Which link-building marketplace is actually best if your targets are in France 🇫🇷? 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 French sites only: every site in the price matrix whose top organic-traffic country is France (per Ahrefs).
That leaves 230,101 real price listings across 37,651 French-audience sites, with 33 marketplaces qualifying for the ranking (at least 100 French sites listed).
What we measured
Every marketplace is priced on the same pool of French 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 French 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 French sites it carries.
The ranking — set your own weights
| # | Marketplace | Score | French sites | Best-price | $ / DR | $ / 1k visits | Avg DR |
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What the French data says
- France has its own winner. Globally links.me leads, but on French sites ereferer.com takes #1 (score 70.0): 18,676 sites listed and the cheapest price 55.8% of the time.
- Biggest ≠ best. lemmilink.fr lists the most French sites (23,410) but holds the best price only 29.8% of the time — reach without price leadership.
- growwer.com is the value pick for audience. Its median cost per 1,000 French visits ($321.47) is the lowest of any large marketplace here (it ranks #4 overall).
- Shopping around pays. On 68% of French 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 — 2,250,677 listings across 468,684 sites — filtered to sites whose top organic-traffic country is France (Ahrefs metrics). Each criterion becomes a 0–100 percentile rank against the other 32 qualifying marketplaces, then blended with the weights above (defaults 15 / 15 / 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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