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eKstreme Domain Geographical Locator Review
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
I've just discovered a new toy!
The Domain Geographical Locator at eKstreme.com is an easy and brilliant way to find out where your backlinks come from.
As well as showing the TLD (top level domain e.g. COM or UK) of a backlink, the country where the site is hosted is also shown.
According to eKstreme, Google puts emphasis on the TLD in search results whereas MSN and Yahoo (probably) use the hosting country as their geographical guide.
To use this, just enter your URL into the search box and hit 'Localize domain'. You then get a list grouped by TLD of your backlinks. Clicking on the 'more' button will list all the backlinks with that TLD and where the site is hosted whilst clicking on the excel icon will download the list in, unsurprisingly, excel format.
You can click through on each sitename but you are only taken to the front page rather than where your link is. To find that out, just click on the Yahoo icon on the previous page.
I think the only thing missing is a visualisation of the data - for a quick overview this would be much easier than trying to absorb all the text data.
Oh, and it's free to use.
Labels: domains, searchengines
