Best 5 Backlinks Checker Tools

Being a blogger and webmaster, It's important to learn the basics of search engine optimization. We've discussed many things about SEO for newbies and also for pros. If you're known a bit to SEO then you might have heard about backlinks. Well, creating backlinks is just another thing which we should do regularly in order to good rank in SERP. But sometimes, we're interested to know that how much backlinks we've made till now. There are many ways for this to check the backlinks of our blog but in this post, we will be checking some really good Backlinks Checker so that you can easily analyse your blog.

Why you need Backlink checker tools?

When any website links to your site or any page of your site from his Website, it’s call backlinks. Backlinks used to be one of the most important parameter for high page rank and better keyword ranking. Though with time, Google demoted the priority of Backlinks and added more signals in order to rank a website. Backlinks are usually categorized in two ways: Dofollow backlinks and no follow backlinks. When we talk about creating back-links, we usually concentrate on creating dofollow links and using these backlink checker tools, we count how many back-link we have created for our site. Also, a good number of backlink helps in improving page rank and also mozrank of our site.

Here are few online free backlink checker tools which will help you to see all the incoming backlinks to your Website. You can select anyone of these tools according to your requirement. 

1. Ahrefs

Ahrefs has the largest index of live backlinks which are updated after every 15 minutes, it's quite simple to use for any beginner yet it provide deep enough statistics that are needed and trusted by gurus, it provide stats such as, inbound and internal backlinks, anchor text cloud,  incoming links TLD chart etc. Ahrefs have paid plans starting from 79$ monthly to 499$ monthly and free version of Ahrefs can allow you to see up to 10 backlinks per request (you can see the exact number but details will only be shown of 10 first backlinks).

2. Analyze Backlinks

Analyze Backlinks have a good clutter-free homepage to check back links of your blog. Apart from just entering the website URL, Analyze Backlinks gives you different options like don’t repeat backlinks from same domain, Show links only from homepage, Anchor Text, Total Links, Outbound Links and more. You can opt for any option according to your requirements.

3. Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer is owned by Moz (formally known as SEOMOZ ), it's one of the best new tool out there, it shows some of the newest metrics like domain authority and page authority, and the basic usual info as well, you can compare sites as well head to head. Open Site Explorer packages starts from 99$ per month to 599$ per month, and you can get free 30 days trial of its 99$ per month stand package without any commitment.

4. BackLinkWatch

BacklinkWatch is one of the popular tools to check backlinks of your blog. But one thing which I don’t like about BacklinkWatch is it’s pop-ups of course we can close them with single click but pop-up ads always repeals me. BacklinkWatch provides you all details of backlinks of your blog.

5. W3tool’s Backlink Checker

W3Tool Backlink Checker allows you to enter up to 10 blog URLs in one go. It provides you the number of backlinks your blog has got in Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and alltheweb. If you have a blog network and want to check backlinks of all blogs together then W3tool Backlink Checker is for you.