What's the best tool for checking and tracking your exact amount of backlinks?

I find Google webmaster tools as well as Yahoo site explorer often don't reflect the real number and URLs of backlinks to my site.
What tools are you using to find out?

Thanks!

 

backlinkwatch for me ty.

 

I also use backlinkwatch and seocentro for checking backlinks.

 

Open Site Explorer
BlueBackLinks.com (free)
backlinkwatch
LinkInsight
Yahoo Site Explorer
WMT's (obviously only for your own sites)

 

I prefer yahoo site explorer and backlinkwatch...

 

link:yoursite.com <-- still best way to check backlinks for Big G and Y!. Just a note, if looking at Y! it must be set 'From All Pages' to 'Entire Site'.

hxxp://backlinkwatch.com - a good tool too

 

No, it is not.
Google have been saying for years that they do not show anything more than a sample of the backlinks they know about through the link operator, as a matter of principle.

Another thing the OP should consider - just because the backlink exists, doesn't mean that Google or Yahoo have crawled and indexed the page that the link is on.

 

Yahoo siteexplorer is pretty accurate. Google is the worst tool to use for backlink analysis for other sites. As far as other third party sites go, backlinkwatch is good but i'd still suggest Yahoo siteexplorer. One thing to be noted is that Yahoo's siteexplorer also shows up nofollow links.

 

Open site explorer is very worthwile IMO.

 

I used to use backlinkwatch but that is powered by yahoo site explorer. Yahoo site explorer is pretty decent but I have yet to find one that displays the exact amount of backlinks my site has yet.

 

Saw this thread and figured I'd hop in just to clarify.

There are a few sources of link data, all based around indices built by either major search engines or third parties. These include:
- Google's Index
- Bing's Index
- Yahoo!'s Index
- Linkscape (SEOmoz's Index)
- Majestic SEO (MJ12's Index)

Google and Bing don't share any data about their link graphs - at least not for competitors (you can get your own site's link data by registering for their webmaster tools services and verifying ownership). Yahoo! was the last of the major engines to offer this service, but has now shut down the link: and linkdomain: operators in their search engine due to the switch to Bing. Yahoo! is, however, still maintaining Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com) until 2012, when they're discarding their index and will be fully powered by Bing worldwide.

Many tools mentioned above are powered by Yahoo! Site Explorer. Some of the broken ones are/were powered by scraping the results from Yahoo! link/linkdomain searches.

Open Site Explorer (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org) & Linkscape (along with several others) are powered by SEOmoz's Linkscape index. It's not as big or fresh as Google/Bing's as we don't quite have their resources, but it does contain ~50-60% of the links you'll see from Yahoo! (sometimes more) and usually features the "best" (most trusted/high quality) sites as those are the ones we tend to crawl.

MJ-12 also powers several tools, including Raven SEO (which also has some SEOmoz data included). Their index is quite large, but isn't as fresh, so some data may be many months older. They use a distributed crawling system similar to the SETI-at-home program that's substantively different from how others crawl the web, but quite interesting. Some SEOs really like their data, too.

No index will be able to show you "ALL" of the links that point to your site, nor will the data between different indices/sources match up. Different bots/engines crawl different pages at different times and are restricted from different areas of the web, too (some people purposefully block Google, for example). The best metric, IMO, is a comparison between those sites/pages you're trying to rank against and your own (rather than comparing cross-index). Having multiple sources might be valuable when doing link opportunity types of research.

Hope that helps!

 

No one tool provide exact amount of backlinks. But i believe that backlinkwatch is pretty good when you compare to other tool

 

I frequently use Yahoo! Search Explorer it shows me great improved results for number of exact backlinks! than any other Tool...

 

i usually use tools at webconfs.com
you can have a try...! and it free

 

backlinkwatch and yahoo site explore work best for me...

 

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One tool that I found was very useful for my blog was a Firefox Toolbar called WebRank Toolbar. When you install this toolbar from Firefox it lets you see:

-The Exact Alexa Ranking
-Compete Rank
-Google Backlinks
-Yahoo Backlinks
-Bing Backlinks
-Google Pageranks of Websites
-Gives you reviews of "X" website that you type into the browser

It also tells you how many pages are indexed by each of these Search engines & has reviews.
All you do is install it if you have Firefox and whenever you visit any given site,just look above at the toolbar and all of this info is displayed at a whim all on 1 page for you.

Installing this WebRank toolbar has helped me alot to improve my blog over the past few days.

Hope this helps you to better measure # of backlinks!

 

yahoo site explorer and backlinkwatch normally do it for me.

 

I use backlinkwatch as free tool for me to check my site's backlinks.

 

the backlinkwatch seems not work for me, every time i entered one links it says:
"
Out of Yahoo quota for today. Total 50,000 queries executed already.

Copyright 2007
"

what's wrong? do you enter the right url?
it's backlinkwatch.com.

And it is not a good news since Yahoo Site Explorer will be closed in 2012, the doomsday?