Marketplace comparison

linksman.io vs medialister.com: Site Database Overlap & Price Comparison

Data comparison of the linksman.io and medialister.com link marketplaces: 4,672 shared domains (5% overlap), unique inventory, DR, geography, and price on identical sites.

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Nazar D.
CEO seotools.info · Sep 9, 2026

If you source links from both linksman.io and medialister.com, one number decides how much you overwrite yourself: how much do their site databases overlap? We matched both catalogs on the normalized domain (lowercased, no scheme or www) inside our Backlink Pricing dataset.

8,195
linksman.io domains
88,933
medialister.com domains
4,672
on both
92,456
combined unique

The overlap

3,523 only linksman.io 84,261 only medialister.com 4,672 on both linksman.io · 8,195 medialister.com · 88,933

The two databases share 4,672 domains — 57% of linksman.io and 5% of medialister.com. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 5% identical, so about 95% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 8,195 (linksman.io alone) to 92,456 domains (+1028%) — but 4,672 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 3,523 domains on linksman.io only (43% of its catalog).
  • 84,261 domains on medialister.com only (95% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 4,672 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

46%
cheaper on linksman.io
54%
cheaper on medialister.com
$140 vs $92
median price (same sites)
$119
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, linksman.io is the cheaper source 46% of the time (median $140 vs $92 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $119 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothlinksman.io onlymedialister.com only
DR 80–1001%1%2%
DR 60–799%9%8%
DR 40–5945%12%17%
DR 20–3935%17%33%
DR 0–1911%61%40%

Median DR: 42 shared, 11 linksman.io-exclusive, 26 medialister.com-exclusive.

Geography

#linksman.iodomainsmedialister.comdomains
1France1,931United States9,496
2United States1,684Poland7,286
3India525France6,249
4Brazil235Germany4,160
5Australia230Italy3,205
6Germany166Netherlands3,141
See how linksman.io and medialister.com sit against all other marketplaces in the link-marketplace overlap matrix, or run your own overlap and price checks in Backlink Pricing.

FAQ

Does "on both" mean the same seller?

Not necessarily — a domain can be listed on both marketplaces by the same publisher or different resellers. What's shared is the placement opportunity, which is what you dedupe before buying.

Is a bigger database always better?

No. Overlap, price spread, DR/traffic quality and geography decide value for a specific campaign. Comparing databases is how you buy the same link for less and find inventory a single platform can't offer.

Methodology: catalogs matched on normalized domain; prices are the cheapest listing per platform per domain; DR and country from Ahrefs metrics on the same key. Figures reflect the current snapshot and shift as catalogs update.
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