Friday saw the Distilled LinkLove conference in London, with an impressive line-up that included Rand Fishkin, Mike King and Wil Reynolds sharing their link building secrets.
Whether you’re agency or client-side, here is a useful little guide to link building tools and resources which Distilled gave out to help you improve on your link building activities:
Tools & Resources
| Name | Type | What is it used for? | Free / Paid |
| My Blog Guest | Community | Finding places to guest post | Free & Paid versions |
| Blogger Link Up | Community | Link bloggers with content creators | Free |
| Haro | Community | Link journalists with sources | Free |
| Boomerang | Browser Plugin | Helping you with email outreach | Free & Paid versions |
| Rapportive | Browser Plugin | Finding out more about the person you’re reaching out to | Free |
| Multi Links for Firefox | Browser Plugin | Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time rather than individually | Free |
| Chrome Web Scraper | Browser Plugin | Scraper is a Google Chrome extension for getting data out of web pages and into spreadsheets | Free |
| Chrome Link Clump | Browser Plugin | Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time | Free |
| Buzzstream | Software | Managing outreach process | Paid |
| GroupHigh | Software | Finding people to outreach to | Paid |
| Raven Tools | Software | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Paid |
| Open Site Explorer | Software | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Free & Paid |
| Ontolo | Software | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Paid |
| Majestic SEO | Software | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Paid |
| Zemanta | Tactic | Suggests your content to relevant bloggers | Paid |
| Followerwonk | Tool | Contacting people & building relationships | Free & Paid versions |
| Tom Anthony’ Link Profile Tool | Tool | Analyse your competitors link profiles and those of competitors to discover anomalous activities | Free |
| JavaScript Bookmarklets | Tool | Use bookmarklets to improve efficiency of reporting and analysis | Free |
| We Follow | Tool | Directory of Twitter users organized by interests | Free |
| Citation Labs | Tool | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Free |
| Linkdex | Tool | Tracking campaigns and analysis | Free & Paid versions |
| Link Diagnosis | Tool | Backlink analysis & broken link checker | Free |
| Link Builder from Wordtracker | Tool | Backlink analysis | Free & Paid versions |
| Blog Dash | Tool | A permission-based blogger database | Paid |
| Seeded Buzz | Tactic | Allows you to promote content to relevant bloggers | Free & Paid versions |
Distilled Speaker Posts / Link Building Resources
| Who? | About | Title |
| Adam Audette | Link Building | Link Building Fundamentals |
| Branko Rihtman | Tool | Backlink Data- Who is the Best Provider of them all? |
| Jane Copland | Research & Analysis | Competitive Backlink Analysis |
| John Doherty | Outreach | A Linkbuilder’s Gmail Productivity Setup (with Outreach Emails from 4 Industry Linkbuilders) |
| Justin Briggs | Tool | 18 Tools to Speed Up Link Building |
| Kris Roadruck | Link Building | Efficacy of Negative-Emotion Link Bait |
| Mike King | Outreach | Throw Away Your Form Letters (or Five Principles to Better Outreach Link Building) |
| Rand Fishkin | Outreach | Yes, You Really Can Build Links With Twitter – Whiteboard Friday |
| Rhea Drysdale | Outreach | When Guest Posts Fail |
| Ross Hudgens | Link Building | Utilizing Second Tier Link Building For Massive ROI |
| Tom Anthony | Tool | Link Profile Tool to Discover Linking Activity |
| Tom Critchlow | Link Building | A Linkbuilding Method So Effective I Can’t Believe It’s Not Blackhat |
| Wil Reynolds | Link Building | A peek into how I do link building in a boring industry |
Link Building Resource Guides
| Who? | About | Title |
| Ed Fry | Link Building | The Linkbait Guide |
| Melissa Campbell | Link Building | 10 Years of Linkbuilding Advice |
| Wiep Knol | Link Building | Link Bait Failed – Now What? |
| Mark Johnstone | Content Creation | How to Make Sticky Content |
| Rae Hoffman | Link Building | Link Building with Experts |
| Michael Gray | Content Creation | Linkbait & Content Marketing | What Are Your Goals |
| Oli Archibald | Infographics | 6 Steps to Making Your Infographic Work |
Great post, very nice compilation of the tools!
Good article Pak Hou Cheung!! any information on construction of links is much appreciated. Good information can be hard to find. Thanks for sharing!
Great group of resources!
Thank you for this extensive list. Another resource for the SEO library :)
Wow how many resources for seo and link building on one web page?? I think I have fallen in love with this site guys!
Thanks for this list, this is awesome. I’ve used a couple of the tools, like Majestic, Wordtracker and Raven tools but a couple of those plugins look great.
this is a great list. im looking for better ways to find relevant posts that relate to my nich so hopefully a lot of these tools will help me out, thanks
This is a great ressource, I keep returning to find new content for inspiration and a great way to reuse all the good content from the link love conference. I’m quite tempted to attend next years conference. Thanks for this list of content!
Hi
This is a great resource for newbies like me. I was really searching for something like this. Bookmarked !
Again thanks
this is a great list , i have know only few of the tools , thanks for sharing some new tools for link building
Wow! What a list. I really will have to take sometime to investigate these. I use Blogger Linkup a lot. I also found http://www.blogtradingpost.com which seems to work too. Thanks for all the resources.