This document discusses strategies for analyzing backlinks and link building. It provides an example of analyzing the backlink profile of a company in the food processing industry to identify new link building opportunities. It also discusses how to use Majestic tools like Link Context to evaluate link quality and find high-quality pages to link to on a given topic.

1. Link Intelligence
Redefining Backlinks and Link Building Strategies

2. What we’ll discuss
Topics of this Workshop

3. Program
• Majestic Overview
• Link Context & Related Sites
• Examples
• Backlink profile analysis for an industrial food processing enterprise
• Backlink SPAM: Can NOFOLLOW backlinks hurt your rankings?
• Outbound Linking Strategies
• Roundup & Conclusions

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Expertise
Authority
Trust
Widgets
Website

6. Majestic Tools: The Site Explorer
Your gateway to the ecosystem of backlinks, where your link building starts…

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9. Widgets
Website

10. Domain or URL Analysis??
• Strong domain (high values of Trust Flow and relatively low Citation
Flow) are a high level signal that the domain is trustworthy
• The fact that a domain is trustworthy does not implicate that any link
from that domain will do
• Choose candidate pages from which to seek a link based on page level
metrics - see this very interesting post by Dixon Jones on this subject

24. Related Sites
Geographically Similar Sites, Competitors and Sites related by Business Relationships

28. Restaurants near the Admiral…
Let’s use the Related Sites function with Restaurants!

32. Link Context
Redefining Links…

33. Link Context is a visualised content
distribution analysis to evaluate the quality
of a link

34. •Helps discover links in a new way
•Backlink checkers and SEO tools view links like
bridges between pages on the web, but backlinks are
surrounded by things such as text, images, objects
and frames - all part of the context of an article,
blogpost, or a listing of resources
Link Context…

35. Link Context…
•Searches for text and links around your backlinks
•Offers strategic and inspirational insights on how
a backlink has been conceived and deployed
because it takes into account the context where
the backlink is positioned on a page
•Provides fast and efficient auditing and
prospecting for quality link building
•Changes your perception of links

36. Understands the ecosystem of a page, Identifies
the link's context and facilitates the task of
identifying good links and bad links
Link Context is used to find out how much text
surrounds a backlink, how many other links are
present nearby, how densely the links are
organized, for you to understand if the link is
editorial or from a directory page
Link Context…

37. Link Context is measured by Link Density,
how densely links are packed into each
page segment.

38. A Closer Look at Link Context
How it actually works…

49. From left-to-right
- A link in the header of a BBC web page
- A citation in a Wikipedia article
- An editorial link from an article on medium.com
- A link from a small blog (page size is too small to generate 40 segments)
- A link from the hub of a directory site
- A footer link on the personal blog from a UK TV personality.

50. Link Context Users Manual
• Click here to download the Italian version
• Click here to download the English version

51. Majestic Campaigns
Sharing Link Intelligence with Clients and your Network of Contacts

72. “A clique, in the social sciences, is a group of
individuals who interact with one another and
share similar interests.”
Definition of Clique - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique

74. Custom Reports
Where detailed analysis begins…

85. Use Pivot Tables!
Create Value-Added Information with your Data!

88. Page Inventory Hack!
Majestic crawl data can be used to verify your website architecture

101. https://developer-support.majestic.com/

102. Example: Backlink Profile Analysis
Analysing a backlink profile in the fish and food processing industry

103. Backlink Analysis Setup
• Fresh Index (last 90 days of backlinks)
• 774 individual backlinks to be examined
• Objectives:
• Identify backlink patterns
• Explore areas of interest “off the beaten path”
• Suggest a link building strategy

107. Example: Backlink Profile Analysis
Analysis of competitors backlink profiles (fish and food processing industry)

109. Off the beaten path…
• Information from backlink profile offered the “status quo” - a
snapshot of the backlink profile for us to understand where the links
were coming from
• We were able to map the backlink profile ecosystem
• We analysed competitors in search for ideas and strategies as a
starting point in our link building strategy

110. Off the beaten path…
• We also took a more specific approach and analysed single
components/equipment in search for signals
• We discovered two important areas of interest with link building
potential that competitors had not exploited:
 Slaughter
 Bleeding

111. http://fishcount.org.uk/fish-welfare-in-commercial-fishing/humane-slaughter

112. Off the beaten path… Animal Rights Websites
• This page, identified in our backlink analysis, had generated a number
of organic links from animal rights activists websites
• The advanced technologies made available by the client, explained
and communicated from such a point of view, could offer the
opportunity for media exposure, hence organic backlink growth!
• Would client fish processing technology be classified as “Certified
Humane”? This could be a different way to promote the brand and
gain genuine organic links with a positive sentiment.

113. Off the beaten path… Scientific Journals
• In depth and extensive backlink analyses identified scientific journals
featuring publications on fisheries and related technologies.
• Research performed by the client, could be a perfect fit for one or
more of the online publications identified.
• The objective is to have research published. Even simple citations
would be beneficial in this area.

114. Link Context at work!
This analysis was performed in a matter of hours with Link Context and
filtering with Link density: This activity would have taken us days of
relentless painstaking manual link auditing to identify editorial links,
excluding from our analysis links from low quality directories

115. Case History: Toxic Backlinks
Are toxic backlinks with a nofollow harm your rankings?

122. Date 1st disavow file was uploaded

127. Considerations
• Based on this case history and other cases reported in literature,
there appears to be a direct connection between this kind of massive
backlink SPAM and loss of organic placement – at least in the
immediate when the search engines automatically detect an unusual
behaviour
• The use of Link Intelligence by Majestic provides the data to fight
back and maintain a high profile awareness, providing search engines
with constant feedback – signals to communicate our extraneousness.
• Campaigns play a fundamental role in monitoring backlink profiles.

128. Topical Linking
Find the Best Pages and Link Out to Them!

129. Topical Linking
• Links to authoritative pages can help your rankings, but how can you
find the “best” pages to link out to?
• Let’s consider the case we have a recipe website and want to write an
article about Spaghetti Bolognese: ideally we would feature original
content with a selection of high quality links to other authoritative
sources for the user to consult for more information on this food

130. Topical Linking
• Run searches on the Search Engines
• Run the same searches on the Majestic Search Explorer

135. Thank You :)
Sante J. Achille
Majestic Brand Ambassador
Search Marketing Services & Consulting
Email: sante@achille.name
https://achille.name/
@sjachille