Best Backlink Monitor?

[consultant1027]

I'm using Raven SEO Tools. I don't see a way to have it automatically check backlinks weekly (like it does for SERPS) and then be able to see a graph showing 6 month history of total links and/or total ACRank changing over time. Would also be nice if each report indicates new links and has the option to show links that were on the last report but are not longer active.

Is there a cheap/free service out there that does this? Right now I'm having to manually run reports, export and save them.

[Josh MacDonald]

I don't understand what you need to see how many backlinks you're at? Just keep building, or use Yahoo Site Explorer.

[Kenwa87]

Try SEO spyglass but all back link tools will never show all of the back links. Just keep on building and set a schedule to check once a week or less.

[asarno]

Ahrefs rocks

[Droopy Dawg]

Yeah... my votes are for (in order):

MajesticSEO: Majestic SEO: Site Explorer
Yahoo Site Explorer: Site Explorer - Yahoo! Site Explorer
Backlink Watch: Backlinks Checker Tool - Backlink Watch

Market Samurai has a real good backlink analyzer where it can show you how many links your (or any) site has, and it breaks those links down by PR. Real cool.

[johnnn3433]

yeah i used majestic seo too. it worked pretty well for me.

[JackStoneSEO]

I use majestic SEO for checking all backlinks, and I use AreMyLinksUp for tracking high value backlinks like link exchanges and links I purchased.

[JSProjects]

Majestic or Ahrefs. Both have pretty large databases. Though still not as big as YSE once did.

[aygabtu]

Originally Posted by asarno

Ahrefs rocks

ahref sucks. It hasn't updated SERP changes all month.

[patco]

MajesticSEO can help, but there isn't ANY backlink checker that will provide you ALL the backlinks! .. If any1 finds anything, please share it :P

[DSTeam]

Online solutions: majesticseo.com, ahrefs.com, opensiteexplorer.org
Program solutions: SEO Spyglass and MS

[MikaJanah]

Try Backlinkwatch or SpyGlass from Link Assistant. The enterprise version provides additional features to extract more info on the links.

[Vtoy]

MajesticSEO is a free online tool I personally use. Other than that I'm using Traffic Travis.

[AleinaKoch]

SpyGlass Enterprise by Link Assistant. It gives you all the details on a specific link.

[McHarrison]

I use majestic, ahrefs and opensiteexplor tools in SEO for checking all backlinks, and I use AreMyLinksUp for tracking high value backlinks like link exchanges and links I purchased.

[seoforu]

I vote for magestic seo and backlink watch.

[sickseo]

I find that majestic seo are extremely slow at updating their figures with the actual figures which I record myself. For one site of mine, I have physically built over 10,000 links to my domain. Majestic seo still shows only 95 links to the domain! So quite a big difference.

For monitoring and orgainising my links by tier, I use a desktop software which allows me to schedule link checks, check the indexed status of my links, as well as analyse other metrics such as obl's, anchor text and no follow status.

It also has a filter option, which allows me to select my links by a combination of the above metrics, before loading the urls into another campaign. So keeping track of my links and building more links to my links is a lot easier and quicker when you have a tool such as backlink monitor.

The software only costs $39.95 and is a one off purchase. So certainly very inexpensive for what it does. I have done a training video explaining how I use it. You can find it on my site and you tube channel.

I am unable to share a link to the video as I have not hit the 15 post count yet! This is my first post!

Tops

[jrpventures]

what is the best checker that's free?

[finalround]

My vote goes to MajesticSEO

[marketwarrior06]

if you are really serious about your backlinking then spend the time that you are giving to watch how many links have you gotten to the building of links. it will help you getting more and more back links. and remember that Google will index the links sooner or later

[heavysm]

Majestic seo is great for this but its useless to worry about since all that matters is the rise in serps. No tool will be very accurate since backlinks come from all over the web. Just focus on your sites rankings rather than the "exact" number of links pointing to your site.

[Kreative4]

Majestic SEO. Most accurate and up to date.

[warriorsaroj]

Insted of any tool I would prefer bulid back links on your own or get it done by manually. This the best way to earn backlinks

[cssitkt]

If used Ahrefs, Majestic, Market Samuri & spy glass & Traffic Travis - in my opinion Link Research Tools is far better than any of them.

[marcus luther]

Originally Posted by johnnn3433

yeah i used majestic seo too. it worked pretty well for me.

Hey mate, you can use alexa and backlink watch...Both are pretty good..Alexa will provide you quality backlinks and backlink watch will give you total links..

