8 Best Backlink Checker Tools & Apps of 2024 ( Free & Paid)

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Tool NameKey FeaturesPricing
1. Semrush☆ Large backlink database
☆ Rapid backlink discovery tool
☆ Conduct deep link analysis
☆ Reliable Authority Score
☆ Competitor analysis

+ Additional Features✓ Keyword Research
✓ Rank Tracking
✓ Scheduled PDF reports
✓ Semrush API
Pro Plan – $119.95/month
Guru Plan – $229.95/month
Business – $449.95/month

➥ Try 30-day Guru plan
for FREE (worth $229)
2. LinkMiner☆ Analyze backlinks with all vital details
☆ Find powerful backlinks
☆ Evaluate the Link Strength
☆ Competitor analysis
☆ Embedded website preview

+ Additional Features
✓ Save favorite backlinks
✓ Find fresh or deleted backlinks
Basic – $29.90/month
Premium – $44.90/month
Agency – $89.90/month

➥ Get FREE 10-day trial
3. Ahrefs☆ Backlink Checker
☆ Check broken inbound & outbond links
☆ Website Authority Checker
☆ Schedule site audit
☆ Find and fix broken redirects

+ Additional Features
✓ See top 100 backlinks in free plan
✓ Export Ahrefs report as CSV
Lite – $99/month
Standard – $199/month
Advanced – $399/month

➥ Use FREE Version of
Ahrefs Blacklink Checker
4. SE Ranking☆ Build link building strategy
☆ Backlink Gap Analyzer
☆ Referring domains
☆ Dofollow/Nofollow ratio
☆ Real-time backlink status checker

+ Additional Features
✓ Domain Trust metric
✓ Page Trust metrics
Essentials – $39/month
Pro – $89/month
Business – $189/month

➥ Get 14-day FREE trial
5. Keyword
Everywhere
☆ View the top 5000 backlinks
☆ Free backlink checker tool
☆ Chrome extension

+ Additional Features
✓ Update the data on a monthly basis
✓ Export backlinks data as CSV
➥ Learn more here
6. OpenLinkProfiler☆ Free backlink checker
☆ Analyse your competitor’s site
☆ Numerous filters to sort the data
☆ Link Influence Score

+ Additional Features
✓ Identify active links and spam links
✓ Download backlinks in CSV format
➥ Check backlinks
on OpenLinkProfiler
7. BuzzSumo☆ Backlink Checker
☆ Explore pages linking to a URL
☆ Export backlinks data as CSV
Free – 10 free search/month
Pro – $99/month
Plus – $179/month
Large – $299/month

➥ Start 30-day FREE trial
8. Moz Link Explorer☆ Explore the links to any site
☆ Research Competitor backlinks
☆ Check Spam Score of backlinks
☆ Monitor new and lost links
☆ Analyze anchor text

+ Additional Features
✓ Discover link building opportunities
✓ Export Links Data to CSV
Standard – $99/month
Medium – $179/month
Large – $299/month
Premium – $599/month

➥ Moz Pro FREE for 30 days

Looking for a backlink checker that you can use?

With regard to SEO, much has changed in the last couple of years, but one thing that remains the same is the backlink.

Formerly, your site would rank higher based on the number of backlinks you’ve gotten, but in 2024 it’s all about how many quality links you have.

Last year, Google’s Penguin algorithm update killed all the private blog networks and devalued low-quality links. In this tutorial, I will be discussing some of the best online backlink checker websites you can use to check how many backlinks your website has gotten.

More about backlinks:

When any website links to your site or any page of your site from its website, this is called backlinks. Backlinks used to be one of the most important parameters for high page ranking and better keyword ranking. However, with time, Google demoted the priority of backlinks and added more signals to rank a website.

Backlinks are usually categorized in two ways: Dofollow backlinks and no follow backlinks.

When we talk about creating backlinks, we usually concentrate on creating dofollow links. Using backlink checker tools, we count how many backlinks we have created for our site. A good number of backlinks helps immensely in increasing the domain authority and also the Moz rank of our site.

Following are some free online backlink checker tools that will help you to see all the incoming backlinks to your website.

You can select any one of these tools based on your requirements.

Some of them offer detailed results, while others offer only the number of backlinks, but none of them requires registration or signing up, which makes the process quick and easy!

