Checking backlinks?

by Brendan Vraibel

Posted: 15 years ago 27 replies

Hello everyone

I am in the process of doing my first keyword research and I'm curious what the best place to check backlinks is? Any opinions on personal favorites would be appreciated.

#backlinks #checking

dspa72 15 years ago

You can use the yahoo site explorer.
Just go to yahoo.com and type site:www.mydomain.com in the search box
You'll see at most 1k sites pointing to www.mydomain.com

If you need more, you have to buy some more complex tool like scrapebox
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NeilC 15 years ago

Best to check in Yahoo as they show more of the links.

Go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and enter the URL you want to check in the search URL bar.

You can find out a lot more about links such as the strength, anchor text, and more using a tool such as Market Samurai if you want to use a good paid product to speed things up.
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- Brendan Vraibel 15 years ago
  
  Thank you. Big help.
  
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Rukshan 15 years ago

Familiar with scrapebox or SEO spy glass.
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tpw 15 years ago

Google is little to no help. Yahoo Site Explorer is my back link checking tool of choice.
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rain21 15 years ago

probably the yahoo site explorer
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Orator 15 years ago

Link Diagnosis - examine your link competition This is a good site for backlink checking.
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jazbo 15 years ago

unless its for competitor reasearch dont other. Just build more links, unless its for competitor research of course.
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azaz729 15 years ago

yahoo site explorer
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sitecrawler Banned 15 years ago

I think this tool might help you: Pagerank Tool. It can check the following: Google� Page Rank, Alexa Rankings, DMOZ and Yahoo Directory Listing, Backlinks, and social bookmarking listings on Del.icio.us; Digg, Reddit and Technorati
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eMarketingStar 15 years ago

Link Assistant SEO SpyGlass is very good, else queries in search engines are good also.
Note though checking links via Yahoo is dubious now that they have dumped natural search for Bing
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- scott g 15 years ago
  
  Scrapebox!!
  
  Scrape "site:mydomain.com"
  Open Backlink Checker and add from Harvester
  Check
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  Voila!
  
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  Bing Bang Bong!
  
  Well... This is my favorite, indepth method when I'm in research mode. But typically I'll just "activate" SEO Quake to check a couple sites/pages for a quick looksy.
  
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  MrMatts 15 years ago
  
  one really neat tool is also Serpattacks. The free version is suprisingly good... got to test it for the first time today.
  
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faceblogger 15 years ago

Site Explorer - Yahoo! Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink Analysis Tool
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Corvinus 15 years ago

SEO Spyglass Rank Tracker is a great tool. Another one is Market Samurai you can try their trial version, it will also help you in keyword researching.
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Trinidad 15 years ago

most professional blogger use yahoo explore search and they use this addon hxxp// quirk.biz/searchstatus/ with FF
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TBInternetMarketing 15 years ago

Yahoo will do it for you. My advice is don't stress about it too much. It's not always spot on. Just keep building em.
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dimitri.richko 15 years ago

If you want to extract competitors backlinks I suggest you to try "Backlinks Parser"
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darren13 15 years ago

I agree with all the above posts.

Yahoo site explorer --- is a great free tool
Market Samurai -- This is a great paid tool and i think there is a free trail version
Scrapebox -- As scott g has pointed out is also a great paid tool.
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mikekhen 15 years ago

I agree with those who uses yahoo site explorer because it is good in checking backlinks. You could try it too.
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- forsalecoza 15 years ago
  
  I am using the domain popularity tool at seometrics.
  
  It gives the domain and some other data. Not all link pages are shown.
  
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MillionaireMarketing 15 years ago

Hi - new to the forum... I've heard a ton of talk about backlinks, but I guess I've never really cared much since I somehow wind up getting good search engine rank WITHOUT backlinks.... go figure.

With so many people out there fighting for backlinks and such, how does any of this end up mattering in the long run? Maybe it's a stupid question, but it seems to me like this is just a never ending struggle for that coveted first page position...

... and nobody really knows how to get it... or why they got it (if they do)
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Nomar86 15 years ago

Blue Backlinks is also a good way to keep track of your links
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kharlhoffman 15 years ago

I use backlinkwatch.com to check backlink. Just try the one.
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khenmhike 15 years ago

Use yahoo site explorer for checking backlinks
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- DanTheSeoGuy 15 years ago
  
  You can use the SeoQuake toolbar. You'll have all the information you need about a website in one place.
  
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BriceGH 15 years ago

I am going to second backlink watch as a great tool. if you have less than 1000 links you can use their free option. If you have more than 1k links to check you either need to pay or find an alternative.
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