Effortlessly track your backlink exchanges, streamline backlink and guest post requests, and discover untapped opportunities to boost your SEO.
😡 Cut out the inbox churn and back-and-forth
🎉 Pre-built forms and landing pages
✔️ Workflow to manage requests and verify publication
🚫 Eliminates complex Google Sheets for tracking
🔗 Enter the URLs where your backlinks should be
📅 Automatically verifies your backlinks exists
🔔 Receive updates and alerts when backlinks change
⚠️ Monitor up to 100 backlinks for free
🚀 Browse our SEO marketplace
🌐 List your website or agency
🔍 Discover backlink and guest post opportunities
😄 Connect with SEO agencies and experts
When building backlinks, it's common to exchange links with other sites or pay for link placements. However, it's crucial to ensure these links are "do follow" and stay live on the agreed pages.
Advanced SEO tools like SEMRush and AHREFs provide monitoring of all backlinks to your website. But what about monitoring specific backlinks? And, these tools are complex and expensive.
Backlink Monkey automatically verifies each backlink's status and sends notifications if changes occur. It also includes tools to help you manage requests for inbound backlinks and guest posts. And finally, it provides a directory of backlink providers and websites willing to exchange backlinks or guest posts.
With our free plan, you can monitor up to 100 backlinks with monthly checks. For more comprehensive tracking, including weekly validations and support for additional backlinks, our paid plans start at just $5 per month.
FREE
Perfect for individuals getting started with backlink and guest post management.
Starting at $5 /month
Perfect for teams or people more familiar with backlink and guest post management.
Below are some common questions about Backlink Monkey, backlinks, guest posts and related topics.
Backlinks are links from one website to another. For example, this is a backlink to the DailyStory email marketing platform. They are often used by search engines to measure the authority and relevance of a website, making them an essential component of SEO strategies.
Backlinks signal to search engines that your content is valuable and trustworthy. Websites with high-quality backlinks often rank higher in search engine results, increasing visibility and traffic.
A good backlink comes from a reputable, high-authority website that is relevant to your niche. It should also be "do follow," as these links pass SEO value to your site.
"Do follow" backlinks pass SEO value to the linked site, helping improve search rankings. "No follow" backlinks, on the other hand, do not pass SEO value but can still drive referral traffic.
You can build backlinks by creating high-quality, shareable content, guest posting on reputable sites, engaging in industry forums, and leveraging broken link building strategies.
A backlink audit is a process of evaluating your website's backlinks to ensure they are high-quality and not harmful. This helps maintain a strong SEO profile and avoid penalties from search engines.
You can use tools like Backlink Monkey, Ahrefs, or SEMrush to track your backlinks and ensure they remain active and relevant. Regular monitoring helps maintain the health of your backlink profile.
Yes, backlinks from spammy or low-authority sites can harm your SEO rankings and even lead to penalties from search engines. It's important to disavow such links through tools like Google Search Console.
The number of backlinks required depends on your competition, target keywords, and niche. Focus on quality over quantity, as a few high-quality backlinks can outperform numerous low-quality ones.
Guest blogging is the practice of writing and publishing an article on another website to reach a broader audience, establish authority, and build backlinks to your site. It's a key strategy for improving SEO and networking with other professionals in your niche.
Guest blogging helps you showcase your expertise, increase your brand's visibility, and drive targeted traffic to your website. It also enables you to build high-quality backlinks, which are essential for improving your search engine rankings.
To find guest blogging opportunities, look for websites in your niche that accept guest posts. Use search terms like "write for us" or "guest post guidelines" along with your industry keywords. Better yet, use tools like Backlink Monkey to explore potential SEO partners.
A great guest blog post should be informative, engaging, and relevant to the target website's audience. Include actionable insights, support your points with data or examples, and link naturally to your website or content where appropriate. Always follow the website's guidelines to ensure your post is accepted.
Guest blogging benefits SEO by providing high-quality backlinks to your website, which search engines use to determine the relevance and authority of your site. Additionally, guest posts can drive referral traffic, improve your online presence, and establish you as an expert in your industry.
No, Private Blog Networks (PBNs) are against our terms of service and may cause your account to be suspended or removed.
No, negotiating outside of our platform is against our terms of service and may cause your account to be suspended or removed.
No, Backlink Monkey does not sell backlinks or posts. Backlink Monkey provides a tools and a community where parties can connect with one another.
A project organizes all your tracked backlinks, requests for guest posts and backlinks, and your SEO Marketplace listing. Most often you would create a project for each website you are managing.
Rather than exchanging emails, simply ask people to submit a form (provided in your project(s)). This starts a workflow process to approve/deny the request and then verify for both parties when the request is complete.
Monitoring backlinks involves routinely crawling the URL to ensure that backlinks pointing to your website are still in place and are still "do follow" links.
Yes, free accounts can create and submit entries for listing in the SEO Marketplace.
Yes, Backlink Monkey provides an API. We'll share details soon!
We created Backlink Monkey to address the challenges we faced while managing backlinks and guest posts in a Google Sheet. Manually verifying backlinks and ensuring guest posts were published quickly became overwhelming and unmanageable. Backlink Monkey streamlines these crucial SEO tasks, eliminating the hassle and helping you stay on top of your link-building strategy.