Skip to content
    Moz logo Menu open Menu close
    • Products
      • Moz Pro
      • Moz Pro Home
      • Moz Local
      • Moz Local Home
      • STAT
      • Moz API
      • Moz API Home
      • Compare SEO Products
      • Moz Data
    • Free SEO Tools
      • Domain Analysis
      • Keyword Explorer
      • Link Explorer
      • Competitive Research
      • MozBar
      • More Free SEO Tools
    • Learn SEO
      • Beginner's Guide to SEO
      • SEO Learning Center
      • Moz Academy
      • MozCon
      • Webinars, Whitepapers, & Guides
    • Blog
    • Why Moz
      • Digital Marketers
      • Agency Solutions
      • Enterprise Solutions
      • Small Business Solutions
      • The Moz Story
      • New Releases
    • Log in
    • Log out
    • Products
      • Moz Pro

        Your all-in-one suite of SEO essentials.

      • Moz Local

        Raise your local SEO visibility with complete local SEO management.

      • STAT

        SERP tracking and analytics for enterprise SEO experts.

      • Moz API

        Power your SEO with our index of over 44 trillion links.

      • Compare SEO Products

        See which Moz SEO solution best meets your business needs.

      • Moz Data

        Power your SEO strategy & AI models with custom data solutions.

      Let your reputation grow with Reviews AI
      Moz Local

      Let your reputation grow with Reviews AI

      Learn more
    • Free SEO Tools
      • Domain Analysis

        Get top competitive SEO metrics like DA, top pages and more.

      • Keyword Explorer

        Find traffic-driving keywords with our 1.25 billion+ keyword index.

      • Link Explorer

        Explore over 40 trillion links for powerful backlink data.

      • Competitive Research

        Uncover valuable insights on your organic search competitors.

      • MozBar

        See top SEO metrics for free as you browse the web.

      • More Free SEO Tools

        Explore all the free SEO tools Moz has to offer.

      NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic
      Moz Pro

      NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic

      Learn more
    • Learn SEO
      • Beginner's Guide to SEO

        The #1 most popular introduction to SEO, trusted by millions.

      • SEO Learning Center

        Broaden your knowledge with SEO resources for all skill levels.

      • On-Demand Webinars

        Learn modern SEO best practices from industry experts.

      • How-To Guides

        Step-by-step guides to search success from the authority on SEO.

      • Moz Academy

        Upskill and get certified with on-demand courses & certifications.

      • MozCon

        Save on Early Bird tickets and join us in London or New York City

      Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints
      Moz API

      Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints

      Find your plan
    • Blog
    • Why Moz
      • Digital Marketers

        Simplify SEO tasks to save time and grow your traffic.

      • Small Business Solutions

        Uncover insights to make smarter marketing decisions in less time.

      • Agency Solutions

        Earn & keep valuable clients with unparalleled data & insights.

      • Enterprise Solutions

        Gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing world of search.

      • The Moz Story

        Moz was the first & remains the most trusted SEO company.

      • New Releases

        Get the scoop on the latest and greatest from Moz.

      Surface actionable competitive intel
      New Feature

      Surface actionable competitive intel

      Learn More
    • Log in
      • Moz Pro
      • Moz Local
      • Moz Local Dashboard
      • Moz API
      • Moz API Dashboard
      • Moz Academy
    • Avatar
      • Moz Home
      • Notifications
      • Account & Billing
      • Manage Users
      • Community Profile
      • My Q&A
      • My Videos
      • Log Out

    The Moz Q&A Forum

    • Forum
    • Questions
    • Users
    • Ask the Community

    Welcome to the Q&A Forum

    Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

    1. Home
    2. SEO Tactics
    3. Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    4. Backlink audit - anyone know of a good tool for manually checking backlinks?

    Moz Q&A is closed.

    After more than 13 years, and tens of thousands of questions, Moz Q&A closed on 12th December 2024. Whilst we’re not completely removing the content - many posts will still be possible to view - we have locked both new posts and new replies. More details here.

    Backlink audit - anyone know of a good tool for manually checking backlinks?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    3
    3
    2053
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as question
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with question management privileges can see it.
    • McTaggart
      McTaggart last edited by

      Hi all,

      I'm looking at how to handle backlinks on a site, and am seeking a tool into which I can manually paste backlinks - is there a good backlink audit tool that offers this functionality?

