RustyBrick has created a free link analysis tool which will search your backlinks and give you various reports such as what sites are linking to you, how many links point at you from each site, how many image or text links you have, the text in the links, etc.

Some people would not recommend using a hosted tool like this on their own site since it puts your info right out in the open, but certainly it could not hurt to use this tool on your competitors websites.

This tool works in conjunction with the Google API. The combination of that fact and the need for it to spider pages means that it will analyze about 100 links per minute, which is somewhat slow compared to some of the similar downloadable software (such as Optilink).

In the future there will also be a premium service login version of this link analysis tool which will provide monthly reports or reports after PageRank updates and other customized reports. Barry is currently fielding Q & As in a SEW Forum thread.

Incidently I just got an email from Leslie Rohde which said that he just updated OptiLink and that it is now twice as fast as it was.