A man is known by the company he keeps. And now this has become so true of the virtual world too. The sort of sites that link to you and refer you traffic has started to influence your credibility - both in the eyes of general web surfers as well as the search engines. If the sites that link to you or you link to are questionable then your site’s worth and credibility is also under the scanner. We found an excellent free tool that will analyse the links on your site and analyse if they point to any ‘low credibility’ sites. This tool can be found on bad-neighborhood.com.

So what is it that this free tool will tell you. First the bad neighborhood tool will analyse all sites that you link to, check the links on the destination page and analyse each of those. Then it will categorise each destination link to confirm if it is a ‘potential’ bad neighborhood. So for example, you link to site A which links to sites that are looked down upon by search engines. Then this site A is a bad neighborhood for your site. Again the tool also identifies pages where there could be an outgoing link too many. As you would know search engines feel that too many links on a page results in unhelpful data for the user and hence penalises the page.

The best way for you to find all the uses for this tool is to check it for yourself. All the results are very intuitive and hence easy to comprehend. And most important of all there is no equivalent tool available. No doubt others will spring up copying this but that is probably the pride for bad-neighborhood.com. After all imitation is a sign of great work.