1. Semrush (Popular)

Semrush is a tool I have been using for almost 9+ years, and with the extra features they are adding, it is becoming a highly robust SEO suite.

Before I discuss the backlink checker feature of Semrush, I must mention that Semrush is a complete suite of SEO tools that you may ever need.

Semrush has an extensive database that is updated daily, allowing you to check accurately your website’s backlink status.

Here is a screenshot of their main page, where I’m checking the backlink status of my website.

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Note how their domain Overview report displays details such as which TLD’s zone is linking you to the most pages.  You can also find details about the country from which you are getting most links.

You can use Semrush to check backlinks for your website or your competitor’s website.

They also have a backlink comparison tool that you can use to compare your own domain’s backlinks with others and get a complete report. Here is one such report:

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Overall, Semrush is a tool that you should be using right now as your backlink checker.

Here is the special link that will allow you to try Semrush for free for 14 days. (You can cancel anytime within the 14-day period, and you will not be charged.)

2. LinkMiner

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If you are doing Backlink analysis to find opportunities, you are going to love this one. Here are a few things that you can easily do with LinkMiner:

  • Analyze backlinks with all vital details
  • Embedded website preview from the dashboard
  • See the backlinks based on category (Blogs, forum, Q&A)
  • See the link strength
  • Mark backlink as favorite
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They have also merged Majestic historic and fresh index and that makes them one of the best backlink checker tools.

3. Ahrefs Free Backlink Checker: Recommended for link detox

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Ahrefs is a recent addition and a popular backlink checker tool. They are a premium tool but you can check backlinks for free using their free plan.

You can see the top 100 backlinks to any domain or webpage using this free tool.

You can also register for an account and get a complete backlink analysis along with an anchor text analysis of your site.

Ahrefs offers a detailed analysis of backlinks to any domain or webpage. The engine is very popular and you can see data like:

Following the Penguin update, if you are hit with negative SEO, this will be a time-saving tool for your site, as you can get all the link details along with a percentage breakdown of anchor text pointing to your site.

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4. SE Ranking

SE Ranking is an SEO suite that offers the feature of checking backlinks. What really interesting here is, you can track backlinks using:

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I liked the feature of “manually adding backlink”, which is helpful for webmasters and SEO professionals to track the performance of backlinks after running a backlink building campaign.

Otherwise, if you wish to check the backlinks of your domain or your competitor’s domain for backlink-building opportunities, you can use the backlink checker tool.

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SERanking offers 14-day free trial, and you can get started immediately. Overall SE Ranking backlink tool would delight you with the breeze of freshness. Read Seranking review.

5. Keyword Everywhere

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Keyword everywhere is a popular chrome extension for Keyword research, and recently they have added the capability to check backlinks for free.

Both (free and paid users), can check up to 5000 backlinks to a domain or to a webpage. Their backlink database is updated monthly, so you may not be able to check the recent backlinks.

Watch this video to understand how to check the backlinks of a domain name :

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However, for a free backlink checker tool, and for small domains, this is not a bad option.

6. OpenLinkProfiler

OpenLinkProfiler
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OpenLinkProfiler provides you with different options while checking backlinks for your blog.  For example, if you need a detailed report or optimization, or if you want to check backlinks for a single page or an entire website, Link Diagnosis allows you to do all of this.  It also offers various types of outputs and other features.

This is a free backlink checker tool that allows you to check the freshest backlinks (and all other backlinks) pointing to your site. You can also export 1000 of the freshest backlinks in .csv format. This tool is probably the best free option available for checking links to your site.

7. BuzzSumo

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BuzzSumo is one of my favorite tools for content marketing, and they offer a free version as well as a pro version. The pro version now has an added feature allowing you to check backlinks to your domain or any individual page. You also have the option to export existing links into .csv or Excel format.

Moz backlink explorer
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Of all the tools listed in this article, Moz Link Explorer is old & popular.  If you want to compare backlinks between two or more domains, Open Site Explorer is worth trying. This tool works best when you have a paid account of SEOMoz though a free version of this tool is good enough to get you started checking the backlinks of your site and the sites of your competitors.

