I can get hooked on a topic and spend hours searching for tools on the web with search engines like Bing and Google, as I mentioned in my [intlink id="2830" type="post"]Bing Webmaster Tools[/intlink] article Bing is my search engine of choice. I can’t even remember how I ended up looking for something to check backlinks for free, keep in mind I am a stats maniac and love numbers, not to mention I never checked my Google backlinks or even tried to get backlinks until recently. I really don’t try that hard to be honest, it was just a good sentence closer.
Anyway as I visit the various blogs and webmaster resource blogs out there I am constantly hearing about “Backlinks” and how important it is to [intlink id="2649" type="post"]build your backlinks[/intlink], you would be surprised how many bloggers could care less about Google PR or search engine rankings. It’s all about building your backlinks or getting free quality backlinks to your site which will in time increase the overall popularity of your site, or maybe everything I wrote is wrong but it sounds about right.
Free Backlink Checker Tools
Free Backlink Checker Tool
Put your URL into the backlink tool, enter your verification code and submit
Results include Google Backlinks and all Backlinks Counted
They have a nice easy to read chart that gives you an idea where your backlinks rank.
Extreme John.com ranks as a Contender…. oooooh! 33,285 backlinks.
Backlink Watch Free Backlink Checker Tool
Same process enter your URL to get your Backlinks counted
Backlink Counter Results
Extreme John shows 31,111 Backlinks in these results
Backlink Watch gives more detailed results in regards to Do Follow backlinks and how many outbound links a site linking to you has, this Backlink checker tool also includes Google Page Rank. One downside to this backlink counter is that it’s slow gathering the full detailed results.
Smart Page Rank Backlink Page Rank Checker
Backlink Page Rank Checker
Smart Page Rank reports “about” 31,010 backlinks
I actually like each of the three free backlink checker tools above for various reasons, I like how fast the Smart Page Rank Backlink Checker is and I also like how it reports the site linking to you along with that sites Google page rank. I enjoy the Market Leap backlink checker tools, they offer a search engine saturation tool as well as a keyword tool that come in handy, I like all the information that is returned from Backlink Watch I just wish it was a little faster.
Three Ways to Increase Your Backlinks
- CommentLuv – leave comments on blogs like Extreme John that use the Comment Luv plugin
- Do Work – yeah work, visit and comment on blogs that fit your niche, read others comments and visit their blog and comment
- Guest Post – find blogs that fit your niche and write guest posts, you always get a link back
Building backlinks is not something you want to try and do over night, and there are all kinds of little “build backlinks fast” schemes on the internet, I would suggest avoiding them and sticking to doing some leg work on your own. Save the money you would spend on backlink building tools and backlink building websites that can actually hurt your search engine rankins, instead use your spare time to build your blog network, twitter network and any other network you can. Building networks is what builds backlinks.
Ok I did my part now that I snuck this in out of nowhere and missed the movie Cars on Disney channel I think the least you can do is leve a comment or maybe go super crazy and subscribe to my rss feed, and if your feeling super sexy than you might consider following me on Twitter. Either way do something, Retweet this baby!
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Twitter: mmodotcom
Since you missed Cars (which is a great movie) for us… of course I will leave a comment John. Thanks for the info. I just tried the MarketLeap link checker and I was extremely happy with the backlinks we have so far. Way more than I ever thought. I am interested to see what type of PR ranking we will get whenever Google updates. Thanks again John… very useful post indeed.
P.S. You kill me how you have so many businesses, a family, and you still turn out kickass posts! You are my HERO!
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Twitter: mmodotcom
I thought I was going to have to come back and write how embarrassed I was about my previous post. I went back to the backlink checker and checked my stats again and it only said I had 5 inbound links and I couldn’t believe it, so I tried it again with the same results. So I was going to come back and tell you guys what an idiot I was. Then by chance I added www. to the front of my domain and there the links were. So if you are checking your backlinks makes sure to try inputting your domain with and without the www. to get your real results
.-= Doug Dillard´s last blog ..Why Comment on MakingMoneyOnline.com? =-.
Twitter: musicjudge
I’m glad you’re condoning and promoting lots and lotsa commenting John.. Otherwise I might feel vaguely guilty for commenting on your kick-ass articles for ulterior reasons..
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Twitter: smartbloggerz
Backlink Watch is currently my favorite one to check backlinks. Market Leap Backlink Checker service is good but the design is pretty Ugly. Yuk..