      Please let me know! Thanks in advance, Luke

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • MrWhippy
        MrWhippy last edited by

        Hi Luke,

        Moz Pro has a good backlinks tool.  https://moz.com/products/pro

        Also, Ahrefs has a pretty substantial backlinks tools https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker

        As does Majestic https://majestic.com

        For free tools you can use SEO Powersuite which you can run locally on your PC. I would make sure you check the settings on this though and read the user guide. It is a pretty powerful suite of tools. https://www.uk.link-assistant.com/features-and-editions.html

        The hoth also lets you check your backlinks for free, this is powered by Ahrefs I think. https://www.thehoth.com/backlinks-checker/

        I hope this helps.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
        • Saba.Elahi.M.
          Saba.Elahi.M. Subscriber last edited by

          Hi Luke,

          Not sure about the manually pasting backlinks in, but I have been using SEMRush for over 3 years and the backlink audit tool section here is really great. It shows you plain and simple your toxicity score and how many backlinks they have analysed. You can also choose to keep or delete links straight from this tool.

          It's a pretty comprehensive tool, especially when you consider all the other things available within SEMRush (like position tracking, keyword research, competitor research, traffic analytics, site audit, etc.)

          Hope that information helps 🙂

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • 1 / 1
          • First post
            Last post

          Got a burning SEO question?

          Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.


          Start my free trial


          Browse Questions

          Explore more categories

          • Moz Tools

            Chat with the community about the Moz tools.

          • SEO Tactics

            Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers

          • Community

            Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!

          • Digital Marketing

            Chat about tactics outside of SEO

          • Research & Trends

            Dive into research and trends in the search industry.

          • Support

            Connect on product support and feature requests.

          • See all categories

          Related Questions

          • seoanalytics

            Tool for user intent

            search intent

            Hello, Is there a tool that can tell me what the user intent of my keyword is and how I should present my page (the type of content users want to see it, what questions they want answered ? Thank you,

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
            0
          • 94501

            Sanity Check: NoIndexing a Boatload of URLs

            Hi, I'm working with a Shopify site that has about 10x more URLs in Google's index than it really ought to. This equals thousands of urls bloating the index. Shopify makes it super easy to make endless new collections of products, where none of the new collections has any new content... just a new mix of products. Over time, this makes for a ton of duplicate content. My response, aside from making other new/unique content, is to select some choice collections with KW/topic opportunities in organic and add unique content to those pages. At the same time, noindexing the other 90% of excess collections pages. The thing is there's evidently no method that I could find of just uploading a list of urls to Shopify to tag noindex. And, it's too time consuming to do this one url at a time, so I wrote a little script to add a noindex tag (not nofollow) to pages that share various identical title tags, since many of them do. This saves some time, but I have to be careful to not inadvertently noindex a page I want to keep. Here are my questions: Is this what you would do? To me it seems a little crazy that I have to do this by title tag, although faster than one at a time. Would you follow it up with a deindex request (one url at a time) with Google or just let Google figure it out over time? Are there any potential negative side effects from noindexing 90% of what Google is already aware of? Any additional ideas? Thanks! Best... Mike

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | 94501
            0
          • navidash

            How do you check the google cache for hashbang pages?

            So we use http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:x.com/#!/hashbangpage to check what googlebot has cached but when we try to use this method for hashbang pages, we get the x.com's cache... not x.com/#!/hashbangpage That actually makes sense because the hashbang is part of the homepage in that case so I get why the cache returns back the homepage. My question is - how can you actually look up the cache for hashbang page?

