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How Good Are Backlink Tools at Finding Links?

Recently we tested the three most popular backlink checking tools–Moz Open Site Explorer, Majestic, and ahrefs–to see how many links to a web page each actually showed.
You can see the full study methodology and results in this post: Backlinking Tools May Not Be As Comprehensive As You Think.
The infographic below summarizes the main findings of the study. Use the social share buttons above to share this. To share on Pinterest, use the Pin It button above the image.

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Jeff January 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm

Thanks for this very helpful data. This confirms that it really is important to invest in not just one but many tools for checking backlinks.
Mark Preston January 8, 2016 at 7:50 am

Although using a collection of all three link research tools is best, I have found that OSE is a better tool to find GOOD links for link building purposes and Ahrefs is better at finding volume of links for bad link analysis. Ahrefs also tend to pick up on new links a lot faster.
Considering the way that all these tools work, it is remarkable that they manage to find 60% of all links. After all, they do have to crawl the complete internet.
Daniel Vetter January 11, 2016 at 10:26 am

Good post , thanks . Since I ‘m just about to improve my English , I read a lot of pages in English 🙂 I hope my contribution here is a good read . Many greetings from Germany says Daniel
Kelly May 25, 2016 at 6:49 pm

Thanks for the information. It is just as I suspected. I have tried several different backlink checkers and get different results on each…. and now I know why.
Mark Traphagen May 26, 2016 at 9:30 am

But as Eric noted in the article, that doesn’t mean the tools aren’t useful. Far from it! It’s just best to be using more than one if you are able.
Kelly June 4, 2016 at 8:38 pm

Ok thanks. I will definitely be using more than one and checking my results. I appreciate your reply!
Hobbykoch April 12, 2017 at 6:49 am

A good contribution that helped me a lot, thank you very much. Unfortunately there is the best information only on English pages. The Germans do not offer so much info.
Greetings from Germany
Agon September 24, 2017 at 4:49 pm

semrush is also a good tool for checking backlink and other type of analytics
i always use semrush
must add it in this post
Thanks
Mark Traphagen September 25, 2017 at 8:01 am

We love SEMrush as well, but it did not have a backlinking tool at the time we did this study.
Tanuja October 10, 2017 at 12:23 pm

I’d like to mention Open Link Profiler. It’s free to a certain extent and is the best alternative to paid backlink checkers.