Marketplace comparison

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

Data comparison of the linksman.io and meup.com link marketplaces: 5,525 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 meup.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
98,715
meup.com domains
5,525
on both
101,385
combined unique

The overlap

2,670 only linksman.io 93,190 only meup.com 5,525 on both linksman.io · 8,195 meup.com · 98,715

The two databases share 5,525 domains — 67% of linksman.io and 6% of meup.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 101,385 domains (+1137%) — but 5,525 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 2,670 domains on linksman.io only (33% of its catalog).
  • 93,190 domains on meup.com only (94% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 5,525 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

70%
cheaper on linksman.io
30%
cheaper on meup.com
$100 vs $149
median price (same sites)
$97
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, linksman.io is the cheaper source 70% of the time (median $100 vs $149 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $97 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothlinksman.io onlymeup.com only
DR 80–1001%1%1%
DR 60–799%10%5%
DR 40–5941%11%17%
DR 20–3932%17%38%
DR 0–1918%61%39%

Median DR: 39 shared, 10 linksman.io-exclusive, 26 meup.com-exclusive.

Geography

#linksman.iodomainsmeup.comdomains
1France1,931United States14,455
2United States1,684France6,521
3India525India5,518
4Brazil235Poland3,516
5Australia230Netherlands3,494
6Germany166Germany2,992
See how linksman.io and meup.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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