Free Backlink Analysis Tool
by Frank Jovine on 11/12/2009 in SEO Tools
Yahoo Site Explorer provides a more consistent, quantitative report, when it comes to sites linking to your website or blog. Many people tend to use Google Webmaster Tools, which only shows a fraction of inbound (backlinks) to your website. All you need to do is enter your URL in the search box and click on Explore URL.
The only problem with Yahoo Site Explorer, it doesn’t provide information about the quality of the sites linking to your site. The SEOmoz Linkscape tool retrieves information on the amount of quality links pointing to your site. In order to get this information you will need to set up an account, which is free. If you want even more details, you would need to upgrade to PRO.
SEOmoz tool crawls the web every 4 to 6 weeks.
In summary, use the Yahoo Site Explorer for link popularity and SEOmoz tool for information on the quality of links pointing to your site.
BunnygotBlog
Nov 12th, 2009
I wasn’t aware of this on Yahoo.
Thanks for the heads up, Frank.
Frank J
Nov 12th, 2009
Bunny,
It’s the most accurate backlink analysis tool I have used.
Temitope
Nov 13th, 2009
This backlink tool does work like a miracle. Its so accurate as a far as backlinks is concerned
Frank J
Nov 13th, 2009
It’s the most consistent tool so far as I stated in my article.
Hicham
Nov 13th, 2009
Frank, it’s the most accurate tool I ever seen till know and if you’re logged-in, more stats on Number of Pointing domains and Number of domains pointed from your site are available too!
Frank J
Nov 13th, 2009
Hicham,
Right on! You can get more information just by logging in, but what I pointed out was the accuracy over other free tools that provide backlink information.
WTG!
A. Zuck
Nov 14th, 2009
I have been looking for a good backlink tool. Google’s is somewhat wanting and I probably haven’t given Yahoo its due.
Frank J
Nov 15th, 2009
Zuck,
I think it’s the most accurate on providing backlink totals out of all the other tools I used.
Tantsuyut vsi
Nov 16th, 2009
A very useful thing, I’m glad that there is such a service without a problem to work!
Amit Parikh
Dec 8th, 2009
One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, http://www.tradereader.com. We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks.
Frank J
Dec 8th, 2009
Amit,
Good advice and it’s SEO 101.