Linkwake review
A focused backlink monitor for small portfolios and competitor gap analysis.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Sep 2026
Linkwake is a web and API backlink-monitoring product for agencies managing multiple client domains. It tracks referring-domain changes across Common Crawl releases, identifies new, lost, and persistent referring domains, and organizes domains into portfolios. Its main use case is comparing backlink coverage across a small group of sites, with dashboards, competitor overlap, backlink-gap analysis, CSV imports, and report-sharing features supporting ongoing monitoring.
The pricing structure starts with a Free plan that lasts forever and includes 5 tracked domains, release-drop email digests, new, lost, and persistent diffs, and manual reports. Starter costs $24 per month and raises capacity to 100 tracked domains, with unlimited portfolios, competitor overlap and gap analysis, outreach-list exports, and 3 releases of history. Growth costs $66 per month and adds 500 tracked domains, 10 releases of history, white-label PDF reports, and shareable client report links. Agency costs $166 per month and includes 2,500 tracked domains, full API access, team seats and roles, and onboarding support.
Linkwake’s focus is deliberately narrow: domain-level monitoring rather than page-level data, keywords, or anchor-text reporting in the core product. That makes the product a fit for teams that need release-over-release referring-domain changes, grouped portfolio views, competitor comparisons, and client-facing exports without a broader page-level backlink research workflow. Small agencies and consultants can start with the free plan, while larger agency operations gain more history, reporting controls, team features, and API access at higher tiers. Teams that require page-level analysis or core anchor-text reporting should choose a product built around those dimensions instead.
Linkwake pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free plan includes referring-domain diffs and competitor overlap
- Portfolio dashboards, CSV imports, and scheduled reports
- Agency plan adds API access, team roles, and onboarding support
- Where it doesn't
- Core product skips page-level data
- No core anchor-text reporting
- Free plan tracks only 5 domains
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