Xenu's Link Sleuth VS Ahrefs Backlink Checker

Xenu's Link Sleuth Reviews

Ahrefs Backlink Checker Reviews

1. Julia

   about 1 year ago

   I use Ahrefs for gathering information about competitors' backlinks and general info on competitors, their DR, UR, traffic. I use it for several months. The information I gather with ahrefs helps me to understand general competitors' linkbuilding strategies. I'd like to have more for this money, site audit for example.

   🏁 Competitors: Serpstat Website SEO Checker

   👍 Pros:    Easy tu use and find referring and linked domains.

   👎 Cons:    Limited functionality at 99$ package.

Xenu's Link Sleuth mentions (6)

• Show HN: I am launching the beta of Bernard, a link checker for your website

  I still haven't found a good modern equivalent to http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Show HN: I am launching the beta of Bernard, a link checker for your website

  Good list of free and open source link checkers here: https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/list-of-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-to-check-broken-links-url-check-on-web-page/ I've been using Xenu's Link Sleuth (https://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) forever, but I should probably try some others out and see if there's something better now. Xenu's is also a funny throwback to the old web, sort of like... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• SEO Tools the best out there. Try these

  Xenu’s Link Sleuth Http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Diagnostic, Technical SEO Winner of the ugliest-SEO-tool-on-the-planet award, Xenu is also one of the most useful. Crawl entire sites, find broken links, create sitemaps, and more. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

  If you want to a tool to crawl through your site looking for 404 or 500 errors, there are online tools (e.g. The W3C's online link checker), browser plugins for Firefox and Chrome, or windows programs like Xenu's Link Sleuth. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• What's a good basic web site's HTML checker?

  I used to use http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html to check my bookmarks.html and personal web sites, but it's outdated and no longer supported. Is there a free replacement that work well to show broken links, redirected links, etc.? Source: about 2 years ago

Ahrefs Backlink Checker mentions (16)

• Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website

  Using this, https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker/ I use it a lot. It's great to find dev resources, hidden gems, sites that talk about a specific topic, etc. It does have a limit (100 links), but for purposes such as this one - it is an absolute must-have bookmark for me. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• How do you go about getting your first SEO backlinks?

  Ahref backlinks checker (to research backlinks). Source: about 1 year ago

• For a given URL, is there a way to see what other sites link to it?

  Actually it's very possible to check what websites link to a given url. There's various tools used to check for backlinks, I linked to one in my other comment (https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker). Source: about 1 year ago

• For a given URL, is there a way to see what other sites link to it?

  Yeah, you can a tool like this: https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is anyone worried about the chemical cloud drifting into Canada?

  Just did some playing around with a couple tools, backlink checkers, the internet archive, reverse image lookup, and a bit of google-fu. Source: over 1 year ago