A nice backlink checker I just found

When building your presence online through SEO techniques, you need to have a reliable method of checking how many backlinks you have. Yahoo Site Explorer does an OK job of this. As an aside, why does Google do this so differently??

Anyway the SEO Pro link checker is the best one I've seen so far. You put in your URL and it prints out a neat table of:

• backlink URL
• backlink homepage pagerank
• backlink page pagerank
• backlink site incoming links
• nofollow: yes/no
• anchor text
• anchor type (not sure what this is - but I think it tells you when someone just pasted your URL in and didn't apply any anchor text - a la splogs)

This gives you a pretty nice picture of your exposure to backlinks. Anchor text, in particular, is awesome because it is important to vary your anchor text for a realistic backlink profile.

The final killer feature is the export to CSV. It is a good idea to track your backlinks every month or so, so with this, you can paste the CSV into Excel and run some reports, graphs, etc. This enables you to apply some methodology to your SEO efforts.

Nice one SEO Pro - golf clap!