Backlinks, often referred to as inbound or incoming links, are simply links that connect one website to another. When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), backlinks hold a lot of weight because they act like a vote of confidence from one site to another. To put it plainly, when a website links to another, it’s essentially saying, “This content is trustworthy, helpful, or worth your time.”
Want to know the easy ways to check backlinks of your website/blog? If not, then don’t worry, I am here to guide you on the ways of checking backlinks.
In my previous post, I have already discussed the importance of backlinks to generate traffic and ways to create backlinks. including search engine optimization (SEO)
Easy Ways to check backlinks of your website blog.
There is a different method of counting backlinks of different services and tools, so one tool may show you the number of backlinks, and other tools show different numbers of backlinks. So don’t confuse, keep doing your good work, and improve SEO and page rank.
So here are the famous ways to check the backlinks of your website.
Read Also: Why Backlinks are important
1. Google Analytics: Google Analytics is the most powerful and SEO-friendly way to check the backlinks of your website. It can provide you with a list of not only the backlinks to the site but also the best-performing backlinks. So next time, when you visit the site, you will see such sources to find backlinks from places you did not even know existed.
1 . Use filters (excludes/contains keyword) to find interesting sources.
2. Check which backlink gives you more traffic and why.
3. You can also invest time to improve such fields of areas that give you a lot of traffic.
2.ahrefs: This site has powerful features for finding backlinks, including total backlinks, backlink types (text,nofollow, image, frame form, etc). This will also show you which backlinks you have lost and which ones are new with URLs.
3. Bluebacklinks:- Bluebacklinks is also a good website to check your website’s backlinks.
4. Webmaster-toolkit: – Webmaster-toolkit is a free Link Popularity Checker Tool and it shows the Number of Links in different search engines of your website.
5. MajesticSEO; Majestic SEO has the largest publicly available index of its kind. It has by far the freshest data of its kind, with an index
6.SEOMoz: a wonderful collection to check backlinks, SEO, and much other useful content.
7.BacklinkWatch: another online free tool to check backlinks.
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I thought alexa was the only way of checking the backlinks and it was not showing my site. I checked the rest of them and they showed. Can you help me with how to increase traffic for my blog?
Alexa will show rank when handsome traffic will be towards your blog. In order to increase traffic there are lot of methods blog commenting,forum posting,directory submission…..But the most important one is the unique and seo optimized content,this will generate organic traffic for yous blog.
To increase traffic just read my posts
https://www.technotrait.com/2013/02/08/how-to-comment-to-boost-your-traffic-and-google-page-rank/
https://www.technotrait.com/2012/08/29/top-10-seo-forums-list-to-enhance-blog-traffic/
https://www.technotrait.com/2011/12/16/increase-blog-traffic-by-free-directory-submission/
https://www.technotrait.com/2011/11/17/want-to-get-more-traffic-use-ping-services/