Linkwake

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What Linkwake is

Linkwake monitors referring-domain changes across client portfolios, helping agencies track which domains are newly linking, no longer linking, or continuing to link across Common Crawl releases. Users can group domains into portfolios, view movement in dashboards, and find domains that link to competitors but not to a tracked site as potential outreach gaps. Reports can be scheduled as weekly or monthly CSVs, and client report links can be shared. Linkwake uses Common Crawl’s web graph, which it describes as covering more than 100 million domains; updates follow Common Crawl releases, which arrive roughly every 2–3 months. Its focus is domain-level referring links, not keywords, individual pages, or anchor text. The free plan costs nothing and covers 5 tracked domains. Paid plans start at $24/mo: Starter covers 100 domains, while higher plans add more tracked domains, additional history, reporting options, or API access. Common Crawl is not a complete web index, so potential missing relationships should be checked before outreach.

Who it suits

Linkwake suits agencies managing backlink movement across multiple client domains. It may fit teams that want portfolio dashboards, competitor-gap lists, and scheduled or shareable reports.

What it does well

Groups domains into client portfolios
Tracks gained, lost, and kept referring domains
Shows competitor-linking outreach gaps
Provides scheduled CSVs and shareable report links
Free plan covers 5 tracked domains

What to know first

No keyword, page-level, or anchor-text data
Updates arrive roughly every 2–3 months
Common Crawl is not a complete web index
Paid plans start at $24/mo

Limits

The Free plan allows 5 tracked domains and provides manual reports. Starter, the lowest paid plan at $24/mo, allows 100 tracked domains and includes 3 releases of history; its listed price is also $290 billed yearly.

Plans

Plan	Billed and limits	Price
Free	$0 forever · 5 tracked domains · new/lost/persistent diffs · release-drop email digests · manual reports	Free
Agency	$166/month; $166/month when billed annually; $1,990 billed yearly · 2,500 tracked domains · full API access · team seats & roles · onboarding support	$166 a month
Starter	$24/month; $24/month when billed annually; $290 billed yearly · 100 tracked domains · unlimited portfolios · competitor overlap & gap · outreach-list exports · 3 releases of history	$24 a month
Growth	$66/month; $66/month when billed annually; $790 billed yearly · 500 tracked domains · 10 releases of history (~2 years) · white-label PDF reports · shareable client report links	$66 a month

As linkwake.com lists them, read 14 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.

Getting started

Open the Linkwake website.
Choose the Free plan or a paid plan based on tracked-domain needs.
Track domains and group them into client portfolios.
Review referring-domain changes and competitor gaps.
Set up scheduled CSV reports or share client report links when included in your plan.

Verdict

Linkwake focuses on domain-level backlink movement and agency portfolio reporting. Its coverage depends on Common Crawl releases, and the service itself advises checking missing relationships before outreach.

Questions

Is Linkwake free?

Yes. The Free plan costs $0 forever and covers 5 tracked domains, release differences, email digests, and manual reports.

How much do paid plans cost?

Paid plans start at $24/mo for Starter. Growth is $66/mo and Agency is $166/mo; annual billing is also listed as $290, $790, and $1,990 yearly, respectively.

Which platforms does Linkwake support?

Linkwake is available on the web and through an API. Full API access is included with the Agency plan.

How often does backlink data update?

Data updates with Common Crawl releases, which arrive roughly every 2–3 months.

Does Linkwake report anchor text or page-level links?

No. It focuses on domain-level referring links and omits keyword, page-level, and anchor-text data.

Who operates Linkwake?

Linkwake is an independent backlink-monitoring product built and operated by Derek Isensee.

Facts from Linkwake's own pages

Account rights: Users may request data export or permanent deletion by email, with responses promised within 30 days. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Agency audience: Linkwake is described as an independent backlink-monitoring product built and operated by Derek Isensee to help agencies manage multiple clients. · linkwake.com, 4 Oct 2026
API: Full API access is included in the Agency plan. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
API evidence: A Linkwake research article says its published study figures were obtained through the live Linkwake API backed by ClickHouse. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Common Crawl access: Common Crawl states that access to its AWS-hosted corpus is free and that users may analyze or download it. · commoncrawl.org, 14 Oct 2026
Common Crawl foundation: Common Crawl describes itself as a nonprofit founded in 2007 that maintains a free, open repository of web-crawl data. · commoncrawl.org, 14 Oct 2026
Common Crawl graph structure: Common Crawl publishes host and domain graphs, aggregates domains at the pay-level-domain level, and includes technical links such as scripts and fonts. · commoncrawl.org, 14 Oct 2026
Common Crawl licensing: Common Crawl grants a limited, non-exclusive license to use its service subject to its terms and warns that crawled content can have separate rights. · commoncrawl.org, 14 Oct 2026
Common Crawl scale: Common Crawl says its corpus contains petabytes of data collected regularly since 2008. · commoncrawl.org, 14 Oct 2026
Competitor gaps: Users can find domains that link to competitors but not to a tracked domain. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Competitor research: It shows sites linking to competitors but not to the tracked domain, as potential outreach gaps. · linkwake.com, 4 Oct 2026
Coverage caveat: Linkwake states that Common Crawl is not a complete web index and that missing domain relationships should be verified before outreach. · linkwake.com, 4 Oct 2026
Coverage limitation: Linkwake states that Common Crawl is a sample rather than a complete web index and that missing relationships require live verification. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
CSV import: Client domains can be pasted in a list or uploaded from CSV files. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Data rights: Users may email Linkwake to export or permanently delete their data, with responses promised within 30 days. · linkwake.com, 4 Oct 2026
Data source: Linkwake builds its measurements from Common Crawl's open web graph covering more than 100 million domains. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Hosting: Application data is hosted on Fly.io in the United States, with the web app served through Cloudflare. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Maker: The product is built and operated independently by Derek Isensee. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Methodology: The system normalizes hosts to registrable domains and counts each source domain once per target within a release. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Notable news: Linkwake published its Common Crawl study of 4.34 billion referring-domain relationships on July 9, 2026. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Notable research: A July 6, 2026 Linkwake study reported 216,708 new and 202,742 lost referring domains for GitHub between two releases. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Operational limitation: Portfolio monitoring is intended for release-level strategy and is not minute-by-minute uptime or link-change alerting. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Page-level enrichment: For selected relationships, Linkwake can retrieve archived HTML and record source URL, target URL, anchor, link type, and rel attributes. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026
Payment security: Card numbers are handled directly by Stripe and are not stored by Linkwake. · linkwake.com, 14 Oct 2026

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