Majestic

SEO tool providing backlink analysis and website metrics via its own web crawler

Marketing

Pricing

Paid

Learning curve

Moderate

Time to value

Immediate

BEST FORSmall TeamGrowing Business

WORKS FOR

running its own crawler to build a backlink index, backlink lookup

KEY INSIGHT

It provides independent backlink data from its own crawler, not Google's data.

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Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & Unbought members

WORKED

Majestic... are the other most common backlink tools.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: backlink lookup

WORKED

Tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, and Majestic don’t rely on Google’s data. Instead, they run their own crawlers (similar to how Google crawls the web).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: running its own crawler to build a backlink index as a proxy for Google's view