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How To Find Backlinks To A Website

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Anybody who knows about search engine optimization understands how important high-quality backlinks are to a website. The more backlinks you get, the higher you rank for a search engine query. However, how does one go about seeing what backlinks a specific web page or website is receiving?

Here is a little tool to help you with that. Backlink Watch is a crappy looking but very useful little tool that gives you a detailed information of backlinks for any website. Just enter the URL and wait for the report to generate. The tool will tell you the total number of backlinks and then give details of each link including the PageRank info of the linking website as well as the number of outbound links the linking website has.

The tool also raises a flag if any abnormal tag, such as the nofollow tag, is used. The report also displays the exact anchor text used by the referring website. You can click on any of the links to go to actual referring web page.

Techie-Buzz Verdict:

Even though Backlink Watch has a poor interface, it is a highly functional and useful tool to get backlink information for any website. It can be used as a first step to analyze the number and quality of backlinks a website is getting so appropriate steps can be taken to optimize the search engine ranking.

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  1. Williams on January 15th, 2010 at 8:20 am #

    Have tried backlinkwatch tool, and finally, i can check my backlinks.

    Thanks for nice tool.

  2. Louis Girifalco on July 2nd, 2010 at 9:09 am #

    If you make a comment on a blog post, and leave your website's URL, does this help or hurt your SEO efforts?

  3. Vinagamer on August 24th, 2010 at 2:38 am #

    i can check my backlinks. thank for sahre

  4. Zaki on August 27th, 2010 at 5:01 am #

    Thank you. now I can check and see how many backlinks do I already have…

  5. sa on September 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm #

    if you make comment on blog it helps only if the url owner does not add “no-follow” to your link.Other wise it doesnt.

  6. Dragon on November 8th, 2010 at 3:07 pm #

    There’s also the yahoo link: command. It doesn’t give you as much information as backlink watch does but if u need a quick search of ur links, for example to see if someone added ur link to their site, yahoo is the tool for u.

  7. John Shupe on December 23rd, 2010 at 6:09 pm #

    Thanks for this link for checking back links, I really did not know how many I had till now.

  8. James Attard on January 28th, 2011 at 8:03 pm #

    Cool! Another easy way to check backlinks is through google hacking as described here: http://www.r00tb0x.com/content/find-number-backlinks-any-website

  9. Temecula SEO on February 24th, 2011 at 7:16 pm #

    nice article. I use Market Samarai and found that all 400+ of my backlinks disappeared. Needed to verify their existence. Thanks

  10. elavarasu on March 11th, 2011 at 8:50 am #

    yes,this is correct back link watch is the major tool used to find the backlinks of specific website.because this tool only provides which link is follow or not .

  11. elavarasu on March 12th, 2011 at 12:00 am #

    yes,backlink watch checker tool is the best seo tool to find the backlinks of specific website.additionally this tool gives which link is follow link ?and which link is no follow link?

  12. datastage on May 1st, 2011 at 6:20 am #

    Hi you have given very valuable information here. But when checking back links why we cant see the back links site which we get through comments.

  13. atWebPresence on May 16th, 2011 at 11:17 am #

    Hi,

    I have posted an article about differences and method that can be used to check the back-links from the majors search engines. You can find a reference to the article from the following link:
    http://atwebpresence.com/blog/seo/find-backlink-to-your-website-in-various-search-engines/

  14. Filesonic Downloads on May 31st, 2011 at 7:02 pm #

    thx bro really hepful!it show also if the links are nofallow or dofallow