[sickseo]

The problem with using any of these external data sources is that they will NEVER give you the full SEO picture on your links. All of these data sources are very poor at reporting on the total number of links pointing to your site.

They also fail to report on links which point to your links. They only report on tier 1 links. So if you build link pyramids, you can not track these links with external data sources.

I just tried backlink watch on my sickseo site and once I had got past those annoying pop up ads, it told me I had ZERO links and that I should go and build some! I also looked at majestic seo and it says that I have 95 links going to my home page! It's been saying that for a few weeks now.

Well, I know for a fact that I have 25,313 active backlinks. I also know that 57% of my links are indexed. I also know that 25,000 of these live links are do follow and that 313 links are no follow! I can also see the exact anchor text for each of these live links including those "anomalies" which often appear when building links.

How do I know all of these statistics for my site when backlinkwatch tells me I have zero links? It is because I use a desktop software to track and analyse all of my links from any of my tiers. It is called backlink monitor by a company called Inspyder Software.

I have been beta testing for a few months now and have managed to make enough feature requests to get the tool developed to the stage it is at now. I am a full time SEO, so the features which this desktop software now has programmed in are perfect for an seo.

Seriously, if you do seo and want to stay in control of your links. Then this is the only tool I use and certainly the only tool I also recommend to others.

I have also taken the time to create a demonstration video which is an hour long, showing how I use the tool to make my own seo decisions for my sites. Once you have watched the video, I will be extremely surprised if anyone says that these external data sources are better or even accurate!

They simply are not!

Tops

[sp1k3ster]

Originally Posted by JackStoneSEO

I use majestic SEO for checking all backlinks, and I use AreMyLinksUp for tracking high value backlinks like link exchanges and links I purchased.

Thanks for the share. Aremylinksup.com is a perfect solution. I was looking for something that could centralize all the link tracking. I pay monthly for lot of my backlinks and I wanted to make sure they don't go down without my knowledge. Also it shows PR and stuff. Thanks again.

[sickseo]

Originally Posted by sp1k3ster

Thanks for the share. Aremylinksup.com is a perfect solution. I was looking for something that could centralize all the link tracking. I pay monthly for lot of my backlinks and I wanted to make sure they don't go down without my knowledge. Also it shows PR and stuff. Thanks again.

I checked out aremylinksup.com and it is quite a long and tedious process of getting your links into their system. You have to add them in one by one! For each of my sites, I have in excess of 100,000 links from multiple tiers. I will be old and grey by the time I have manually added all of my links into their system for all of my sites!

aremylinksup.com has no support for adding links in volume, nor do they allow the tracking of links from multiple tiers. I still believe Backlink Monitor is the best tool out there for organising, checking, tracking and analysing your links by tier.

I can add in my urls into the software by simply copy and pasting! There are no limits on the number of urls. There are no limits on the number of projects. No monthly running costs either. Link checks can be scheduled with the built in scheduler and reports can be scheduled to be emailed as well. All of the important metrics are available for analysis too! It is the only tool which can track your links from every tier. So your links which point to your links which point to your money site url can be checked and tracked on automation.

It doesn't get any better than this!

Tops

[JackStoneSEO]

Originally Posted by sickseo

I checked out aremylinksup.com...

Yeah, the no import functionality is a pain in the butt. That said I emailed them and they said they're in the middle of revamping everything and they're adding import functionality so thank god for that.

I primarily use it for high value links. You definitely don't want to track all your links from all your tiers using it. I mostly use it for tracking paid links and pr network links so I know I'm getting what I paid for on those links.

Once you add more than a handful of those high value links, making sure they all stay online, pr doesn't change, etc, becomes a major PITA.

[checklinks]

If you want to check your site backlinks then use backlinkwatch. It is best to check site backlinks.

[RevSEO]

It's between Majestic and Ahref.

Or, Scrapebox, which is much faster and based on your own schedule but unfortunately it won't produce pretty graphs or charts like you wanted.

[leflerandassociates]

Originally Posted by sickseo

So keeping track of my links and building more links to my links is a lot easier and quicker when you have a tool such as backlink monitor.

The software only costs $39.95 and is a one off purchase. So certainly very inexpensive for what it does. I have done a training video explaining how I use it. You can find it on my site and you tube channel.
Tops

Thanks for this sickseo. I was looking for some feedback on this software. Your comments and YouTube video on this product were excellent! I will purchase your recommended package through your link as a thank you.

You are a star,

John

[lisadan1]

I have not used this one. I will use this soon and let you know my feedback regarding this.

[acs111]

I use backlinkwatch its free. You can copy the links straight to Excel

[kinnethharring]

Try backlinkwatch!