Related question on this: if I'm trying to find backlinks to a competitive site using Yahoo Explorer, they'll only let me export the first 1000 of the inlinks to that site. Trouble is, of course, most of these are duplicate, as in when a blog lists my competitor in their blogroll. Is there a way to export everything from Yahoo Explorer? All 10,000 or whatever? I can de-dup them in Excel.
I use LinkAssitant and SEOCentro. They both give familar kind of results and provide in-depth details.
I am also using backlinkwatch.com. According to me this is the best tool for checking backlinks. Good Luck
Backlinkwatch.com is terribly inaccurate. If you are using a free tool to check backlinks, it's probably worth what you paid for it. I would recommend using http://www.WebCompAnalyzer.com/ because it is very fast and very accurate (although it's not free). If you want to go the free route, I would recommend using Yahoo's Site Explorer, although it won't be able to tell you the anchor text quickly.
yahoo site explorer is doing a good job. i am using some seo and bl building progz that have that feature built in, but if not using them yahoo does it, too
I use both backlink watch and Yahoo Site Explorer. I like backlink watch because I get to see the keyword they are using to link with. In the end I check both.