Every backlink is important to get success on Google. Keeping track of each backlink will not only help you grow on the SERP, but high-quality backlinks also help you get more referral traffic, brand awareness, and potential customers.

There are now hundreds of backlink checker tools available in the market to manage your backlinks effectively, including well-known brands like Ahrefs, Semrush, and SERanking.

Top 6 Backlink Checker Tools In 2024

We’ve listed some of the most effective backlink checker tools that will help you track every link built by your in-house team or purchased from any trusted platform from day one. I’ve used all these tools extensively and listed the best options in the sequence below.

1)- Ahrefs

Aherfs is one of the best Backlink checker tools. It is the most active web crawler after Google and has one of the most extensive backlink databases. Their crawlers retrieve data from the web every 15-30 minutes.

With a Tag Only Content = Dofollow backlink, you can easily track the do-follow and no-follow links, as shown in the image below.

If you find any nonrelevant spammy backlink, you can export it from Ahrefs, as shown in this image, and take further action accordingly.

Plus, it also allows you to do the following,

• Anchor text analysis
• Competitors backlink analysis
• Broken link analysis
• Disavow Link Spam
• Backlink Gap Analysis

Note: Primary Ahrefs is good for checking the competitor’s backlink profile, but you can also easily track your backlink with their free and paid tools. The only con is that sometimes it may take 2-3 days or even a week to see the live link, which was live today.

The paid plan starts at $29, which you can buy from here.

Free Ahrefs Backlink Checker Tool here

2)- Semrush

Semrush is another popular tool for checking your and competitors’ backlinks. Its database contains more than 43 trillion quality backlinks, and its fastest backlink discovery tool can track your backlinks in a day or two at the most.

You can monitor your backlinks very easily with Semrush as well, like do-follow links and nofollow links, as shown in the image below,

Semrush also offers a toxicity score for each backlink; you can find it here. If the link’s toxic score is more than 40%, you should try to disavow it from the Google Search Console. We’ve made a guide on how to do it easily with Semrush here.

Plus, Semrush also offer the very similar features that Ahrefs offer,

• Anchor text analysis
• Competitors backlink analysis
• Disavow Link Spam
• Backlink Gap Analysis
• Bulk Backlink Analysis
• Backlink Toxicity score

In addition to the above features, Semrush provides listing management and link-building tools that can help you scale your overall backlink efforts.

3)- Majestic

Majestic is one of the oldest backlink checker tools and has the largest link database in the world. The Majestic SEO “trust flow” and “citation flow” features are among the best for analysing the quality of backlinks.

You can monitor your backlinks very easily with Majestic SEO as well as shown in the image below,

Plus, Majestic also offers various other features that can help you to analyse the quality of the backlinks for your website and what your competitors have,

• Trust Flow to identify the quality of the content
• Citation Flow – It helps you evaluate the quantity of likes that point to a website.
• Topical trust flow – It helps to identify the page influence/website influence for a specific topic.
• Link Graph – it helps to identify the link gap with your competitors and about harmful links that link to your website.
• Referring IPs – It will help you to analyse

4)- SERanking

SERanking is another backlink checker tool on the list. It has the second-largest database of indexed backlinks (2.9 trillion indexed backlinks after Semrush) and can identify new, active, and lost links very quickly. This tool also provides the “Domain Trust Metrics” (it means how likely a domain or page is to rank in SERPs).

You can check the dofollow and nofollow links over here like,

SERanking features include,

• Domain trust and page trust
• Anchor text analysis
• IPs and Subnets analysis
• Toxic backlinks
• Broken backlinks

5)- Moz

Moz is also one of the oldest SEO backlink checker tools. Its database contains more than 45.5 trillion links. Moz DA (Domain Authority), PA (Page Authority), and Spam score is most popular in the market. As a marketer, it’s one of the metrics any SEO person can consider while asking for a backlink.

You can find the dofollow and nofollow links here.

Plus, they do have certain features that you must like,

• Broken link checker
• Competitor Backlink analysis
• Bulk Competitor Backlink Gap analysis

6)- Google Search Console (FREE)

Google Search Console also offers a free backlink checker tool. However, it doesn’t provide an in-depth backlink analysis of your backlink profile. At the same time, it should be fixed if you see some unwanted 100s of toxic backlinks in your Google Search Console backlink profile.

The cons of Google Search Console are that you can only check your backlink profile. You can’t analyse your competitor’s backlink profile.

Here is how you check your backlinks on Google Search Console

Features of Google Search Console Backlink Monitoring

• Referring Domains Analysis
• Anchor text analysis

Conclusion

These are some of the most popular and in-demand backlink checker tools available today. They offer robust features that allow you to monitor and analyse your backlinks easily. Whether you’re looking to track your dofollow links or nofollow links, identify the harmful links. Or if you need to understand your competitor’s backlink strategies.

These backlink checker tools will help you stay on top of your backlink profile, ensuring a healthy and effective SEO strategy that contributes to long-term success.

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