Website backlinks are one of the major SEO strategy. Backlinks mean how many sites are linking to a website. There are many ways to check backlinks but we are going to list the 10 best methods for backlink checking:
- Yahoo Site Explorer – is the most easiest and free
- Seomoz’s Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink Analysis Tool – SEOmoz tool helps to analyze backlinks effectively and search good page rank sites. Also, SEO PRO member will have an additional advantages too..
- Bluebacklinks.com
- Market Samurai – will provide detailed information about your site back links and keywords. It has got lots of features you may use for the betterment of your site.
- Google Webmaster Tools – In order to see the backlinks you will first need to configure the website. Google webmaster tools works well generally but it shows the links few weeks after they have been acquired. But of course it won’t help when trying to get data for MSN, bing, YaHoo and others. So it just depends on how detailed you want to get.
SEOMoz Open Site Explorer - Backlink Watch
- Google Operator (link:yourdomain.com or allinanchor:yourdomain.com)
- SEO Quake addon for mozilla firefox – I read here that they released it for Opera.
- WordPress SEO-Rank – very nice plug-in for wordpress websites
- Majestic SEO
People love to measure backlinks because they need to feel like they are accomplishing something daily and SEE things changing daily.