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[Nathan Isaac Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 3]

Hey everyone!

I had a video on here, but due to new knowledge this tip is now an obsolete one.

So does anyone have any great ideas on how you find your high PR backlinks?

[Nathan Isaac Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 3]

Yes, in the end you want to find High PR 3+ websites. .GOV & .EDU are really trustworthy in googles eyes.

[Ray Higdon Company: Numis Network Contribution Level: 4]

Nathan, is there concern with writing on a page that has known spam? I thought if a page had spam comments that google penalized everyone, is that wrong?

[Im Gone Company: MyLeadSystemPRO Contribution Level: 1]

Your website can not be penalized for incoming links, if that was the case getting number 1 would be simple. Find the bad link sources and point them at all of your competitors.

One tool I use for finding high pagerank backlinks is Scrapebox.

[Im Gone Company: MyLeadSystemPRO Contribution Level: 1]

I Use Scrapebox to find related blog posts that actually have page rank on themselves, I leave a thoughful comment that adds value to the post.

I do this even if the blog is no-follow. A few of these on blog pages with page rank and your on the front page as long as you done everything else right, such as keyword research and on site optimisation.

[Kurt Henninger Company: Shaklee Corporation Contribution Level: 5]

One thing to remember is that if you are on a high pr site, it does not necessarily mean that the page in particular you are posting on is a high PR one.

For example, this site is a PR 5 right now, but any given forum post is more than likely a PR n/a or PR zero

How to find high PR pages? For arguments sake, lets assume that you mean high PR blogs to comment on.

While scrapebox is awesome, you can start doing it for free. Here are a couple steps:

#1) Install SEOQuake on your browser

#2) Go do a keyword search for your competitors, or someone you know who more than likely would have PR links to their site.

#3) With SEO Quake on, go ahead and look at that particular site's backlinks in YSE.

#4) A little known feature of SEOQuake is that you can sort the backlinks by PR (pagerank), so go ahead and sort those links by PR.

Viola, you have a decent list of your competitors backlinks, all sorted by PR, highest to lowest. Just go out there and start seeing if there any linking opportunities from that list and get after it.

And no, you can't get any kind of penalty for a particular site linking to you. That is one of those SEO myths that got started somewhere and is easy to believe, but just isn't true.

The important thing is to get after it and start building up those high PR pages to comment on.

[Im Gone Company: MyLeadSystemPRO Contribution Level: 1]

Excellent method of doing it the free way explained by Kurt.

Another free way is to download the free version of SEO Spyglass and get it to analyse the backlinks of your competitors. A great way of seeing exactly what links are pointing to them because it uses the databases of multiple search engines.

[Im Gone Company: MyLeadSystemPRO Contribution Level: 1]

Keep in mind it uses a "FREE" database which is way far different than a paid for maintained database. Free is only going to get you so far and not always give the results you expected either

SEO SpyGlass "FREE" version analyses the backlinks of any URL using the databases of multiple search engines. The only difference between the paid and FREE version is that the free version limits you to only analysing 1100 backlinks of any URL.

This is without doubt the most powerful tool for checking the backlinks of any URL.

[Im Gone Company: MyLeadSystemPRO Contribution Level: 1]

Not true. Free databases do not have access to all information such as paid database does. You do realize google does block backlinks from being seen ? You do understand even googles free database is limited ?

Again you get what you pay for so keep that in mind. Free is not always the best way to go.

Hi Barney,

I am not going to get into a debate over paid and free databases.

Just consider this, Google only shows a percentage of the backlinks that they know about to try and stop you reverse enginerring your competitors backlinks. They know it happens.

Please feel free to suggest a "paid database" that produces results better than SEO Spyglass.

[Kurt Henninger Company: Shaklee Corporation Contribution Level: 5]

Keep in mind it uses a "FREE" database which is way far different than a paid for maintained database. Free is only going to get you so far and not always give the results you expected either

SEO SpyGlass "FREE" version analyses the backlinks of any URL using the databases of multiple search engines. The only difference between the paid and FREE version is that the free version limits you to only analysing 1100 backlinks of any URL.

This is without doubt the most powerful tool for checking the backlinks of any URL.

Yep I agree SEO Spyglass is da bomb for reverse engineering competitors backlinks. Good reference there.

Haven't personally used "paid databases" for competitive analysis, but SEO SpyGlass, even the free version works quite well as well.