Web publishers, you need to use Blekko. Seriously. Yes, it only sends a tiny amount of traffic (we’re talking 0.001% of traffic to the Chitika network), but as a SEO tool, it’s amazingly useful and innovative.
If you don’t already know, Blekko’s big thing is slashtags – you can narrow down your search by applying tags like /youtube, /date, /shop, etc. One slashtag that produces excellent results is the /seo tag. Search for any web domain and add /seo to the end of the search, and you get a detailed breakdown of inbound links, site pages, crawl stats, and more.
Perhaps more interesting, ask yourself this: is anyone out there duplicating your content? Blekko knows. Click on the ‘duplicate content’ tab and you can see not only who, but how often content on your page is showing up on other sites. They’ve even included a whois link to show you who owns the site.
I’ve been fairly critical of Blekko in the past – Cuil’s failure tends to make me very wary of new search startups – but it looks like they’re doing things right. By giving such a powerful SEO tool to everyone, they’re trying to bring in the web publishing community. Admittedly, I’m a little behind the discovery curve on this tool – SearchEngineLand has been writing about Blekko’s SEO awesomeness since last August – but if you’re not already aware of and using this, you need to be.
Check it out yourself – head over to Blekko, punch your domain in with /seo at the end, and see what comes up. Anything particularly interesting? Tell us about it in comments.
I’m already using this engine as SEO Tool also as a Alternative Search Engine. Thanks for Sharing. 🙂