Marketplace comparison

linksman.io vs motherlink.io: Site Database Overlap & Price Comparison

Data comparison of the linksman.io and motherlink.io link marketplaces: 1,505 shared domains (10% overlap), unique inventory, DR, geography, and price on identical sites.

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Nazar D.
CEO seotools.info · Jul 22, 2026

If you source links from both linksman.io and motherlink.io, 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.

3,829
linksman.io domains
13,073
motherlink.io domains
1,505
on both
15,397
combined unique

The overlap

2,324 only linksman.io 11,568 only motherlink.io 1,505 on both linksman.io · 3,829 motherlink.io · 13,073

The two databases share 1,505 domains — 39% of linksman.io and 12% of motherlink.io. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 10% identical, so about 90% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 3,829 (linksman.io alone) to 15,397 domains (+302%) — but 1,505 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 2,324 domains on linksman.io only (61% of its catalog).
  • 11,568 domains on motherlink.io only (88% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 1,505 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

98%
cheaper on linksman.io
2%
cheaper on motherlink.io
$140 vs $305
median price (same sites)
$212
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, linksman.io is the cheaper source 98% of the time (median $140 vs $305 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $212 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothlinksman.io onlymotherlink.io only
DR 80–1002%1%2%
DR 60–7923%11%16%
DR 40–5949%35%32%
DR 20–3923%37%38%
DR 0–193%16%12%

Median DR: 51 shared, 38 linksman.io-exclusive, 40 motherlink.io-exclusive.

Geography

#linksman.iodomainsmotherlink.iodomains
1United States1,074United States1,902
2France916Brazil1,042
3India382Italy926
4Australia171Spain805
5Brazil167France783
6Canada112India553
See how linksman.io and motherlink.io 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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