SEO by Daniel vs Majestic

Majestic is a backlink specialist. Trust Flow and Citation Flow are its own metrics, and it keeps a historical link index with an interactive link graph. That is the whole product, and it is deep. SEO by Daniel measures site health instead: a 0-100 score in about two seconds, no account. If links are the question, Majestic is the answer. If the question is why a page is not ranking despite good links, that is ours.

Where Majestic wins

• Trust Flow and Citation Flow. Two established link-quality metrics you can quote without explaining where they came from.
• A historical index. Link data stretches back years, which matters for spotting lost links and sudden authority drops.
• Link graphs. Visualising who links to whom is still one of the fastest ways to understand a niche.
• A free account tier. You get a meaningful slice of link data before paying anything.
• Focus. Majestic is a link tool and does not pretend otherwise.
• Competitor link research. You can see who links to a rival and judge whether those links are worth chasing.

Where SEO by Daniel wins

• Instant no-account score. A 0-100 homepage score in about two seconds.
• Sitemap auto-discovery. Pages are found via robots.txt, nested indexes and gzipped sitemaps.
• Client-ready report. Executive summary, severity grouping and CSV export.
• A lower entry. €19/month (€190/year), 14-day trial, no card. Majestic does not publish entry pricing, so check current plans.
• Site health, not link data. Titles, canonicals, redirects and page weight are checked, none of which live in a link index.
• A pre-campaign check. Run the audit before a link campaign, so you do not build links to a page that cannot rank.

A real example

A freelance link builder wins a project for a SaaS blog. The client has bought links steadily for a year but rankings are stuck. He opens Majestic and confirms the domain's Trust Flow is healthy and the new links are indexed. So authority is not the problem, which rules out his usual diagnosis.

He runs SEO by Daniel on the same domain. The score comes back low, and the top issue is blunt: sixty blog posts carry a noindex tag from a staging config that shipped to production. No amount of link building will rank a page Google cannot index.

He sends the CSV to the client's developer, who fixes the tag, and the rankings start moving within weeks. Majestic told him the links were fine. The audit told him why they were not working.

The lesson is not that the link data was wrong. It was accurate and still not the answer. That happens often: the thing you measure is healthy while the thing you did not measure is the one holding the site back.

The verdict

| | Majestic | SEO by Daniel | | --- | --- | --- | | Trust Flow / Citation Flow | Yes | No | | Historical link index | Yes | No | | Interactive link graph | Yes | No | | Instant no-account score | No | About two seconds | | Client-ready audit + CSV | No | Yes | | Entry price | Not published | €19/mo |

When to pick which

Pick Majestic if your work runs on link data: link building, competitor link research, or tracking lost links over time. Nothing here replaces that depth.

Pick SEO by Daniel when you need a site health report you can hand over, or when a link campaign is not moving the rankings and you need to check the pages themselves.

Link data and site health answer different questions, and a healthy link profile can sit next to a broken page. If rankings are flat and the links look fine, the audit is the next place to look.

Run the link research and the site audit together on any project where rankings have stalled. One gives context, the other gives the fix.

FAQ

Does SEO by Daniel measure backlinks? No. It audits on-page and technical health. For link data, Majestic is the right tool.

Can a good Trust Flow hide site problems? Yes. Strong links do not fix a noindex tag or a broken canonical, which is exactly what a site audit catches.

Is Majestic free? There is a free account tier with a slice of the link data. Check their current plans for the paid tiers.

Run a free scan before your next link campaign.