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SEO Course: SEO Backlinking Your Way To The Top

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Till a few months back, I would use Yahoo Site Explorer to test Backlinks to my site but unfortunately, after the merger of the Yahoo and Bing search engines High Quality SEO Backlinks , Yahoo Site Explorer was shut down. It was largely expected that some tool with a similar functionality could be made available in Bing's webmaster center but that hasn't happened yet.


This led me to locate a new backlink finder that I really could use to test backlinks to my website. After some digging and searching, I could find a few great backlink checkers that you should use to test backlinks to your sites.


1. Majestic SEO


Majestic SEO is supplies the Majestic Site Explorer which also includes a backlink finder along side tools to greatly help identify the most effective backlinks, referring pages and domains for just about any website.


Majestic SEO also offers you tools that could allow you to check the pattern of link building your competitors have followed. That is especially helpful in identifying the absolute most successful backlink building strategies.


However, Majestic SEO has a significant drawback in that it's not free. Depending how many sites you intend to get backlink intelligence on, Majestic SEO offers a number of plans. Nevertheless, if you're able to afford the monthly cost, Majestic SEO is a wonderful backlink finder.


2. Market Samurai


Market Samurai, allowing keyword research and competition research, also provides us with how many backlinks a web site has. Internally, Market Samurai makes use of the bulk backlink checker from Majestic SEO to test backlinks to your website and supply a summary.

Market Samurai may possibly not be that helpful if you're more enthusiastic about getting more in depth information about the backlinks like domains and pages where the backlinks are placed. However, if you're just trying to find how many backlinks a web site has, Market Samurai serves the point just fine.


3. Open Site Explorer


Open Site Explorer is becoming my favorite backlink finder from the time Yahoo Site Explorer shut down. Open Site Explorer allows me to test backlinks on my site and filter them based on the origin and the goal of the backlinks.


Combined with pages and domains on that the backlinks are located, Open Site Explorer also provides information on the anchor text used in the backlinks and factual statements about the page authority and the domain authority of the page and the domain on that the backlink was found. That is data especially useful if you're researching your competitor's website.


The free version of this backlink checker limits the quantity and quality of data about backlinks as you are able to see. If you should be achieving this research in a professional capacity, you could find it worthwhile to buy membership with SEOMoz that is the organization that provides Open Site Explorer. However, do remember that even the free version of Open Site Explorer continues to be the most effective free backlink finder on the market that helps me check backlinks to my site.


4. Google Webmaster Central


Google Webmaster Central is another website from where you are able to check backlinks to your site. The major drawback of this tool is as you are able to only use it to test backlinks to your own personal site. It doesn't provide any mechanism to complete any type of research on someone else's website's backlinks.


5. Using Google's Search Engine