About Slinkroll, a shelf of links with blogroll manners

What we do

Slinkroll is a self-serve marketplace where you buy individual dofollow backlinks, as editorial placements or link insertions, on real sites that have been vetted for traffic. More than 50,000 donor domains sit on the shelf.

Prices start at $1 per link. You pay as you go, with no subscription. That is the whole product.

The data on each row comes from our own crawler and our own index, so what you see is what we measured.

Each order flows the same way. You find links, add them to a basket without being charged, review it, pay, and watch the placement go live. It then shows up in your ordered links with its status.

Orders can go in by REST API with a Bearer key. Paying stays a human step. You can also let an AI agent such as ChatGPT or Claude browse donors and fill the basket, and the balance is topped up in the dashboard, where invoices and proforma invoices are available.

Questions about your account go to the account page, never to a guessed mailbox.

Why the blogroll angle

Before search engines learned to weigh links, people shared them by hand. A blogroll was a sidebar of sites the author read. Resource pages were shelves. Someone chose each one. We like that tradition, so our guides pass on how those lists work.

The tradition has limits. Most hand-kept lists are small, many are abandoned, and none of them can be bought. That is why we also keep a marketplace, and why we say clearly which of the two you are looking at.

If you only want a listing, start with the decision tree. If you want a placement you can order today, open the shelf. Both are fine.

What we publish and how

Our guides come from the Slinkroll editorial team and carry no invented customers, no made-up awards and no quoted results. Where a worked example appears, it says so in the first line.

We name real tools, such as Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and Majestic, and real Google changes, such as Penguin 4.0 in September 2016 and the link spam update of December 2022. Dates matter because link advice goes stale.

When a guide recommends a step, it also says what that step costs in time and what it cannot do. A reader should be able to decide for themselves. Say the limit out loud. We would rather a guide ask you to wait than promise a result.

We also say what the marketplace does not do. It does not sell blogroll slots, it makes no ranking promises, and it does not replace the slow work of earning a listing. Limits matter. The roundup myths page shows where we draw them.

The numbers on each row come from our own crawler and our own index. A brand-new link can take a while to show in any outside checker, too.

How an order moves from list to live link

An order has five stages, and each one shows up in your account. Nothing is charged until you pay, so the early stages are safe to explore.

Before you pay

Filter the list by Domain Rating, traffic, referring domains, niche, language and price until a short list is left. Every row you add goes into the basket, and the basket costs nothing while it waits there.

Each order needs a content mode: a target URL with a keyword, your own instructions, or a finished article. Pick the mode for each order, so one basket can hold a mix of all three.

Paying from your balance

Review the basket once more, then pay from the balance on your account. The balance is topped up in the dashboard rather than through the API. Invoices and proforma invoices are available if your own paperwork needs one.

Nothing about the payment step should feel like a surprise, because you saw every row and every price before you pressed the button.

After payment

By default the article for each placement is written automatically, with one clean link to your page. Placements usually go live within about 24 hours of payment and stay as permanent dofollow links.

The status appears in your ordered links, so you can follow each order without writing to anyone for a confirmation.

Who uses the shelf

The shelf serves a few kinds of people, and each one approaches it differently. Knowing which group you belong to saves a good deal of wandering.

Site owners buying a single link

Most people arrive with one page they want to lift. They filter for a niche and a language, look at two or three hosts and place one order. That is the simplest path through the shelf, and the one most worth learning first.

A single order is also the easiest way to judge whether the process suits you before you scale up.

Publishers who sell from their own list

A publisher sets a price, approves every placement and receives weekly payouts. The rules a publisher writes down for themselves matter as much as the price. The publisher guide covers the setup in order.

If you run a list, read it before you start selling anything from it.

Agents and scripts placing orders

Orders can go in by REST API with a Bearer key, and agents such as ChatGPT or Claude can connect over MCP. An agent can browse donors and fill the basket. Paying the basket stays a separate step that a person approves.

That split is deliberate. It keeps the decision to spend money with someone accountable for it, even when most of the legwork is automated.

Reading a row before you trust it

A row on the shelf carries several numbers, and none of them is a guarantee. Read them together, and then read the page behind them.

Domain Rating in one paragraph

Domain Rating is a score from a third-party tool that estimates the strength of a site's backlink profile. It is a useful shorthand for comparing hosts, and a weak guide to what one page will do for you.

A high score on an unrelated subject can be less useful than a modest one that matches your niche. Judge the number against the reader, not against the leaderboard.

Traffic and referring domains

Estimated organic traffic tells you how many searchers reach a host. Referring domains show how many other sites link to it. Read the two as a pair. A host with plenty of visitors and few links, or many links and almost no visitors, deserves a closer look before you pay.

Neither figure replaces opening the site and reading two of its posts.

Why no single number decides it

Scores move, traffic moves and a host can change its own rules. A row that looked strong last season can look different now, so a number is a starting point for your judgement and never the end of it.

Pair the numbers with a read of the host's recent posts, its layout and whether the content still matches its niche. Together those tell you more than any one figure.

Niche and language

Niche tells you what a host is about, and language tells you what its readers read. A link is most useful when someone on that page would want to follow it. If the niche is close but the language differs, make sure the placement still makes sense to the people who will see it.

Seeing the shelf before you commit

Many visitors want to see how the shelf works before they spend anything. That is a fair thing to want, and the basket is built for it.

Filters first, account second

Narrowing the list by niche, language and price shows you what the shelf holds without any commitment. The login page says it plainly: looking around costs nothing, and payment only happens at checkout.

Use the filters to build a short list, then decide whether an account is worth opening for it.

What a first order can look like

Say you want one placement for a gardening blog. You filter the shelf for gardening in English, pick a host whose recent posts look like yours, and add the row. You choose the automatic mode with your target URL and keyword, then leave the basket unpaid overnight.

The next morning you read the basket again, pay from your balance and watch the status change in your ordered links. Nothing in that path needed a phone call.

Keeping questions with the orders

Questions about your account belong on the account page, not in a guessed mailbox. That keeps each question beside the order it concerns, so the answer and the record stay together.

The same habit suits a publisher, who can keep the approval notes next to the placements they describe.