Alternatives to Moz Link Explorer
A web-based backlink checker showing Domain Authority, linking domains and spam score for any URL. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Moz Link Explorer
A web-based backlink checker showing Domain Authority, linking domains and spam score for any URL.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Moz Link Explorer.
Ahrefs Free
Free website analytics, technical site audit and SEO metrics from Ahrefs for verified websites.
Ahrefs Free gives backlink and keyword ranking data from Ahrefs' index plus a technical audit, but only for sites you verify you own.
Neil Patel SEO Analyzer
A free web-based SEO checker that analyses a website and produces an audit report.
Neil Patel SEO Analyzer gives a free audit with an overview of traffic, keywords and backlinks, with less detail than Domain Authority and spam score metrics.
Ubersuggest
A web-based SEO tool for keyword research, competitor analysis and site audits.
Ubersuggest bundles keyword research, competitor analysis and site audits with a free tier, rather than Moz's Domain Authority and spam score metrics.
SE Ranking Free SEO Tools
A collection of free web-based SEO checkers for rankings, traffic, keywords and technical issues.
SE Ranking Free SEO Tools offers many checkers with no account needed for daily free checks, but with daily limits and pushes towards its paid platform.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Ahrefs Broken Link Checker
Free online tool that finds broken inbound and outbound links for any website or page.
Semrush Site Audit
A website audit tool in the Semrush platform that crawls a site for SEO and AI search issues.
SEO Site Checkup
An online SEO checker that scores a website and adds monitoring, keyword tracking and AI visibility reports.
Google Search Console
Google's free web tool for checking how a site is indexed and performs in Google Search.
Bing Webmaster Tools
Microsoft's free web tool for monitoring a site's search presence and SEO issues in Bing.
SEOquake
A free browser extension from Semrush for on-page SEO audits, link checks and page metrics.