Do I Have Back Links?-Back Links Checker

Back Links Checker

A back links checker can come in quite a few different forms and most are free! I know, that’s good news considering you’ve already spent a weeks pay for someone to do your back linking for you.

For me there are 2 main reasons for checking back links:

1. Spying on the Competition: Knowing how many back links and the quality of the back links they have can give you a leg up on out ranking them. Getting to the 1st page of Google™ and out ranking them is the SERPs is key!

I don’t want to cover too much about SEO in this post, but I do want to give you a quick idea of how useful a back links checker can be for beating out your competition. I do however cover all of that in another post, so please be on the look out for that.

2. Is Google™ Finding My Links: Although it can take some time for Google™ to actually find and index links back to your site, you should start seeing some pretty quick if the site is a reputable article directory such as Ezine.com. You’re putting forth the time, money and effort to beat out the competition and you want to know if those links and “link juice” are getting back to you.

There are quite a back links checkers both paid and free to help you accomplish this, but I will give a quick over of 3 that I personally use:

Best Back Links Checkers

Traffic Travis

This is tool has both a free and paid version and both work equally well. I personally use the paid version, but only because I have so many sites that the free version couldn’t keep up any more.

I use Traffic Travis for both reverse engineering my competitors links and checking to see how many back links I have to both my main page and and deep links going to my posts. I can see:

How Many Links I Have
What The Page Rank of the Links Are
What Anchor Text Was Used to Link Back
Whether or Not the Link is “Follow” or “No-Follow”

Traffic Travis has a lot of great uses, just get in there and play with it! Like I said, the free version is quite useful, you don’t have to shell out top dollar to get great use out of it.

==>Visit Traffic Travis Here<==

SEO Quake Plug In

This is a must have tool for any affiliate marketer and it’s FREE! I use it with Google Chrome™ and Mozilla FireFox™, but I’m sure IE has it available as well. This tool will show all kinds of interesting information, but for the sake of this conversation and saving time we’re using it as a back links checker only.

Oddly enough, Google™ doesn’t always display back links via this tool so you want to rely on Yahoo™ to see how many back links you have to both your main site and posts/pages.

This also works great when spying on the competition, you can check their links. If they got a link let’s say from a forum or blog comment, you know you have a chance to get a link from there as well. This is an extremely useful spy technique and can save you a hell of lot of time looking for related sites to get back links from.

==>Visit SEO Quake Here<==

BackLink Watch

This is another completely free back links checker and if you don’t have a lot of time or technical background, this can be the way to go. You don’t need to download anything just visit BackLinkWatch.com, type in the URL you want to check and you’re off.

They are heavy on the pop ups, just bare with it and be patient. Just remember, they’re trying to make money just like you are.

==>Visit BackLink Watch Here<==

Back Links Checker-You’re All Done!

I hope you got some use out of this post, I know these simple tools helped me a lot when I was starting out and are an important part of my daily back linking routine to this day! A Back links checker can be used in a variety of ways, but the best use is MAKING MONEY as I’m sure you would agree!