Backlinks are important when it comes to SEO. Having few quality backlinks from good PR blogs are worth then having lots of backlinks from low PR blogs. Thus it is important to build backlinks carefully and keep track of them to analysis your blog performance.
More about backlinks:
Here are 5 free online tools to check backlinks of your blog:
Analyze Backlinks:
Analyze Backlinks have a good clutter-free homepage to check back links of your blog. Apart from just entering the website URL, Analyze Backlinks gives you different options like don’t repeat backlinks from same domain, Show links only from homepage, Anchor Text, Total Links, Outbound Links and more. You can opt for any option according to your requirements.
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BackLinkWatch:
BacklinkWatch is one of the popular tools to check backlinks of your blog. But one thing which I don’t like about BacklinkWatch is it’s pop-ups of course we can close them with single click but pop-up ads always repeals me. BacklinkWatch provides you all details of backlinks of your blog.
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Open Site Explorer:
Open Site Explorer is worth trying if you want to keep track of your competitor’s blog backlinks also because Open Site Explorer not only provides the backlinks details of your blog but also gives you option to compare the backlinks of different blogs.
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Link Diagnosis:
Link Diagnosis provides you different options while checking backlinks for your blog like you need detailed report or optimized, you want to check backlink for single page or whole website, different kind of outputs and more. One thing you need to remember that Link Diagnosis works best with Firefox.
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W3tool’s Backlink Checker:
W3Tool Backlink Checker allows you to enter up to 10 blog URLs in one go. It provides you the number of backlinks your blog has got in Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and alltheweb. If you have a blog network and want to check backlinks of all blogs together then W3tool Backlink Checker is for you.
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Do let us know which online backlink checker tool do you use to see your backlink count? Do you use and free or paid SEO tool?
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backlinks are necessary for any website to grow on web especially they are offering SEO service at that time your blog work as a great portfolio.
There is o shortcut to build backlink you need to be consistent on building links without using blackhat seo techniques.
Growing website also depends on back links and dependends on seo
Agree Vivek, there is no shortcut for building backlinks, if someone is using unethical way to build backlinks it won’t give good long term results.
Open Site Explorer is best because we can check tracking of competitor’s blog backlinks with our blog
Right Rahul, if you need to track competitor’s backlink, Open Site Explorer is best option. But its always better to have healthy competition with other bloggers.
Nice Post !!!
ButYahoo site explorer(King to watch backlink) is missing.
Click on “Inlinks” and select “Except from this domain”, It will also display count of backlinks.
even in google webmasters, you can see backlinks for the website.
I would like to add these two in your list.
Yeah Brij, but I preferred to list up tools which don’t require registrations or logins. Thanks for adding two more to list.
You need not to login in Yahoo Site Explorer case:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
Direct give website link and click on Explore URL, Click on “Inlinks” and select “Except from this domain” and you will get all backlinks.
I normally use backlink watch.. Thanks for sharing the rest Whizy
Thanks for sharing the tool you use Jojo.
Backlinks are very for optimizing the site for Search Engine and it affects SERP. Thanks for these excellent collection of tools.
Glad you found them useful Swamykant
Nice lists.
Some how I like to stay with Google webmaster tools and yahoo site explorer to check my blog’s back links.
Do you know Bing also started this service recently in their webmaster tools. Worth to check.
Thanks for your feedback Dinesh, I am not a fan of Bing but I will surely give it a try.
Above all of the tools, backlink watch is a great tool!
Link diagnosis is very slow
Backlink Watch is nice tool, the only thing I don’t like is pop-ups. Did you tried Link Diagnosis with Firefox? It works better with it.
Yeah I normally use backlink watch too thats how I’ve been growing my backlinks great post.
Thanks for your comment BlogTheBank, Glad you like the post.
Awesome tools to check backlinks. Many tools are new to me.
Going to check out. Thanks for sharing whitechy..!
Do check them out, Deck and do share your views.
nice list to analysize the backlinks for my blog….plz answer this..is shoutmeloud a dofollow blog or nofollow blog???
Shoutmeloud is a nofollow blog Sumanth.
We can use google search to know the back links of a site.
Just type link:
According to google shoutmeloud have 190 results(backlinks)
Thanks Seenu for sharing one more trick, will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this……Backlinks are important for any blog/site and thus tools to check them become all the more important
Agree Kartik, Backlink are important and thus tools are also important. Hope blogger use these tools to keep track of backlinks for their blogs.
Till now I was just checking on yahoo . Thnx for this list I will try all of these
Do try it out Mahendra, you don’t have to login to use these tools as it is required in Yahoo!
I like Analyze Backlinks and Open Site Explorer, I do not like link diagnosis because it ask me to install a plugin. Thanks
Thanks for your feedback Nicholas.
well yahoo site explorer can also be used..but these back link checker’s are good too.
I often use Backlink Watch for checking links. Thanks for providing the other website.
@Freephotoshop, @Bilal Glad you found the tools useful.
Great list!
Thanks for sharing these…
I too have used backlink watch before. Thanks for sharing the other ones.
The problem I have with sites and scripts that show your backlinks is that they never give the same result. I’ve had sites claim I have thousands only to check another and it says I have about a dozen.
I did check out the first one and actually found links I had left on long forgotten blogs that I used to enjoy reading but had lost their url.
very nice sites all in this post, i use always backlinkwatch, now i jump to Analyze backlinks, because it having one great option “Don’t repeat backlinks from same domain:” i like it very much and t useful
I never keep track of my blacklinks, although I should. I just write, and promote my stuff, and network with other people.
Looks like the services you’ve added will be of a lot of help.
I’m not sure why we need to check our backlinks, is it because only then will we understand how to build backlinks (because we see what types of posts will get the backlinks, and what types of sites will be linking to ours)?
I;m using sheerseo.com to check my backlinks.
Nice collection, this is very helpful.
Few of the important tools which are missed is also mentioned in my article.
Backlink Watch
Yahoo site explorer
iwebtool
are few of them.
Great!Thanks Share
The problem I have with sites and scripts that show your backlinks is that they never give the same result. I’ve had sites claim I have thousands only to check another and it says I have about a dozen.