I have used various free places to check backlinks but they all say different things so I want to know if there is a way to do it without buying software that is accurate?
marketleap is pretty good has been on line centuries, well maybe 10 years or so..............free service too
I like info provided by tools such as domain-pop.com in addition to marketleap and search engine results. Example: eWebPages Web Directory PageRank Links PR 0: 325 PR 1: 30 PR 2: 63 PR 3: 394 PR 4: 448 PR 5: 102 PR 6: 38 PR 7: 2 PR 8: 1 Indexed Links Google 484 Yahoo 24800 Msn 9193 It's best to ignore the PR8 links it reports, it's usually non-existant
I just tried marketleap and they dont seem to match with the actual results on Google and other search engines. I usually use LPC (Link Popularity Check) to see the latest links to a site. Its free to download and install.
Thanks to all who responded but only one of you answered my question. I was not looking for directories to submit to but to find an accurate link popularity checker. The only one recommended as far as I could tell from the post was the one at http://www.domain-pop.com/results.php. I found it to be very good. Anymore thoughts on this would be appreciated. If it means anything I only use html on my site at this point.
A good free tool I use is http://www.uptimebot.com/ - shows inbound link numbers from all the major engines.