I have seen many SEO and webmasters provide different opinion about the back links. Also the search engine like Google and Yahoo shows different backlinks. So I need an opinion on which is the best & effective way to determine the correct back links to your site....
Earlier there were some simple commands to determine the exact number of back links to a website externally. But with lot of people using that trick to build links search engines are not showing this data exactly now( according to my exp and knowledge). Web master can only see his relevant back links only in his/her webmaster tool right now. However try Yahoo explorer, it is a good option to check back links externally
I'm not convinced that webmaster tools or yahoo site explorer actually give any useful information any more. I have a ton of backlinks that are indexed that don't show up in either. My advice is to continue to build backlinks at a consistent rate using diverse sources and ignore the "official" number of backlinks.
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different search engines count different type of links as back links into their accounts..so webmaster too is the right way to tell you exactly about your back links in a particular search engine...
different search engines count in different ways, alexa also count it in a different method, but if you wanna see how many back links you have, go to http://www.backlinkwatch.com/
Normally people are using google webmaster tool, yahoo site explorer or backlinkwatch.com All of them are good enough for you to check backlink
backlinkwatch.com is a good option, but always compare it with google / yahoo, btw anyone know anything about backlinks indexed on Bing.com? Thanks
You can install mozila seo add-on tool which is seoquake ..As Seo person seoquake have all that thing which you need.its tell you every things backlinks,alexa,pr,rank and etc
all search engines run on their own algo. so might you will found different number of backlinks. But best is just keep your effort consistent with limiting number of backlink per day and that will help you to get better vision on search engines.
Backlinkwatch.com is probably the best tool to check backlinks along with the anchor text & pagerank of the link.
I use yahoo explorer for it. I don't know does it give exact number of backlinks or not, but one thing I can say that it gave me always the maximum number in result
I also use these tools to check my site's backlinks. Or you can also check your backlinks manually using link operator - link:yoursitename.com
Do a quick searching. You will find many website which actually provide the service you are looking for. They are reliable.
Consistent backlining is the key here; and you may not see all of the links. I use Yahoo Site Explorerer; and I know that not all of them are showing up.
If you do well in link building and collect quality backlink there's no need to check it, just see the result, anyway I am using backlinkwatch too.
i think yahoo search engine gaves you the best results.. you can simply give a query in search bar and it will show you the results..