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The new tool for backlinks analysis is available at http://ahrefs.com since march 2011.
It provides lots of useful backlinks statistics for your and your competitors' (or everyone else's) sites.
Distinguishing feature of this tool is an independent database refreshed in realtime (circa 6 billion external and 25 billion internal links added each day).
You're welcome to try new possibilities on any URLs you are interested in!

I personally like backlinkwatch,yahoo site explorer and traffic travis for checking backlinks.However all these free and worth to use.

I always use backlinkwatch and yahoositeexplorer for getting the list of backlinks from competitors. But this tool i have just come to know and it looks nice, so i will surely give it try.

For the majority of sites Ahrefs.com already goes ahead of Yahoo in backlinks database. So welcome to try new possibilities, who wants to compare and is interested in.

Here is a new great feature by Ahrefs.com! Ahrefs Top ordering the most significant internet-projects by their referring IP's quantity! Who is the first million of Internet by objective criteria of referring popularity? Monitor them at http://ahrefs.com/ahrefs_top.php !

Here comes a new possibility of importing data from Site Explorer into the CSV and Excel formats. It allows saving research results on your computer for further analysis.

For subscribed users there appeared a new type of report - Raw Export Report. It enables exporting up to 5 million links for any domains. Users with Starter Subscription may export 1 million links, those with Standard Subscription - 5 million links every month over a subscription period.

such a good information sharing and it's very useful.

that is really good tool for checking backlink.

Do you have any idea where and how they get those backlinks for sites?

I do use yahoo site explorer - backlinkwatcher to check back links.

Thanks man for sharing this. I think it may help me more.

New free option is in the pipeline - trial usage of all paid services. You can build 3 standard reports for 500 links for any domain (not necessarily yours) for free, as well as to export 10000 links through rawexport. These limits are enough to analyse the efficiency of reports and export functioning. If you like the result you get and want more info, you may subscribe and get considerably higher limits.

We've been planning to launch API in the end of August, but already now we get many letters with API request and in connection with the fact that Yahoo Site Explorer API is going to be shut down, we've decided to launch version 0.1, which may be used right now.

Current API version enables:
1.to see links on the indicated domain, directory or URL
2.to see info about pages on a domain or in a directory

More advanced options will come, as promised, in August. To read more about API 0.1, follow this link - http://ahrefs.com/api/

this is a very good tools and now i use it regularly