Monitoring your SEO progress is very important, you don’t want to build too many backlinks too quickly, because you may be sandboxed by Google, which is something you definitely want to avoid, I haven’t mentioned sandboxing before, but I will write a post about it in the future. Read the rest: http://www.dailyseoblog.info/2010/02/14/how-to-check-your-websites-backlinks/
I can't see anything like that, it says not to just link to articles, but to give a quick introduction, then the link, like I have.
You can check your back links using this tools: http://www.seoserp.com/web_tools/backlink_checker.asp
I have found that backlinkwatch is the best way to check your websites backlinks without any software.
There are a lot of SEO tools out there for checking backlinks. Even just googling such a think will turn up a lot of results. Some great information here none the less. Thanks guys