In the context of finding domains to park, what is the best tool for researching backlinks?
Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic, or SEMrush?
Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic, or SEMrush?
I'm not trying to outrun or outsmart anyone. My sales volume is increasing nicely, and so I thought I'd experiment with parking just for the fun of it.I think all park pros use more than one tool. by necessity. they also all pay money... usually a lot.. in short u will never outrun or outsmart those who use many paid tools if we just use one or two free ones.. parking is very ccompetitive world.... right @Hypersot ?
I use the paid version.@bhartzer Are you using Majestic Lite or Pro? Do you think Lite would get the job done for domain parking purposes?
At this point, the SEMrush "network graph" is pretty much unusable. It only shows tier 2 links, and the data there is so bad it's not accurate whatsoever.Thought SEMrush has a network graph, is that different from link graph?
Both Lite and Pro are paid plans.I use the paid version.
If you can get TF, CF, and Topical Trust Flow (and topics) from the 'lite' version, then yes it should be good.
Even better if you can get the link graph data.
I'm not trying to outrun or outsmart anyone. My sales volume is increasing nicely, and so I thought I'd experiment with parking just for the fun of it.
I could experiment without any tool if I wanted, but I'd prefer to use one.outrun outsmart are just words that mean u need to find and bid and buy revenue names while you compete against people with several paid tools. without those names u will not be doing much experimenting.
Thank you, I appreciate your detailed answer!@DrJacoby ,
I will go off-topic here (and apologies for that) but, since I was tagged, I wanted to explain what @alcy mentioned earlier on.
If you go via the Backlinks route using one of the tools that everyone else uses, you *will* get into the competition list; there is just no way around that.
What that means is, you will either get lousy domains (those that everyone else rejects) or you will fight in the auctions and in the dropcatch arena. In short, you will get totally wrong impressions because you dived too deep imo.
Now, regarding to your question, the answer is: all of them.
You need to find a way to get trial versions and try them all to see what each is about and then choose the one you feel more comfortable with (yes, they are all about backlinks but each go from a different direction).
There is *no* one better than the other in general unless you know exactly what you are after.
One more thing,
backlinks is just one of the many metrics one needs to look to park domains successfully. I won't go into more details but, just looking into backlinks and nothing else will lead you nowhere imo.
Good luck
I use only one tool to check backlinks and it's not so important for me which one, but how to interpret the results.
Some years ago there was openlinkprofiler.org that was perfect for me because fast, free and you could submit the domain also in the url ( GET method; AHREF for example works with POST + human verification ).
I searched a lot for a free alternative and the only option I found is https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker but it's not so comfortable the input and the free version is limited in the results.
I look mainly at the quality of the backlinks (all tools sort backlinks by their rank) and domain history.
One strategy to learn is to look at DropCatch Auction. Eliminating domains that are short or dictionary, try to understand why certain meaningless domain names go to auction at high prices, for example long 3 words domain names.
After you get your eye on DC, you might try buying few domains in the $59-$99 range that have more than one offer and you think are potentially valuable. I'm not saying that all domains that get multiple offers deserve that price, but many pro are on DropCatch and auctions are public on DropCatch.
If an expired domain is on Dynadot usually means that no one backordered it on DC or Snapnames: not a good signal (speaking about com/net/org of course).
If I'm having fun, I don't consider it a waste of my time. But thank you for your input.I think it's just waste of time to experiment during this period. Even one good sale will be equal to 5-10 years of profit from domain parking. It's just ridiculous.