One of the major factors in raising your search engine ranking and Google PageRank are backlinks. If you don’t have them you don’t get much traffic or PageRank. In later articles I will be detail the methods in which you should get backlinks to your site.

In this article I will list some resources that you can use to check backlinks to your site. These are some of the best tools around.

The main ones you can use, that is straight forward, are Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

When you go to any of these search engines all you have to type in is the following (without the quotes): “link: urlhere.com”.
ex: link: drivingwithflats.com.

A new backlink finder I just found is called http://www.backlinkwatch.com. It is a great little too, and shows a whole bunch of info about the backlink including their pagerank. The downside to this tool is you can wait a long time for it to finish analyzing all your backlinks if you have a lot. If you don’t mind the wait you should give it a try and see how many backlinks you have and how successful your linking campaign is.

This was a short post, but I just wanted to share a few tools that I use to check backlinks. Good luck and feel free to leave comments or questions.