Help is at hand.I could use to beat up on Ran taiwan email list d in a presentation-off (umm, again). We have recently been doing some deep dives into clients' and prospects' link profiles which gave me an excuse to mash up some Linkscape API data in Excel. I've used Linkscape data, but you could use any link analysis tool you like as long as you can get some metric to sort the linking domain by (I have used domain mozTrust in most of the examples below).

Equally, I've used Excel, but you can use any data analysis package you like. If you want to use Excel, you will need the Data Analysis Toolpak (for the histogram function). I'll get into how to make the charts in a minute, but first I'm going to just show you some pretty pictures: Impress the boss This one is of questionable use (I think there are better ways of actually visualising the data) but it's pretty, and bosses like pretty (allegedly).