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Backlink Opportunity Analysis Guide

In this article, you will learn what the Backlink Opportunity Analysis is, why you should use it, how to use it, and what its benefits are.

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What Is the Backlink Opportunity Analysis?

The opportunity analysis is a feature from the seobase backlink checker tool that displays a detailed report about who links to your competitors and doesn't link to you.

Why Should I Use the Backlink Opportunity Analysis?

Since the seobase backlink checker tool will not automatically generate links for you, we included this feature to help you find more backlink opportunities for your website. The opportunity analysis feature is an easy-to-leverage backlink opportunity you can get for your website.

We designed this feature to help you find the most valuable backlinks on your competitors' websites. Here are some additional benefits you can get using the seobase backlink opportunity analysis tool:

  • Analyze these websites' backlink profiles to spot patterns and possible link opportunities and discover unexplored backlink opportunities.

  • See who is linking to your competitors' websites, and don't link to your website.

  • Identify your untapped backlink opportunities and help you find prospective ones.

  • Allow you to know the referring domain to your competitors' backlinks.

  • Recognize the spam score of your competitors' backlinks.

How to Use Opportunity Analysis?

seobase offers two methods to analyze your backlink opportunities; To create a Project or use the tool separately.

To use analyze your backlink opportunities by creating a Project dashboard, find how to create a Project from here.

To use the tool without creating a project, you can follow the next steps to analyze your backlink opportunities

  1. Open the URL (https://seobase.com/).

  2. Log in to your account or create a new one on seobase (https://app.seobase.com/signup).

  3. Go to the Backlink Checker page (https://seobase.com/backlink-checker/) or tap on the "SEO Tools" drop-down menu, then pick the "Backlink Checker" menu element, or select the "Backlink Checker" from the dashboard in the bottom of the website.

  4. Click on the "Opportunity Analysis" tab.

    The first step of backlink opportunity analysis tool

  5. Enter a domain or URL of your website in the upper search input field to analyze and find prospects for it.

  6. Enter a domain or URL of your competitors' websites in the lower search input field to analyze and compare their backlinks to know who links to them and who doesn't link to your website. You can add more than one competitor (Up to 10 competitors).

  7. Separate the competitors' websites by tapping the "Tab" or "Enter" keys on your keyboard.

  8. Click on the "Search" button or tap the "Enter" key on your keyboard to analyze your website and your competitors' website backlinks. The analysis will take up to 5 minutes to see the Opportunity Analysis Overview page results.

  9. Select the analysis according to your preference to include or exclude the subdomains by checking the "Subdomains" checkbox on the Opportunity Analysis Overview page.

    The second step of backlink opportunity analysis tool

Backlinks Opportunity Analysis Benefits List

The Opportunity Analysis is a feature of the seobase Backlink Checker Tool that includes many benefits, such as;

Compare Your Website with Up to 10 Competitors

The opportunity analysis feature from the seobase backlink checker tool allows you to compare your website with more than one competitor (up to 10.) It will give you all the information you need to catch up with the number of competitors' websites to overwork them.

the second step of using the backlink opprtunity analysis

Subdomains

You will find a "Subdomains" checkbox; check off/on to include/exclude the subdomains.

The forth step of backlink opportunity analysis tool

The Opportunity Analysis Overview Page

On this page, you will find the backlinks from your competitors' websites that you are not linking to your website. These backlinks will be filtered and sorted by:

Referring Domain Tab:

The Referring Domain refers to the websites linking to the domains you compare with your website. You will find on the right side of the page:

  • Backlink Count: The number of backlinks that link to this domain.

  • Domain Rank (DR): This rank is calculated based on the node ranking algorithms, the method used in the original Google PageRank algorithms.

    The fifth step of backlink opportunity analysis tool

Top Referring Domain:

By clicking on the arrow on the right side of each domain, you will find:

  • Top Referring Domain: This is the page with the highest Page Rank that links to this domain.

  • Page Rank (PR): This rank is also calculated based on the node ranking algorithms, the method used in the original Google PageRank algorithms.

The sixth step of backlink opportunity analysis

Backlinks Tab:

After the opportunity analysis feature analyzes the URLs you inserted before, you will find in the backlink tab the opportunities list that your website is not linking to while your competitors are.

On the right side of the page, you will find:

  • Domain Rank (DR): This rank is calculated based on the node ranking algorithms used in the original Google PageRank algorithms.

  • Page Rank (PR): This rank is also calculated based on the node ranking algorithms used in the original Google PageRank algorithms.

  • Backlink Spam Score (SS): This score indicates the average spam score of all three pages within the domains and the subdomains.

    The seventh step of backlink opportunity analysis

Backlink Opportunities Report

The Opportunity Analysis tool gives you a detailed report about the most valuable backlink opportunities to catch up with your competitors and overwork them by allowing you to Export CSV files that include all of your opportunities.

The eighth step of backlink opportunity analysis

Access History

The opportunity analysis feature from the seobase backlink checker tool lets you see your previous website backlink analyzing history.

To check your opportunity analysis feature history:

  • First, go to the opportunity analysis overview page.

  • Then, press on the history icon up-right the page.

The ninth step of backlink opportunity analysis

After clicking on the "History" button, the modal window opens from the left side of the screen.

In the list, you can see the history of backlinks checks that contain:

  • The URL

  • Date of search

You can clear your history by clicking the "Clear History" button.

To close the history backlink checker modal window, click the "X" icon.

The tenth step of backlink opportunity analysis

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