Backlinks: Analyzing and Optimizing with Online Tools
The major search engines provide a way for Web site owners to find out which Web sites are linking to them and how many. Measuring the number of links pointing to a Web site can tell a lot about potential success online. New Web sites can see their Web of links grow and evolve knowing that their hard work is paying off.
For many Web site owners and Webmasters checking the backlinks in the major search engines is not enough and they have a need to analyze the data. The two most import factors in measuring and analyzing backlinks are probably the quality and quantity of the backlinks. Thousand links on Web sites irrelevant to your Web site can do worse than a smaller number of relevant backlinks.
For anyone interested in analyzing and measuring the quality and quantity of backlinks there are many tools available: online tools, instant tools and desktop software.