Linkwake vs Monitolink

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.

Monitolink is a web-based backlink monitoring service for SEO agencies, in-house teams, and solo SEOs. It checks backlinks every 24 hours and emails alerts about links that are lost, broken, redirected, or changed. It also tracks anchor text edits, dofollow-to-nofollow changes, and unusual link-velocity patterns. AI insights flag over-optimized anchor text and toxic referring domains, then recommend actions. Users can find contacts and send recovery outreach with one click or automate the process. Competitor analysis can include up to 10 competitors and identify backlinks they have that the user's site does not. Backlinks can be imported by CSV from Ahrefs, Semrush, Google Search Console, Majestic, or other tools. Reports can be exported as branded PDFs or CSVs; white-label reports are listed on Agency. A free 14-day plan includes every feature with limits of one project and 200 backlinks, among others. Paid Starter costs $29 a month, billed monthly. Pro and Agency list Slack and Gmail integrations.