SEOmoz PRO has a lot of cool tools, but Linkscape has created the most buzz in the past few months. Linkscape is the ultimate link analysis tool. Currently, the system covers 38 billion URLs made over 240 million domains which allow you:

• Linking domains: unique domains are linking to a page, subdomain, or to your entire website.
• Linking strategy: find out about your competitors’ linking strategies and beat them in their own game.
• Link quality: not all links are created equal. Use Linkscape to find out why!
• Link Partners: find link partners for your niche sites quickly.

That’s just for starters. Let’s see what exactly you get with Linkscape.

Now this is only the basic report, but you get a lot of information on how you can improve your websites. The advanced report provides you with more information, including inlinks to subdomains and your root domain.

The advanced report is so powerful. Not only it shows you all kinds of information on your domain that you can use to improve your website, you can also dig deep and go through your links one by one.  By clicking on links to URL and links to domain, you can go through each and every link and figure out which links are bringing you the most juice.

Another powerful feature that you get with Linkscape is the anchor text analysis report that allows you to figure out who’s linking to you or your competitors with what anchor text. You can figure out your competitors anchor text strategy, and what you can do to nullify it.

Believe it or not, the guys at SEOmoz have an advanced API available that you can use to get all kinds of data. That’s going to cost you $5000 minimum per month. This includes:

• Advanced full link data
• Advanced Website data
• Advanced Keyword data

Now I wouldn’t recommend anyone getting this $5,000+ monthly plan unless you have a lot of money and need to dig much deeper than most folks. Linkscape comes with enough features to keep you busy for a while, so don’t go spending $5K on API access before extracting everything there is from the standard Linkscape access that you get with SEOmoz PRO.

Linkscape, one of my favorite SEO tools, has just gotten its second update. SEOmoz has just announced that the second update includes most the changes from Q4 2008. Here are some of the interesting information from SEOmoz Daily blog:

Some important & interesting statistics from this crawl:

* URLs: 36,330,454,654
* Subdomains: 225,767,675
* Root Domains: 46,952,859
* Links: 410,360,303,763

Distributions of External Links from this Index:

* 50%: 0
* 95%: 1
* 99%: 8
* 99.5%: 18
* 99.9%: 108
* 99.99%: 1854
* 99.9999%: 104,828

Distributions of Linking Domains to a Domain:

* 50%: 0
* 95%: 1
* 99%: 4
* 99.5%: 8
* 99.9%: 26
* 99.99%: 145
* 99.9999%: 9713

Distribution of External Links to a Root Domain:

* 50%: 2
* 95%: 80
* 99%: 558
* 99.5%: 1,266
* 99.9%: 9,138
* 99.99%: 94,999
* 99.9999%: 12,286,546

If we believe this information, we are looking at many sites with 0 or so incoming links. What that means that if you haven’t paid attention to building links yet, you may want to.

Isn’t Linkscape the most fun online toy or what?

Is getting distracted an art? I don’t know about you, but after a few years of dealing with all kinds of distractions I am pretty certain that there is such a thing as the art of distraction. It’s simple really. The latest buzz in the SEO world is about the new tool that SEOMoz is going to be releasing soon. It’s called Linkscape, and it’s a very powerful tool. Basically, what it allows you to do is to find out how your competitors go about the business of building links.

The Unparalleled link intelligence advantage that you can get with SEOmoz’s tool is great. There is no question about that. But to most of us, Linkscape is like killing a bee with an elephant gun. Now folks new to the art of SEO want to have the most cutting edge tools in the world. After all, if the tool is branded as “Unparalleled link advantage,” then it must do magic. I call it distraction.

Linkscape is a great tool, and I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. But at the same time, it can be a big distraction for folks. Everybody in the SEO world is talking about how Linkscape will revolutionize the way SEO’s done. That’s all great. But I rather get the job done with my free tools and let folks talk it out.

Here is the thing. We all love “cool” things. In other words, we all want to be distracted, one way or another. The challenge is to stay on the ball and keep your goals in front of you. You can have the best tools out there on the market. But I rather be a producer than a consumer. If you want to take your business to the next level, just pick a few tools that let you do the job and keep your time investment in new tools to a minimum. Again, Linkscape is going to be great, and the next tool after it will be even greater. But the cold hard facts about SEO still remain: relevant valuable content gets the job done!

P.S. I am the master of this art (getting distracted). Are you?