Blogging Tips

Matt McGee from Small Business Search Marketing found an excellent website today called Traffic Marks. Traffic Marks helps you find the authority websites for certain keywords.

To use Traffic Marks you need to first sign up though this doesn’t take long. After you have signed up you can now search for your chosen keywords. In the examples below I chose to search for the term Blogging Tips.

After you input your keyword, 3 information sections are displayed. The first is called Top Traffic Marks. This shows you the sites which link to the top search listings on google using that keyboard.

If you click on show details it shows you the URL of these links. The image below shows that SmashingMagazine has linked to the number 1, 2, 4 and 5 listings for the keyword.

The next info box shows you the top ten search results on google for your chosen keyword. Again, you can display the backlinks to each site for your keyword.

The last info box is called Search Results × Traffic Marks and simply shows the first two information boxes in an easy to read grid.

All in all I am very impressed with this service. It helps you see where backlinks are coming from for certain keywords, both for your own site and your competitors, and this can be very useful for deciding what keywords to target in your blog posts. It’s free so at the very least you should try it out (though it may not always be free).

Let me know what you think. Once again, kudos to Matt McGee for finding this site

Link : Traffic Marks