. That button takes you to a page similar to the original add Profile page where you can select either a file upload or auth with MajesticSEO OpenApps. When we’ve imported the new links we let you know and you can use some of your Link Credits to process them and update your LinkRisk Score. We’ve had some great feedback from … Read More

  9. Easily import your MajesticSEO data with OpenApps & LinkRisk

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    Today we are happy to announce our openapp integration with MajesticSEO using the OpenApps platform. When you next login to LinkRisk and add a profile you’ll now be give the option of adding your authorising your MajesticSEO account to LinkRisk, this is a simple three step process that anyone using systems such as ‘login with Facebook or twitter’ will be used to. Just click the link to attach your MajesticSEO account and follow the instructions to generate your authorisation code, this allows us to create a report on your behalf and download it, we don’t get to see any of your … Read More

  10. Update to exports

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    This morning we rolled out a slight change to the export formats we allow. Now when you pull out the links in a particular category you will note that there is an extra column to denote the number of detected links from each root url.   This should allow you to quickly get a handle on the number of potential sitewides etc. We hold a lot of information in LinkRisk that we aren’t ready to show yet but will continue to add fields as they become ready for public use.  

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