Hub Finder Link Analysis Tool

awall19 · 03-21-2005, 06:04 AM

I had a friend create an open sourced link analysis tool which looks for co-occuring backlinks.

you enter in up to ten full URLs

http://www.site

and where their backlinks are the same in Yahoo! these pages are returned in the results.

this helps find hub pages and also some scrapper pages end up in the results.

more info here
http://www.seobook.com/archives/000732.shtml

source code here
http://tools.seobook.com/hub-finder/index.txt

try it here
http://www.andyhagans.com/

TanyaMartin · 03-21-2005, 08:32 AM

Very nice tool

Cartman · 03-22-2005, 01:18 PM

Thanks, this is really helpful!

gorillaboy · 03-22-2005, 01:31 PM

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pinkfluffybunny · 03-23-2005, 03:09 PM

"The Powerful Link Myth
Website owners were, and still are, scrambling for the all powerful backward link! They are in belief that a link from a highly ranked site will boost their ranking instantly.

As I have stated many times, you cannot fool the Search Engines. As always, the Search Engines caught up to this tactic of "buying your way to the top" and have since devalued it in their ranking system.

The Proof is in the Pudding

I did a test and purchased a link from a highly ranked, unrelated site. I did not develop any other links, nor did I work hard on building content. Granted the change in Pagerank was amazing - the site jumped from a miserable ranking of 2 to a 6! Wonderful? Not really.

While the all mightly green PageRank bar may have jumped, ranking for keywords did not. The site was still not ranked in the top 30 for any keyterms related to the site.

At the same time . I developed a content rich site and submitted it to the top 5 search engines. I had no inbound, or backlinks, and the results may surprise you.

The first green bar achievement was a respectible 4. But what really made the impact was the site was showing up in the Search Engines for keyterms relevant to the site. Traffic was increasing and the site was being spidered regularly.

Caution:

Don't be fooled by Link Brokers. When links develop naturally usually there is a more even distribution of low power links to high power links. If you buy nothing but high power links that will look abnormal.

This abnormality may cause a red flag with the Search Engines and cause your site not to rank as high. Powerful links do help, but it is far cheaper and more effective to manually build many low power links than to go after a single or few high power links. "

awall19 · 03-23-2005, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pinkfluffybunny

I did a test and purchased a link from a highly ranked, unrelated site. I did not develop any other links, nor did I work hard on building content. Granted the change in Pagerank was amazing - the site jumped from a miserable ranking of 2 to a 6! Wonderful? Not really.

While the all mightly green PageRank bar may have jumped, ranking for keywords did not. The site was still not ranked in the top 30 for any keyterms related to the site.

At the same time . I developed a content rich site and submitted it to the top 5 search engines. I had no inbound, or backlinks, and the results may surprise you.

The first green bar achievement was a respectible 4. But what really made the impact was the site was showing up in the Search Engines for keyterms relevant to the site. Traffic was increasing and the site was being spidered regularly.

1.) if you had a PR of 4 then there was some linkage data.
2.) buying one link and calling it a representitive test is wrong. link building is about getting many links. not just 1 or 2. and the tool I created is to help people find many links. the tool is free to use. if you have useful feedback feel free to give it.

awall19 · 03-23-2005, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gorillaboy

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did you use the full URLs

http://www.site

and enter multiple urls to cross check the backlinks from?

you do not need to enter link:
but do need to enter the full http://www.site.com

jstcrzyengh · 03-24-2005, 01:58 AM

Very cool, however with my competition it just brought up those junk sites that do nothing but regurgitate Yahoo and Google top 30's... But I am sure I can get it to work for me.

Cartman · 03-24-2005, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jstcrzyengh

Very cool, however with my competition it just brought up those junk sites that do nothing but regurgitate Yahoo and Google top 30's... But I am sure I can get it to work for me.

Yeah, I found the same thing, but if you take the time to sift through those sites, you can find a few gems. I've even managed to get links from a few of those sites already, so I'm a happy camper!

awall19 · 03-26-2005, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cartman

Yeah, I found the same thing, but if you take the time to sift through those sites, you can find a few gems. I've even managed to get links from a few of those sites already, so I'm a happy camper!

this was the idea of the tool.

that anyone - even people new to SEO - could (if willing to spend the time) sift through and find a few gems... and thus hopefully compete with larger and richer companies.

I am all about trying to help the independant person do well.

overthrow the evil corps. hehehe!!!

on topic links are the most valuable type, and if you can get them free or cheap that is awesome.

scisoft · 04-04-2005, 03:06 AM

Try purchasing IBLs from on topic sites (e.g. ranking first 100 for the relevant keywords). I believe that even several high quality backlinks will give you a good boost.

samer · 04-08-2005, 12:13 PM

thanks for the link Aaron.

Thermit · 04-10-2005, 12:02 AM

I got this error, on a couple of different tries...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: domxml_open_mem() in /home/andyhag/public_html/tools/hubfinder/index.php on line 180

**G10** · 04-10-2005, 03:25 AM

Me too, I got,

.Query 1...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: domxml_open_mem() in /home/andyhag/public_html/tools/hubfinder/index.php on line 180

awall19 · 04-12-2005, 07:54 AM

arg...

tool also exists at
somewhere on uncoverthenet but I cant find it...arg
http://wm-community.com/tools/hub-finder/index.php
and you can download the source code if you want to put it on your site
http://tools.seobook.com/hub-finder/index.txt
you have to change index.txt to index.php for the tool to work.