Link Hounds Link Building Resources
Link Hounds is a link building tool and link building resource website. It is run by Aaron Wall over at SEOBook.com.
I worried at first that the site might be a platform for selling his SEObook. Though he does mention it twice, it is hardly a hard sell. In fact, quite the opposite is true. The site is geared towards providing helpful resources for free. From reading other things he has written, I know that he is dedicated to making SEO as inexpensive as possible. This wesbite is offered in that spirit. All in all, the site is an excellent resource for beginners.
What can you find at Link Hounds?
A general listing of various link building resources. Find links to technical documents about link building and link building theory. A list of other recommended link building sites. A short list of recommended places to get links.
A list of recommended link building tools. A list of recommended link building services.
General recommended tips for effective SEO. This page is kept simple and is generally geared to the true beginner.
The items of greatest value on the Link Hounds site are the two link building tools.
Link Harvester is a tool that examines a website or webpage and finds all the other sites that are linking to it. The list of features (as listed on the website) include:
* quickly find almost every single site linking into a domain or page.
* scrapes past the 1,000 search result limit by making domain filtering a snap.
* grabs number of pages indexed.
* grabs links to any page.
* grabs total inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio.
* tool is fast and free. which is great considering all it does.
* grabs C block IP address information.
* tool provides links to Wayback Machine and WhoIs Source next to each domain.
* free & open source. grab the source code here (requires DOM XML support to run)
* uses the Yahoo! API so it complies with their TOS.
Why use this tool?
Find out who links to your competition and then try to get them to link to your site as well.
The tool is free.
The tool does have some limitations on use. If the tool returns a 403 error, try using one of mirrored sites. The 403 Error simply indicates the tool has reached its search capacity for the day. This limitation is due to its use of the Yahoo API and conforming to the Yahoo Terms of Service.
Hub Finder is similar to Link Harvester except that it looks at a community of websites. Enter multiple websites and find out who is linking to all of them or some of them, etc. Such a site (or sites) might be a very viable link candidate.
Both tools are very helpful. Use them to get a picture of the competition and to find possible link candidates.
My one suggestion for the site is to change the picture of the cute little puppy dog to one of an actual hound dog of some sort, preferably a bloodhound. 
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