For first sight this service looks like a great asset among our tools, but this feeling can pass quickly.

As far as I know Google shows only a little part of links pointing to our sites using the link: operator in order to defend us against our inventive competitors. Without excellent link popularity we can hardly gain any success for competetive keywords.

So how to build the required link popularity quickly?

This question isn’t difficolt to answer. It starts with Yahoo! Site Explorer. If our sites will be be typed right after the link: operator I guess we won’t consider the previous answer so obvious…

The Google Webmaster Tools service provides us information lawful only after verifying the ownership. This is the missing step concerning Site Explorer.

Looking back on the lesson of the hungarian linkfelhő seo contest I took apart, the structure of the inlinks pointing to our sites is strictly a private business and the Site Explorer service doesn’t respect that at all.

What do you think?

We spend really long hours with building websites, improving content and promoting them. After the hard work we are very curious about the result.

In general I don’t have to wait too long time for the deserved ranking change, but there are some interesting scale I commonly use to see the outcome from different aspects.

Let me introduce my favourite online tools:

• The first one is appraise your domain, and the output is an amount. The valuation is mainly based on three different factors: the domain age, the number of inlinks, and the DMOZ and Yahoo Directory listing.
  
  
• The page strength tool is developed by Matthew Inman and Rand Fishkin from the SEOmoz team. I think this tool is deservedly very popular among the online marketing experts.
  
  

Did I miss any great inline tool? Let me know!