LinkTribune as a FATJOE alternative
FATJOE, or a supplier that decides for you.
FATJOE is a productised marketplace: you pick a service and a tier, order per link, and resell under your own name. LinkTribune is the other model: you set a budget per client and we decide what it buys, with the reason on every order and the publisher invoicing you directly.
- 1 in 12
- Candidates that clear our five checks
- ~30%
- Our fee on publisher cost, article included
- 12 months
- Replace or refund on every link
- 0
- Mentions of us in anything your client sees
Candidate record
Passed 5 of 5- Own-locale traffic2,000+
- Spam score returned< 40
- Relevance to client40+
- Operator footprintnone
- Rented linksnone
Publisher
€250
Our fee
€75
Article
included
Illustrative record. Real thresholds, example prices.
In their words, and ours
What FATJOE publishes, and what we do instead.
The left side is read from FATJOE's own public pages on 10 October 2026. Their words, not ours. We have no affiliation with FATJOE, and nothing here is a judgement of their quality.
FATJOE
Published terms, read 10 October 2026
- 01260,618 orders delivered since 2012, and live counts of orders in the last 30 days per service.
- 02Rated 4.8 based on 1,636 reviews.
- 03100% money back guarantee on all services, and lifetime link replacement.
- 04All services are white label for easy reselling; a self-serve dashboard with per-link ordering.
- 05Backlinks built on sites they have conducted outreach to, with tiers set by metric.
Where their pages did not state something, the comparison below says so rather than guessing.
LinkTribune
Decided for you, with the reason written down
You register a client and set a monthly budget. We find publishers for that brief, run five published checks, decide what the budget buys, write the article natively, place the link and watch it for twelve months.
- Sites chosen on readers in your client's country, not on a DA band.
- Every placement decided for you, with the reason written on the order.
- Two invoices: the publisher's, and ours at around 30%.
- Your client domains excluded from our own outreach, in code, permanently.
- Nine failure states checked weekly for twelve months. Replace or refund.
The publisher invoices you directly. Our fee is one line.
FATJOE and LinkTribune, side by side
Stated policies as published on 10 October 2026. Where a page did not state something, the row says so.
FATJOE
How you buy
Per link, from a menu of services and tiers, in a self-serve dashboard.
A budget per client. We choose each placement within it and write the reason on the order.
How sites are chosen
Sites they have conducted outreach to, tiered by metric. The threshold per tier is theirs to apply.
Five published checks: own-locale traffic 2,000+, spam score returned and under 40, numeric relevance 40+, no operator footprint, no rented links. One candidate in twelve passes.
Pricing
A price per link per tier, published on the site.
Cost-plus. The publisher invoices you directly; our fee is one line at 25 to 40% of publisher cost, averaging 30%, with the article inside it.
Guarantee
100% money back on all services; lifetime link replacement.
Twelve months, replace or refund. Nine failure states checked weekly, a report each month, a link not indexed in 60 days replaced or refunded.
Client protection
White-label delivery for reselling. No published mechanism for excluding your clients from their outreach.
Every client domain you register is excluded from our own outreach permanently, in code.
Proof
1,636 reviews at 4.8, 260,618 orders since 2012, live order counts.
No review score and no client count yet. One anonymised case study and the figures from our own delivery data, all checkable on a single order.
Stay with FATJOE if
- You want to order single links from a menu, today, without a call.
- Review counts and a long track record matter more to you than a published threshold.
- Your clients are mostly in English-speaking markets and a global traffic figure is fine.
Try LinkTribune if
- You do not want to choose sites at all. You want a budget spent well and the reasoning written down.
- Your clients sell in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium or Austria, where own-locale traffic is the check that matters.
- You want the publisher's invoice in your own hands and the supplier's fee on a separate line.
Test it against FATJOE on one target.
Send one URL and a market. You get priced candidates that cleared the five checks, with the reason for each, and the publisher's price on its own line. Then compare.
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