Show off your backlinks. Free Moz-powered backlinks checker + counter badge that auto-updates weekly. Massive vanity-metric appeal for blogs, SaaS, indie sites — the cleanest free Ahrefs Backlink Checker, Moz Link Explorer and Semrush Backlinks alternative on the web.
What is a backlink — and why count them?
A backlink is a link from another website pointing to yours. Backlinks are the single biggest SEO ranking signal — Google's algorithm has used them since 1998. More backlinks from authoritative sites = higher SERP ranking, more traffic, more revenue. Counting backlinks is the closest thing SEO has to a 'how successful is your site' meter.
Free backlinks checker — count any site's inbound links
Paste any URL and we'll show you the total backlink count, referring root domains, and a sample of recent linking pages — pulled from Moz's official Link Explorer API. The same data that powers Moz Pro's paid plans, available free for casual lookups.
Ahrefs Backlink Checker · Moz Link Explorer · Semrush — alternatives compared
Ahrefs, Semrush and Moz all sell backlink data on paid subscriptions. FeedPulse Backlinks Checker is free, forever, for casual lookups + embeddable badges. We're not trying to replace pro SEO platforms — we're giving indie devs and small business owners the same vanity-metric badge the big sites flex.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is a backlink?
- A backlink is a hyperlink from another website pointing to yours. Backlinks have been the single biggest SEO ranking signal since Google's PageRank algorithm launched in 1998 — more backlinks from authoritative sites means higher SERP ranking, more organic traffic, more revenue. Backlinks are still the closest thing SEO has to a 'how successful is your site' meter.
- How can I check my website backlinks for free?
- Paste your domain above — we'll show your total backlink count and referring root domains, pulled from Moz's official Link Explorer API. The same data that powers Moz Pro's paid plans, free for casual lookups + an embeddable counter badge. When Moz's quota is exhausted we fall back to a synthetic OpenPageRank estimate so the badge never returns empty.
- What's a good number of backlinks?
- Quality > quantity. A single backlink from nytimes.com is worth a thousand from spammy directories. For an indie blog, 50-200 referring root domains is solid. For a SaaS company, 1,000+ ref domains is competitive. For a public-company site, 10,000+ is table stakes. Track ref DOMAINS, not raw backlink count — Google does.
- How do I get more backlinks?
- Top tactics, in priority order: publish original research (data studies get cited automatically), guest-post on high-DR publications in your niche, build free tools (like the ones on this site — they earn backlinks passively), submit to authoritative directories, do digital PR (HARO, podcasts, expert quotes), and create truly best-in-class content on a topic. Avoid paid links — Google's algorithm catches them.
- Are these backlink counts the same as Ahrefs or Semrush?
- We pull from Moz's Link Explorer index, which differs from Ahrefs and Semrush because each tool crawls the web independently. Expect ±15-25% variance between vendors for the same domain — that's normal. The directional trend (your backlinks growing or shrinking) is what matters, not the absolute number.