Whether you are looking to improve your backlink profile for SEO, or just find some new sites to gain traffic from… these 27 backlinking tools can help.

1. 27 Backlink Tools for Marketers
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Advanced Link Manager
The Advanced Link Manager is a
great tool to find relevant link
opportunities. In just a few mouse
clicks I can find out who links to top-
ranking websites, but not yet to our
client's.

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Ahrefs.com
Whether you're hunting for backlinks
for a search engine optimization
project or looking to give your client
an edge with the messaging of their
PR campaign, pouring through
spreadsheets, results pages, and
inane blog posts can get tedious.

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BuzzStream
How do you build credibility online? You
do it by cultivating quality relationships
with influencers across the web. Until
now that process was time-consuming
and resource-intensive. BuzzStream
simplifies this process, allowing you to
efficiently cultivate and manage these
relationships.

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cognitiveSEO Explorer
The Backlink Explorer (from
cognitiveSEO) is the quickest way to
check a site's backlinks. Use it for Link
Research, Top Pages, Anchor Text
Analysis, Enjoy the Quick & Easy Link
Analysis!

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Fiverr Guest Bloggers
Yes, you can sift through the crap and
find some legit sources on Fiverr.

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HARO - Help a Reporter Out
No such thing as free publicity? There
is with HARO. Help A Reporter
connects news sources with
journalists looking for their expertise.

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LinkAssistant
It's no secret Google uses hundreds
of factors to rank your website in its
search results. And while the list of
these factors is quite wide, all SEO
experts agree that links remain the
strongest quality signal to search
engines, outweighing most other
ranking factors.

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Link Prospector
The Link Prospector uses the latest
techniques to uncover the links that
will improve your rankings. Our Link
Target Score algorithm ensures the
best opportunities are at the top of
your list to ensure that you don't
waste time chasing links that won't
improve your rankings.

10. 10
Link Research Tools
With 18 unique tools it provides an
unmatched link intelligence that will
help put your website ahead of the
competition. Our clients say it best
Read our latest articles Link Detox
One is an inexpensive solution for
individuals and small businesses who
want to keep their link profile clean.

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LinkRisk
There have been a few tools coming
out on the market since the first
Penguin - but I have to say that
LinkRisk wins right now for me on
ease of use and intuitive accuracy.

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Linkstant
To save you time, Linkstant lets you
log in using your Google account.
This lets you have Linkstant up and
running in minutes, without having
to create yet another username and
password.

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Majestic
Link intelligence tools for SEO and
Internet PR and Marketing. Site
Explorer shows inbound link and site
summary data.

14. 14
Meetup
Find Meetups and meet people in
your local community who share
your interests.

15. 15
Muck Rack
Over 25,000 journalists from The
New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Mashable, Fast Company
and hundreds of other publications
around the world use Muck Rack to
build their portfolio & grow their
following.

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Ontolo
Link building is hard - really, really hard.
Ontolo tries to productize many of the
manual tasks, searches and tracking
processes of link building with an
extensive, diverse toolset....everything
from .gov/.edu finders, to competitor
link searches, to content research and
backlink tracking/monitoring.

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OpenLinkProfiler.org
Get an in-depth analysis of the
freshest live backlinks.
OpenLinkProfiler offers more than all
other backlink databases. For free.
Sophisticated link filtering, Link
Disinfection tool, link alerts. Links
updated daily.

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Open Site Explorer
Create a campaign to track your site's
link profile over time, against
competitors—and find new link
opportunities! Discover new link
opportunities. See where you’re
mentioned on the web—with or
without a link—using Fresh Web
Explorer.

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Outreachr
Outreachr is the social outreach tool
that will streamline your link building
and public relations campaigns.

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Pitchbox
Stop managing spreadsheets and
start managing your business.
Pitchbox provides a single platform
that automates and streamlines the
entire SEO workflow - saving you
time and effort, and allowing you to
serve more clients without adding
headcount.

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Remove'em
Remove'em provides a link removal
platform with options to identify and
remove bad backlinks pointing to
your site and assist with disavowing
links and reconsideration requests.

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rmoov
We built rmoov to make it easier to
handle link removal requests at scale.
If cleaning up bad backlinks seems
too hard, rmoov can help.

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Tynt
Easily deployable ad placements that
increase direct-nav traffic
monetization. Understand your
audience's intent in real-time to
boost site traffic and brand reach
while driving user engagement.

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URL Profiler
URL Profiler doesn't just do one task;
it can be configured to retrieve a
large array of link, content and social
data for almost ANY task. Thousands
of URLs at once - with no limits or
constraints - just the data you need,
when you need it.

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Reddit /r/webmarketing
This subreddit hosts links to articles
and discussions about web
marketing, including email
marketing, online PR, social media,
SEO and so forth.

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WebMeUp
Use the world's largest and fastest
growing index of backlinks (besides
Google of course) to scrutinize links
to your site, clean-up your backlink
profile, perform a link audit or steal a
competitor's backlink secrets.

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WikiGrabber
The Quick Way To Find Wikipedia
Pages That Need Citations And Dead
Link Replacement.