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Monitor Backlinks is a backlink monitoring and disavow management tool — near real-time alerts for new and lost links, toxic link identification, Google disavow file generation, and competitor link acquisition tracking for off-page SEO. DeepSEOAnalysis is a free technical SEO audit tool — CrUX p75 Core Web Vitals, structured data validation, canonical and hreflang checks, and AI visibility scoring, on demand at no cost. These tools address different layers of SEO: Monitor Backlinks optimises the off-page link signals pointing at your site; DeepSEOAnalysis ensures the site those links point to is technically strong enough to rank.
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| Criterion | Competitor | DeepSEOAnalysis |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Backlink monitoring and link profile management — tracks new, lost, and changed backlinks in near real-time, identifies toxic links, manages Google disavow files, and monitors competitor link acquisition to protect and grow off-page SEO authority | Technical SEO audit — crawl-based analysis of a website's technical health, CrUX p75 Core Web Vitals, structured data validity, AI visibility signals, and on-page SEO across 80+ checks |
| Backlink tracking | Near real-time backlink monitoring — Monitor Backlinks continuously checks your link profile for new links gained, links lost, and changes to existing links (anchor text, follow/nofollow status, domain authority). Email alerts notify you as soon as a significant link event is detected, so you can act on link acquisition opportunities or investigate lost links promptly | No backlink profile monitoring — DeepSEOAnalysis audits the technical and on-page signals of the target site itself (CWV, structured data, canonical configuration, crawlability) and does not track inbound link acquisition or loss |
| Disavow management | Toxic link identification and Google disavow file management — Monitor Backlinks scores each backlink for toxicity based on spam signals and domain quality, flags harmful links for review, and generates a correctly formatted disavow file for direct submission to Google Search Console. This workflow is particularly useful after a negative SEO attack or a manual action warning about unnatural links | No disavow management — DeepSEOAnalysis does not analyse inbound backlinks or generate disavow files. Its scope is on-page and technical SEO: crawl health, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and AI visibility signals |
| Anchor text analysis | Full anchor text distribution analysis — Monitor Backlinks reports on the anchor text spread across the entire link profile, identifying over-optimised exact-match anchors that may trigger Penguin-style algorithmic penalties, as well as naked URL, branded, and generic anchor distributions | No anchor text analysis — DeepSEOAnalysis does not crawl or analyse inbound backlinks. Anchor text distribution requires a backlink-focused tool such as Monitor Backlinks, Ahrefs, or Majestic |
| Competitor backlinks | Competitor link acquisition monitoring — Monitor Backlinks tracks which sites are linking to your competitors and alerts you when a competitor gains a new high-authority backlink, enabling you to pursue the same linking opportunities and close authority gaps | Competitor technical SEO comparison — DeepSEOAnalysis compares the technical SEO configuration, Core Web Vitals scores, and structured data implementation of any two sites, but does not compare inbound link profiles or monitor competitor link acquisition |
| CWV data | No Core Web Vitals data — Monitor Backlinks collects link-level data (backlink counts, domain authority, anchor text, follow status) and does not measure page experience signals or CrUX field data | CrUX p75 field data — LCP, INP, and CLS from real Chrome users, segmented by mobile and desktop, against Google's exact Good/Needs Improvement/Poor thresholds. The same data Google uses as a Page Experience ranking signal |
| Technical SEO | Off-page link signals only — Monitor Backlinks focuses exclusively on the inbound link profile (backlink quality, anchor text, toxic links, competitor links). It does not audit canonical tags, hreflang, redirect chains, robots.txt, XML sitemaps, or on-page technical SEO factors | Full technical SEO audit: canonical configuration, hreflang validation, redirect chain detection, robots.txt analysis, XML sitemap checks, broken internal links, orphan pages, and AI visibility scoring (llms.txt, AI crawler access, FAQPage schema, GEO score) |
| Structured data | No structured data validation — Monitor Backlinks does not crawl web pages or audit JSON-LD schema markup for rich result eligibility | Full schema.org structured data validation across all major types — LocalBusiness, Article, FAQPage, Product, BreadcrumbList — with required property checks and rich result eligibility assessment |
| AI visibility | No AI or GEO scoring — Monitor Backlinks is focused on traditional backlink-based off-page SEO signals and does not measure visibility in AI-powered search (Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT) or assess llms.txt configuration and AI crawler access | GEO visibility assessment — scores llms.txt presence and structure, AI crawler access permissions, FAQPage and Speakable schema, and estimated citation likelihood in AI Overviews and LLM-based search. Includes structured recommendations for improving AI search presence |
| Complementary use | Monitor Backlinks watches inbound link acquisition — identifying which sites link to you, whether those links are healthy or toxic, and when competitors gain new authority-building links. This off-page monitoring is the data layer for link building campaigns, penalty recovery, and competitive link gap analysis | DeepSEOAnalysis ensures the site being linked to is technically strong — verifying that the pages receiving backlinks meet Google's CWV thresholds, carry valid structured data, and are correctly indexed. The two tools are complementary: Monitor Backlinks optimises who links to you; DeepSEOAnalysis optimises whether those linked pages perform |
What each product is
Monitor Backlinks is best understood as an off-page SEO monitoring layer: it continuously watches your inbound link profile for changes, flags toxic links before they cause penalty damage, and tracks competitor link acquisition so you can close authority gaps through targeted link building.
