Open foundation
Common Crawl web-graph releases provide a public, named source for domain relationships.
About Linkwake
Backlink monitoring built for the portfolio view
Linkwake is an independent backlink-monitoring product built and operated by Derek Isensee. It exists to help agencies see meaningful link movement across many clients without buying another all-purpose SEO suite.
Why it exists
Most backlink products begin with one domain and expand into keywords, audits, content, and dozens of adjacent tools. Agency operators often need a narrower answer first: which client domains changed, what was gained or lost, and which changes deserve investigation?
Linkwake starts with the portfolio, uses consistent release-to-release comparisons, and makes the source dataset explicit.
Transparent calculations
New, lost, and persistent labels come from comparing the same domain across two identified releases.
Human interpretation
Counts are evidence, not conclusions. Reports state coverage limits and separate observations from inference.
What Linkwake does not claim
Linkwake is not Google’s index, a complete census of the web, or proof that one backlink caused a ranking change. Common Crawl coverage varies, domain-level relationships do not describe every source page, and a missing relationship should be verified before outreach.
Read the complete research methodology, meet the researcher and builder, or contact support@linkwake.com.