Would you be interested in a link exchange platform?

I know direct link exchanges aren't ideal between two sites.

But what if there was a website/platform that manually reviewed member websites/blogs and assigned them a value depending on the backlinks, DA, age and other metrics.

Say for example, my DA 40 marketing niche blog was valued at $30 per post.

One could just pay $30 and get his guest post published on this blog. I could then go ahead and cashout those $30 or buy backlinks for my blog in return on the same platform.

It is better because you're not directly reciprocating link during the exchange. You're just storing the value of the link exchange and then trading it with someone entirely new.

Sorry if this sounds confusing. Basically think of it this way: link exchange, but instead of reciprocating links you earn tokens based on site quality. The tokens are exchanged to buy links from random sites (within your niche) so as to not leave footprints, or cashed out to earn money from your blogs.

Not really sure if this goes against forum rules. I don't think it should. I don't have a product to sell. It's just an idea I had and wanted to see what people think.

I know Python/Django so I might think about turning it into reality.

can't remember any site names, but ran across something like this in the past. the problem I remember seeing was that a lot of people would link out to really trash sites and also a lot of trash sites would be on the network (or good sites would become trash once they placed links or articles). A lot of low quality. And once there's low quality no high quality site would ever do it.

personally would also fear a bit that the Google spies would come in if it ever got too big. sign up, find all the participants, and hit everybody

In theory it sounds fine. My big concern would be the quality of the posts and the quality of the sites I'd be linking out to. For that reason I wouldn't participate.

There used to be a PBN group that did something similar. You could add your PBNs to a pool of existing PBNs, filter by various metrics, such as Niche, DA etc. I used it for a while and ended up leaving the group as my PBNs where getting filled with spun junk, casino links and all sorts of undesirable rubbish.

Many guest post sellers do it here already, one seller too had done this and when I asked him does it have traffic he said no and I understood it was a pbn. Hence I prefer buying from sellers from whom I can verify it’s real or not

jonnyah said:

In theory it sounds fine. My big concern would be the quality of the posts and the quality of the sites I'd be linking out to. For that reason I wouldn't participate.

There used to be a PBN group that did something similar. You could add your PBNs to a pool of existing PBNs, filter by various metrics, such as Niche, DA etc. I used it for a while and ended up leaving the group as my PBNs where getting filled with spun junk, casino links and all sorts of undesirable rubbish.

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That is a valid concern. For the blogger, the platform would assume the responsibility of making sure a certain standard is upheld in terms of content and legitimacy of the sites being linked to.

For the link buyer, the platform assumes the responsibility of making sure actual blogs are used and not PBN sites. The only way to ensure this is through manual review of the sites periodically.

Think of it like tinder. The blogger would get snippet of the content, and buyer would get domain metrics. If they both "match", the transaction proceeds.
It's like tinder for guest posts lol.