One of the most important free webmaster tools, that are also free SEO tools to have in your arsenal are free backlink checkers. If you are actively promoting your websites and blogs with SEO then you are no doubt building backlinks to your sites. Checking on those backlinks is the primary function of free backlink checkers.
There are many such free tools, some offer very comprehensive and detailed reports, such as anchor text, nofollow and dofollow, page rank and more. Other free backlink checkers just show numbers of links, and limited link details. Here is a variety of these free tools and often times you may have uses for more than one free backlink checker.
Free Backlink Checkers
Free Backlink Checker from SEOPro – Checking backlinks is made easy with this complete and very comprehensive free backlink checker providing several reports including, home page PR, link page PR, nofollow or dofollow attributes and your anchor text. This one is probably the most detailed of the free backlink checker tools.
Link Diagnosis – A great free backlink checker that shows link locations and gives a quality score for the link.
Backlink Reporter – This free backlink checker tool analyzes lots of details about your inks, such as, The quantity of links pointing to you, quality of links pointing to you relevance of links pointing to you, anchor text, alt tag of an image link pointing to you Whether the links are one way links or reciprocal links and what pages of your website a link points to.
Google Webmaster Tools – If you do not have a Google Webmaster Tool account, then please do yourself a favor and get one here, and you can use many of the Google account tools that are available.
Submit your sites and sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools to insure they crawl all your sites pages. They also offer comprehensive free website analysis, including problems with your content, crawl issues, index stats, as well as free backlink checker tools from within the admin dashboard, the free backlink checker gives an idea of which links Google has seen for your site, however, keep in mind that Google only shows a few links and certainly not all the links going to your websites. By the way, don’t miss out on Google Alerts.
Yahoo Site Explorer – Yahoo backlinks are an important element of the SEO portfolio of your sites. Yahoo is well known for showing a comprehensive picture of all the backlinks to your sites and much more so than Google. Yahoo Site Explorer is a great free backlink checker and present several search options and shows you the url’s where your backlinks are.
Link Popularity Check – This is a free backlink checker that analyzes your link popularity as well as analyzing your competitor’s links on several search engines.
Reciprocal Links Free Backlink Checkers
Sometimes you may need a free backlink checker to make sure that your reciprocal link partners are still linking to you, these tools will crawl the domains you enter and check if your websites are being lied to that page.
BRL Reciprocal Link Checker – Check on your reciprocal link partners.
WebConfs Reciprocal Link Checker
Link Assure Reciprocal Link Checker – Check if your link partners are still linking to you.
Check the Backlinks Websites Reputations
Bad Neighborhood Link Checker – Find out if your links are dangerous! This tool will scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas, such as bad neighborhood sites and sites that have been penalized by Google.
There are many more backlink checkers, however, many of them cost money and in reality, none of them are worth it. With all the free backlink checker tools available there is no need to pay.
More Webmaster Resources
- Free Advanced SEO Backlinks Analysis Tools
- Google Alerts – A Great Free Webmaster Tool
- Free Browser Checker Tool – Diagnose Website Display Problems
- 4 Best Free SERP Checker SEO Tools
- How To Analyze Competitors Backlinks
Great post and blog, thanks for sharing
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Joseph Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@Dave,
Yes I agree!
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Checking your backlinks is a good idea. I have many times made links with others only to find within a week or two my link partner has welched on the deal. While this is not going to harm your linking or Page Ranking it will diminish the power of your link to other faithful link partners.
Woody
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Admin Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 2:04 am
@Woody
I know, I hate that, and it is hard to keep up once you have a lot of sites and a lot of partners, I am looking out for an automated tool that will make this process easier.
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very nice of you to share these valuable free seo tools … thanks
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Admin Reply:
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 am
Thank you!
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each of them gives different results. But it’s nice
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Thanks for sharing the info. !
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