I tried SmartPageRank service long back but the site wasn’t working properly at my home so I never visited it after then. But I think I will try that site today again :/
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Twitter: gregee
I haven’t heard of some of these services so thanks for sharing. Greg Ellison
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Twitter: ducedo
I love these types of services where you can see PR of pages linking to you. Even though a lot of people still keeps saying that PR doesn’t matter, it’s interesting. With these tools you can plan your link building to sites with higher rank.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
I’m off to check these out I usually use the free version of Web CEO to check out my back links, but these sites do look like they could give a bit more info, maybe I can improve my PR etc now
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So I’ll point to our little tool http://buildstats.com which does not show backlinks, but at least other site information that may be handy to SEOs. Enjoy!
Twitter: extremejohn
@Doug Dillard haha as much as I appreciate that, Im not sure I am fit to be anyone’s hero,haha. You kill me Doug, I constantly want to do more.
Yeah without the “www” can yield some less than favorable backlink results. The most important thing is that your happy with your backlinks count, now you can build on it.
@Hard Rocking South African hey comments are what makes a blog go around right
I like hearing everyone’s feedback on the various things I throw up here on a daily basis, plus I have met some great people in the comments section here.
@Typhoon I do like backlink checker it has a nice new age or “web 2.0″ look to it, I prefer that look over the others I checked out.
@Greg Ellison happy I was able to expose you to some of the new backlink services
@Stefan yeah the one thing I have come to learn is that the web certainly isn’t short on various opinions, I think the most important part is to write about what you enjoy, everything else just falls into place.
@Karen your blog just keeps growing and growing you do an excellent job over there at Blazing Minds, and your an excellent blogger to follow on Twitter.
@Obias thank you for dropping by and including the link, I really like the look of the site and it takes seconds. Very clean, thats getting bookmarked
Twitter: mmodotcom
John… you wrote “Yeah without the “www” can yield some less than favorable backlink results.”
I noticed it depends how you have your WP blog set-up under “General Settings”. Some bloggers setup their blog with www. in the front and some don’t.
Example: if you do a link check check for http://www.DeneilMerritt.com you do not get very many results… but if you search DeneilMerritt.com you get a ZILLION!
Does anyone know why some people setup with the www. and some don’t? Is there an advantage to one or the other?
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I didn’t know that Bing has webmaster tools. I’ve never gotten traffic from bing or yahoo. Why would this be?
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Twitter: extremejohn
@Doug Dillard you know that’s a pretty good question Doug, I did notice on a few of the backlink checker sites it mentions doing with or without the “www”.
I guess it just depends how the user sets up their blog, all though I wonder if it has to do with something else I read about. I can’t remember the exact terminology of what it is that I am talking about, as funny as it might be but I read something about having something setup properly so that Google can rank properly.
@Asswass just check out the article that I posted it will show you exactly how to get your site indexed by Bing.
.-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Sunday Smash Weekly Wrap Up =-.
Twitter: ShotOfCoffee
You must have been reading my thoughts. Just last night, I was checking my back links via google. I’ll have to give these ones a shot, to see what my numbers look like there.
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Twitter: extremejohn
@Mike maybe you should stay out of my head and stop trying to rob my thoughts! Ok not really, but I am happy that I could give you some new toys to test out for a moment in regards to backlinks.
.-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Sunday Smash Weekly Wrap Up =-.
Twitter: jsinkeywest
Speaking of backlinks. Click this link peep the Page rank and then scroll down
Nice comment DUDE
to my friends and people that have been a great support to me and my blog. Thanks
I was checking my site recently with webmaster tools and noticed a nice surprise so I figured I pass it on
Bro your blowing it up Give me a Break damn LOL
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Twitter: BenjaminCip
33,285 backlinks ?! That’s great John! Congrats. I should focus on getting more backlinks to my blog.
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Twitter: extremejohn
@John Sullivan click what link?
@Benjamin Cip to be honest with you I never even paid attention to backlinks until one of the guys that works for me brought them to my attention.
Twitter: computelive
I always used Backlink Watch to check my backlinks…liked that detailed info…will check the other two also…
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Twitter: gfserradinho
I like this service, I have added it to my Monday round post to help others to see what their results are.
Twitter: bbrian017
Hi John,
Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us. I was really surprised to see how many of my backlinks were NO FOLLOW. I was also amazed on how many backlinks I actually have linking to blogengage. I guess that what 2 years of marketing does. I’m glad it’s starting to pay off.
The majority of my backlinks are all images that’s cool
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Twitter: extremejohn
@George thank you for including it in your Round Up, always a great post and Im honored to be included in it.
@Brian two years of hard consistent work will def earn you plenty of sweet backlinks and rankings to go along with it.
I’m always bookmarking which is a great way to get backlinks. Usually submitting 1 page from my site, per day, gets the job done without over doing it.
Yes PR does matter a lot in web posting, so i do really care about it and i love these types of services. You can build your links with these tools effectively.
I agree with your three ways to get backlinks but there’s one thing i have to admit. And that is the time it takes to post comments is not worth it most of the time. Usually because the blogs that have dofollow plugins installed eventually ends up disabling it due to various reasons.
