SEO tools
Link Building tools
Link building tools find sites worth a link, find the person to ask, manage the asking, and record what happened — so that outreach behaves like a programme rather than a series of forgotten email threads.
What Link Building tools do
None of them build links. What they remove is the administrative collapse that kills outreach at volume: losing track of who was contacted, sending a second pitch that ignores the first, failing to follow up when most replies come from the follow-up, and never noticing that a hard-won link came down. So the useful ones are relationship systems with email attached, and they are judged on memory as much as on sending. The economics matter too. Almost everything here is priced per seat, per workspace or per contact, which means an agency's bill tracks its headcount and client list rather than its output — so read the seat and workspace lines before the headline price. And the category has a real ethical fork: tools that help you earn a placement, and services that sell you one. Paid placements priced by the receiving site's Domain Rating are link buying, whatever the invoice calls them, and they contravene Google's spam policies. This directory lists the first kind.
The sub-types inside this category
- Outreach CRMs Contacts, conversation history and outcomes, with sending built in. The right shape when the same targets recur across campaigns.
- Automation platforms Sequenced campaigns, contact finding and verification, deliverability controls. Built for volume, and priced for it.
- Prospecting and qualification Link indexes and competitor analysis used to decide who is worth contacting at all — usually a separate subscription.
- Digital PR and media lists Journalist research rather than webmaster outreach. Adjacent work, different targets, and often sold separately.
The Link Building tools in this directory
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Entry price is the lowest published figure on a plan you could buy on its own — add-ons and extra seats are excluded, and a tool whose vendor publishes no figure sits under “price not published” rather than being guessed at.
| Tool | What it is for | From | Evidence | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BuzzStream Link Building | Run link building and digital PR outreach with a full relationship history | From $49/month (Starter); ListIQ priced separately from $24/month | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Pitchbox Link Building | Run continuous link building outreach across many campaigns | From $300/month, or $210/month billed annually | 20 August 2026 | |
| LinkMiner Backlink Analysis | Find a competitor's strongest backlinks to target the same sources | Included in Mangools from $37.70/month; backlink volume rises with the plan | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Majestic Backlink Analysis | Query a link index that is independent of Ahrefs, Semrush and Moz for a second opinion | From $41.67/month billed annually ($499.99/year); $49.99 monthly | 19 August 2026 | |
| SEO PowerSuite All-in-One SEO Platforms | Track unlimited keywords across unlimited projects for a fixed annual licence | Free edition; Professional $349/year | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
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