How to effectively check your backlinks on google?

Hey guys, I've searched the forums and can't seem to find an answer to this. I may have passed over something idk. But basically I want to try and check my backlinks for my site but all the sites I've gone to have way different numbers. I've tried YSE Majesticseo and other sites. Can someone point me in the right direction?

You'll be seeing different numbers because - frankly, every service use it's method of checking / displaying / counting backlinks. Until now the most accurate way to check the count of your backlinks was by going to


but lately a lot of tools have emerged, such as:

1. MajesticSEO
2. OpenSiteExplorer

If you want to check the links (indexed in Google) for your main domain, just visit Google and type this in the search box:


Hope this shed some light.

Better use google webmaster tool for your own site.

Tertsim said:

Better use google webmaster tool for your own site.

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^ this