Want to check the backlinks of one’s blog for free? Then, you are at the right place to learn. Check out the Top 11 Free Backlinks Checker Tools you must be using.
Top 11 Free Backlinks Checker Tools You must be using
We’re going to learn the Top free backlinks checker tools to check backlinks. Before, we learn them. Let’s discuss how backlink checkers can help you in several ways?
How Can Backlinks Checkers Help Me?
Backlink checker tools can help you magically. Let’s find how?
Checking Competitors Backlinks
Many of my friend bloggers use these tools to spy on their competitor’s backlinks.
As you know authoritative backlinks can make a site rank well in search results, so when you spy your competitor’s backlinks and know the sites from where they’re getting backlinks, you’re done.
Now, what you have to do is to make proper connections with those sites’ authors to earn authoritative backlinks.
When your site gets more authoritative backlinks than the competitor’s one, You’ll see a magical change in your rankings.
The number of authoritative backlinks is a major factor of Google’s latest algorithm in ranking a site/page/blog.
Checking The Spammy Backlinks Of Your Own blog
Yes, Spammy backlinks can completely turn the game. It can make you ZERO from HERO. How??
Spammy backlinks are the easiest ways to down your search engines rankings :p
LOL, who wants to down his/her rankings? okay, leave. I just want you to know that Spammy backlinks are very dangerous for your online business.
These tools can easily help you to find spammy backlinks. After you find exactly where your spammy backlinks exist, you can remove spammy backlinks via disavow tool. It’s easy as 1 2 3. Isn’t it?
Analyzing The Domain’s Metrics
Some of the backlink checker tools allow us to know the domain matrices like DA (Domain Authority), Domain Age, etc.
These matrices can help us to learn whether we’re getting an authority or not in the huge online world.
List Of Free Backlinks Checker Tools
So, let’s learn some of the best premium looking free backlinks checker tools:
Ahrefs Backlink Checker
Ahrefs is the tool that many of the bloggers around me use. This tool is pretty accurate. According to them, the ‘index‘ is updated every 15 minutes. This shows how great this tool will be due to its high update rate.
Ahrefs provides backlinks data like a BOSS. There is not even a single tool that competes ‘Ahrefs’. You can get a detailed backlink analysis of the competitor’s web for free.
SEMRush
SEMrush is another popular backlink checker tool.
Before I discuss the backlink checking feature of SEMRUSH, I must mention that it is not a free tool, but you can use this special link to try SEMRUSH completely free for 14 days.
SEMrush has an extensive database that is updated daily. It allows checking your website’s backlinks accurately.
Here is a screenshot of their main page, where I’m checking the backlink status of the website “Backlinko“.
You can use SEMrush to check backlinks for your website or your competitor’s website.
They also have a backlink comparison tool that you can use to compare your own domain’s backlinks with others and get a complete report.
OpenLinkProfiler
OpenLinkProfiler is the latest backlink checker tool. This is a totally free tool that allows us to check the fresh backlinks (and all other backlinks) pointing to your sites.
This is probably the best free option available for checking links to your site.
Salient features
- You can also export 1000’s of the fresh backlinks in .csv/.txt formats.
- You can see the countries of the web pages that are pointing to your sites.
- It allows seeing the anchor text of all the backlinks from A to Z.
- It is updated once OR twice in a month but has a great database of backlinks.
Moz Open Site Explorer
If you want to compare backlinks between two or more domains, Open Site Explorer has worth trying.
That’s my favorite tool, repeat that’s my favorite tool. This tool works very well when you own the paid account of Moz.
This tool is the oldest tool in the market. It’s pretty accurate & has been featured everywhere on the internet.
Every blogger is making use of it due to its accuracy. You should try & get back to me with the answer ‘How was your experience with Moz Open site explorer?’
BuzzSumo
BuzzSumo is one of my favorite tools to check backlinks. You can start a free trial without using any credit card.
It provides:
- the ability to search for backlinks for any domain or specific URL
- filtering by time period for new backlinks acquired in the last week or month
- full exports of backlink data for further analysis
Rank Signals
In order to use Rank Signals, you have to create an account there first. This tool not only shows the backlinks report but also shows the Alexa Rank and page rank of a particular domain.
Interesting?
Eh…
Salient Feature: You can clearly see (in the report) whether a backlink is live or removed.
Majestic SEO
This tool is very popular among mentors. This tool is simple to use but it has some limitations like you can check about 10 backlinks of a webpage.
To check more than that, you have to get a premium account. However, the free version is enough if you use it just for checking the sites that are pointing to your site(s).
Salient Feature: The graphical representation of anchor text metrics drew my attention.
CognitiveSEO
CognitiveSEO’s Site Explorer is the quickest way to inspect a site’s backlinks. You get real-time information on the freshest links, allowing you to run instant reports for hundreds of sites.
One of the few backlink checker tools to provide years of historical link data, cognitiveSEO gives you the opportunity to understand a site’s growth trend.
MonitorBacklinks
With this tool, you can get the top backlinks of a domain. However, Only the first 300 links are checked!
They are sorted by strength.
Backlink Watch
Backlink Watch greatly helps you to know every bit about your inbound links. It includes anchor text, page rank, outbound links on that page, and a nofollow flag for each of your inbound links available.
Just type the URL of your website to get complete detailed information about the quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to your website.
Linkody
Features
Check your domain’s backlinks: It will show you the top backlinks to your domain when you run our Backlink Checker.
Analyze your backlink profile: After signing up, you will be able to see all qualitative data to assess which backlinks are valuable and which are not.
Add your competitors: By getting an in-depth view of your competitor’s backlinks, you’ll gain insights into where they are focusing on.
Final words
I’ve used many backlinks checker tools and in this post, I have listed 11 free backlinks checker tools. If you know any other tool that can allow us to check backlinks faster enough to win the heart, share with me in the comments.
