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Competitor backlink checker

Put your domain next to up to three competitors and compare strength score, referring domains and total backlinks. No signup, instant result.

In short
Enter your domain and up to three rivals, and read one column: referring domains. It is the count of distinct sites linking to each domain, and it is the number that tracks rankings, unlike the raw backlink total that a single sitewide footer link can inflate into the thousands. Same range as the sites above you means links are not your problem. Three times behind means they are. Pick the rivals who outrank you on your money keywords, not the companies you compete with commercially, because those are usually two different lists.

Free, no signup, unlimited. We answer from our own index of measured sites.

How to read the result

Referring domains is the honest number. One site linking to you a thousand times is one vote, which is why the raw backlink total flatters big sites with sitewide footers and tells you almost nothing. The distinction is covered in referring domains vs backlinks.

The strength score is a 0 to 100 estimate of link authority, in the same family as Domain Rating and Domain Authority. It is a third-party model, not a Google metric, and it can be inflated on purpose. Read it as a comparison between the domains on screen, never as a target. Our study of what a good domain rating actually is puts the median at 40 across 596 real sites, and fake domain rating covers how the score gets gamed.

Pick the right competitors first

This is where most comparisons go wrong. Your SEO competitors are the sites ranking above you for your money keywords, which is often not the same list as the companies your sales team loses deals to. Google your main keyword, take the domains in the top five that are not marketplaces or Wikipedia, and compare against those.

Then turn the gap into a list

This tool sizes the gap. It does not tell you which specific sites to approach. For that you need the full workflow: pull their referring domains, filter out the junk, and run the intersect that finds sites linking to two rivals but not to you. That is our step-by-step guide to checking competitors’ backlinks, and the backlink checker comparison covers which paid tools include that intersect feature and at what price.

Expect roughly 20 to 30 percent of any competitor profile to be genuinely replicable. The rest is paid placements, old partnerships and spam you do not want. Closing the gap on the replicable part is what Meeeters automates: dofollow backlinks from network members in your niche, scanned and eligible, no reciprocal links and no PBNs.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.

Enter your domain and up to three competitors in the tool above. You get a strength score, referring domains and total backlinks for each, side by side, with no signup. For the list of individual linking URLs you need a paid index like Ahrefs or Semrush, since no free tool exports a full profile.

The sites ranking above you for your money keywords, not the companies you compete with commercially. Those are often different lists. Google your main keyword, take the domains in the top five that are not marketplaces or Wikipedia, and use those.

Referring domains is the count of distinct sites linking to the domain, and it is the number that tracks rankings. Backlinks is the raw total, which one sitewide footer link can inflate into the thousands. The strength score is a 0 to 100 estimate of link authority, useful for comparison and never a Google metric.

Compare referring domains, not backlinks. Sitting in the same range as the sites above you means links are not what is holding you back, and you should look at content and intent instead. Being three or more times behind on referring domains is a real authority gap and the thing to fix first.

Because every backlink index is a sample of a web nobody crawls completely, with its own refresh rate and its own rules about what counts. Gaps of 30 to 50 percent between any two tools on the same domain are normal. Compare domains against each other inside one tool, never absolute counts across two.

Copying their good links is safe: you are targeting sites already proven to link to your topic, which is efficient prospecting. The trap is copying blindly, since competitor profiles also contain paid placements, PBNs and spam you do not want to inherit.

No. It runs on cached data, so there is no signup, no card and no credit to spend. A domain we have no data on yet returns nothing rather than an estimate, which is the honest answer.

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