I’ve been reviewing backlink checkers multiple times and it’s now time to list them in one round up. I’ll be listing only free ones here and also I’ll sort them by best functions, so a few feature-rich tools may end up being mentioned in a few categories. If you know of any tool I missed, please comment.
| Task | Tools |
| Sort links by linking domains | LinkHounds, Domain Backlinks Checker, Seobook BackLink Analyzer |
| Analyze external anchor text: | Backlink Watch, Smart |
| Visualize your links | Link VooDoo, Link |
| Gives your link profile overview: | Linkscape |
Sort links by linking domains:
One site can link to you from many or all pages and all those links are messing up in one list preventing you from seeing the whole picture. The following tools let you sort link per domain:
LinkHounds sorts results based on the IP address, thus showing only unique IP/domain backlinks. The tool allows to exclude any domain from the results and set the query depth.
Domain Backlinks Checker sorts the results based on the first- and second-level domains. The tool offers the information in a very convenient way linking to each page from the certain domain where the backlink was found.
Seobook BackLink Analyzer allows you to sort links by URL – so you can categorize them in groups by domain name.
Link VooDoo lists only linking domains and allows more data after the click.
Analyze external anchor text:
| Options/Tools | Backlink Watch | Smart | Analyze | Link | Link VooDoo | Seobook BackLink Analyzer |
| Anchor Text | Y E S | |||||
| PR | - | + | - | + | + | + |
| Linking page outbound links | + | - | inaccurate | + | - | + |
| Nofollow highlight | inaccurate | + | - | + | - | + |
| Firefox Extension | - | + | - | + | - | desk top |
| Sorting options | - | - | - | + | - | + |
| Interface | messed up | user-friendly | simple | user-friendly | user-friendly | user-friendly |
| Set Preferences | - | + | + | - | - | + |
Visualize your backlinks
Link VooDoo graphs Google pagerank distribution.
Link Diagnosis graphs link types (missing, good, nofollow) and Google pagerank distribution.
Get overall link profile overview:
Linkscape‘s free version ranks a site based on its backlink score (total links, linking domains and other internal metrics).
Big amount of tools! Some offer an interesting point of view on a website (other than GWT).
As usual great resource!
Great post Ann! Even though I’m a little biased I can easily say Link Diagnosis is top notch when it comes to reporting.
Ann, thank you very much. I read your posts every day, learned a lot from you.
That is a most incredible list of resources, Ann. I had no idea there were so many. Thanks for providing this.
My pleasure, Barry. Thanks fir stopping by!
Ann,
do you know about any other tool that is similar to Aaron’s Link Harvester? They set the limit for the tool now and the tool doesn’t show all the backlinks. Other tools that you mentioned in the post are not good as this one. Please tell me if you know about any other..
Highly valuable resource…as always.
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I believe you are correct about using different tools to find new sites for linking.
Thanks fro the post
Andy
Thanks a lot!
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Thanks for the info. Its useful for me..
Ann,
do you know about any other tool that is similar to Aaron’s Link Harvester? They set the limit for the tool now and the tool doesn’t show all the backlinks. Other tools that you mentioned in the post are not good as this one. Please tell me if you know about any other..
thanks for sharing… nice info
Very nice website I will study it & I carry your all suggestions hope so they all are good for my site.Thanks a lot for your tips.
Awesome resource to use. Definitely will have to bookmark this page. Out of these sites I have been pretty faithful to Link VooDoo. The diagnosis they give you is easily accessible and on-point. Thanks for the write-up.
Thank you for this useful information.
Thank you for this useful information.