6 Best Linkody Alternatives in 2026

1. Ahrefs — Best monitoring inside a full suite

Ahrefs' new and lost backlink reports, plus alerts, cover monitoring with a much larger index behind them — so you see links Linkody's sources may miss entirely.

You also get discovery: link intersect, Content Explorer and competitor analysis in the same subscription. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools gives verified site owners a free path to the alerts for their own domain.

Best for: Teams that want monitoring and research in one place.

Skip it if: You want a cheap, single-purpose monitor.

2. Semrush — Best toxic link auditing

Semrush's Backlink Audit scores links for toxicity, groups them for review and pushes a disavow file to Google. It also flags new and lost links on a schedule.

If your reason for monitoring is cleaning up a spammy profile rather than protecting earned links, this is the stronger tool.

Best for: Profiles with a spam or penalty history.

Skip it if: You only need lost-link email alerts.

3. Monitor Backlinks — Closest standalone equivalent

Monitor Backlinks occupies the same niche as Linkody — track your links, get notified about changes, review anchor distribution and manage disavows, with competitor tracking on top.

It's a like-for-like swap rather than an upgrade, so compare current pricing and index coverage before moving.

Best for: A direct swap with competitor link tracking added.

Skip it if: You want a substantially larger index.

4. Sitechecker — Monitoring plus technical crawling

Sitechecker bundles backlink tracking with site monitoring and technical audits, so broken linking pages and broken pages on your own site surface in the same place.

Useful when the person watching links is also the person fixing the site.

Best for: Small teams combining link and technical monitoring.

Skip it if: Pure link research is the need.

5. Google Search Console — Free baseline, straight from Google

The Links report shows the linking sites, linked pages and anchor text Google itself has recorded. It's free, and it's the only list that reflects what Google actually counts.

It has no alerting and updates slowly, so it's a baseline rather than a monitor — but every profile should be checked against it.

Best for: Everyone, as a free cross-check.

Skip it if: You need alerts when a link disappears.

6. Backlinkforme — Free directory plus a link gap and audit dashboard

Backlinkforme is the tool you're reading about right now, so treat this entry as what it is: our own pitch, judged on the same terms as everything else on the page.

It's built around two things the big suites bury. First, a curated directory of free and foundational backlink opportunities — profile sites, directories, Web 2.0 platforms and guest post targets — that you can filter and save to a personal list. Second, a dashboard that runs a backlink audit of your own domain and a competitor link gap analysis, ranking the opportunities it finds from easiest to hardest to win.

The backlink data behind those reports comes from DataForSEO, the same kind of index the paid suites license, so referring domains and authority scores are real numbers rather than estimates we invented. Every account gets a free audit and a free gap analysis; premium unlocks a monthly quota plus CSV export.

What it is not: a keyword research suite, a rank tracker or a site auditor. If those are what you're replacing, pair it with one of the tools above.

Best for: Anyone whose actual job to be done is 'find links I can realistically get', not 'run a full SEO suite'.

Skip it if: You need keyword research, rank tracking and technical audits in the same subscription.