What is a Backlink?
If you are actively promoting your websites and blogs with SEO then you are no doubt building backlinks to your sites. Backlinks are incoming links to a website. For example, a site with a lot of backlinks implies that many other sites link to that site. Checking on those backlinks is the primary function of backlink checkers.
There are many different backlink checker tools with different functions. Many of them are free tools and provide very comprehensive and detailed reports, such as home page PR, link page PR, anchor text, nofollow and dofollow, page rank and more. Other free backlink checkers just show numbers of links, and limited link details.
Sometimes you may need a backlink checker to make sure that your reciprocal link partners are still linking to you, these tools will crawl the domains you enter and check if your websites are being lied to that page.
Yahoo backlinks are an important element of the SEO portfolio of your sites. Yahoo is well known for showing a comprehensive picture of all the backlinks to your sites and much more so than Google. Yahoo Site Explorer is a great free backlink checker and present several search options and shows you the url’s where your backlinks are.
Some backlink checkers have an built-in facility to scan the links on your website, and on the pages that your website is linking to, and flag possible problem areas, such as bad neighborhood sites and sites that have been penalized by Google.
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