Which is the best and most useful SEO backlink checker tool?

Which is the best and most useful SEO backlink checker tool?

Till a few months back, I would use Yahoo Site Explorer to check Backlinks to my site but unfortunately, after the merger of the Yahoo and Bing search engines, Yahoo Site Explorer was shut down. It was largely expected that some tool with a similar functionality would be made available in Bing's webmaster center but that hasn't happened yet. This led me to look for a new backlink finder that I could use to check backlinks to my website. After some digging and searching, I was able to find a few great backlink checkers that you can use to check backlinks to your sites.

1. Majestic SEO: Majestic SEO is offers the Majestic Site Explorer which also contains a backlink finder along with tools to help identify the best backlinks, referring pages and domains for any website.

2. Market Samurai: Market Samurai, which allows keyword research and competition research, also provides us with the number of backlinks a website has. Internally, Market Samurai makes use of the bulk backlink checker from Majestic SEO to check backlinks to your site and provide a summary.

3. Open Site Explorer: Open Site Explorer has become my favorite backlink finder ever since Yahoo Site Explorer shut down. Open Site Explorer allows me to check backlinks on my site and filter them based on the origin and the target of the backlinks.

4. Backlinkwatch: Today search engine optimization greatly depends on quality of inbound links to increase your serp rank and ultimately increase affiliate or ppc adsense. Backlink Watch greatly helps you to know every bit about your inbound links. It includes anchor text, pagerank, quality of backlinks by finding total outbound links any restriction of nofollow tag.

5. Google Webmaster Central: Google Webmaster Central is another website from where you can check backlinks to your site. The major drawback of this tool is that you can only use it to check backlinks to your own site. It doesn't provide any mechanism to do any sort of research on someone else's website's backlinks.

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