Estimate a fair price for any guest post or niche edit from the three things that actually move it — real traffic, audience country, and Domain Rating. Built from an analysis of 105,000+ websites that sell links.
A quick read on what a placement should cost — built from an analysis of 105,000+ websites that sell links.
The site's real organic visits/month — the number that matters most.
Only a small nudge — DR can't rescue low traffic.
Where the audience is — it moves price up to 18×.
Your read on the traffic graph — we don't have live history.
Enter the site's monthly traffic to see an estimated fair price.
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<p style="font:13px/1.5 system-ui,sans-serif;max-width:680px;margin:8px auto;color:#8a8a9a">Powered by the <a href="https://saaslinks.net/tools/guest-post-price-estimator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlink price calculator</a> from saaslinks.net</p>
<script>window.addEventListener("message",function(e){if(e&&e.data&&e.data.type==="saaslinks-estimator-height"){var f=document.getElementById("saaslinks-estimator");if(f&&e.data.height)f.style.height=e.data.height+"px";}});</script>Monthly organic visits are the number that matters most — price tracks real audience far more reliably than any authority score.
Where the traffic lives moves price up to 18x. Domain Rating only nudges the estimate — it can't rescue a site with no readers.
Get a data-backed range (not a single number, because real prices within any band span ~3x), then share or embed the result.
The calculator's model is transparent, and it comes straight from the data in our backlink pricing study. Four things move the number:
Across the 101,247 priced listings in the study, the median price climbs cleanly from $117 for near-zero-traffic sites to $540 for sites over 1M visits a month. Traffic is the one signal that prices in an orderly line, so the calculator uses it as the base.
Median price swings 18x by traffic country — scarce non-English European inventory (Germany, Netherlands, Nordics) runs 2–3x the $140 median, while the US sits below it on sheer supply. The tool applies a country multiplier drawn from that data.
DR barely moves the fair price, by design: 1 in 5 sites with DR 70+ get under 1,000 visits a month. A high DR with low traffic is a gamed profile, so the calculator flags it and drops the premium rather than paying for empty authority.
A site whose traffic is declining or spiking is worth less than one holding steady. Since live history isn't in the data, you set the trend from the last 2–3 months and the tool applies a documented discount.
Want the raw numbers? See the 30+ backlink pricing statistics behind this tool, or check a site's authority with our free Domain Rating checker.
The calculator starts from the median price for the site's real monthly organic traffic — the cleanest signal in our data — then applies a multiplier for the audience's country and a small adjustment for Domain Rating. It returns a range rather than a single figure because real prices within any traffic band span roughly 3x. It is a market estimate from a point-in-time sample of 101,247 listed asking prices, meant as a negotiation starting point, not a quote.
The median backlink (a guest post) costs about $140, but that number is almost meaningless on its own: 8 in 10 links are priced between $60 and $568 depending on the specific site. Price against the site's real organic traffic and audience relevance, not its DR badge. Enter the site's numbers above to see the fair range for that specific placement.
The same data works in reverse. Because the market rewards real traffic, your asking price should track your traffic, not your DR — roughly $117 under 1K visits, $224 at 10K–50K, and $386 at 250K–1M at the median, with the top 10% of each band charging two to three times that. Underpricing a genuine high-traffic site to compete with DR-inflated dead ones leaves money on the table.
Yes — median price swings about 18x by country. Non-English European inventory (Germany $350, Netherlands $372, Sweden $420) is the most expensive because it's scarce; the US sits below the $140 median at $130 because its inventory is the deepest and most competitive; and South-Asian or Eastern-European traffic is the cheapest. Cheap traffic is only a bargain if that audience is actually your market.
Rarely, on its own. In our data, 1 in 5 sites with DR 70+ get fewer than 1,000 organic visits a month, and the DR 80+ tier is the worst offender at 37% traffic-dead. DR measures backlink-profile strength, which can be manufactured, so this calculator treats it as a minor nudge and warns you when a high DR pairs with near-zero traffic.
From an analysis of 151,864 live link-selling listings across 105,258 websites, compiled from several major link marketplaces and reported only in aggregate. Read the full methodology, charts, and findings in our backlink pricing study.
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