Sun 5 Nov 2006
SEOmoz.org has a great collection of all the freely available tools online to gather publicly available information about a site.
I’ll repeat it here for simplicity…
Technical Data
- IP Address - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 204.15.225.178) - Other Sites on an IP Address - via IP Query at Live.com
(e.g. SEOmoz’s - 204.15.225.178) - Server Type - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - Apache) - Response Time - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 5.78ms) - Name Server - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - dns1.dedicatedns.com) - W3C Validation - via W3C Markup Validator
(e.g. SEOmoz - we passed!) - CSS Validation - via W3C CSS Validator
(e.g. SEOmoz - validates) - Speed Report - via WebsiteOptimization.com
(e.g. SEOmoz, 23.44 seconds @ 56K - sadly, you can’t link directly to these) - Use of Text - via Ranks.nl KW Density Checker
(e.g. SEOmoz’s homepage has 662 total words, 336 uniques and “seo” is the most common, again you can’t link directly to these pages; note - I’m not endorsing KW Density; I just appreciate their tool) - HTTP Headers Response - via Web Sniffer
(e.g. SEOmoz - 200 OK)
Ownership/Hosting Data
- Whois Data (registrant, registration date, contacts, etc.) - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz) - Additional Sites Owned/Registered - via DomainTools Search and Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ DomainTools & SEOmoz @ Alexa) - SSL Certificates Issued - via DomainTools Search
- IP History - via DomainTools Search
- Hosting History - via Netcraft
- Whois History - via DomainTools Search
(e.g. SEOmoz)
Statistics/Popularity Data
- Alexa Rank - via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa - 864th most popular site) - Alexa Reach - via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa - 1395 per million users) - Alexa Page Views Estimate - via Alexa
(e.g. SEOmoz @ Alexa - 2.7 per user) - Google Trends Data - via Google Trends
(e.g. SEOmoz - no data; only available for highly searched-for domains) - Compete Snapshot - via Compete.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 5854 visitors in August, ranked #204,215th most popular site; no direct linking in) - Ranking.com Rank - via Ranking.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 26,741st most popular site) - Netcraft Ranking - via Netcraft
(e.g. SEOmoz - 20,319th most popular site) - Bloglines Subscribers - via Bloglines Feed Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 448 subscribers)
Search Engine Indexing Data
- Google’s Indexed Pages - via Google site: command
(e.g. SEOmoz - 18,400 pages) - Yahoo! Pages Indexed - via Yahoo! Site Explorer
(e.g. SEOmoz - 5,432 pages) - MSN Pages Indexed - via Live.com site: command
(e.g. SEOmoz - 11,416 pages) - Ask.com Pages Indexed - via Ask
(e.g. SEOmoz - 362; note that this requires an additional term in the query to return results) - Gigablast Pages Indexed - via Gigablast Advanced Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 1 page) - Exalead Pages Indexed - via Exalead
(e.g. SEOmoz - 5,481 pages) - Clusty Pages Indexed - via Clusty Advanced Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 5,867 pages) - How this Site Looked in the Past - via Wayback Machine
(e.g. SEOmoz - all the way back from February of 2005)
Link Data
- Yahoo! Link Data - via Yahoo! Site Explorer
(e.g. SEOmoz - 187,234 external links) - Technorati Link Data - via Technorati
(e.g. SEOmoz - 8,961 links from 2,541 blogs) - MSN Link Data - via Live.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 107,512 external links) - Google Link Data - via Google (note that this information is purposefully inaccurate)
(e.g. SEOmoz - a uselessly erroneous 2,370 links) - Google PageRank - via RankAlert (shows for all 72 datacenters)
(e.g. SEOmoz - PR 5/10 or 6/10 depending on DC) - Exalead Links - via Exalead
(e.g. SEOmoz - 4,308 external links)
Social Tagging Data
- Bookmarks at Del.icio.us - via Del.icio.us
(e.g. SEOmoz - 31 pages, thousands of bookmarks) - Pages in StumbleUpon - via StumbleUpon Reviews
(e.g. SEOmoz) - Mentions at Digg - via Digg Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 50+) - Mentions at Reddit - via Reddit Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 21) - Mentions at Tailrank - via Tailrank Search
(e.g. SEOmoz -
- Mentions at Newsvine - via Newsvine
(e.g. SEOmoz - 1)
Third-Party Trust Metrics
- TrustGauge Rank - via TrustGauge
- Better Business Bureau Listings - via BBBOnline.org
- Truste Sealholders - via Truste Member List (sadly, no search function)
Important Directory & Site Listings
- Listings in the Open Directory Project - via DMOZ
(e.g. SEOmoz - 3) - Listings in Wikipedia - via Wikipedia Search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 12) - Listings in the Yahoo! Directory - via dir.yahoo.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 1) - Listings in MSN’s bCentral - via bCentral
- Listings in Business.com - via Google Search (as Business.com has none of their own)
- Links in Google Groups - via Groups.Google.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 134)
Press & Media Mentions
- Listings in Google News - via news.google.com
(e.g. SEOmoz -
- Listings in Google News Archive - via archive search
(e.g. SEOmoz - 58) - Listings in Yahoo! News - via news.yahoo.com
(e.g. SEOmoz - 13)
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July 24th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
There’s also quantcast and aboutus which mainly has links to the sites mentioned above.
There’s also stopbadware.org and siteadvisor for phishing/malware advisory services.