Don’t you love it when you need an SEO tool for a specific task and then you find a blog post linking to the exact tool you need? I just found a great tool that helps you determine if a site is linking to bad neighborhoods. I found this tool at mikaelrieck.com.  It’s called the Bad Neighborhood Text Link Checker Tool.

Right now, I’m doing SEO work for client’s website. He wants me to improve his rankings for a couple of keywords. I know of bloggers that are selling content-based links on their blogs. This tool is helping me evaluate their blogs.

This tool looks through a URL’s links and finds out if there are any questionable links. Also, it goes to the webpages being linked to and finds out if those webpages are linking to questionable sites.

The tool gives warnings if a webpage has a high link density, too many links from blogs (possible sign of blog spamming), or anchor text related to industries where search engine spam is common and non-family friendly industries.

Check it out: Bad Neighborhood Text Link Checker Tool

4 Comments to "SEO Tool: Determining If A Site Links To Bad Neighborhoods"

  • Jim Durbin said: On 08/31/2007 at 7:10 am

    Interesting - my sites are filled with blog spam as determined by the site, but then again - all of my sites are blogs!

    The Bad Neighborhood warnings were for a site that mentioned a poker game the writer played, and a link to a guy named John SEXtro.

    Interesting tool, nonetheless - I Imagine it works much better with traditional commercial sites, but I wonder if it’s not validating reciprocal link strategies instead of content-driven stategies from influential blogs.

    You’d think a link from a high-ranked blog would indicate a more “real” endorsement than a link exchange.

  • Dee said: On 08/31/2007 at 12:34 pm

    Thanks for the comment. Great point about blog spam. I ignore that notification if I’m working with blogs.

    I don’t usually use the tool for reciprocal exchanges. I use it primarily to determine whether to buy a one-way link from a site.

    By the way, great blog. Just subscribed :)

  • Civil Site Design said: On 08/14/2008 at 6:21 pm

    Thanks for the insight into this. I was not aware.

  • Data Entry Services said: On 08/14/2008 at 6:25 pm

    I just went and checked my site and the tool called all my links Blogspam including LinkedIn and the Microsoft support forums. Maybe it’s too stringent.

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