Sell links on your website without losing editorial control
A publisher lists a site, sets a price and approves every placement before it goes live. Payouts arrive weekly. Here is how to decide whether that suits you.
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How the publisher side works
01
Add your site
Create an account at Create account and add the site you want to list.
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Set your price
You choose the figure. Buyers see it next to the site's Domain Rating, organic traffic and referring domains.
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Approve every order
No placement goes live until you accept it. You can refuse a topic or a brief that does not fit your readers.
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Get paid weekly
Earnings are paid out once a week.
Why approval matters more than the price
Your editorial standard is the only asset buyers cannot copy. Approving each order keeps it intact. Refuse a casino brief and your readers never notice a thing.
That control also shields you from the pattern Google dislikes: a site that publishes links for anyone, on any topic, at any hour. Selective sites look like publications, while open-door sites look like link farms, and the SpamBrain systems Google announced in 2021 were built to tell the two apart.
We state only what we know. You set the price, you approve each placement, and you are paid weekly. For anything beyond that, ask through your account page before listing.
A site worth listing, a site worth keeping private
Signal
List it
Keep it private
Traffic
Steady organic visits you can show in Search Console
Mostly bought or referral traffic
Content
Written by people who know the topic
Thin pages built for links
Existing outbound links
Few, relevant, mostly to sources
Dozens of unrelated commercial anchors per page
Capacity
You can review briefs within a day or two
You travel for a month with no email
Be straight with buyers
The marketplace delivers dofollow placements. Whether you add a sponsored value is your editorial decision, and Google's guidance on paid links applies to your site as the seller. Read the rel guide before you decide.
Before you list a domain
Pull 12 months of Search Console data and look for sudden jumps or collapses.
Read your last 20 articles as a buyer would, and note which topics you would refuse.
Write a one-paragraph policy: topics you accept, topics you refuse, how long a post stays live.
Every row in the marketplace shows Domain Rating, organic traffic, referring domains, niche, language and price. Your site is judged on those six fields, so they should match what you would say about it yourself.
Buyers filter by all of them. A tidy niche label gets you in front of the right people, while a fuzzy one buys you the wrong briefs. Be specific.
Compare yourself with the sites in the 50,000+ vetted domains already listed. If your traffic is far lower than peers at your price, adjust the price, not the metrics. The pricing method walks through the logic.
Hypothetical: three offers in one week
Imagine a gardening blog with steady search traffic. In one week it gets a seed-company brief, a payday-loan brief and a garden-tool review. This is an invented scenario.
The owner approves the first, because it fits the readers. She declines the second without a second thought. She counters the third with a higher price, since a review needs a real product in hand.
That is the whole point of approval. Price follows fit, and fit follows your readers, which is why the guest request red flags apply to marketplace briefs as well.