1. Google Webmaster Console (http://www.google.com/webmasters) – is the best website to check backlinks. Here webmasters can only see backlinks for their own websites and not that of others.
2. Yahoo SiteExplorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com) – This is another good tool to check backlinks, although not as thorough as that of Google. Here visitors can see up to 1000 backlinks for any domain but results include nofollow links as well.
3. SEO Elite, Backlink Analyzer etc. (http://tools.seobook.com/backlink-analyzer), (http://www.seoelite.com) – These tools can help you with digging up backlinks from search engines in an easier way.
4. BacklinkTracking.com (http://www.backlinktracking.com) – This tool is build on top of Google Alerts. You can stick there any website and it will report every day how many new backlinks have been indexed by Google.
