About LinkTribune
Every rule here started as something that went wrong.
Link building since 2019, first for our own sites in German, Dutch and English, and from 2026 for agencies under their name. The thresholds on this site are not positioning. Each one is a specific failure that cost money, written down as a number you can check.
- 2019
- Building links since
- 1,200+
- Links built and checked on the live page
- 1 in 12
- Candidates that clear all five checks
- 12 months
- Every link watched, replace or refund
- 0
- Mentions of us in anything your client sees
Seven years on the buying side
LinkTribune was not designed in a pitch deck. It was built from what it cost us to buy links badly, and then to buy them well.
- 2019
We started buying links for our own sites
Not as a service. As the buyer, for a portfolio of sites in German, Dutch and English that had to rank or earn nothing. Every supplier in the market pitched us, and we paid for most of the lessons on this page with our own money.
- 2020 to 2025
Every rule here began as something that went wrong
A German site with 92,000 visits and almost no German readers. Links that vanished in month seven, noticed by nobody. A domain with no spam score that turned out to be a network. A supplier who had found our client list through our own orders. Each one became a threshold, written as a number, so it could never be argued down to an adjective.
- 1,200+ links
The process became the product
More than 1,200 links built, in markets where getting one wrong is expensive. Along the way we built the parts nobody sells: the five checks run before a human reads a candidate, outreach measured by reply and price rather than by hope, and a weekly check on every link we had ever placed.
- 2026
LinkTribune opens to agencies
The same five checks, the same monitoring and the same portal we run our own work through, offered under your name. You set a budget per client, we decide what it buys and write the reason on every order, the publisher invoices you directly, and every figure on this site is one you can check on a single placement.
Our standard
Six commitments, each enforced by something you can point at. If we break one, you will be able to show where.
Numbers, not adjectives
Every threshold is published as a figure you can check in your own tools on a single order. 'High quality' is not a threshold.
Enforced by: The five checks
A check we cannot run is a failure
When a tool returns nothing for a domain, the convenient reading is that nothing is wrong. We read it as unknown, and unknown does not pass.
Enforced by: The quality system
We decide, and we show our work
You set a budget. We choose each placement and write the reason on the order. You never approve, and you always know why.
Enforced by: Every order in the portal
Your clients are yours
Every domain you register is excluded from our own outreach permanently, across every brand we run. A mechanism, not a clause.
Enforced by: Partner protection
The publisher's price is the publisher's price
They invoice you directly. Our fee is one line on its own, around 30%, with the article inside it. Nothing is folded into a number you cannot see.
Enforced by: Pricing
A link is ours for twelve months
Nine failure states checked weekly, a report each month, and a link that fails is replaced or refunded. The invoice is not the end of the job.
Enforced by: The guarantee
Four of them, specifically
These are the ones that shaped the product. There were others, but these four are the reason the quality system reads the way it does.
A traffic figure that turned out to be global
The site had the numbers. None of the readers were in the country the client sold in. That became the own-locale floor.
A spam score nobody could produce
Asked for it twice, never got it, bought anyway. That became the rule that an unmeasurable check is a failure rather than a pass.
A link that vanished in month seven
Nobody was watching, so nobody noticed until a rankings drop. That became twelve months of monitoring with replace-or-refund.
A supplier who pitched a client directly
The contract had a non-circumvention clause. It did not help. That became a suppression list enforced in code.
From the founder
I built this because I was the customer, and the customer kept getting burned.
I started buying links in 2019 for my own sites in German, Dutch and English. Sites that had to rank or earn nothing, so every bad link was my money. The traffic that turned out to be global. The spam score nobody could produce. The link that vanished in month seven. The supplier who found my client list through my own orders.
Each of those became a rule, and each rule became a number, because a number is the only kind of promise a buyer can check. More than 1,200 links later, the process is the product. LinkTribune is that process, opened to agencies under their own name.
If a figure on this site turns out to be wrong, write to me. I sign off every one of them.
- 2019
- Building links since
- 1,200+
- Links built and checked
- 1 in 12
- Candidates that pass
Accountability
Every stage of your link has a name on it.
Your client's links should not disappear into a supplier's black box. Every stage has an owner, and every order shows who decided and why.
The founder
Building links since 2019
Buying and building links since 2019, first for our own sites in German, Dutch and English. Signs off every threshold on this site, and answers for the ones we break.
- 1,200+
- Links built
- 1 in 12
- Candidates that pass
The partner desk replies within one working day.
- Step 1
Candidates
Platform
Pulls sites for the client's topic and market and runs the five checks before anyone reads one. One in twelve gets through.
- Step 2
The decision
Delivery desk
Chooses each placement against the client's budget and writes the reason on the order. Nothing is bought without one.
- Step 3
Outreach and price
Outreach desk
Talks to editors in their own language and negotiates the publisher's price, never above what the budget allows.
- Step 4
The article
Editorial
Writes natively in the publisher's language, fits the house style and handles the editor's revisions.
- Step 5
Verification
Verification
Reads the live article against what was ordered: fifteen checks, from the link and anchor to the meta title.
- Step 6
Twelve months after
Platform and partner desk
Checks every link weekly for nine failure states. A failure is replaced or refunded and reported to you.
What we will not promise
Five promises you have heard before. We do not make them.
Each of these is something another supplier will offer you, and each is a reason campaigns go wrong quietly. We would rather lose the order than make the promise.
- 01
They sayPage one within 90 days.
Rankings
Nobody controls Google's output. A supplier who promises a position is either guessing or planning something that works briefly and then does not.
- 02
They sayTen links for a flat price.
A number of links for a fixed price
Publisher cost varies by a factor of ten across sites with identical metrics. Any flat per-link price is a bet, and the supplier does not lose it.
- 03
They sayAny volume, any market.
Volume we cannot source at the threshold
We cap what we take per market. Loosening the checks to absorb demand is the fastest way to stop being worth using, and it is invisible to you until it is not.
- 04
They sayLive within 48 hours.
Turnaround we have not measured
Delivery estimates come from that publisher's own history with us, not from a marketing figure. A publisher with no history with us does not get a fast badge.
- 05
They sayPermanent links, guaranteed.
That nothing will ever fail
Links get removed and pages get deindexed. We monitor for it and carry it for twelve months, which is a different and more honest promise.
- Instead
What we do promise
- Five published checks on every candidate, with the numbers.
- The reason written on every order before it is placed.
- Twelve months of weekly monitoring. Replace or refund.
Markets
Seven markets where getting a link wrong costs real money.
Traffic measured in the client's own country, writing in the publisher's own language, outreach run for the client's niche. Five markets with standing publisher relationships, and anywhere else on request.
Test it on one link.
One placement is enough to check every claim on this site. That is the cheapest way to find out whether we are worth a second order.
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