What tools/software provide the most comprehensive list of backlinks to your domain?

Collegis_Education

We're currently looking for a product that has the capability of providing a comprehensive list of backlinks pointing to our domain, which currently has 400+ URLs. We've tried SEOMoz Pro, Google Webmaster Tools, and Majestic SEO. Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on getting the best report of backlinks?

NakulGoyal

SEOMoz's OpenSiteExplorer.org should do the trick. 400 links is actually not too many. You should be able to run the reports from OSE and then download the CSV. What other data are you looking for beyond what OSE already provides ?

Ecreativeworks

Nothing gives you everything. In my experience Majestic and Webmaster Tools will give you the absolute most backlinks (including plenty of junk ones that probably aren't helping your rankings).

Open Site Explorer gives you far fewer links (less than half what you'd find in Majestic), but generally shows links that probably are helping you -- of course there are plenty of links that are helping that aren't shown too, and the index updates very slowly.

Collegis_Education

We weren't satisfied with the number of backlinks SEOMoz reported relative to YSE, prompting us to dig around for other tools on the market.

Collegis_Education

Agreed. We were actually able to get in touch with Majestic SEO support and learned of their advanced reports. We plan to run link decay analysis using Screaming Frog SEO Spider as demonstrated in Rank Above's article to get a more accurate report of our live backlinks.

http://www.rankabove.com/news/seo-research/backlink-data-provider-all/