How to check your backlinks ?

The numbers of backlinks shows the popularity of your blog. Below is two online tools that helps to check for your blog backlinks.

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php

http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

What is backlinks?

http://www.dottraffic.com/glossary/ says:

Also called incoming links, inward links and inlinks, backlinks are incoming links to a Website or page. They measure the Website or page rank and also affect SEO considerations and calculations. By looking up backlinks on the search engine, Website owners can keep track of the number of pages that link back to them. Backward links See Backlinks.

http://www.7soft.co.uk/jargon-explained-c108.html says:

Any link that points to a particular website can be a "backlink". Can also be called inbound links.

http://www.corporatewebsitemarketing.com/search-engine-marketing-glossary.html says:

Refers to all of the web pages that link to another web page.

http://www.ukb2c.co.uk/glossary.cfm says :

Links from another web page to your web page. Most search engines provide an easy way to get a list of all of the backlinks to a specific page. Also referred to as Inbound Links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlinks says:

Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Bjo"rneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.