DeepSEOAnalysis is best understood as a technical SEO audit layer: it crawls the live server HTML of any website, validates structured data against Google's specifications, measures real CrUX Core Web Vitals from the CrUX API, and scores AI visibility — providing the diagnostic data SEO teams need to fix organic ranking signal gaps on the pages receiving those backlinks.
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FAQ
Monitor Backlinks is a dedicated backlink monitoring and link profile management tool. It continuously tracks the inbound links pointing to your website, alerting you when new backlinks are gained, existing links are lost, or link attributes (anchor text, follow/nofollow status, referring domain authority) change. Beyond passive monitoring, Monitor Backlinks provides tools for identifying toxic or spammy backlinks that could trigger a Google manual action or algorithmic penalty, and it generates correctly formatted disavow files for submission to Google Search Console. It also enables competitor backlink monitoring — tracking which sites link to competing domains — so you can identify and pursue the same link-building opportunities. Monitor Backlinks is primarily used by SEO professionals, link builders, and agencies managing the off-page authority of one or more client domains.
Backlinks remain one of Google's most significant ranking signals: links from authoritative, relevant domains signal to Google that your content is trustworthy and worth ranking. Backlink monitoring helps SEO in three main ways. First, it protects existing link equity — when a high-value backlink is lost (because the linking page was updated, deleted, or redirected), a monitoring alert lets you contact the site owner promptly to restore the link or update the target URL. Second, it enables proactive penalty prevention — toxic or spammy backlinks from low-quality sites can trigger a Google manual action for unnatural links or reduce rankings algorithmically; monitoring identifies these links early so you can disavow them before they cause ranking damage. Third, it informs link building strategy — knowing which sites link to your competitors (but not to you) reveals untapped link acquisition opportunities. Together, these monitoring workflows protect the off-page authority you have already built and guide the effort needed to build more of it.
A disavow file is a plain-text file submitted to Google Search Console that instructs Google to ignore specific backlinks when calculating your site's PageRank and assessing your link profile. You submit it via the Google Search Console Disavow Tool. Each line specifies either a single URL to disavow or an entire domain (using the "domain:" prefix) when all links from that domain are harmful. You typically need a disavow file in two situations: after a negative SEO attack (where a competitor points large volumes of spammy links at your site to trigger a penalty), or when you have received a manual action notification in Google Search Console citing unnatural inbound links. For most sites with a natural link profile, a disavow file is not needed and Google recommends against submitting one speculatively — submitting a file that disavows legitimate links can harm your rankings. Monitor Backlinks automates the identification of potentially toxic links and the generation of a correctly formatted disavow file, reducing the manual effort of reviewing thousands of backlinks individually. DeepSEOAnalysis does not provide disavow management; it focuses on the on-page and technical signals that determine how well your pages perform once they receive the links you have built.
No. Monitor Backlinks is a backlink monitoring and off-page SEO tool — it tracks inbound links, anchor text, domain authority, and toxic link signals. It does not measure Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) or any other page experience metric. Core Web Vitals data comes from two sources: lab data (synthetic measurements from tools like PageSpeed Insights or Lighthouse) and field data (real user measurements collected by Google from Chrome browsers and published via the Chrome User Experience Report). DeepSEOAnalysis pulls CrUX p75 field data — the 75th-percentile real-user measurements Google actually uses as a Page Experience ranking signal — directly from the CrUX API for both mobile and desktop, comparing your site against Google's Good/Needs Improvement/Poor thresholds. If you need to understand why a page that has good backlinks is not ranking as expected, CWV performance is one of the first technical signals to audit, and DeepSEOAnalysis provides that data for free without requiring a sign-up.
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