Weekly payouts
Sell backlinks from your own site, on your terms
You set the price per placement, you approve each order before it goes live, and payouts arrive weekly. This page shows how a site owner decides whether that trade is worth making.
- You set the price
- You approve every placement
- Weekly payouts
Rough price per link this estimate uses
- DR 0–9~$2
- DR 10–29~$6
- DR 30–49~$18
- DR 50+~$45
The deal in one frame
A link slot is inventory, and you decide who gets it
Selling a link means renting a small piece of your editorial trust to a stranger. The marketplace gives you the shop window, the buyer queue and the payout rail. Control over each placement stays with you.
- Price: yours to set
- Approval: every order, before it is published
- Payout: once a week
- Risk: also yours, so read the red-flag list first
Who it is for
How to sell backlinks without selling your blog's future
Start with the uncomfortable part. Google's spam policies treat links bought to pass ranking credit as a violation, and the SpamBrain systems it described in 2022 hunt for sites that sell them carelessly.
That does not make selling impossible. It makes selling a craft, where the owner who refuses most briefs, caps the number of slots per month and keeps the articles useful to real readers looks nothing like a link farm.
Money is the easy half. A dofollow placement can be priced anywhere from $1 on a young blog to about $500 for the strongest domains in the catalogue, so your number depends on measurable traits. Work them out with the pricing method.
Think of the first month as a trial. Sell two slots, watch Search Console, and only then widen the door.
Timeline
Why link sellers get nervous: five dates
Penguin 4.0 runs in real time
Link signals are evaluated continuously, so a bad batch no longer waits months to be noticed.
Link Spam Update
Google rolls out an update aimed at neutralising paid and otherwise unnatural links.
Link spam update with SpamBrain
Sites used to pass unnatural outbound links can lose the ability to pass credit.
Spam policies rewritten
Scaled content and site reputation abuse are named as separate violations.
Spam update
Another global spam update; pages that exist only to carry links are the easiest to spot.
Checklist
Six checks before you open a single slot
- Export 16 months of Search Console clicks and look for cliffs you cannot explain.
- Count how many outbound commercial links your last 20 articles already carry.
- Write down five topics you will refuse, such as gambling, payday loans and supplements.
- Pick a monthly cap on placements, for example two per hundred articles.
- Decide how you label sponsored posts, using the outbound link audit.
- Set a floor price below which you simply do not answer.
- vetted donor domains listed next to yours
- 50,000+
- price range per link in the catalogue
- $1 to ~$500
- typical time from payment to a live placement
- ~24 hours
- payout rhythm for publishers
- Weekly
How it works
What happens from listing to payout
List the domain
Create an account at Create account, add the site and the niche, then enter your price.
Receive an order
A buyer picks your row, filtered by Domain Rating, organic traffic, referring domains, niche, language and price.
Approve or refuse
Nothing is published until you say yes. A refusal costs you nothing.
Placement goes live
The article carries one clean link, and the order shows its status in the buyer's account.
Compare
Selling here compared with answering cold emails
| Question | Cold email deals | Marketplace listing |
|---|---|---|
| Who finds the buyer | You, by inbox triage | Buyers filter the catalogue |
| Who sets the price | Whoever argues harder | You |
| Checking the brief | Over a thread of replies | One order you approve or refuse |
| Payment | Invoice chasing, PayPal disputes | Weekly payout |
| Your leverage | Weak when you are tired | Fixed by your floor price and your cap |
FAQ
Questions site owners ask before listing
- Can I sell backlinks without getting my site penalised?
- Nobody can rule out a penalty, because Google decides case by case. You lower the odds by refusing off-topic briefs, capping placements, keeping articles genuinely useful and reviewing outbound links often. Read the clean-site guide for the habits that matter most.
- How do I decide what to charge for a link?
- Start from your organic traffic, Domain Rating and niche, then compare with listed domains of similar strength. Price rises with authority and traffic, and the catalogue runs from $1 to roughly $500. The pricing page has worked examples you can copy.
- Do I have to accept every order?
- No. Each placement waits for your approval, so you can refuse a topic, a competitor of your sponsor or a brief that reads badly. Declining carries no penalty in the flow described here. It is the main tool for keeping the site clean.
- When do I get paid?
- Payouts are made weekly. We do not state minimum thresholds or fees on this page, so check your account if you need those terms before you list a domain and open your first slot.
- Who writes the article?
- For most orders the placement article is written automatically, with one clean link to the target page, or the buyer supplies a finished text. You approve it before it goes live, so you can still reject a weak draft.
- Is a text link better than a banner?
- For search value, a link inside a relevant article is stronger than a sidebar or footer block. Our first sale walkthrough shows what a typical sold placement looks like from the owner's side.
- What if a buyer looks suspicious?
- Refuse the order. Common warning signs are casino or adult topics, a demand for exact-match anchors and pressure to publish today. The buyer red flags page lists the rest, with a few suggested replies.