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Backlinks by Neil Patel — A backlinks research tool for competitive intelligence

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Backlinks shows you the number of links pointing to any URL, for free. From total link count, to .edu and .gov links to even the exact number of unique referring domains, dive into your competitors' backlinks, fine tune the results and export to CSV.

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Neil Patel
Thanks for hunting this Ben. I really appreciate the Product Hunt community sharing this as my goal is to help all startups with their SEO and I believe they shouldn't have to pay money to generate more traffic. If you are wondering what Backlinks does: 1. You can easily see who links to you or your competitors. This helps you figure what links you need to build to rank higher on Google. 2. Now link reports are integrated into Ubersuggest. You can see who links to a site's most popular pages. 3. You can see a site's domain score. Typically the higher the number the higher a site will rank. 4. You can filter links by almost anything you want. From anchor text to zones... you can drill down to the type of links you are interested in. This way you aren't spending hours trying to find new opportunities. Oh and if you use Ubersuggest on a regular basis, you may have to hard refresh or clear your cache to see the new Backlinks feature/report.
Gail Gardner
@neilpatel Is there any way to show the actual significance of sites on domains like Medium, Weebly, WordPress.com, blogger, etc.? Or do you believe the high DAs those sites enjoy extends to content published on them?
Nadav Dakner
Woah... Another stellar tool from the creator of CrazyEgg & Kissmetrics :) I've actually tested Backlinks last week and found it very useful - it has similar functionalities to ahrefs only its...free. I also love the ease of use and "no clutter" interface where the results are in your face without needing to keep tabbing. Good stuff!
Neil Patel
@nadavdakner thanks for the kind words. My goal is to make SEO easy and affordable (free) for everyone. Especially startups.
Ben Jacobson
Oh man -- yet another premium SEO tool feature unleashed by Neil Patel for free. Disrupt! 😏
Neil Patel
@osbennn I am trying. Just wait a few months for me to release the second version of the Backlinks tool. ;)
Robert Katai
Congrats Neil for another SEO tool. But now I'm wondering, what are the differentiator points between Ahrefs, Moz and Majestic in this category of backlinks?
Neil Patel
@katairobi not much... and within a few months I will take the premium features and release more of them for free. Just takes a bit of time for development. :/ Next month I will release a version of Buzzsumo with more data for free. ;)
Erik Emanuelli
I just tested this tool for a couple of my sites and got new interesting data to work on. I liked the Top SEO Pages section and the SEO keywords tab gave me new content ideas. Bookmarked. I'll use it later with each of my websites. It's unusual to get something free, nowadays, so thank you for this handy tool @neilpatel !
Neil Patel
@erikemanuelli you're welcome. :)
Vikas Yadav
Very useful product. I am already using Ubersuggest for keyword research purpose from a long time. Adding this feature is a boon for us along with kW analysis as before I need to purchase the full premium version of ahrefs, semrush, long tail pro and what not, to go into the deep. Thanks! @neilpatel. P.S. I wonder on the off chance that you will keep this freemium perpetually, or monetize it in future with new pricing premium plans in order to utilize it further?
Neil Patel
@vikas_yadav1 goal is to keep it free and ideally not go freemium
Matic Jurglič
What's the underlying source of the backlinks data? Ahrefs, Moz,...?
Neil Patel
@matixmatix none... a ton of servers and crawling :/
Nadav Dakner

Backlinks has similar functionalities to ahrefs and Majestic SEO, basically allow you to review and analyze your backlinks portfolio (and your competitors as well) and it also helps you search for good linkage opportunities. Whats good about it is that it's free and very very simple to use (like Ubersuggest), so in other words in very easy to use.

Pros:

Its a very robust platform, easy to use and most importantly free!

Cons:

extremely sophisticated reporting are still in development.

Michael Schultz
From my perspective as a guy that needs to do SEO from time to time: Super impressive. From my perspective as a UI/UX designer: Super impressive, too. In the SEO world, ease of use and beautification should not be underestimated.
Neil Patel
@filterfreak thanks! we focus heavily on design
Taral Patel
Hey Neil, Thanks for this product. It's really helpful for the marketers who have high potential but are unable to afford high priced SEO tools. I did try to compare the results with some of the paid tools and though not matching completely with it, it still matched a lot of results, which means we can definitely trust it. Based on the experience with Uber Suggest, I am sure this tool will go ahead and become more accurate with its results. I would suggest not to put the Good/ Bad tag along with the website data as that may work negatively for new websites who may otherwise are working hard to create excellent content but have low traffic because they have just started. A data with 'bad' tag may create a wrong impression in the mind of users take a quick call based on just the traffic data. Rest, it's all good and I would definitely suggest it to other marketers. Thanks for creating a product that can help masses :) Regards, Taral Patel
Neil Patel
@taral_patel thanks for the feedback. I will work with the team and adjust how we do badging of "good" and "bad". You make a great point.
Yuval
Good one! In the last year, I'm using ahrefs for backlinks research and ubersuggest for keyword research (Mainly because of the easy to use UX of ubersuggest) This new backlinks tool is just awesome!! Definitely gonna bookmark this one. In the future, it will be cool to see features like Traffic value and referring domains graph history.
Neil Patel
@yuval_halevi working on both of those for the next version
Nitin Verma
Ubersuggest is just so much more valuable! Really useful for a startup with limited marketing budgets such as www.orgzit.com
Neil Patel
@nitinv8 that's my goal. I want startups to be able to compete without spending money.
Peter Askew

During my first search, the system presented several false positives on no-followed links. No doubt this tool has promise, but it still needs some work.

Pros:

Well designed.

Cons:

A few false positives on no-followed links showing up.

Yam Regev
A well needed product! Good stuff, guys <3
Asaf Fybish
I love your "free to all" approach. Giving away great tools for free are the best marketing move you can do for your company. Other than creating and releasing great tools for our community, Neil is setting up an example to all of us on how WOM marketing is really done. Thanks Neil, keep up with the great work you are doing !
Konrad Seweryn
Wow. This is really great that you provide few SEO tools totally for free and i don't even have to register an account. I've checked few websites and your app really impressed me. Probably you will have a premium plan in the future because it seems that u invest a lot of time and money to build it. Amazing job. Btw. it would be great if u could add a country filter for a backlinks tool in the future.
Neil Patel
@sevikon working on that for the next release
Emily Kenned

I've been using SEO tools that claimed to be 'Free' but they always limit the results and just try to convert me into a paying customer. This new backlinks section is just insane.

Pros:

- Free... but for real - This tool made by one of the best SEO experts out there, so I'm pretty sure the results are reliable.

Cons:

- None

Michael Schultz

It's easily the best user interface for a SEO tool on the market. And it's free. What else can you wish for? Only thing that was a bit annoying is the Services link that 1) throws you into a different UI and 2) loads a survey on top of everything. The "Services" and other top links should probably just open a new tab, indicating that you're now surfing on the consulting page and not using the tool anymore. But it's a minor thing.

Pros:

Very easy to use interface. Landing page offers a lot of languages and explains the product well.

Cons:

None, considering you know what you're doing.

Igor
How much data is in the database? Why is access free?
Asaf Fybish

I tried it on my website, and the results are similar to the SEO tool I'm paying 99$/month for Clean and beautiful design. Insanely practical tool.

Pros:

Great tool that you can use for free!

Cons:

Reporting is still under development.