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How To Check Backlink
What is Backlink
Backlinks, also referred to as incoming/ inbound / inward links or inlinks, are usually incoming hyperlinks to a website or web page. With standard link terminology, a back-link is actually any hyperlink (url) received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from a different web node.
Tips
Before I get into the sites for checking backlinks, I’d like to give you a few tips.
- No site can give you a 100% list of the links you have pointing back to your site.
- Definitely don’t try to compare the numbers you get from each one of these tools.
- Don’t check multiple times a day, or even a week.
- Many of these sites have subscription plans if you want to get the full range of features.
How To Check Backlink
If you want to check backlink of sites that you don't own, then in terms of reliability:
1st tier back link checkers:
OpensiteExplorer.org, Ahrefs, Majestic SEO are most reliable tools, since they use large URL repository like Google that indexed large portion of the web.
2nd tier back link checkers:
SEO SpyGlass, Raven Tools. Blekko (https://seo.blekko.com) was free earlier and also one of the popular Search Engine, which has a good index of the web. It is paid tool now and also has gives reliable insights to backlink.
But, if you own the site, then the most reliable is: Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster backlink report.
Alexa backlink report is not much reliable, since they show very small number of backlinks than the original number.
- Types of Visitors
A Visitors that come to your website they come from many ways Such As Website, Search engines and more.