9 Tools To See Blog Competitor Backlinks

9 Tools To See Blog Competitor Backlinks - Competition between bloggers is certainly unavoidable, especially in terms of competing for positions for certain keywords. We can learn from competitors how they optimize, especially in terms of building backlinks. By spying on our competitors' backlinks, we will get an idea of ​​what backlink sources are connected to their website, and that way we can use their backlink sources as well.

Why should you use Backlink Analysis?

Its function is to find out which sites are linked to our competitors' sites. In addition, to compare our backlink profile with our strong competitors so that our blog can be stronger than them (this is very helpful to tell Google that we are competitors from strong sites). Here are 9 tools to see competitor blog backlinks. 

9 Tools To See Blog Competitor Backlinks

1. SEMrush

SEMrush is one of the most popular SEO tools and now SEMrush has a complete backlink analysis feature. SEMrush performance is very good in analyzing keywords. Data can be obtained in graphical format. To use the check backlink feature, all we have to do is:

Visit the SEMrush homepage.

• Type in the name of the domain you want to analyze and press enter.
• If we want to compare domain names, look for the tab in the left corner and we can get a detailed list of domains, referring IPs, links from .gov and .edu sites as well as other sites.
• We can also export in PDF form by clicking the PDF button on the top right.

Although this tool is a free version, it can work quite well for analyzing our competitors' SEO.

2. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is the best tool to analyze backlinks from our competitors' sites. This tool has been the winner of a test conducted by Matthew on one million domains for backlinks.

To do a free analysis, you can visit Ahrefs and then type in the URL of the site whose number of backlinks you want to analyze. Then you will get the complete analysis data, as well as the backlink profile of the tested site as shown in the image below. Ahrefs also offers a full analysis facility on the number of do-follow backlinks, no-follow backlinks, text links, and image backlinks separately from search engines.

If you use the free account you will be given ten results based on each search whereas the paid version has unlimited results.

3. Majestic SEO

As the name suggests, it is one of the most popular SEO tools used by professionals. MagesticSEO is a rival to Ahrefs. Both have their own lists where both provide a list of sites ranking in the top one million based on their ranking on a link and other criteria. Majestic has the largest database of links and also evaluates its type based on the quality of links that come from various sources.

The advantage of MajesticSEO is that we can freely download our competitors' link profiles so that we can have a clear view of the strategy on how a website can get backlinks.

On the summary tab, you can get a complete list of links that refer to a domain or URL and also give us details about how many backlinks were indexed from how many domains.

4. Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer is a great tool from moz.com. OSE can help us to see backlinks connected to our competitors' websites. Filter reports through domain authorities, as well as the anchor text used by competitor sites.

This tool can also compare between many sites, which can help in understanding the keyword strategies of your competitors and can be used to build high-quality backlinks.

5. SEO Spyglass

SEO Spyglass is a new tool that can really evaluate competitors' backlinks perfectly. In the latest update, this tool has increased its indexed database of links to around 15,000,000,000,000. This is more fantastic than data belonging to Ahrefs and SEO majestic.

The number of viewable backlinks for a single URL can be in the hundreds, but we cannot export them, while the premium version (one-time fee) gives us the right to use a number of backlink analysis and export facilities.

6. Backlink Watch

Backlink Watch is the easiest tool to analyze backlinks from any website including our competitors. The upside is that Backlink Watch uses the Ahrefs API so we can get pretty reliable results.

There is no option to export but we can take advantage of the results of this tool for free. It is enough to copy all reports from the site → open spreadsheet → right click → paste → text → ok. Easy, right?

7. Google Alerts

Google Alert is a tool that serves to perform online analysis. this tool can be used to get free alerts when the selected or mentioned word is on the web. This can be our brand name, our product, or our competitors' names.

We can use this tool to monitor our competitors when they have a link on a particular website.

8. Diagnostic Link

Link diagnosis is one of the great tools that can help us get various results of no-follow, do-follow, missing links, good links, external and internal link pages, and others.

9. Openlinkprofiler

This tool has become the most favorite SEO tool. Open Link Profiler has a large database of backlinks to a site and can count up to 200,000 backlinks to a domain.

The free version of this can help us download up to 100 links in CSV format. This feature is not provided by other SEO tools like Majestic SEO, Ahrefs, or Open Site Explorer.

So, those are 9 tools to see competitor blog backlinks. Now we can analyze backlinks using one of the tools described above.

Indeed, there are many ways to optimize a site on search engines and maybe SEO analysts already have their own way or method. Now it all depends on ourselves. What method do you want to use?