Which link-building marketplace is actually best if your targets are in the Netherlands 🇳🇱? 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 Dutch sites only: every site in the price matrix whose top organic-traffic country is the Netherlands (per Ahrefs).
That leaves 41,454 real price listings across 5,357 Dutch-audience sites, with 28 marketplaces qualifying for the ranking (at least 100 Dutch sites listed).
What we measured
Every marketplace is priced on the same pool of Dutch 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 Dutch 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 Dutch sites it carries.
The ranking — set your own weights
| # | Marketplace | Score | Dutch sites | Best-price | $ / DR | $ / 1k visits | Avg DR |
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What the Dutch data says
- The Netherlands has its own winner. Globally links.me leads, but on Dutch sites collaborator.pro takes #1 (score 76.2): 1,675 sites listed and the cheapest price 54.4% of the time.
- Biggest ≠ best. bazoom.com lists the most Dutch sites (4,303) but holds the best price only 15.9% of the time — reach without price leadership.
- motherlink.io is the value pick for audience. Its median cost per 1,000 Dutch visits ($152.9) is the lowest of any large marketplace here (it ranks #17 overall).
- Shopping around pays. On 71% of Dutch 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 the Netherlands (Ahrefs metrics). Each criterion becomes a 0–100 percentile rank against the other 27 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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