Hello everyone,
I hope you had a nice weekend and enjoyed yourselves. Let’s start this new week and new month with knowing the best backlinks checker website. All the findings below are my personal experience and you may agree/disagree with me.
I have been using the following backlinks checking sites for quite some time…
1) MajesticSEO.com
2) Ahrefs.com
3) SeoKicks.de
4) OpenSiteExplorer.org
5) BacklinkWatch.com
6) SmallSeoTools.com/backlink-checker/
The above backlinks site are not in any order and are just randomly added.
Although there are tons of other backlinks website but I have been using limited sites to check backlinks.
1) MajesticSEO.com is nice website which gives you detail about the number of backlinks, referring domains, pages, anchor text, new and lost backlinks in recent times which helps you to determine if the number of backlinks are going away quickly. Stop and research more before you buy that domain. It happens that a domain has tons of backlinks but after buying it the number of backlinks has dramatically gone down. Sometimes those backlinks are paid one’s. As the time period gets over for those ads, the site owner removes it. Another reason you see the links getting removed is that domain is down for quite some time so no site owner likes to keep broken/dead links live on their site. One more reason can be the backlinks you see are from the sister sites of the past owner which has let his domain expire by mistake and eventually you grabbed it. Once he sees the domain is no more in his hands, he removes the links from all his sites. Are you getting my point? 😉 Well, there can be many other reasons you see the number of backlinks going down.
2) Next comes Ahrefs.com which is so far the best backlinks checker website for me. I have been using it since last year. If you visit this link which I have used as an example of my domain to show you the number of backlinks this site finds out. One of the best thing is the URL Rank which determines the rank of your URL on several factors and show you.
One more thing I like about Ahrefs.com is this site determines the quality of your backlinks. I will explain it in detail…
For example you check my domain in ahrefs for backlink check. And click on the Total Backlinks. That will automatically list the backlinks by Ahrefs Rank. Now I am not sure how much accurate is their ranking system but they display all backlinks by ranking. The highest rank of backlink is listed first and so on… And looking carefully on each ranked URL you will see their system is giving ranks properly and not randomly. You can also click on any backlink to see if your domain still exists or not. I have randomly checked many times and can find my domain all the time which Ahrefs has listed under Total Backlinks. You can also see the referring domains. I feel this site is accurately checking the number of backlinks on daily basis which can be confirmed here. This link will show you the number of new and lost backlinks for this particular domain.
You can have limited access to their features with free account and can subscribe to their paid version to get more access.
3) SeoKicks.de is not often used by me because of it’s inaccuracy. For example if you check the same domain for backlinks you will see huge difference between SeoKicks and Ahrefs. Comparing both these sites I find Ahrefs far better and shows more number of backlinks.
4) I was using OpenSiteExplorer.org in the past but not any more. I don’t need to write much about them because you will get your answer here. This hardly finds 3 backlinks. Thanks to them for at least finding 3 backlinks compare to over 1,000 backlinks found by Ahrefs for the same domain!
5) BacklinkWatch.com is powered by Ahrefs.com. I feel they fetch the data from Ahrefs but not completely because if you check the backlinks for GiftExperience.com at BacklinkWatch.com you will find it fetches only 496 backlinks and leaves the rest for Ahrefs to find it 😀 So this shows inaccuracy and don’t give the correct results.
6) Last but not least comes SmallSeoTools which at first impressed me but later when I dig in deeply I found it’s not worth enough checking backlinks for my domains with them. For example if you enter the same domain GiftExeprience.com it shows 200 odd backlinks which is far too less than actual facts. Now let’s take this example – If you enter Property-Investment.com to see the number of backlinks at Ahrefs.com it shows 216 backlinks but SmallSeoTools.com shows 1,070,000. Wohooo over 1 million backlinks for my website! That’s completely inaccurate. To verify simply click on the URL it displays from 1,070,000 and you will NOT find the URL Property-Investment.com on that page.
Although there are hundreds of backlink checking websites but I after using the above sites for quite some time I thought to share my experience with you all about them. To conclude this post I found Ahrefs.com the best backlink checker website so far and using it almost daily.
Feel free to share your experience and let me know what you think about my views.
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Very nice Review. Well researched and From real time experience.
Have you tried http://www.bing.com/toolbox/link-explorer?
I was told that Traffic Travis and SEO Spyglass were not bad too [but have never tried them myself].
Thanks Zaki and Mark for commenting.
I haven’t tried any of those but after going through all of them we need to have an account so I will take some time to look after them. If any of them is worth enough I will make sure to share about them as well…
This seems to be more technical for me, anyway, tried testing some of the domains. I think, your point from domaining perspective is to get/buy that domain which has more backlinks. You also stress to be careful as some backlinks are just not correct. I think, you should write another articles detailing tips before welcoming a domain to your account.
Not exactly. I always tend to buy domains which I think I can sell it for profit, no matter it has backlinks or not. If I see there are several endusers I simply try to buy that domain and many times check the number of backlinks after I have acquired the name! I have found most of the time backlinks are not authoritative and worthless on domains. I don’t mind having very few backlinks on a particular domain but they must be on good sites and have been placed on prominent locations. Could you please elaborate again about what type… Read more »
Thanks for the detail response.
Because of your experience and success – I think you can share via an article the things and research you do before you bid on a domain name. This will be really helpful.
Thanks mate. I will see how much secrets I can share in coming days 😉
Отличный пост!
Thank you!
whcih options i can use for free backlink check.?
Kindly check them all to find out which fits your criteria.
When acquiring a domain name, whether through Auctions, Private deals, Dropping soon lists, or other sources, do you prioritize based on the quality of backlinks, i understand that backlinks can be valuable, especially when they comes from reputable sites. However, Do you also consider domains that may not have strong backlinks but instead sound appealing, have high search volume or have a large potential end user market
I don’t really buy any domains based on the number of backlinks. I mainly look for upgrade domains. Also, I don’t check search volume or the CPC. They’re worthless metrics for me. Possibly it’s useful for someone investing in geo domains and doing outbound.
Thank you for answering this question, i have came across some domains that doesn’t have much backlinks and so on but they can be used by businesses but i still dont buy it..now i think i can go on with it after seeing ur response
Yeah, going after backlink domains isn’t a good idea because you never know when the backlinks will start to deplete and that’s where you’ll lose the value of your domain name which solely relies on the backlinks.
So I strongly suggest not to focus on backlink domains.
Thank you Abdul
You’re welcome! 🙂
i just remember i have another question Abdul, when buying domain names i know its important to check the wayback machine to have the ideas of what the domain has been used for whether for good or bad,my question is do you buy based on history of a domain especially the aged domain, there are some aged domains for example, a two word strong domain but wayback shows its aged but no businesses have been built on it in the past. do you buy that types of names?
That’s a good question!
I used to check wayback machine on a frequent basis some years back but I didn’t find any usefulness when it come to selling domain to an enduser. I’ve stopped checking wayback machine for years now.