Linkody

Linkody is a dedicated backlink monitoring tool, not a prospecting or outreach platform. It tracks your backlinks, and your competitors', checking status every 24 hours and alerting you when a link is gained, lost, or changes status. It's also budget-priced next to most of this list, starting under $15 a month.

Link Intersect is the feature worth building a workflow around. It finds pages that link to your competitors but not to you, turning routine monitoring data into an actual list of link-building opportunities instead of requiring separate manual research.

A Link Visualizer locates exactly where a link sits on its source page in one click, useful for confirming a link is genuinely live and placed where you expect. A built-in disavow tool identifies potentially harmful links by Spam Score and generates a file ready to upload to Google, so cleaning up a toxic link profile doesn't need a separate tool either.

Metrics pull from multiple vendors rather than locking you into one view of link quality: Ahrefs Domain Rating, Moz DA and PA, Trust Flow and Citation Flow, and Spam Score all show up side by side. White-label PDF reports carry your own logo, and team and client management with domain-level access control make it usable for agencies running multiple client sites from one account. Reviewers consistently single out fast, responsive customer support.

One thing to note is it can't confirm whether a link is actually indexed by Google, only that it exists. And the entry tiers get limited fast: the cheapest Webmaster plan caps out at 500 monitored links, which a active link-building campaign can outgrow quickly.