28 May, 2025 anushka 0 Comments 1 category

Quick feature overview

Feature

Backlink Monitor

Linkody
What’s it really for? Built to keep your backlinks safe. If you’ve paid for or earned links, it alerts you instantly if one disappears, becomes nofollow, or gets changed behind your back. A full-service SEO tool to find, analyze, and track all the backlinks pointing to your site, and your competitors’. Great for building strategy and monitoring your whole link profile.
How often does it check your links? You choose: once, weekly, or monthly per list. This gives you control and saves costs. Every domain is automatically checked about once a day, no manual setup needed.
Does it find new backlinks for you? No, unless you turn it on. It focuses on the ones you care about, not everything that pops up. (You can add discovery via Moz, but it’s optional.) Yes, always. Linkody searches for new links constantly and even shows you what backlinks your competitors are getting.
What kind of alerts do you get? Super clear. If a link changes or disappears, it tells you exactly what went wrong—like if the anchor text was edited, the page was deleted, or the link was downgraded to nofollow. You also get a history log showing when and how things changed. You get a status like “OK” or “Error” in the table. Clicking gives you codes like “Link Not Found” or “Wrong Anchor,” but it doesn’t show you how the link changed over time.
Can it tell if your backlink is still indexed by Google? Yes, and you can even click a button to try to send it back to Google for indexing if it’s missing. It shows if a link is indexed, but you can’t request reindexing from inside Linkody.
Does it show domain authority or SEO scores? Not really. It focuses on link status and reliability, not SEO metrics. Yes. You’ll see things like Domain Authority, spam score, and more technical metrics to help judge link quality.
How does it handle anchor text? It alerts you immediately if the clickable text (anchor) changes. You’ll know if your branded link suddenly turns into something random or irrelevant. You get dedicated dashboards showing all anchor texts used across your links, including keyword breakdowns and usage patterns. Great for spotting over-optimization.
How do you share access with teammates or clients? You can send public live URLs showing the current status of your link lists. And you can control exactly what parts of the dashboard a team member can see. Team members have set roles (like “viewer” or “manager”). You can also send white-labeled PDF reports to clients with your branding.
Can it connect to other tools or systems? It has a simple API key you can use to pull link status or trigger alerts. Good for lightweight setups or Slack integrations. It comes with a full developer API, so agencies can pull all kinds of data and build custom dashboards or reports.
How’s the pricing? Starts as a one-time lifetime deal (via AppSumo), or very low monthly fees. Best for freelancers and small teams focused on building the best links. Subscription-based. You pay monthly, and the cost increases based on how many domains and links you’re tracking. Suited to agencies managing many sites.
Who’s it perfect for? If you’re buying guest posts or doing outreach and want to be instantly alerted when something breaks or changes, this is your tool. If you want to track your entire backlink landscape, see what your competitors are doing, and analyze links by strength or SEO risk, Linkody is better.

How, when, and why each tool pings your links

Backlink Monitor: you decide per list whether links are checked once, weekly, or monthly. This matters if you’re paying for hundreds of guest posts and don’t want to burn crawler credits on low-value placements. The moment a crawl runs, Backlink Monitor executes four tests in sequence: (1) link still present, (2) anchor unchanged, (3) rel still follow, (4) page still indexed. Any variance flips the status and lands in your change log.

Linkody: every domain you track is re-crawled roughly once a day in a rolling window. If “always-on” is a must, because a publisher sometimes strips paid links within hours, LK covers you. Linkody also fires a first-time scan across three third-party providers (and Ahrefs, if you connect an account) to back-fill historical links; BM only adds what you feed it or what Moz’s optional add-on discovers.

What the alert actually tells you

When Backlink Monitor flags a problem it doesn’t use cryptic two-letter codes.

Flag in UI What it means Typical trigger
Page 4XX Source URL returns 404/410/401 etc. Post deleted or moved
Page 5XX Source URL throws server error (500, 502, 503…) Host down / mis-config
Link Timeout Page didn’t load before crawler’s time budget Very slow host
Link_from invalid Supplied source URL isn’t valid HTML/HTTP Pasted wrong URL
Rel tag found Link is nofollow/sponsored/UGC; “follow” expected Editor changed rel
Rel tag not matched You expected nofollow but link is follow (rare) Site template updated
Anchor text not matched Anchor text is different from what you defined Editor rewrote copy
Anchor text almost matched Fuzzy match caught minor variation (e.g. plural) Typo or stylistic tweak
Domain present, exact link not found Root domain still mentioned but hyperlink gone Link stripped, citation left
link_to not in link_from Crawler can’t find your target URL at all Hard-coded URL changed
Internal error. Not able to render site. BM’s headless browser couldn’t parse page Heavy JS, anti-bot
link_from invalid The source URL argument itself is malformed Input error
Page NoIndex (NI) Source page is set noindex → passes no SEO value CMS tag toggled
Site Unreachable (SU) DNS/hosting unreachable Domain expired

 

You can filter by: “Rel tag found” if the link is now nofollow/sponsored, “Anchor text not matched” if your exact keyword got rewritten, “Page 4XX” or “Page 5XX” when the source URL dies, “Domain present, exact link not found” if the article still mentions your brand but the hyperlink vanished, and so on. Drill into the row and you see a diff log (timestamp + old vs new state) so you can screen-shot proof for a refund/just to know the people you shouldn’t work with.

Linkody takes a lighter approach in its main grid: you get a broad OK / Present / Error state. Click through and it clarifies with tags like LNF (link not found), WLP (wrong landing page), WR (wrong rel), WA (wrong anchor), or NI (no-index). It’s enough to triage, but it doesn’t track the step-by-step history, so you won’t know the exact day a crafty editor swapped your anchor unless you captured email notifications.

Indexing

Backlink Monitor goes one step further than “page indexed? (y/n)”. There’s a ‘Send for Indexing’ button right beside the flag. Hit it and Backlink Monitor hands the URL to Google’s Indexing API or your preferred push service. In other words, detection and cure live in the same dashboard. Linkody only tells you whether the page is indexed; you still need to hop into another tool if you want to nudge Googlebot.

If you already rely on Ahrefs or Semrush for many tasks

Backlink Monitor is a lightweight add-on tool rather than a duplicate analytics stack.

Linkody is a whole tool on its own. It automatically hunts new backlinks every week, runs the same process on competitors you add, and colours rows green when a referring page links to both them and you. Filters let you isolate “links they have, we don’t”. On top of that you get Moz DA/PA, Spam Score, IP geo, TLD, number of external followed links, and a disavow-file generator for Penguin recovery jobs.

Collaboration focused tool

Backlink Monitor’s access model is laser-simple: invite a teammate by email and tick which mini-dashboards they see – Domain, Links, Lists, Add Backlink, API, or Discover Backlinks. For clients, you hand out a public URL for a specific list; they get real-time visibility without ever logging in. Agencies love this because it proves link retention every minute, not once a month in a PDF.

Linkody mimics a more traditional SaaS hierarchy: Observer, Client, Link Builder, Manager, Owner. Permissions are global, not screen-by-screen, and client-ready deliverables come as white-label PDFs (logo, cover page, etc.). If your workflow is already report-driven, this is comfortable; if you want clients peeking at live data, Backlink Monitor’s public lists have been appreciated as the most beneficial feature by our users.

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