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

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.

Familiar with scrapebox or SEO spy glass.

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

probably the yahoo site explorer

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

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

yahoo site explorer

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

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

Site Explorer - Yahoo! Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink Analysis Tool

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.

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

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.

If you want to extract competitors backlinks I suggest you to try "Backlinks Parser"

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.

I agree with those who uses yahoo site explorer because it is good in checking backlinks. You could try it too.

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)

Blue Backlinks is also a good way to keep track of your links

I use backlinkwatch.com to check backlink. Just try the one.

Use yahoo site explorer for checking backlinks

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.