How to check competitor's backlinks

[Optimus]

Does anybody know how to do this? I'm sure there is a Google command like site: but I can't recall what it is. I want to see what actual backlinks a competitor has.

 

[IceToEskimos]

Ahrefs is good for this.

 

[Optimus]

Thanks man.

 

[AllBizNiz]

Google won't show you all that data. It's very limited.

link:
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page URL.

You won't see very much of your competitor's shit doing it that way though. You should use something like seospyglass.

 

[Optimus]

Thanks for that too. I'm going to check them both out, SEOSpy and ahrefs. Appreciate it

 

[Smidge]

backlinkwatch is free if your just looking for a general idea of what's going on. Not so good for checking out what the quality of the links are though.

 

[Telva]

Majesticseo too, although I have an ahrefs sub as it's better value.

 

[Optimus]

Thanks guys. I'm going to check em. Ahref looked pretty solid though.

 

[Carpetflood]

Ahrefs is good

 

[barbie01]

I have been doing that checking for competitors backlinks for quite long already. What I usually do is to grab some tools which are free to download on my PC. Try to search on competitors backlinks checker tool. Hope you find this very useful.

 

[liranliryy]

Majesticseo > ahrefes

only the reason for that is ahrefs DISABLED their bulk check!

Majesticseo for ever!

 

[clyde]

Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer, in addition to Ahrefs.com

 

[bhanks]

seomoz also has a site explorer tool that you can use

 

[Syncove]

Majestic SEO is a good tool but not having competitor metrics is a bit of a draw back.

 

[skohh]

I really think SEO spyglass is top, I love it, constantly updated

 

[Optimus]

I grabbed the free version of SEOspylass so I'll try it out. In sure theres a cap on how many sites I can analyze

 

[ThomasB]

Majestic SEO, Ahrefs and OSE (Open Site Explorer )

T.

 

[RandTheRand]

Majesticseo too, although I have an ahrefs sub as it's better value.

Yup, this is highly recommended

 

[aproxaday]

ahrefs for dayyyys

 

[flowers4great]

I used both SEO Spyglass and the search query link:[domain] and just note that searching link:domain misses many of the results you will find when you run the domain in SEO Spyglass. I really recommend using SEO Spyglass.