Just cobbled together a nice little SEO tool that checks the PageRank of a website’s backlinks and sorts them in order of the pages with most authority - LinkRanker.

The tool grabs backlink information from the top 50 inlink results at Yahoo’s SiteExplorer API, so should be a bit more accurate than tools which use Google’s linkage data.

It’s probably still not that accurate, but should give a good indication at least. Any feature requests?

One of the many incredibly useful modules over at the Perl module database CPAN, is the WWW::Google::PageRank module. It gives a quick and easy way of checking PageRank for a number of pages without delving into the particulars of the header exchanges over at toolbarqueries.google.com.

In order to use the script below, first create a file named ‘pages.txt’, and enter the full URLs of the pages you want to check, separated by newline characters, and save it in the same directory as the script:

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