How do you check what links there are to a specific page on a site?

[Leo_Woodhead]

Hi Mozzers, I'm doing a bit of research and need your help! I'm trying to find out what specific sites link to a particular page on a website. What's the best tool to use as I checked it with Moz and it only brought back 5 links? Then I tried an free online tool and it said there were 35 links. I'm a bit confused now. What tool/s do you use to check links to a specific page?

[T0BY]

Hello, to see all the links to a page have a look at Google Webmaster Tools (now called Search Console).  If you go to 'Links to my site' there is a list on the right called 'Your most linked content'. If you click on this it will give you a breakdown of the links to each page which Google are using as ranking factors.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Leo,

Sounds like you were doing the right thing. Different tools will show different numbers, as all tools use different link indexes. In general, Moz is a bit more picky about the links it displays - we try to display the most important links that are likely to have an impact on your ranking. The downside of this is that our index can be smaller than some of the others (Ahrefs, Majestic) and you'll often find a bigger volume of links with those other indexes.

Also, for general help in using Open Site Explorer, here's an excellent resource: https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer

[RSedrati]

Hi

Opensiteexplorer is not bad but I have to say that ahrefs is more comprehensive. I would recommend ahrefs even though sometimes it misses important links with high DA.there is also a problem with delays at it will only catch some links today when those exists since 2 years or more. So be very careful when analyzing links with any tool, they often lack precision.

Cheers

[TimHolmes]

Have you given Moz's Open Site Explorer a trial yet.

Simply type in the URL you want to look into and it will give you valuable insight into the pages inbound links and other useful metrics such as page authority, domain authority, spam scores of inbound links, social shares etc.

Definately worth a try.

[Alick300]

Hi Leo,

Try Ahrefs.com. It is one of the best backlink checker tool and they show some fantastic data and break it down in pretty much every way imaginable.

How many links you have, from how many IPs, linking to which pages with which anchor text.

They breakdown the links by types and provide all sorts of graphs and visualisation options

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[hectormainar]

You just have to type link:http://www.yourdomain.com/whateverpageyouwanttocheck into Google's Search Box and you will get a list of pages which link to that page.