Marketplace comparison

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

Data comparison of the linksman.io and prnews.io link marketplaces: 2,491 shared domains (7% 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 prnews.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
32,394
prnews.io domains
2,491
on both
33,732
combined unique

The overlap

1,338 only linksman.io 29,903 only prnews.io 2,491 on both linksman.io · 3,829 prnews.io · 32,394

The two databases share 2,491 domains — 65% of linksman.io and 8% of prnews.io. As a Jaccard index (shared ÷ combined) the catalogs are 7% identical, so about 93% of the combined pool is exclusive to one side.

Running both marketplaces lifts your reachable inventory from 3,829 (linksman.io alone) to 33,732 domains (+781%) — but 2,491 domains sit in both, so dedupe with a shared suppression list.

Unique inventory

  • 1,338 domains on linksman.io only (35% of its catalog).
  • 29,903 domains on prnews.io only (92% of its catalog).

Where they overlap, who's cheaper?

For the 2,491 shared domains priced on both platforms, comparing the cheapest listing on each:

48%
cheaper on linksman.io
52%
cheaper on prnews.io
$150 vs $90
median price (same sites)
$128
avg price gap / domain

On identical inventory, linksman.io is the cheaper source 48% of the time (median $150 vs $90 for the same sites). The average absolute price gap per shared domain is $128 — always price-check a placement across platforms before buying.

Quality (Domain Rating)

DR bandOn bothlinksman.io onlyprnews.io only
DR 80–1001%3%4%
DR 60–7913%21%14%
DR 40–5946%31%27%
DR 20–3934%27%40%
DR 0–197%19%16%

Median DR: 44 shared, 44 linksman.io-exclusive, 36 prnews.io-exclusive.

Geography

#linksman.iodomainsprnews.iodomains
1United States1,074United States4,011
2France916France3,503
3India382Poland3,136
4Australia171Germany2,123
5Brazil167Italy2,001
6Canada112Netherlands1,714
See how linksman.io and prnews.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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