Website Analysis Tools to Check Backlinks

I've recently used two analysis tools to check back links to a website.

1. Yahoo Site Explorer
URL: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a tool that lets you access the information about a site's online presence. Use Site Explorer to:

•   Find which sites and subpages are indexed.
•   Find inlinks or pages that link to any site or any page.
•   Submit and track feeds for your sites.

You can get even more detailed information and greater ability to manage a site or its URLs when you authenticate the site. You can:

• Monitor the status of your submitted feeds.
• Delete URLs from the search index.
• Specify content-neutral Dynamic Parameters for your site.
• See the number of Views and Clicks on the Yahoo! Search results for the Top 10 search queries for your site.
• View the "Last Crawled Time" and any problems it reported while crawling your site.
  

2. Google Webmaster Tools.
URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

Google Webmaster Tools are very important in identifying how many back links are in Google as well has keyword density, search statistics and errors. You can also submit your sitemap here which will help indexing of your site.

With the Google Webmaster Tools, you can get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic and receive notifications about problems on your site.

Some features on the Google Webmaster Tools:

• Find out how Google sees your site. Verified site owners can see information about how Google crawls, indexes and ranks your site.
• Analyze search data. See how many people found your site in search results, and how many people clicked on it.
• Receive alerts in your inbox. Google will tell you if we detect that your site has malware or generates errors.
• Check who links to you. Google track links from all over the web, and we'll show you who added a link to your site.
• Tell Google about your site. Submit Sitemaps and see how many pages we added to the index.