Which link-building marketplace is actually best if your targets are in Canada 🇨🇦? 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 Canadian sites only: every site in the price matrix whose top organic-traffic country is Canada (per Ahrefs).
That leaves 7,502 real price listings across 1,079 Canadian-audience sites, with 33 marketplaces qualifying for the ranking (at least 25 Canadian sites listed).
What we measured
Every marketplace is priced on the same pool of Canadian 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 Canadian 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 Canadian sites it carries.
The ranking — set your own weights
| # | Marketplace | Score | Canadian sites | Best-price | $ / DR | $ / 1k visits | Avg DR |
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What the Canadian data says
- Canada has its own winner. Globally links.me leads, but on Canadian sites prnews.io takes #1 (score 74.6): 424 sites listed and the cheapest price 46.5% of the time.
- Biggest ≠ best. bazoom.com lists the most Canadian sites (549) but holds the best price only 19.5% of the time — reach without price leadership.
- vefogix.com is the value pick for audience. Its median cost per 1,000 Canadian visits ($12.7) is the lowest of any large marketplace here (it ranks #3 overall).
- Shopping around pays. On 66% of Canadian 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 Canada (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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