Graeme’s

Graeme’s Link Analyser

Posted by Graeme in Uncategorized
at 7:24 pm on Tuesday, 1 May 2007

This provides some simple, but useful, analysis of the inlink data you can download from Google Webmaster Tools. The summary panel provides totals for the number of links, linking domains, new links and links that have been lost. Other tabs show a list of linking domains, new links and lost links.

Installation

Windows

  1. Install Active TCL.
  2. You may need to associate .tcl files with the TCL interpreter program (the Active TCL installer should do this for you)
  3. Download and unzip this.
  4. Double clicking on inlink.tcl in Windows Explorer should run it.

Linux/Unix

  1. Either follow steps 1. and 3. for Windows or, install the following seperately (using your package manager): TCL/k 8.4 or better, tcllib, Bwidget, tclsqlite.
  2. Download and unzip this.
  3. Make the inlinks.tcl file executable (right click on it in your file manager, and change the permissions).
  4. You may be able to run the program by double clicking on inlinks.tcl. Otherwise open a terminal, change to graemes-inlinks directory, type ./inlinks.tcl

Mac

  1. If you are using an older version of Mac OS (lower than 10.4 Tiger) install either Active TCL or TclTkAquaBI.
  2. Download and unzip this.
  3. You can run from a terminal as with Linux, or you can open Wish and use the source command in the file menu.

Usage

It is pretty simple to use. The import option on the file menu lets you import data from a CSV file downloaded from Google. Please be careful to download the full list of links, not the partial version.

The summary tab shows some summary statistics, and lets you choose a date range for over which new and “lost” (no longer there) links are looked for. This is based on the date stamp on the file you downloaded. Be careful not to accidentally edit the CSV files.

The domains tab shows a full list of all domains found in all all the CSV files you have imported.

Known bugs

The drop down box for choosing between domains is currently non-functional, so you can analyse only links to one domain. You can work round this by using a separate copy of the software for each domain.

The domains tab shows a list of all domains that have ever linked to you, not links that are still live. You can work round this by only importing the most recent file you have (clearing the database first if necessary).

Tabs will not update unless you switch to another and back.

There is no feedback of successful importation of data, the program just freezes for a bit and the data appears when a tab updates.

I have released it with these bugs because they are fairly minor, and it may be a good few weeks before I have time to fix them.

This software is free. It was developed to analyse links to my finance and investment glossary Money Terms: please consider linking to it when you use a term defined there.