Which link-building marketplace is actually best if your targets are in Australia 🇦🇺? Global rankings hide local differences — a platform that wins worldwide can be mediocre in one market. So we re-ran our 35-marketplace methodology on Australian sites only: every site in the price matrix whose top organic-traffic country is Australia (per Ahrefs).
That leaves 6,126 real price listings across 775 Australian-audience sites, with 33 marketplaces qualifying for the ranking (at least 25 Australian sites listed).
What we measured
Every marketplace is priced on the same pool of Australian sites, so they can be compared head-to-head. Five criteria, all real numbers from the listings — and the sliders below re-rank the table live:
- Catalog size — how many Australian sites it sells.
- Best-price wins — how often it holds the cheapest price for a site among all vendors.
- Value per DR — median price ÷ Domain Rating; lower is better.
- Value per traffic — median price per 1,000 real monthly visits; lower is better.
- Site quality — average DR of the Australian sites it carries.
The ranking — set your own weights
| # | Marketplace | Score | Australian sites | Best-price | $ / DR | $ / 1k visits | Avg DR |
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Small-market caveat: this is a compact segment, so per-vendor medians ride on fewer listings than in our big-country rankings — treat single-point differences as ties.
What the Australian data says
- The global winner leads here too. links.me — #1 in our worldwide ranking — also tops Australia (score 75.2): 396 Australian sites and the cheapest price 36.1% of the time.
- Biggest ≠ best. adsy.com lists the most Australian sites (484) but holds the best price only 18.8% of the time — reach without price leadership.
- getalink.com is the value pick for audience. Its median cost per 1,000 Australian visits ($75.42) is the lowest of any large marketplace here (it ranks #18 overall).
- Shopping around pays. On 72% of Australian sites sold by 2+ marketplaces, the priciest listing is at least 2× the cheapest — same site, same link.
How we scored
Dataset: the seotools.info Backlink Pricing matrix — 727k listings across 109k sites — filtered to sites whose top organic-traffic country is Australia (Ahrefs metrics). Each criterion becomes a 0–100 percentile rank against the other 32 qualifying marketplaces, then blended with the weights above (defaults 30 / 25 / 15 / 15 / 15 — identical to the global ranking). Nothing is hand-picked: move the sliders and the ranking recomputes instantly. Prices are list prices from the marketplaces' own catalogs.
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