seohelper2012: Can someone tell me a good free program to use to check website backlinks?

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/

Did you register your site to google webmaster? if yes, you should check backlinks from there. . or try use majesticseo. since yahoo explorer shut down their service, i dont think there any good software/ site online to check actual backlinks.

for my self. i prefer to focus increase SERP instead check backlinks.

I am too interested to know if there is any kind of online tools to check live backlinks for any website.

download free version of seo spyglass, although these tools are never very acurate

Try SEOmoz. They have a 30 day full trial offer.

google.com/webmasters

Use SEO Elite software

seotool

If you have scrapebox use that, webmaster tools is not always reliable - I have 200+ high PR backlinks to one of my PR1 documentary websites, all linking via alexa, etc, yet webmaster tools says Zero. ;)

it is very good-
http://webresource.ca/page-rank/admin-anti.blogspot.com