Traffic Marks : A useful tool for finding authority websites in your niche

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on July 30, 2008

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

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on July 30, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines

9 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

charles | July 30th, 2008 at 1:29 pm #

Wooottt.. Another SEO tool.. Thanks for giving me info about traffic marks and you deserve a credit for giving out the information and i will try my best to help you out if i can. But most of all good luck in your carrer in blogging.

Thank you
Charles
Money Making and Blogging Tips
http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com
Alex the Freelance Twin | July 30th, 2008 at 1:52 pm #

Awesome thanks so much for posting this. I’m heading over there right now to try it out
John Young | We Have Contact | July 30th, 2008 at 2:09 pm #

Nice….I can definitely get some use out of this. I have to admit I’ve been slow about getting on the SEO train and tools like this make it that much easier. Thanks!
shawal | July 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am #

Thank You for sharing this useful tools,.. Going to sign up ….
Dan Schulz | August 1st, 2008 at 9:14 pm #

Is anyone else getting fatal errors when they try to register, resend confirmation notices or use the contact form to email them about the problem? I sure am.
Link Building Bible | August 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am #

Yah, I am getting a fatal error…. it seems like it has to do with sending the confirmation email….
Kevin Muldoon (Post Author) | August 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 am #

I never had any problems during sign up. It worked first time for me.
Andre Thomas | August 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am #

It sounds like an awesome tool but I also get a fatal error when signing up…
Amir Ahmad | MindValley Labs | August 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm #

Hi Kevin, my name is Amir and I’m on the team behind Traffic Marks.

Thanks so much for this review. For all of those still having trouble signing up and getting registered for a free account, please drop me an email and I’ll do what I can to help you all…

amir AT mindvalley *DOT* com