Free Best Backlink 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. We've also written several posts about backlinks which are how to increase backlinks, nofollow and dofollow links, get high PR backlinks and many more. 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, I'm going to share some best backlink checker tools which will help you to analyze your backlinks easily.

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. Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO is one of the oldest backlink checker tool, although it can be a little hard for any newbie to get hang of it metric showing interface but once you do you won't regret it, it can show 90 days accurate backlink history of any domain and some usual basic features such as anchor text cloud, backlink attribute chart. MajesticSEO plans starts from 49.99$ monthly to whopping 1599.96$ monthly, although free version won't allow you to see detailed reports but still there's a lot you can do with it.

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. Backlink Watch

Backlink watch is a free backlink explorer which is powered by Ahrefs but the difference between it and ahrefs is that in backlinkwatch you can see every backlink linking to your domain without paying a dime although the report isn't as fancy as it's in Ahrefs but it's free and accurate.

5. Link Diagnosis

Link diagnosis is powered  by Iacquire, it's a free tool just like Backlinkwatch, there are several settings to play with before requesting report for your domain like you can change the engine, report type etc.

If you have any questions, feedback or suggestion do let us know we'll be more than happy to help you.