We all know how time- and effort-consuming it is to do a complete backlink audit of a site. This is particularly true of websites that have old and/or extensive link profiles.

Before the termination of Yahoo! Site Explorer, one could use Yahoo’s celebrated backlink checker to analyze a competitor or to double-check their own links (since Google Webmaster Tools do not always let you see the full picture).

Now that YSE is gone, I mostly use SEO SpyGlass, a backlink checker from the SEO PowerSuite pack, to audit backlinks. And, what I’ve recently discovered about SEO SpyGlass is that the tool has advanced filters that let one organize backlinks to specific criteria, which really speeds up analysis and makes data easier to read.
So, this post if about how you can use SEO SpyGlass’s advanced filters to perform an inventory of a site’s backlinks with minimum effort. Continue reading