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | navidash
            0
          • Sandicliffe

            301 Redirect Showing Up as Thousands Of Backlinks?

            Hi Everyone, I'm currently doing quite a large back link audit on my company's website and there's one thing that's bugging me. Our website used to be split into two domains for separate areas of the business but since we have merged them together into one domain and have 301 redirected the old domain the the main one. But now, both GWT and Majestic are telling me that I've got 12,000 backlinks from that domain?  This domain didn't even have 12,000 pages when it was live and I only did specific 301 redirects (ie. for specific URL's and not an overall domain level 301 redirect) for about 50 of the URL's with all the rest being redirected to the homepage. Therefore I'm quite confused about why its showing up as so many backlinks - Old redirects I've done don't usually show as a backlink at all. UPDATE: I've got some more info on the specific back links. But now my question is - is having this many backlinks/redirects from a single domain going to be viewed negatively in Google's eyes? I'm currently doing a reconsideration request and would look to try and fix this issue if having so many backlinks from a single domain would be against Google's guidelines. Does anybody have any ideas? Probably somthing very obvious. Thanks! Sam

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Sandicliffe
            0
          • Blink-SEO

            Tool to bulk check outbound links

            Hi. I have a list of 50 domains I need to check for links to three different sites. Does anybody know an easy way to do this? The best solution I have found so far is to crawl each with Screaming Frog and search for the domains, but I can only do one at a time this way. Some way to speed it up would be great!

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Blink-SEO
            0
          • esiow2013

            May know what's the meaning of these parameters in .htaccess?

            Begin HackRepair.com Blacklist RewriteEngine on Abuse Agent Blocking RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bolt\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} CazoodleBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Default\ Browser\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DIIbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} discobot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ecxi [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailCollector [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GT::WWW [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} heritrix [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTP::Lite [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ia_archiver [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IDBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} id-search [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} id-search.org [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Indy\ Library [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InternetSeer.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IRLbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ISC\ Systems\ iRc\ Search\ 2.1 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Java [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Link [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LinksManager.com_bot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} linkwalker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} lwp-trivial [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Maxthon$ [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MFC_Tear_Sample [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^microsoft.url [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Microsoft\ URL\ Control [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Missigua\ Locator [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.*Indy [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.NEWT [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MSFrontPage [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Nutch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} panscient.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PECL::HTTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PeoplePal [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PHPCrawl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PleaseCrawl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^psbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Rippers\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SBIder [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SeaMonkey$ [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^sitecheck.internetseer.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Snoopy [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Steeler [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Toata\ dragostea\ mea\ pentru\ diavola [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} URI::Fetch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} urllib [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} User-Agent [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Web\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} webalta [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^[Ww]eb[Bb]andit [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebCollage [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Wells\ Search\ II [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WEP\ Search [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWW-Mechanize [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zermelo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.)Zeus.Webster [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZyBorg [NC]
            RewriteRule ^. - [F,L] Abuse bot blocking rule end End HackRepair.com Blacklist

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | esiow2013
            1
          • SamCUK

            How to add subdomains to webmaster tools?

            Can anyone help with how I add a sub domain to webmaster tools? Also do I need to create a seperate sitemap for each sub domain? Any help appreciated!

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SamCUK
            1
          • Travis-W

            Using Folkd for Video Backlink

            Hi Mozzers, What are your thoughts on using www.folkd.com for video SEO? We have a few company videos and would like to possibly get a backlink by either embedding one of our youtube videos on our site or self hosting the video. Are bookmarking sites like this spammy?

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Travis-W
            0

          Get started with Moz Pro!

          Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

          Start my free trial
          Products
          • Moz Pro
          • Moz Local
          • Moz API
          • Moz Data
          • STAT
          • Product Updates
          Moz Solutions
          • SMB Solutions
          • Agency Solutions
          • Enterprise Solutions
          • Digital Marketers
          Free SEO Tools
          • Domain Authority Checker
          • Link Explorer
          • Keyword Explorer
          • Competitive Research
          • Brand Authority Checker
          • Local Citation Checker
          • MozBar Extension
          • MozCast
          Resources
          • Blog
          • SEO Learning Center
          • Help Hub
          • Beginner's Guide to SEO
          • How-to Guides
          • Moz Academy
          • API Docs
          About Moz
          • About
          • Team
          • Careers
          • Contact
          Why Moz
          • Case Studies
          • Testimonials
          Get Involved
          • Become an Affiliate
          • MozCon
          • Webinars
          • Practical Marketer Series
          • MozPod
          Connect with us

          Contact the Help team

          Join our newsletter
          Moz logo
          © 2021 - 2025 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
          • Accessibility
          • Terms of Use
          • Privacy

          Looks like your connection to Moz was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.