LaunchPact
Backlink Marketplace

Buy backlinks
from founders who ship

A backlink marketplace for verified sites: sellers list insertion and guest-post prices, buyers pay now, and we crawl the live link at day 0, 7, 30, and 90. No ranking guarantees.

Claim your domain freeSee how collaboration works

Founders building relevant backlinks with partners they choose.

Choose from verified founder sitesPay now for a one-way placementVerified at day 0, 7, 30, 90 — Karma tracks follow-through

Example collaboration

One-way order

You and metricsly.com

SaaS · Tier 3

Karma 72

Why matched

Same topic (SaaS) · similar authority (your tier 2, theirs 3)

Buyer placement

/blog/choosing-a-product-analytics-stack

“Teams comparing warehouse-native tools often start with Metricsly when they outgrow spreadsheet reporting.”

Seller

Places one link

One-way insertion. No return link. 7 days to fulfill or the buyer is refunded.

BuyEdit copyDecline

The buyer pays the listed price; the seller places one link.

The problem

Why the usual ways to get backlinks fail

Blind link exchanges

High-volume swaps ignore relevance, content quality, and editorial judgment. You should know the partner, placement, and value on both sides before agreeing.

Agencies

SaaS link-building agencies charge $2,000–$10,000/mo, and you rarely control which sites your links live on. Great for funded teams; brutal for bootstrappers.

Directories & marketplaces

Junk directories and link marketplaces sell placements from sites with no audience and no topical relevance. Cheap links that move nothing — or worse.

The core idea

Sellers set a price. Buyers pay. We verify the live link.

Browse priced listings from verified founders, pay at checkout for a one-way insertion or guest post, and get a refund if the seller does not place it in 7 days.

Risky paid inventory

  • Anonymous sites with no owner review
  • Forced anchors or thin content written only for rankings
  • Automatic publishing without a live-check hold

LaunchPact marketplace

  • Verified founder sites; the publisher reviews the exact copy
  • Seller-set prices, 7-day fulfill or full refund
  • Crawls at day 0, 7, 30, and 90 before and after payout

How it works

List → buy → fulfill → verify

1

Claim your domain

Pick it from your launches or type it in. We enrich it, score it, and place it in an authority tier from 1 to 5. Verified owners can buy; listing requires Authority 30+.

2

List a price

Set a USD insertion and/or guest-post price (floor $10) and add a PayPal or Wise email. A listing is buyable only after payouts are ready.

3

Buy a placement

Browse the open catalog, pick insertion or guest post, write the copy, and pay the listed price at checkout. No return link.

4

Fulfill and verify

The seller has 7 days to place it or the buyer is refunded. We crawl the live link at day 0, 7, 30, and 90, then transfer 85% after a 14-day hold.

Verification & Karma

Partners who pull a live link lose Karma

Every placement is crawl-checked when it is marked live, then again at day 7, 30, and 90. A verified live link adds 5 Karma; removing it later subtracts 10. Karma is partner follow-through — separate from site authority.

  1. Day 0

    First live crawl

    We check as soon as it is marked live. A found link adds 5 Karma.

  2. Day 7

    Stay-live check

    A miss here is not a Karma event — we keep watching.

  3. Day 30

    Stay-live check

    If the link is gone, Karma drops by 10.

  4. Day 90

    Final stay-live check

    If the link is gone, Karma drops by 10.

Example Karma

72

Partner standing

A verified live link adds 5. Pulling it later subtracts 10.

What changes the score

Declining a proposal or asking for a rewrite does not change Karma. Only observed live-link behavior does — the same accountability Product Hunt pacts apply with screenshot verification and trust score.

What happensKarmaWhen
Rewards

Link published and verified live

We confirmed the link is live in content. Your backlink Karma increases by 5. Day-7, 30, and 90 are stay-live checks.

+5After the first live crawl passes (usually at publish)
Penalties

Link removed (caught at day 30 or 90)

You marked it live, then pulled the link later. Your backlink Karma decreases by 10.

-10When a re-check fails
No Karma change

Order declined or refunded

A declined or expired order refunds the buyer. That is not a Karma event.

No changeBefore the seller places the link

Screening auto-reject (score under 50)

The proposal closes. Screening quality is not a Karma event.

No changeWhen you submit a request

Day-0 miss (link not found yet)

A miss is not a fail. We try again at the day-7 stay-live check.

