New link tool to find your competitors most linked pages

by Patrick Altoft on January 5, 2008

Have you ever wondered which of your competitors web pages have got the most incoming links? If so then this is the tool for you.

The new Blogstorm Link Tool uses your competitors sitemap.xml file and finds the Yahoo link data for each URL so you can find out which of their pages are making them rank highly in the search engines.

This is the first of many SEO tools so keep watching.

Please leave any feedback below. The tool relies on the Yahoo API so if it times out or runs out of queries try again tomorrow.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.

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Tom 05 Jan 2008 at 4:38 am: Didn’t work for me mate? Just got a blank page? Perhaps the API has run out?
Patrick Altoft 05 Jan 2008 at 5:15 am
Find me on Twitter: Yep, 5,000 queries per day and its gone already. I’ve fixed it now.
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Eugene 05 Jan 2008 at 5:24 am: Still not working for me…
Eugene 05 Jan 2008 at 5:25 am: It’s not working for me.

“Could not parse file.”
Patrick Altoft 05 Jan 2008 at 6:03 am
Find me on Twitter: What file are you trying to parse? It needs to be an xml file.
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Rajab Bader 05 Jan 2008 at 6:12 am: It works great here….
Good job Patrick
One Eyed View 05 Jan 2008 at 8:38 am: This is a great tool and worked well for me. However, I would like to pose this question…Is it possible to order the results from pages with the most links to fewest? Right now, the results seem to be ordered by post date.

Any thoughts?
Patrick Altoft 05 Jan 2008 at 8:50 am
Find me on Twitter: If people like the tool then I will improve on it and make it order results by link number.
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One Eyed View 05 Jan 2008 at 8:59 am: Great, thanks for the reply. Have a wonderful day!
Ab 05 Jan 2008 at 1:30 pm: Warning: file(http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/sitemap.xml) [function.file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 in /home/blogsto/public_html/linktool.php on line 80
Cannot connect to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Raquel 05 Jan 2008 at 4:07 pm: Thanks for sharing! I’ve wrote about this tool in my spanish blog..
Patrick Altoft 05 Jan 2008 at 9:26 pm
Find me on Twitter: Try sitemap.php I’ve just changed my url structure so I won’t have any links yet.
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Padapapoulos 05 Jan 2008 at 11:43 pm: I’m afraid it is not, just got blank pages too dude.
Vladimir 06 Jan 2008 at 5:54 am: Great tool, pure genius
Sergey Rusak 06 Jan 2008 at 11:06 am: It is veru usefull tool. Thank you for sharing.

There are even more features for this tool. Bloggers can use it to see where RSS feeds submited and which networks (news / RSS readers) are crawled by search engines.
MR-Gee 07 Jan 2008 at 7:37 am: I am getting a blank page:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/linktool.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmrgee.info%2Frss.xml

Is it out of queries for today?
Patrick Altoft 07 Jan 2008 at 10:13 am
Find me on Twitter: Probably, I will release a self hosted one next week to cope with the demand I think.
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Krunal Chauhan 07 Jan 2008 at 9:00 pm: Hmm doesnt works for me as well
Though i would come back to see if it works..
Mike 08 Jan 2008 at 9:28 am: Excellent. Useful running it on my own site!
Adrian 09 Jan 2008 at 1:29 am: That’s what I was thinking. The tool works great but how do you find other people’s sitemaps ? I can think only by testing different urls like domain.com/sitemap.xml or look into domain.com/robots.txt to see if is there.

Any other suggestions ?
Patrick Altoft 09 Jan 2008 at 1:35 am
Find me on Twitter: I just try to guess them. Most people have a standard name.
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Emir 13 Jan 2008 at 11:04 am: Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.imagetours.de/blogstorm.php?url=MY.URL.HERE) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /home/blogsto/public_html/linktool.php on line 97
Martin 08 Mar 2008 at 4:54 am: A very useful tool, thanks.

Any chance of a .csv export option??

Cheers

Martin
Paul Burani 27 Mar 2008 at 1:18 am: Yeah…I got nothing.
Confucius-Sayings 08 Apr 2008 at 6:27 am: Here’s what I got (any advice?)

Warning: file(http://www.confucius-sayings.com/sitemap.xml) [function.file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/blogsto/public_html/linktool.php on line 80
Cannot connect to http://www.confucius-sayings.com/sitemap.xml
Patrick Altoft 08 Apr 2008 at 8:26 am
Find me on Twitter: Your file gives a 404 error.
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Romano 20 Jul 2008 at 8:01 am: Great tool!
Any chance to get source files or script?
Many thanks
Steve Wilkie 23 Aug 2008 at 11:17 am: Still not working, really could use this.
Thomas 07 Apr 2009 at 9:06 pm: This is method does not work on blogger platform because you can by no means upload any file to blogger including sitemap.xml. So if you do not have uploaded sitemap you can not check it. So we bloggers are out of luck here.

http://www.pcterritory.net
manchester 29 Oct 2009 at 3:19 pm: This script doesnt work anymore.
Ted Hessing 06 May 2010 at 3:26 pm: Hi Patrick,

The script seems to return to the WP “no results found” search page. Any chance you can make the source public (or emailed?)

I think this would make one hell of a WP plug in if run against each of our own site’s xml. It would be so much better to display a most linked list under the sidebars of popular vs a “most commented.”

Thanks, Ted.