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The Clique Hunter from Majestic just helped me find 125 new link opportunities that I have somehow managed to miss in a tight niche.

I have been working for this client for around 18 months and our link building has been very successful and their traffic has grown significantly over the period but this was a stark reminder that it is necessary to diversify the tools that we use for linkbuilding.

I have heard lots of great things about MajesticSEO over the years but never really given them a proper try. I actually went to use the site explorer tool today to run some more general checks on a few specific domains and stumbled upon the Clique Hunter.

Here are a few ways that the Clique Hunter is useful:
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