LinkMiner vs Linkwake

LinkMiner is a backlink checker for finding competitors’ backlinks and identifying links that may be worth replicating. Users can browse all links, those found in the last 30 days, or links that have been lost. Metrics include Citation Flow, Trust Flow, referring IPs and domains, total backlinks, and Link Strength. An embedded website preview scrolls to a backlink and highlights its anchor text. Users can save selected URLs to Favorites lists, copy loaded results, or export them as CSV. The table initially displays up to 500 links, with another 500 added each time users load more. LinkMiner's data is based on Majestic’s Fresh and Historic indexes; the product page reports 9.5 trillion backlinks and 2.5 trillion unique URLs crawled since July 2013. A Mangools extension for Chrome and Firefox can show backlinks for the current page and continue analysis in LinkMiner. Released in January 2018, LinkMiner is included in Mangools’ SEO package alongside keyword research, SERP analysis, rank tracking, and site analysis tools. A free plan and free trial are available.

Linkwake tracks changes in referring domains across agency client portfolios. It compares Common Crawl releases to show domains gained, lost or retained, and identifies domains linking to competitors but not to a tracked site as possible outreach gaps. Users can organize domains into portfolios, follow movement on dashboards, and receive scheduled weekly or monthly CSVs or shareable client report links. Its source is Common Crawl’s web graph, which Linkwake says covers more than 100 million domains; data changes when releases arrive, roughly every 2–3 months. The focus is domain-level links, not keywords, page-level links or anchor text. The free plan costs nothing and includes five tracked domains, release-change comparisons, email digests and manual reports. Paid plans start at $24/mo. Starter lists 100 domains and three releases of history; higher plans offer more tracked domains, longer history, reports and API access. Common Crawl is not a complete web index, so missing relationships should be checked before outreach.