Inside Linxact: Where SEOs Uncover Competitor PBNs 🥷

Hey SEO pros, Daniel here. I run Linxact and this blog, where I’ll share SEO intelligence that actually drives results.

Linxact isn’t just another SEO tool. It’s built for those who want real insights instead of guesswork. Google keeps tightening the screws on SEO, and the biggest players aren’t waiting for links to come naturally. They’re building Private Blog Networks (PBNs). That’s why Linxact Lens exists, the only tool designed to uncover both visible and hidden PBN backlinks.

Traditional backlink checkers miss PBNs because they aren’t built to detect them. Many networks use cloaking to hide outbound links from SEO crawlers, while others blend PBN links with regular ones to stay under the radar. Linxact Lens cuts through the noise, delivering a clear list of PBN backlinks so you can analyze exactly how competitors structure their networks.

What You Get From Linxact Lens

✅ Hidden PBN backlinks that are hidden via crawler-specific cloaking ✅ Visible PBN backlinks that blend into natural link profiles but are still part of a network
✅ A direct list of root domains and URLs that you can manually analyze to uncover deeper strategies

What You Can Learn From Competitor PBNs

Linxact Lens gives you the URLs, but you still need to check the sites yourself. By looking at domain acquisition, hosting setup, authority metrics, anchor text distribution, trust signals, indexing, and crawling behaviors, you can break down their full strategy. Once you see how their network works, you can build a stronger one.

SEO is Getting More Competitive Every Day

Google is making authority harder to build while manipulation is evolving. The biggest players are not just relying on guest posts or outreach. They own the links that control rankings.

❌ Most SEOs keep chasing random backlinks
✅ Those who dominate build their own networks

Without Linxact Lens, you are blind to why your competitors rank higher. With it, you are reverse-engineering their PBNs and building an even better one.

Linxact’s Journey: From Experimentation to Breakthrough 🚀

We did not get here overnight. From 2017 to 2021, we experimented with an on-premises setup for large-scale PBN detection. We built a system using 15 dedicated servers with:

💾 15 Gbit per second network bandwidth
💾 960GB RAM
💾 60 physical Intel CPU cores
💾 120TB HDD storage

Even with that setup, it was too slow and expensive. Processing SEO data at this scale required more power than we could maintain.

💥 What went wrong
❌ Too slow – each dataset took eight months to process
❌ Too expensive – the infrastructure costs were unsustainable
❌ Too vulnerable – security breaches set us back weeks

We needed a system that could process and analyze PBN data without limitations.

2022 to 2025: The Pivot to Speed & Scale

In 2022, we rebuilt Linxact from scratch with cloud infrastructure and automated data processing. Instead of dealing with slow servers, we now:

🔥 Use AWS-powered scalability
🔥 Process fresh PBN data in hours instead of months
🔥 Detect cloaked and hidden PBN backlinks with advanced heuristics
🔥 Deliver a simple and effective UI for quick SEO analysis
🔥 Maintain full security with no downtime

Since September 2023, we have onboarded over 100 subscribers and improved every aspect of Linxact Lens:

✅ Expanded PBN detection to catch more advanced cloaking methods
✅ Refined filtering to eliminate false positives
✅ Lowered operational costs to keep subscriptions viable
✅ Completely redesigned the website for better user experience
✅ Added user filtering functionality

We're continously improving Linxact Lens and the Linxact PBN index.

What is Next for Linxact

Linxact Lens is just the beginning.

📌 Our PBN index will continue expanding with fresher data updates
📌 We are launching BuyPBN.com for transactional aggressive SEO
📌 By 2026, we will expand our tool suite beyond Linxact Lens

SEO is evolving. The best do not wait. They adapt faster.

Ready to See What Your Competitors Are Hiding?

Linxact Lens is the only tool that uncovers both visible and hidden PBNs. Try it today and generate insights from your competitors' PBNs to elevate your own network.