10 Best and Free Backlinks Checker Tools to Check Backlinks of Your Website

Keep these free backlinks checker tools because you need them from time to time, at least once a month.

If you don’t keep a regular check on your backlinks, your competitors might hurt your search engine rankings by linking you to all the malicious sites and decreasing your rankings.

What if they can’t beat you directly, some of them are brutal enough to kick you from the back and throw you off while they go up in the mean time.

Though the game of SEO has changed a lot and backlinks are not alone the ranking factors for search engine rankings, yet search engines does consider backlinks from as a signal to rank a site high.

However, I am not talking about backlinks from private blog networks or irrelevant sites. These sites are no more a valuable source of links and most of the times end up as spam. You need backlinks from highly authoritative and relevant sites.

Besides, you also need to count the number of do-follow and no-follow backlinks coming to your site. When talking about backlinks, we usually consider the number of do-follow links we created. As a blogger, you need these handy blogging tools very often.

So, to keep an eye on the sites linking back to you, if you are a prey to some malicious competitor or just a regular check on your backlinks, I’ve created this guide where I’ll talk about the best and free backlinks checker tools to check the incoming links to your site.

List of 10 Handy Free Backlinks Checker Tools

There are many premium tools in the market such as SEMRUSH and Traffic Travis but you’ll love these free tools too! Who doesn’t love free stuff? Especially, if you’re a beginner with limited budget to spend, these tools will come handy in the beginning of your blogging career.

Don’t think that these tools are free means they give away all wrong information about backlinks, the premium tools provide with lots of extra features that aren’t available in the free version.

This is one of my favorite backlinks checker tools to check for incoming links to your site. It’s a paid tool but you can use it for free with limited features if you register for an account.

With the free version, you can check a maximum of 10 backlinks per request and you can analyze 2 domains per request. You won’t get access to any social signals of the pages in the free version. Check the tool here.

This is another backlinks checker tool by Moz that I love using. It gives a list of all metrics worthy enough for a detailed analysis. It works best if you have a paid account but comes quite handy for beginners to analyze backlinks of competitors. You can also get a list of the top performing pages of a website. Check the tool here.

This is a great tool I love using personally not only because it’s free but also provides many features showing up to 200,000 links per report. You will get a list of the pages that are linking to each of your site’s page or homepage along with the anchor text and the date the link was added. You also get an idea of the link influence score (that is the popularity of the website pointing to your site).

You can also check the link age. However, you need to create a free account with them to export up to 100,000 links in csv format. Check the tool here.

This tool is also in my list that I use quite often. It gives up to 1000 links per report and is powered by Ahrefs. All the no-follow links are tagged, so you can count easily and you can also check the anchor texts of the respective link. So, even if you can’t upgrade to the paid membership in Ahrefs, you can take advantage of this tool to get at least 1000 links of your competitors. Check the tool here.

Another great tool that shows up to 1000 backlinks per report. You can export the links in csv format with a trial account. The best thing I love about this tool is it shows the percentage of do-follow and no-follows links for a domain, percentages by anchor text, if they are in image or text format and also the exact anchor text. So, the tool is a definite choice for optimizing your anchor texts for better search engine rankings. Check the tool here.

This is another free tool and lets you check as many backlinks are there in their index. But one thing I don’t like about MoonSearch is that they don’t show referring domains, total backlinks or any other filtration options individually. Check the tool here.

You can use this tool to check the incoming links, if they are do-follow or no-follow and the anchor text. You can check up to 10 results without signing up. Check the tool here.

Another free and good backlinks checker tool worth mentioning in the list is RankSignals.You can get a count of the no-follow and the do-follow links pointing to your site and also a count of the number of unique domains pointing to your site. The best thing I love about this tool is that it shows the homepage PR of the site and the link anchor text. Check the tool here.

The ninth on the list is Site Explorer. This gives a general view of the common domains that are linking to your site but no break-up of the pages from that domain linking to your site. It’s a good tool for a very rough estimate, but not for detailed analysis. Check the tool here.

This tool will give you a list of some of the links coming to your website. This isn’t an excellent tool but good enough for rough use. However, one thing that I don’t like in this tool are its pop-up ads after clicking the “Go” button to check the links. Check the tool here.

So, using this list of blogging tools, you should at least get an idea of where your competitors are linking to and get better search engine ranking in your case. All of these are free backlink checker tools, though for some of them you need a trial account of there are limitations to the number of links you can get per report.

Have you used any of these free backlinks checker tools? Did you get accurate results? Would you like to add any more tools to this list?