.-= Chris Mathers´s last blog ..5 Ways to Make Money Online =-.
Nice tools, but don’t forget about Yahoo site explorer. It’s my personal choice to check backlinks.
Thanks for the tools. Keeping track of backlinks are important. And – sure – commenting on people’s blogs is one way of getting a link. I think of it as a win-win situation as long as the one giving the comment adds value to the page by putting in a thoughtful comment in there. It’s the thought that counts and if there’s no thought put into it, that counts . . . against them.
Twitter: blaineblogger
I use backlinkwatch all the time when im looking at mine and others blogs links and to see what anchor text they use.
I just checked out buildstats from the comment above and it’s really cool, show’s a lot of interesting stats.
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I find backlink watch to be the most accurate. I too love numbers and stats and find myself checking backlink numbers on a daily basis.
Twitter: alan_neville
Thanks for the awesome Blog John…I’m loving all the info!
I have a question for you: Does google penalize you if you have a lot of nofollow links or if your ratio of nofollow to dofollow is high?
Anyway, thanks again.
Alan
Great List.
I use all different kind of tools as I ‘m always looking for new ones on Google. If I had to choose I would choose BackLink Watch, but it takes a long time to complete everything.
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I don’t understand. How can you get 33 thousand backlinks?
Hi, nice article, im just building a xl sheet now and thought id go searching for some easier means of keep track of links, but sourcing and keeping track is a different story eh, so i think a mix of the tools and xl will have to do the job:
@Doug & John.
www and non www prefix is another seo tactic, its basically used to stop the search engines viewing your site as duplicate content, its also used to consolidate all your links to one domian, its called a cannonical url. Basically you choose which url you want to keep and redirect the rest. You may be suprised at how many urls a standard site can be reached from.
www, non www. forward slash, .php/html or whatevr it is, .index etc etc etc. Having just one is a good idea all round.
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Thanks for another great blog John. I would also like to know if you could be penalized for a lot of nofollow links. I am also interested in 33,000 backlinks? Thanks so much. Another great post, keep em coming!
Twitter: dragonblogger
I can’t actually use this tool, popups up with a 403.6 “access denied from your IP” error when I try to use the link popularity check.
.-= Dragon Blogger´s last blog ..Can You Quit Your Day Job to Blog? =-.
I find backlink watch to be the most accurate. I too love numbers and stats and find myself checking backlink numbers on a daily basis.
Twitter: extremejohn
@Hanif, hey Hanif thank you for taking the time to read and comment I appreciate it.
I haven’t checked my Backlink stats in a while.
Google doesn’t give an accurate number of backlinks unless you’re signed into webmaster tools. Running your url through the link: operator is only going to show high PR links.
Great website This has clearly shown what i am doing wrong on my backlinking methods but the links that i have has valued my site up to 1k just need more tweaking and adding more to my niche it self
Keep up the good work on this site
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it’s a good way for enhancing the page rank value.that will me based on inbound and outbound links.
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Smart Page Rank tool is great you can check the Pagerank value, a datum of the Alexa ranking, links that point to your page in search engines like Google, Yahoo and many more, and among other important things as the value of what your web can cost approximately.
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Good tools you are showing off here. Bookmarked it
Useful info John, but 33,000 backlinks! How do you manage that without using an automated backlink generator? If you did all that manually, that’s a lot of legwork!
Twitter: extremejohn
You know that’s a really good question. I wrote this so long ago and haven’t paid attention to my backlinks in forever.
Awesome tools John, Im going to give these a go and see if I like them. I usually just use yahoo as it seems to pick up a lot of links for most sites.
Twitter: extremejohn
Stop back and let us know what you think John.
Yeah i too uses guest blogging,blog commenting as my link building tactics.I have also considered directory submission,video submission,social bookmarking and long term link baiting as my linkbuilding techniques.I want to use some link checker that gives me proper details of my backlinks like how many are dofollow and no follow etc.I will try your suggested tools. Thanks for sharing.
Is there any tools for best backlinking?…please advise..I used one but It not really a good tool.
Twitter: extremejohn
I don’t currently use any Backlinking tools so I can’t offer much here.
Nice list of tools John but have you tried SEO spyglass (not affiliated in any way shape or form) it pulls tons of info about competitors backlinks from a ton of places and then goes and scans the page for dofollow and no follow links and such.
I would like to see how you think it stacks up against the tools on this page:)
Regards
Dave
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Twitter: extremejohn
Hey Dave that’s a hot tip right there, I haven’t even heard of it before, which shouldn’t be all that surprising I’m not all that big of a backlink checker. I go through my stages, I definitely appreciate this link. Thank you, and thanks for taking the time to comment.
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