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+110MActive root domains
in our crawl scope

+20MHiding root domains
(mostly junk)

+3MDeliberately hiding root domains
of Private Blog Networks

+3BHidden URLs of
Private Blog Networks

+10BHidden backlinks from
Private Blog Networks

+100TBStorage size of our
current data

Linxact Lens

Linxact Lens gives you convenient access to the dark and competitive underground world of Black Hat SEO. Discover hidden backlinks originating from PBNs and referring PBN domains of any URL, URL path, domain or root domain with just a click. Additionally, check the first tier of backlinks for hidden PBN backlinks, too. With Linxact Lens no competitor will be able to hide their Private Blog Networks (PBNs) from you anymore.

Linxact LensLinxact Lens gives you convenient access to the dark and competitive underground world of Black Hat SEO. Discover hidden backlinks originating from PBNs and referring PBN domains of any URL, URL path, domain or root domain with just a click. Additionally, check the first tier of backlinks for hidden PBN backlinks, too. With Linxact Lens no competitor will be able to hide their Private Blog Networks (PBNs) from you anymore.

Get third-party SEO metrics

Screenshot of Linxact Lens' TXT export feature which allows to export hidden backlinks from Private Blog Networks (PBNs) as a TXT file without additional data. This enables Linxact users to easily import found hidden backlinks into other SEO tools to evaluate hidden backlinks with third-party SEO metrics.

If you want to see specific SEO metrics like Majestic’s Trust Flow (TF) for hidden backlinks, you can easily export hidden backlinks without any additional data as a TXT file and import the TXT file into any SEO tool like Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz that offers metrics you like to use. This feature is limited to our Discovery, Expert and Intelligence plans.

Get third-party SEO metricsIf you want to see specific SEO metrics like Majestic’s Trust Flow (TF) for hidden backlinks, you can easily export hidden backlinks without any additional data as a TXT file and import the TXT file into any SEO tool like Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz that offers metrics you like to use. This feature is limited to our Discovery, Expert and Intelligence plans.

Export hidden backlinks

Simply export hidden backlinks into a CSV file that you can store on your computer. Manipulate hidden backlink data of any target and merge it with other data within a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. This feature is limited to our Expert and Intelligence plans.

Export hidden backlinksSimply export hidden backlinks into a CSV file that you can store on your computer. Manipulate hidden backlink data of any target and merge it with other data within a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. This feature is limited to our Expert and Intelligence plans.

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Deceived backlink checkersBacklink data of common backlink checkers like Ahrefs, Majestic, Moz and Semrush is systematically incomplete. Black Hat SEOs hide their Private Blog Network (PBN) backlinks from common backlink checkers to protect their PBNs and to leave their competitors in the dark.
Hidden PBNs made visibleLinxact provides you exactly that piece of backlink data which has been intentionally hidden from you. Besides analyzing competitor domains, hidden backlink data is helpful for evaluating expired or auctioned domains which can have backlinks hidden considered as spam.
Private Blog Networks are widespreadHiding PBN websites are making up a staggering ~3% of all active root domains in the WWW. This is a lot since many PBN websites have high domain authority as PBNs serve the sole purpose of search engine result pages (SERPs) manipulation, while by far most domains in the WWW have no link juice and are junk.
Black Hat SEO intelligence Knowing what the Google search engine algorithm sees is key to any SEO competitor analysis. Since hidden backlinks from PBNs are solely created for SERP manipulation, SEOs must take them into account to correctly assess their competitors’ domains. Correctly assess Black Hat SEO competitor domains with Linxact.
Hidden PBNs are clusteredEspecially short-term and highly competitive niches like cannabinoids, supplements and loans show high concentrations of hidden backlinks from PBNs. The reason is that competitors in such niches aren't following long-term brand strategies, and are therefore more risk affine. This applies to most affiliate marketers.
Certainty that nobody is deceiving youEven if your current SEO competitors are White Hat SEOs, they might use PBNs in the future or new Black Hat SEO competitors emerge in the SERPs. Linxact gives you certainty that your competitors aren't hiding anything from you at any time. Use Linxact to make sure that no competitor is hiding backlinks from you.

What is a hidden backlink?

A hidden backlink is an outbound link of a website that hides it from common backlink checkers but not from Google
Google sees and counts a hidden backlink as any other backlink because it’s only hidden from backlink checkers including their users but not from Google
The most popular hiding method is to route crawlers of backlink checkers to a different page that doesn’t include the same outbound link
This is commonly achieved by blocking crawlers of common backlink checkers with rules in the .htaccess file or other server-side mechanisms
Black Hat SEOs use hidden backlinks to hide their Private Blog Networks (PBNs) from competitors to protect their PBNs and to deceive their competitors
Hidden backlinks also emerge because of ordinary websites blocking third-party crawlers but not Google to reduce server load but most of them carry no link juice

What is a Private Blog Network (PBN)?

Infographic that explains the Black Hat SEO method Private Blog Network (PBN)

A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a set of websites owned and controlled by a single entity which is referenced as the Black Hat SEO
A PBN website is often built on a domain that had been expired or had been auctioned so that the PBN website immediately carries link juice
PBN websites link out to a mutual target website (also called money site) which is affiliated to the PBN owner and turns traffic into revenue
This massively increases the link juice of the target website and conspicuously increases Google SERP rankings which increase traffic
Because Black Hat SEOs have control over their PBN websites they’re able to hide outbound links of their PBN websites from common backlink checkers to deceive their competitors
Black Hat SEOs try to minimize footprints between websites of a PBN to minimize the risk of a Google penalty (manual or algorithmic) of the PBN and the target websites. Therefore, PBNs are commonly used in short-term and highly competitive niches
Hidden PBNs are responsible for the large transparency gap in certain niches which heavily affects the goodness of today’s backlink analysis for those niches
Some PBN backlinks aren’t hidden and visible using common backlinks checkers but are mostly needles in a haystack because of diversified backlink profiles of target websites
Making hidden PBNs visible represents our current mission. One future mission will be to classify visible PBN backlinks as such to further approach our vision to make Black Hat SEO transparent

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Many White Hat SEOs aren’t Black Hat SEO experts but need to outrank Black Hat SEO competitors. Successfully implement White Hat SEO in niches with Black Hat SEO competitors. With Linxact you’ll be able to identify Black Hat SEO competitors and understand their strategies.
Black Hat SEOs have mastered PBN link building and gaining a competitive edge against their SEO competitors. Increase your competitive advantage against other Black Hat SEOs by facilitating Linxact’s exclusive data offering.
Affiliate marketers that deal with SEO need Linxact to efficiently allocate their link building efforts to maximize leads and profits. Linxact allows you to quickly uncover Black Hat SEO competitors and to implement counter measures.
SEO plays a main role in many companies, with Black Hat SEO competitors being a major risk to any SEO efforts in certain industries. Make your SEO income streams resilient to Black Hat SEO competitors that want to outrank you.
Agencies need to provide their clients the highest level of SEO outcome to maximize customer satisfaction. Linxact provides key data to properly assess niches with Black Hat SEO competitors. With that information, you’re able to define and execute best-of-class SEO strategies.

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Daniel Lux

Founder & CEO
of Linxact

Black Hat SEO made transparent.

Most if not all SEO tools and services are developed around White Hat SEO. This has created a big transparency gap in the SEO competitor analysis, which especially affects SEOs in short-term and highly competitive niches. Our dedicated and passioned team at Linxact is working relentlessly on filling this gap. The first step in achieving our vision to make Black Hat SEO transparent is completing our first mission to make hidden Private Blog Networks (PBNs) visible.