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LinkRanker - backlink analysis tool

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

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?

Check Google PageRank for multiple pages

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

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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