What you are actually buying
Nothing here runs on trust.
Every figure on a listing came out of a page somebody opened and read. Every delivery is carried out and checked by the same machine that took the order. Where a supplier would hand you a promise, we hand you the log.
Verification
Head link read live before listing, and again before checkout
Dossier
Every URL, anchor and timestamp, released on purchase
Delivery
Working and proved in about an hour
Refund
Automatic whenever a delivery fails
Evidence
We open the page and read the link.
A listing is the result of fetching the page the link sits on, not a claim about it. When the link goes, the listing goes with it.
- The head link is read live before a package reaches the catalog
- It is read again in the seconds before your card is charged, and a dead link cancels the sale rather than completing it
- Only editorial links count: forum posts, author profiles, wikis, mailing lists and directory dumps are thrown out before anything is scored
- A page firing links at five dead addresses at once is discarded along with them
- Publishers are counted one site each, so a pile of subdomains cannot inflate the count
Verification log
- FetchGET the source page, 200 OK
- Parseanchor found, rel read, position editorial
- Matchthe link still points where the listing says
- Stampverified_at written to the listing
Listed. Read again at checkout.
The dossier
Everything opens the moment you own it.
Before the sale you get publishers and counts. After it you get the paperwork: every source page, the exact anchor an editor typed, and the last time we confirmed each one was still standing.
Example dossier
| Source page | Anchor | First seen | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2012/… | the project page | 2012 | 2 hours ago |
| blog.cloudflare.com/… | built with workers | 2021 | 2 hours ago |
| blog.jquery.com/2009/… | this plugin | 2009 | 2 hours ago |
An illustration of the format. Your dossier carries the real URLs, and every one of them is a page you can open yourself.
Delivery
Four steps, run without us.
Your order runs itself. Every step is safe to repeat and retries on its own, so a slow moment somewhere in the chain costs you nothing but waiting you were not doing anyway.
- paid
- set up
- pointed at your URL
- proved from outside
It retries itself
Each step can run again without undoing the last one, so an order never sits waiting for someone to notice it.
You watch it happen
The package page shows the state it is in right now, from the moment the payment clears.
Proved from outside
Our own systems reporting success and your package actually working are two different facts, so the last check is made over the public internet, from outside our network.
After it goes live
The package is yours to aim.
Point it wherever you want
The package lands on any URL on your site. Move it to a new landing page, a product, a campaign, as often as the year gives you reason to.
Changes take effect in minutes
The safety net stays on
A delivery that fails, or a step that stalls past a day of retries, refunds that package on its own and sends the listing back for investigation.
The refund arrives before you ask
The catalog
How much is in there.
Every package has one buyer, so the catalog is a moving target rather than a price list. These are the numbers behind it.
- 2,627
- publishers across the catalog
- 1,204
- packages headed by a top-tier name
- 2013
- the year the median link was placed
New packages land every night.
See it on a real listing.
All of this is easier to judge with a package in front of you, and the catalog sits behind a free account.