Backly vs LinkAssistant

Backly finds potential backlink opportunities and prepares tailored posts for relevant online communities and sites. Users enter a website URL; Backly reads its niche, suggests destinations, and drafts content for each prospect. The homepage says a run returns 5–8 opportunities and takes about 60 seconds to produce drafts. Suggested destinations include Reddit, Quora, Indie Hackers, Hacker News, Dev.to, Product Hunt, Medium, Stack Overflow, niche forums, and Q&A sites. Backly checks whether proposed links resolve. Users review and edit each draft, then publish it themselves by copying and pasting; the service does not post on their behalf. Its stated audiences include SaaS founders, SEO consultants, indie hackers, and content creators. Starter costs €9 a month and includes five generations per month; Growth costs €29 a month for 20 generations, while Pro costs €79 a month for unlimited generations. Each tier includes niche analysis, opportunities, drafts, and link checks. Backly offers a 7-day free trial, requires a card to start, and says cancellation before day seven avoids a charge. It does not guarantee SEO results or rankings.

LinkAssistant supports link-building campaigns from prospect discovery and contact research through outreach and backlink monitoring. It lists 10+ ways to find opportunities, including searches tailored by location, niche, and SERP type. Users can also identify prospects from competitors’ backlink profiles using broken-link building and backlink-gap techniques. Prospect assessments can include InLink Rank, domain age, organic traffic, Page Authority, and indexed-page count. Outreach tools cover contact discovery, customizable email templates, and tracking sent emails, replies, and follow-ups. A verification tracker checks whether acquired links remain in place and can flag removals or nofollow tags. Reports can be customized, white-labeled, and scheduled for delivery. The software runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The free license allows up to 1,000 prospects per project. Professional costs $129 a year and Enterprise costs $259 a year; both list unlimited prospects per project. Enterprise also lists report saving, emailing, scheduling, and CSV, SQL, and HTML export. The company says its tools serve SEO professionals, marketing companies, website owners, and web developers.