This article has pointed you toward some of the fastest and most trusted backlink checker tools for your website. Here are a few recommended guides for you to read next:

Let me know if you know of any other tools that allow you to check backlinks in the fastest way possible.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

175 thoughts on “8 Best Backlink Checker Tools & Apps of 2024 ( Free & Paid)”

  1. Waheed Murad

    Nice, Very Good Tool’s List to check Backlinks to your site.
    i prefer GWT of google, and other webmaster tools to check baklink, also alexa.com show it.
    Thanks for this great article dear 🙂

  2. Martin

    Is there any other free backlink checker? Most times I use backlinkwatch, but it is not so good as ahrefs.

    1. Snehal Joshi

      One of the best tool to check and analysis your website plus competitor backlinks is opensiteexplorer.org or moz tool. Try it out it simply works.

  3. Ellena

    Thank you for sharing the great list of backlink tools!
    Btw, I came across one more great backlink checker here – http://webmeup.com/tools/backlinks.html.
    The tool is free, and it lets checking 1000 backlings right on this page, and the rest is downloadable in Excel.

  4. Sanjeev

    thanks for sharing this post…i think Ahrefs is best website for backlink checker!!

  5. Ryan

    Even though it cost $79/mo, I’ve been pretty happy with ahrefs.com. Only problem is of course they are often several weeks behind in what they are fully reporting, but alas, I can’t expect them to catalogue the entire internet every instant..!

  6. Jay

    I’m not sure if all these tools are accurate actually. As many people already pointed out, it takes a long time for the backlinks to show, if they ever do. Opensiteexplorer is the most accurate in the list imo.

  7. Trion

    You should always verify the reported backlinks with Backlink Falcon, Backlink Monitor, or whatever other software you have. The online checkers are good, but almost none of them weeds out the dead links and the duplicate urls. Some of them can easily report thousands of links, but once you remove all duplicate urls and dead links, you end up with a few hundred.

  8. jimmy

    I used use ahrefs to check my websutes before, it is a really good backlinks checker, but i threw it away last, because of it has limit and i should pay for it if i want more.
    To the people who is doing seo, a professional backlinks checker is essential, so i find http://siteexplorer.info to replace it. this tool is similar with ahrefs, they are so good at checking backlinks, but the difference is that the one i said is free and no limit, it is just like a perfect ahrefs.

  9. Anil

    I am using backlinkwatch since last 4 years… it’s great tool for backlinks —- I hope backlink watch is no.1 amond all other backlink tools….

  10. Deepak

    I had followed your given links, but the two I suggest are the best. One is Open Site Explorer and the other is Backling Watcher. Thanks for your published article.

  11. Brad

    Hello,

    I’m really confused about back links. I have been submitting articles to article directors, web directories, commenting on blog posts and also using socialadr, but when I use the back link checker, I notice that I do not have any back links. I have even submitted my first article to ezinearticles which was approved. Can someone tell me how long it takes for the back links to show up. What is the procedure?

  12. Josh Fernandez

    I also normally use backlink watch. And also sir the w3tool is not working it 404-ing

  13. Saiful Amin

    Thanks to for your collection of this seo tools. I agree with you about backlink checker but I chose opensite explorer. It is most powerful.

  14. The Believer

    Hi Whiztechy,

    I came upon this article in my pursuit to look for a really reliable free backlink checker tool/site to check if the backlinks I’ve been trying very hard to manually build for my newly acquired PR 2 domain name for a domain monetize opportunity…and in my count I’ve so far already done 50+ manual backlink efforts for my domain name, but sadly none of these backlinks were reflected, or tracked, by all the tools you’ve mentioned in your article. I’m just frustrated to continuously work building backlinks without the guarantee that my efforts are really accounted for by search engines.

    Could you kindly give me some helpful advice?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @The Believer
      Try Ahrefs.com.. It shows backlinks for the current day too…Very effective and one of the best here…

  15. Huseyin

    Thanks for this useful post. i like ahrefs.

  16. feri luhur

    Agree Vivek, I ussually use analyzebacklinks, backlinkwatch, and opensiteexplorer. The 3 of this is the most accurate I think.

  17. Mars

    These back link checker are used by me but i like ahrefs.com because it upadate almost every day and the others take some weeks even a month.

  18. Winnebago Hire

    I agree totally with keshav. So whom should we trust. Which site , which script checks our site with every site and shows the correct accurate results.

  19. Steamy

    It is such a shame the API keys have been stopped with Yahoo etc!!

    I think they should have still allowed the tool but possibly on a pay basis and they would have made a fortune!!

    I have checked all the available tools and not anyone is as good a the Yahoo tool was!!

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