Guest-Postings.com alternative: pick your branch

Open the homepage and count the dollar signs. The header button says "Guest Posting Service Only @ $22 / Post". The orange pill says "Buy now $22". The page does not hide its pitch.

The pitch is simple. You hand over a site. The seller writes a post, places it on a blog, and puts your link in it. The hero promises "100% Penguin-Proof Service" and "Only Links from Highly Authoritative Blogs". The mascots under "We Are Friendly To" are a panda, a penguin and a hummingbird. It is a 2013 vocabulary, and the domain was registered in July 2013.

So the first question is not which tool is better. It is which job you have. Follow the tree.

• Branch A: I want posts placed for me.
• Branch B: I want to know what a post is worth.
• Branch C: I do both.

Stop reading the API docs. Guest-Postings.com is built for this. An API returns rows. It does not write 400 words and talk a blogger into running them.

Next question: how much do you want to spend per post?

• About $22 to $30: take DA 20+ or DA 30+. Both have a five-post minimum, so the entry ticket is $110 or $150.
• About $50 to $65: take DA 40+ or DA 50+. Both sell a single post, which is the cheapest way to test the seller.
• No fixed budget: start with one DA 40+ post at $50.

The listed sizes are strictly linear. 100 posts on DA 20+ is $2,200. 50 posts on DA 50+ is $3,250. No volume discount sits in the published list. Discounts exist "on larger orders of 100+ guest posts", but the percentage is not published. Ask in writing before you size an order around one.

Then do a small thing before paying: ask for the host domains. The site shows samples as screenshots only. No blog names are public. The contact form and the sales email are the places to ask.

Every tier lists "Real Blogs", "Less Spam Score" and "2 Links/Post". The tier is a "DA" floor. The site names Moz only on its free DA checker page, and how the seller measures DA for a given blog is not published.

One worked example, hypothetical. A shop owner needs ten posts and has $300. DA 30+ gives ten posts for exactly $300. DA 20+ gives ten for $220 and leaves $80. DA 40+ gives six. Whether a DA 30+ blog beats two DA 20+ blogs for her niche is a question about the blogs, not about the price list.

The seller says so itself. The packages page lists "individual webmasters, and small business owners down to the larger SEO agencies looking to outsource guest posting projects in bulk". The outsource page invites resellers to buy and resell "as their own brand".

If you resell, your needs are different from a single site owner's. You need to show your client what was delivered. The seller promises "phase by phase reports" and does not describe their format. So build your own check. Take each delivered URL, look it up, record donor DR, anchor and rel attribute. We cover that in Branch B.

Resellers also get "more discounts" on request. The rate is not published. For a bigger shopping list of providers, see the link-building tools hub. For another seller compared the same way, see Buy-backlinks.

Be plain. For these buyers, stay.

• You want the work done. Writing, outreach and placement are included. We sell none of them. We provide data.
• You want a fixed price. $22, $30, $50 or $65 a post, in USD, one-off, no subscription. Easy to budget.
• You have no developer. Pick a package, pay, wait. No key, no JSON.
• You want to start with one post. DA 40+ and DA 50+ sell a single post at $50 and $65.
• You are small. The seller says it serves site owners and small businesses, not only agencies.

The domain was registered in 2013 and the service pages date from that autumn. The terms are short: refunds only if it misses the delivery deadline, none after delivery. Read them before paying. The same terms say payments go through the site.

What we cannot do for you: find blogs, pitch editors, write articles. Anyone who wants that done should not look for an alternative to it. They should buy it.

Different job, different tool. The seller publishes no way to check a placement's metrics before or after purchase. That is where an index helps.

Walk these steps for any donor domain or delivered URL.

1. Is the donor real? Call domain on it. DR, referring domains, backlinks, dofollow count, first and last seen. Free, no key.
2. What does it link to? Call overview. Top referring domains, anchors and pages in one response. Free.
3. Which donors rank best? Send up to 2,000 domains to bulk_dr and sort by DR.
4. Did the link land? Call backlinks on your own domain, filter by source domain. Check rel, anchor, link type.

The last step has a limit. Our index comes from our own web data, refreshed about monthly, not real-time. A fresh post can take weeks to appear. Absence after a week is not failure. Absence after a quarter is a question to put to the seller.

Details are in the API docs. Sample the free explorer on any donor first.

Fair is fair. We ran the same check on guest-postings.com. Open its report in the explorer and follow along.

The profile has two layers. The first is nofollow. It is 1,040 links, 92.5% of the total, on old pages of unrelated sites: disgustingmen.com (DR 38, 55 links), motorcitymuckraker.com (DR 31, 54 links), fatcow.com (DR 47), explore.org, uia.no. Sampled rows carry nofollow,ugc, the label blogs put on comment links. That is a reasonable reading, not a statement by the site.

The second layer is dofollow. 84 links from 55 domains, DR 7 to 31, with anchors such as "guest posting service" (17 links), "guest blogging service" (9) and "Blogger outreach" (6). A few niche anchors appear too, such as "casino guest post" (4) and "Shopping Guest Post" (4). Our reading, not the site's statement: these look like the product itself, posts about guest posting.

Two caveats. DR 26 is ours. The seller's DA 20+ to 50+ tiers use a DA figure we cannot see. The numbers are not the same scale, so do not subtract one from the other. And the profile of a seller's own site says little about what its clients' posts get. The use of the exercise is the method, not the score.

Many buyers belong here. Do the work in two halves.

Before you order. Ask the seller for host domains on a small first order. Run them through bulk_dr. Compare the DR spread with the tier you bought. A DA 40+ order that returns hosts with DR 8 to 15 in our index deserves a question. Remember the scale difference, and ask, do not accuse.

After delivery. Wait for the next crawl cycle. Then call backlinks with your domain as target and the host as source. Record three fields per post: anchor, rel, last seen. The seller says each post has two links and does not state whether either is dofollow. The crawl will show you.

At $0.20 per 1,000 list calls (2 credits each, 1 credit = $0.0001), auditing even 100 posts costs a few cents. New accounts get $100 in free credit on first Google sign-in, no card. For a price-per-post calculation, that is background noise next to a $2,200 order.

If you want the listings indexed faster, that is a separate job. Our sister service IndexJump handles URL indexing.

The tree has two ends: you buy, or you measure. Most readers do both. One service does the first. The other does the second. They do not compete.