Backlink exchange with SaaSCity: listing, blog, guest post, badge
SaaSCity trades dofollow links. Five things we can give, what we ask back for each, the ground rules, and one email to start. Nothing on this page costs money.
ghosty runs the site and answers every proposal. Last checked 2026-09-02.
Link exchange, guest post swap, partner badge: one address
[email protected]Subject "Backlink exchange: your-domain.com". Say what you want from the menu below and what you offer back. Answered by a person within five working days.
The short answer
SaaSCity (DR 59) exchanges dofollow links five ways: a link from your listing page, a contextual link inside one of 148 existing blog posts, a mention in a new post, a guest post swap, or your badge on our homepage. Each is traded for an equivalent dofollow link from your site, proposed by email to [email protected]. A person approves every one.
- Domain Rating
- DR 59
- Ahrefs, checked 2026-09-03
- Unique visitors, 30 days
- 336,277
- Cloudflare, checked 2026-09-03
- Blog posts we can link from
- 148
- Published and indexed
- Listings live on the map
- 1,110
- Counted from the database at render
Ground rules
Same six for every row, both directions.
Dofollow both ways
A nofollow, ugc or sponsored link on your side ends the trade. Same for ours.
Indexed pages only
A site: search must find the page your link sits on. A link from a page Google never visits is a bookmark.
One link per trade
No sitewide links, no footer links, no pages that exist to hold links.
Anchors read like sentences
The anchor is whatever fits the sentence. Exact-match keyword anchors are the fastest way to a no.
On-topic sites
SaaS, startups, AI, developer tools, marketing. Refused everywhere on this site: gambling, adult, payday loans, crypto tokens, CBD and pharma, essay mills.
Paid is separate
Rail ads are rel="sponsored nofollow" and not part of any trade. Nothing in the exchange is for sale.
How to propose one
One email to [email protected], subject "Backlink exchange: your-domain.com", with four lines. Answers go out within five working days, and a no comes with the reason.
Site: https://your-site.com (what it is, one line)
Want: menu row 2 (a link in an existing post) and row 5 (badge strip)
Offer: a link to saascity.io from https://your-site.com/blog/launch-guide
and a listing at https://your-site.com/tools/saascity (dofollow, indexed)
Badge/logo: https://your-site.com/badges/featured.svg (if you want row 5)Listing SaaSCity on your own directory is usually the fastest way to create the page you offer. Our details: SaaSCity, https://saascity.io, a gamified SaaS directory where every listing is a building on a live city map, logo at https://saascity.io/android-chrome-192x192.png. Match through Builders Backlinks works too; SaaSCity is listed there and accepts matches on the same rules.
Row 1 needs no email
The listing link is self-serve. Submit the product, paste this on your homepage next to your other launch badges, deploy, and press "Check my site for the badge" in the wizard. The checker reads your raw HTML and wants a visible anchor to saascity.io with no nofollow; it tells you which rule tripped if it fails. Pass, and the listing is booked for the next Monday with no cap, with the link going dofollow on approval.
<a href="https://saascity.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://saascity.io/badges/featured-dark.svg" alt="Featured on SaaSCity" width="150" height="54" />
</a>Agents: submit_project and check_badge on the free MCP server do the same; this page is at /backlink-exchange.md as markdown. A nightly re-check flags removed badges for a human; nothing is revoked by a script.
Before you write the email
- What does SaaSCity offer in a backlink exchange?
- Five things, each traded for something equivalent: a dofollow link from your listing page (for the badge on your homepage), a contextual link inside one of 148 existing blog posts, a paragraph and link in a new post, a guest post on the blog, and your badge in the "As featured on" strip on the homepage. No money changes hands and a person approves every one.
- Will you link to my site from an existing blog post?
- Yes, when a post exists where your page is the right answer for the reader. The blog is where most of this site's search traffic lands, so those links sit on pages Google already ranks. Send the page you want linked and the post of ours you have in mind; if it fits, it goes in with a natural anchor. If it does not fit anywhere, the answer is no rather than a forced paragraph.
- Will you write a new post that links to me?
- If you fit one we are writing anyway. We publish directory roundups, platform comparisons and founder guides most weeks, and new directories and tools that meet the bar get a paragraph and a dofollow link in the next relevant one. A dedicated post happens when there is a story worth a post, not as a link placement.
- Do you swap guest posts?
- Yes. Exchange partners can publish on the SaaSCity blog without the fee on the Write for Us page: 1200+ words, a topic our readers search for, up to 2 dofollow links, edited by us. In return we write one for your blog on the same terms. The editorial bar does not move for a swap; thin or spun posts are declined either way.
- Is every link in the exchange dofollow?
- Yes, on both sides, or it is not an exchange. Listing links go dofollow the moment the badge verifies and a human approves the listing. Blog and guest post links are dofollow from the day they publish. What stays nofollow is the paid rail ad, which is rel="sponsored nofollow" by design and not part of any trade.
- What is the Domain Rating of saascity.io?
- DR 59 on Ahrefs' free Domain Rating API, checked 2026-09-03. The number is baked at build time from that API, so it moves when the rating moves. Check it yourself on Ahrefs or on our free DR checker.
- Can an AI agent set this up?
- The badge route, yes: the free MCP server at saascity.io/api/mcp has submit_project and check_badge, and this page reads as markdown at saascity.io/backlink-exchange.md. The other four routes start with an email a person sends; an agent can draft it from the template on this page. Agents cannot pay for anything here and do not need to.
Pick a row. Send the email.
Or skip the email and take the listing link now: it is the one row that verifies itself.