Yahoo is planning to turn of their “Site Explorer” tool by the end of this year (2011) , which is well respected and useful tool for both SEO Community and SEO Practitioners. I believe from now on, We are  going to face little challenge to acquire these back-links for free.

Yet there are bunch good backlinks analysis tools such as: Backlinkwatch.com is still available for free.

And another good news is Microsoft has promised to continue a replacement back-link tool from next year and probably would integrate it within their webmaster tool,

So, Let’s hope for the best that Microsoft would surprise on a decent back-link reporting tool!

More info: Microsoft Webmaster Tools to support Yahoo! Site Explorer Community

Readers, Which back-link analysis tool do you often use? Is it free or paid?