Tips to Know Your Online Competition – Free Backlink Checker

Posted by Etech Spider on December 17th, 2011 | Comments off

Are you a website owner, a blogger or an SEO professional? Whoever you are but I’m sure you know the importance of backlinks for your website. Backlink is a link of your website posted on another website. When any visitor clicks on that particular link, he gets directed to your website page and that’s why it is known as backlink or inlink to your website.

The more are the backlinks coming to your website, the more is your website’s reputation among search engine and the more is your visibility. So, how do you check the number of backlinks for your website? Well, there are number of backlink checker tools available on internet. Here, I have introduced 4 best free backlink checkers:

4 Best Free Backlink Checkers- Smart Way to Know Your Online Competition

Google Webmaster Tool
Google Webmaster Tool (GWT) generated a detailed report of all the links pointing back to your website or blog. To get this report you need to follow very simple steps; login in the tool, click on your site from homepage and click on “More” under the “Links to Your Site” option.

GWT generates backlinks reports in three sections:

Sites Where Maximum Links Are Coming From
Content That Got Linked For Maximum Time
The Way Content is Linked

Bing Webmaster Tool
Bing Webmaster Tool (BWT) is another most popular backlinks checker tool. If you have Bing account then you can start using this tool immediately and if not then you can sign up using windows live ID. Using this tool, you can get the website traffic and linking data from both Bing as well as Yahoo.

Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer (OSE) is offered by SEOMoz and using it you can get important statistics like linking root domains, page authority, domain authority and total links. When you opt for its paid version, you get to know some more details like Facebook shares, Facebook likes, tweets and Google +1.

Within 3 to 4 hours of your report request, SEOMoz will email you a free report provided it should not be more than 100,000 links. You can also generate report in CSV format with some advanced filter options.

Majestic SEO
This tool provides a great insight into your past backlinks reports. This tool offers backlinks report every month. As of now the tool is not considering the sub-domains but soon they will be considering them into account.

There are lots of other free tools like Backlink Watch, IWeb Tool, SEOCentro and Alexa to check the backlinks to your website or blog in details. However, for high page ranking the number of backlink is not the only factor being counted, quality of backlinks also matters. Try to generate maximum quality backlinks for your site or blog.

About Author: The author is an SEO manager in a well-known SEO company India. SEO services India has been the first choice of overseas clients from last two decades and the primary reasons are its affordable cost and top-quality.