For place-based bloggers
Buying links for a travel blog without faking a trip
Pick placements from 50,000+ vetted donor domains, match them to the place and the season your post is about, and pay only when the basket looks right.
- Single placements from $1, top domains near $500
- The basket is free to fill, nothing is charged until you pay
- Placements usually go live within about 24 hours
Rough price per link this estimate uses
- DR 0–9~$2
- DR 10–29~$6
- DR 30–49~$18
- DR 50+~$45
Who it is for
Buying links for a blog that is tied to a place
A travel blog lives and dies by specifics: one harbour, one market, one October. Links should be just as specific. A link from a sailing magazine to your Lofoten ferry guide says something a generic directory link never will.
That is the idea here. You browse real sites and read the Domain Rating, organic traffic, referring domains, niche, language and price on every row, then add only the ones that fit the story. Nothing is charged until you pay the basket. Our glossary for bloggers explains each column in plain words.
Timing matters too. Winter-sun posts need their links in September, not December. The seasonal calendar shows how to work back from the month your readers start searching.
- vetted donor domains to filter
- 50,000+
- per placement, no subscription
- from $1
- ceiling for top domains
- ~$500
- usual time to go live after payment
- ~24 hours
Checklist
Before you put a single link in the basket
- Name the one post the link is for: a route, a restaurant round-up or a city guide, not the whole blog.
- Write down the place, the country and the month. If the donor site never touches any of them, ask why you want it.
- Open the donor row and compare language with your post. A Portuguese food site for an English post needs a reason.
- Set a ceiling per link before browsing. Prices run from $1 to about $500, and the top end is rarely where a young blog should start.
- Decide who writes the article: automatic from your target URL and keyword, your own instructions, or your own finished piece.
How it works
From a half-planned trip to a placement that is live
Find links
Filter the marketplace by niche, language, Domain Rating, traffic and price. Save the rows that match your destination.
Fill the basket
Add rows to the basket without paying. Review the total and drop anything that feels like a stretch.
Choose the content mode
Let the article be written automatically, give your own prompt, or hand over a finished piece with one link to your page.
Pay from your balance
Top up in the dashboard, then pay the basket. Invoices and proforma invoices are available.
Track the order
Each placement appears under ordered links with its status until it goes live.
Who it is for
What a first order can look like for a place blog
Think of a first order as a test rather than a plan. Its job is to show you how the marketplace behaves for your site, not to deliver a result by a set date.
Start with one post that already gets seen
Pick one guide that already earns a trickle of impressions. Say your blog has a Porto guide with steady searches but few clicks. That is the post to back, rather than a brand-new article that has had no time to show anything.
Once you have chosen it, write the target keyword at the top of your log so every row you buy can be traced back to it.
Match the link to the place
A donor that covers your city, a regional magazine or a local hotel blog gives the link a reason to exist. A generic lifestyle site with no travel pages rarely does, however good its numbers look.
The glossary explains each column, so the match is easy to check before you add a row to the basket.
Keep the first order small
A small first order teaches you more than a large one. Note what each row cost, when it went live and how its anchor reads in context, then decide on the second order with that record in hand.
If a placement disappoints, the log tells you whether the donor, the anchor or the timing was the cause. Without the log, every result looks like a verdict on the whole approach.
Timeline
What a typical month looks like (an illustration, not a promise)
Pick and pay
You choose three placements for one new guide and pay the basket. Most go live within about 24 hours.
Check the live pages
Open each placement, confirm the link points at the right post and the anchor reads naturally.
Watch, do not tinker
Search Console shows impressions slowly. Google rarely reacts inside a fortnight, and nobody can promise a position.
Who it is for
Where a bought link sits in the rest of your site
A placement is one link among many. What surrounds it on your own site decides whether a reader who follows it finds something worth their time.
Point the link at the guide, not the homepage
Make sure the placement targets the page you chose, not the front door. A homepage link rarely helps a single guide, and a reader who lands on a welcome page has to search for the place they came for.
Link the guide from one or two related posts of your own. That gives the page a path inside the site, which a lone external link cannot provide.
Check the anchor in its sentence
Read the paragraph around the link the way a reader would. An anchor that fits the sentence is easy to trust, while one that interrupts it looks like advertising.
If the anchor reads badly, it is far easier to ask for a correction at the start than to live with it for a year.
FAQ
Questions travel and food bloggers type before buying
Is buying links worth it for a small travel blog?
Sometimes. If your guide is already good and a handful of relevant placements can lift it past stronger competitors, a few well-chosen links make sense. If the post is thin, fix the post first. Money spent on links cannot rescue a page nobody wants to read.
Do I have to disclose that a link was paid for?
On your own pages, yes, whenever you are paid or given something free. For links you buy, the placement sits on someone else's site, so their disclosure rules apply. Read our note on sponsored content before you publish a review that mentions a free stay.
How do I get places to publish me?
Offer something a tourism site cannot write itself: a tested route, original photos, a seasonal angle. Then pitch by name. Our page on tourism board partnerships lists what editors actually answer.
How much should a food blog spend on links per month?
Start with whatever you could lose without stress. A first month at $100 can buy a few placements at mid-range prices. Compare the $100 and $1,000 plans and scale only when one post clearly earns.
Will Google punish me for buying links?
Google's spam policies treat links meant to manipulate rankings as a violation, and its spam updates, such as March 2024, target patterns at scale. Pick relevant sites, vary anchors and keep numbers modest. No approach is risk-free, and we do not offer one.
What happens to my links if I move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org?
Links keep working only if your URLs survive the move, or if each old address redirects to its new one. Plan the redirects before you export. The migration page walks through the order of work.