No changeRight after “I added it” if the crawl misses

You reject or ask for a rewrite

Turning down a placement is your right. No Karma change for either founder.

No changeDuring review

Site authority, tiered 1–5

Every claimed domain gets a custom 0–100 authority score — not Moz DA, not Ahrefs DR — and a site-quality tier. Authority describes the site; Karma separately describes the founder's backlink pact follow-through.

TierAuthority
10–19
220–34
335–49
450–64
565+

Relevance screening + owner review

Every proposed insertion is auto-scored for topical fit before the owner of the site hosting the link approves and places it by hand. Low-fit submissions get rejected — no injected links, no blind placements. Screening quality is not a Karma event.

Pricing

Sellers set the price. We keep 15%.

There is no Backlink Pro plan. Everyone uses the same Free domain and AI caps. Stripe processing fees come out of LaunchPact’s 15%.

Sellers

You keep

85%

After the first successful live check and a 14-day hold.

  • You set insertion and guest-post prices (floor $10)
  • Listing stays hidden until a PayPal or Wise email is saved
  • Decline any order for a full refund
  • 85% is sent via PayPal or Wise 14 days after the first live check
List a domain

Buyers

Listed price

Pay now for a one-way insertion or guest post. No return link.

  • Claim up to 3 of your own domains
  • Pay the listed price now for a one-way placement
  • 7-day fulfill window — ghosting refunds you
  • Live-link crawls at day 0, 7, 30, and 90

Paid links can be treated as Google link spam. Disclose when required. No ranking guarantees.

FAQ

Backlink exchange questions, answered

No platform can guarantee that a paid placement is risk-free. Google lists paid links and links created primarily to manipulate rankings as link spam. LaunchPact sells disclosed, owner-reviewed insertions and guest posts from verified founder sites and crawl-verifies them, but each publisher remains responsible for editorial judgment and appropriate link attributes.

Yes. Placements are standard do-follow editorial links: a one-sentence insertion or a guest post, with the buyer’s copy reviewed and placed by the publisher. Disclose paid links when required.

Founder-owned product and company sites claimed through LaunchPact. Each claimed domain is quality-scored (a custom 0–100 authority score — not Moz DA or Ahrefs DR) and placed in a tier from 1 to 5. Browse is open; niche is a filter, not a gate.

One natural sentence added to an existing page on the giving site, containing a do-follow link to the receiving site — the same thing the SEO industry sells as a niche edit or curated link insertion. An automated relevance screen scores every proposed insertion before the site owner reviews and places it manually. The full comparison with bought niche edit services is on /niche-edits.

Yes. Verified founders list insertion and guest-post prices. You pay the listed amount at checkout for a one-way placement. The publisher still reviews the copy and can decline for a full refund. Google may treat paid links as link spam — disclose when required. We do not promise rankings.

There is no Backlink Pro plan. Everyone uses the same Free domain and AI caps (up to 3 claimed domains). Sellers set their own prices; LaunchPact keeps 15% of each sale.

We check a placement when the publisher marks it live, then re-check at day 7, 30, and 90. A verified live link adds 5 Karma; pulling it later subtracts 10. Karma is a backlink partner score, separate from the site's authority and quality signals.

Yes. Each domain’s listing preferences let you block specific domains and topic clusters, and pause selling so new buyers cannot check out.

Yes. You choose the listing from the catalog and see authority, Karma, and prices. The publisher still reviews the exact page, copy, and anchor before placing it, and can decline for a full refund. Nothing publishes automatically.

No. LaunchPact provides relevance filters, human approval, screening, and verification; it does not guarantee how a search engine will classify a link. Site owners should publish only genuinely useful content and use sponsored or nofollow attributes when their circumstances require them.

Google's link spam policy targets paid links and links created primarily to manipulate rankings. LaunchPact sells disclosed, reviewed placements and does not guarantee how a search engine will classify them. Use sponsored or nofollow attributes when your circumstances require them.

Sellers are verified founder-owned sites, not an anonymous inventory. Each publisher still reviews the exact copy, can decline with a refund, and is crawl-verified. LaunchPact is the merchant of record and holds funds for 14 days after the first live check.

Every claimed domain gets a 0–100 authority score and lands in a site-quality tier from 1 to 5. The catalog lets you compare sites and prices directly. Authority describes site quality; Karma separately describes honesty after a paid backlink goes live.

Claim your domain before your next launch

List a price or buy a placement. Claiming a domain is free.

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