- Hey guys,
so today I'm gonna show you
a couple of free Backlink checkers
so that you can check the backlinks of any website
and test the quality,
see where they get their links from,
maybe spy on your competitors,
whatever you wanna do.
So the first tool that we're going to look at is ahrefs.com
so you can visit this URL over here and yeah,
basically this gives you a free breakdown of a backlink.
So we're just gonna go ahead and type in an example
website here, by the way,
I like using the ahrefs simply because they're one of
the most active crawlers on the internet.
So after Google, it's the second most active crawler.
Which means that they have a very in depth and comprehensive
backlink database. And therefore, you know,
most of the information you get from there is going to be
fairly accurate. So we're going to type in the URL here.
We're going to include sub domains so you can choose, right.
Do you want subdomains?
So all domains under this website
or do you want to just see the exact URL?
So we want to look at sub domains
and click check backlinks,
click the CAPTCHA.
And after that,
it's going to pop up with all the details from this website
in terms of it's backlinks.
Okay, so you can see here,
we've got the full backlink profile for this website,
and it's going to give you, first of all,
a domain rating score.
Now domain rating is basically the measure
of a website's authority.
Okay?
So it shows how many backlinks are going to this site,
the quality of those backlinks.
And then it rates it on a scale of zero to a hundred,
a hundred being the highest, zero being the lowest.
Basically that gives you the score of the site.
And also you can see how many backlinks
that website's got and the percentage that Dofollow,
and then moving on we can see referring domains.
So the difference between backlinks and referring domains is
the fact that this is the total number of links,
but it could include duplicate websites.
So it could be like 10 websites,
all pointing at 10 different places to the site.
Whereas this is a measure of how many unique URLs are
pointing to this site.
And as you can see, 39% Dofollow.
If we scroll down here,
it gives you a breakdown of the top 100 backlinks,
the top five anchor links, and the top five pages
that are on Backlinks, okay?
So if you scroll down, we can see, right,
these are the top 100 backlinks this site has.
And this is very useful because you can see not only your
own backlink profile,
but also if you want to check your competitors to see where
are they getting links from?
You could easily do that here.
And then you get a breakdown of domain rating like we
were talking about before
Referring domains going to each site
and the amount of traffic that particular
page gets.
And then next up we've got the top five anchors here,
so you can see the anchor text.
So this is the word that people click on to get to the link.
And you see here is a website about cryptocurrency.
So these are the top five,
most common anchor texts used such as Bitcoin, Ethereum.
How many of these links are Dofollow,
and the referring domains in total.
And then moving on here,
we have the top five pages that have the most backlinks.
So these are the most popular pages
for landing backlinks on the site.
You get a breakdown of UR.
UR rating is basically
the strength of a page's link profile
on a hundred point scale.
So you can see which pages have the most strength on that
website.
And as you can see, this has the top score.
And then also you can see how many
Dofollow links point to each page.
And when that link was first seen.
Now this isn't the full amount of data
that Ahrefs can show you,
they do have the paid plan,
but if you just want to free backlink checker,
then you can just use this section
and it will give you a fairly decent breakdown.
Now there is a free alternative to Ahrefs as well.
So this is another useful background checker,
which is Neil Patel's tool.
So you can go to neilpatel.com/backlinks as we
see here and basically find out who links you,
who links your competition
and basically see a full scope of a backlink profile.
So let's type in an example again here,
search for it over here.
And this will give us a breakdown
of this website's backlinks again
So once it loads, you're going to see a report
that looks something like this, okay?
So again, kind of similar to Ahrefs' domain rating
they also have the domain score.
And this basically checks the website strength
from zero to a hundred,
in terms of the amount of authority that website has.
And obviously the more authority a website has,
typically the easier it's going to be to rank.
And then you can also see how many backlinks
that website has too.
And how many of those backlinks are actually Nofollow
versus Dofollow.
The number of referring domains again.
And how many of those have .gov and .edu?
Actually, this website has zero .gov or .edu sites
linking to it.
And also the organic monthly traffic to that site.
And if we scroll down, we can see the backlinks over time.
So we'll see, right, have the backlinks increased over time?
Is this website doing active link building?
Does it have any sort of average going?
And as you can see, the number of links
for this site has actually kind of stagnated.
So I wouldn't say they're the building links actively,
and then also how many links are coming in
versus how many have been lost.
So as you can see here,
you can see these are the links coming in,
the ones above zero.
And then below zero, these the links
that have been lost.
Now, as you scroll down,
you get a figure of how many backlinks this website has.
So it has 9,356 in total.
You can also filter them to follow and Nofollow,
or you can see all links in total.
And then for each link, it gives you a breakdown
of the page title, URL, the domain score of each website,
that's linking to it,
the page score, link type,
and then also what anchor text is being used too.
And then also what's kind of useful,
you can see the first seen figure.
So when the link was first indexed
versus when it was last seen.
So sometimes links drop off and this last seen figure
is basically when the link was last confirmed that was live.
So yeah, you can basically scroll down.
You can see all the links for this website.
If you upgrade, you can actually see more data.
So most of these free backlink checkers are also
always going to have a free trial,
a free sample that you can use
and then pay a little bit extra to upgrade
and see the full stack of data.
But as we scroll up,
this basically gives us a useful profile
of a website's backlinks.
So, you know, if you're looking at your website you can see
right, what kind of sort of backlinks
are pointing to my site?
Are they high quality?
Do I need to disavow any?
Is my backlink profile clean?
But then also you can look at a competitor's backlink
profile and you can say, right,
they're getting backlinks from X, Y, Z websites,
maybe I want to contact them too,
and therefore you can see right,
these are potential prospects,
I can contact for a link as well.
But then also, you know,
if you're going to buy like a website in the future or
something like that,
then you want to check the backlink profile
of that site too,
because before you buy it, you want to make sure, okay.
Is it a clean backlink profile?
Have they been building backlinks legitimately?
Or how many backlinks does that website actually have?
So there's all sorts of interesting ways that you can use a
backlink checker and it's incredibly useful.
So thanks for watching guys
Hope you enjoyed this video.
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And if you have any questions about link building or SEO
let me know in the comments section below,
I'd be really happy to help.
And also make sure you check out the
other link building videos on my YouTube channel,
they're going to help you if you want to get more backlinks
and build high quality backlinks.
You can also see my playlists over here.
And I've got all sorts of link-building playlists on how to
build more backlinks, case studies, and how to use HARO
and things like that.
So this will really help you if you want more resources
on how to build links.