Hi, I'm looking to compare two sites in terms of the number of incoming links. They are both competitor sites. What's the leading free tools for link counting in these cases? I seem to remember that Yahoo had a way to tell you how many links they had counted. Does Google? What's the language? Also, there was something called the Cool SEO Tool which used to do all the counting for multiple engines? I can't find it anymore. Has something taken it's place?
use any of the tools http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/link-popularity.html to check link popularity. Using of backlinkwatch.com is a best method to find backlinks to know the link popularity of a website. All the best....
In the yahoo search box type link:www.websitename.com then set the drop down menu on the right to all page on this site and you will have the BEST link checker out there. You can do the same on Google but you are only showed a limited amount of backlinks!
I use Yahoo! Site Explorer. It gives the most exhaustive list of backlinks. Simply search for link:www.example.com at Yahoo.com. Site Explorer will put on you the Inlinks tab (if you had performed a search for site:www.example.com Site Explorer would have activated the Pages tab). When the links are shown, you can pick "Except from this domain" in the left dropdown to eliminate all internal links and look only at the external links. If you leave the right drop list set to "Only this URL" then it will show you the inbound links to the URL you used with the link: operator. If you change the right dropdow list to "Entire site" it will show you all inbound links for the entire site. Caveat: The LINK: operator at Yahoo DOES show you an exhaustive list of the inbound links that Yahoo! knows about. However, Google and Yahoo! do not have the same pages indexed so they will not know about the exact same inbound links. But MOST inbound links for a typical site displayed at Yahoo! would likely also be known to Google. NOTE: All of the major engines (including Google) support both the LINK: and SITE: operator to get a list of inbound links and pages which are indexed, respectively. But not all engines will show you an exhaustive list of ALL of the inbound links when you use the LINK: operator. Google typically shows only a small sample of known inbound links as a result of using the LINK: operator. Google Webmaster Tools has a "Links to your site" screen which typically shows a slightly larger sample of inbound links for a given URL on your site. However, neither shows an exhaustive list of links that Google knows about. Also, both can show inbound links that do NOT impact your ranking like NOFOLLOW links or links from URLs known to be under penalty and which would not be considered a valid link by the ranking algorithm.
I use the Back Link analyzer to analyze the links you are counting, however this tool only analyzes a maximum of 1000 links. I use yahoo's linkdomain: and google's link: to count. You can find the link analyzer on SEO Book's website
Using of SEO Quake, sends automatic requests to Google. So, it gets problem to your entire LAN network in checking website cache. Google asks for Captcha verification, even verified it not works until a specified duration. Sending automatic requests to Google is Unethical.
backlink watch is very slow but displa all.. found another better tool which display the count with distcit domain... check on seologs.com