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Backlinks explorer
Easily find backlinks for any domain
What's inside
Find backlinks for any domain, filter and export results
Search by domain
Enter a domain and find backlinks pointing to it.
Apply filters
Filter the backlinks results based on follow/nofollow links, from domain, to URL, last seen and first seen.
Export results
Export the backlinks results to a CSV file for further analysis.
What You Can Do With the Backlinks Explorer
Whether you're analyzing your own site or a competitor’s, this tool gives you instant visibility into who's linking where and why. Uncover backlink sources, track trends over time, and spot new link-building opportunities across your industry. You can also identify your competitors' highest-authority links, see which pages attract the most backlinks, monitor new and lost links in real-time and audit your own backlink profile for gaps or toxic links.
When to Use It
This tool is perfect when: you're planning a link-building campaign and need target sites, you're auditing a client's SEO health or cleaning up bad links, you're doing pre-sale research to impress clients with data or you're benchmarking domain authority against competitors.
When you want the links built for you
The Backlink Package places one feature on a DR50+ site for $499 and the Premium Authority Bundle places three for $899, on sites already cited in AI search. For a complete strategy built around this data, the Done-For-You Package includes a full SEO + AI search audit, three DR50+ placements and ten pages of content built for Google and AI search. All three are linked in the footer below.
A backlink checker you pay per lookup, not per month
Most backlink checkers are sold as subscriptions, because most of the people who need one need it every day. If you are an agency with thirty clients, that is the right deal. If you are a founder, a marketer or a consultant who needs to look at a competitor's links a few times a quarter, audit your own profile before a campaign, or check a site before paying for a placement on it, a subscription is money spent on days you did not use it.
The Backlinks Explorer runs on credits you buy once. Enter any domain and it returns the pages linking to it from a commercial backlink index, with the details that decide whether a link is worth having: which domain and page it comes from, the anchor text, whether it is dofollow, a 0-to-1,000 authority score for the linking page and its domain, a spam flag, and when the link was first and last seen. Filter the list, export it to CSV, and the report stays in your account.
How to use it
- Step 1
Enter a domain
Yours, a competitor's, or a site you are thinking of buying a link from. The tool returns the backlinks pointing to it. You set how many rows to fetch (100 by default, up to 1,000), and the lookup costs one credit per row returned.
- Step 2
Filter to what matters
Dofollow only, links from a particular domain, links to a particular URL on the target, and first-seen or last-seen date ranges. New and lost links are flagged, so a before-and-after on your own domain takes two lookups.
- Step 3
Export and act
Download the results as CSV for a spreadsheet or an outreach list. Every report is saved under your account, so you can come back to it without spending credits again.
Three jobs it is built for
- Competitor backlink analysis: see who links to the sites that outrank you, sort by the linking domain's authority, and you have a target list for outreach or placements
- Backlink audit: run your own domain, filter to lost, broken and spam-flagged links, and check how much of your profile is nofollow before you start a campaign
- Backlink profile check before you pay: a site offering you a placement or a guest post should have real links of its own; a lookup shows whether it does
What each column means
The results table uses the fields below. The authority scores are from the backlink index the tool licenses and run from 0 to 1,000; they are comparable with each other, not with Ahrefs' DR or Moz's DA.
- Referring page and domain
- The page that carries the link and the domain it sits on. Many links from one domain count as one referring domain for most purposes.
- Target URL
- The page on the domain you searched that the link points to. Filter by it to see what a single page has earned.
- Anchor text
- The clickable words of the link. A natural profile mixes brand names, URLs and descriptive phrases; a wall of identical keyword anchors is a warning sign.
- Dofollow / nofollow
- Whether the link passes authority. Nofollow links still send visitors and still get read by AI assistants, but they do not move rankings the way dofollow links do.
- Page and domain authority (0 to 1,000)
- The linking page's and linking domain's scores in the index. Use them to sort a long list; do not read small differences as meaningful.
- Spam flag
- The index's judgement that the linking site looks manipulative. Links from flagged sites are candidates for a disavow file, not for celebration.
- First seen / last seen
- When the index first and most recently found the link. A link not seen for months may be gone; a cluster of first-seen dates in one week often means a campaign.
- New / lost / broken
- Whether the link appeared or disappeared since the previous crawl, or points at a page that no longer resolves. Lost links are the cheapest ones to win back.
Questions people ask
Is the Backlinks Explorer free?
No; it runs on credits you buy once (400 for $49, 3,000 for $99). A lookup costs one credit per backlink row it returns, and you set the row limit, so a 100-row lookup is 100 credits. There is no subscription. If you want a one-time manual look at your site, the free SEO + AI search audit covers backlinks alongside everything else, with a report within 48 hours.
How is this different from Ahrefs or Semrush?
They are subscriptions from $129 and $139 a month with larger indexes and far more features; this is a backlink lookup you pay for only when you use it. For a team that checks backlinks daily, the subscription wins. For a business that needs a competitor's link list a few times a year, credits are a fraction of the cost. The comparisons on this site go through the numbers.
Can I check a competitor's backlinks?
Yes. Enter any domain. Sorting by the linking domain's authority score and filtering to dofollow gives you the links worth trying to earn yourself.
Does it show anchor text, dofollow status and lost links?
Yes. Each row has the anchor text, whether the link is dofollow, the first and last seen dates, and flags for new, lost and broken links.
Where does the data come from?
A commercial backlink index that SEO Stuff licenses, the same kind of index behind most backlink checkers. No index sees every link on the web; for a complete picture of your own site, add Google Search Console's links report, which is free.
Can I export the results?
Yes, to CSV, and every report is saved in your account so you can return to it without spending credits again.
What if I want the links built rather than found?
The Backlink Packages place links for you on DR50+ sites, and the Done-For-You Package includes three such placements with the content and audit. This tool is for seeing what exists; those are for changing it.
Want the links built, not just found?
The tool shows you what exists. If you would rather have the SEO Stuff team earn the links and write the pages, start here.
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