Which link-building marketplace is actually best if your targets are in Germany 🇩🇪? 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 German sites only: every site in the price matrix whose top organic-traffic country is Germany (per Ahrefs).
That leaves 46,684 real price listings across 6,825 German-audience sites, with 27 marketplaces qualifying for the ranking (at least 100 German sites listed).
What we measured
Every marketplace is priced on the same pool of German 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 German 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 German sites it carries.
The ranking — set your own weights
| # | Marketplace | Score | German sites | Best-price | $ / DR | $ / 1k visits | Avg DR |
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What the German data says
- Germany has its own winner. Globally links.me leads, but on German sites collaborator.pro takes #1 (score 74.8): 1,195 sites listed and the cheapest price 28.3% of the time.
- Biggest ≠ best. paper.club lists the most German sites (4,479) but holds the best price only 8.7% of the time — reach without price leadership.
- The winner is also the value pick for audience: a median $189.14 per 1,000 German visits — the lowest of any large marketplace here.
- Shopping around pays. On 70% of German 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 Germany (Ahrefs metrics). Each criterion becomes a 0–100 percentile rank against the other 26 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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