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How OutreachPal works

The problem this exists to solve

Link exchange platforms have a familiar failure. Anyone can sign up, anyone can list a site, and the numbers next to that site were typed in by the person trying to sell you the placement. Verification, where it exists at all, usually means a payment cleared.

Everything here is built the other way round.

Three gates, in this order

Your domain is proven, not claimed. Before a site appears anywhere, you prove you control it, by DNS record, a tag on the homepage, a file on the server, or a published page. Whichever you pick, it is something only somebody with real access to that site can do. The one exception is reseller inventory: sites listed by resellers without proven ownership, marked as such on every card, and measured only after we approve the reseller.

The numbers are measured, not entered. Authority Score, organic traffic and spam score come from DataForSEO after verification. You cannot edit them, and neither can anyone else. Sites below the thresholds do not get listed. When we make an exception, the card says so.

A person reads your profile. Every account is reviewed by hand before it can take part. The first two gates judge the site. This one judges the member, and it is the one that cannot be automated.

What you do here

You find a member whose site fits what you need, you send a request, and if they accept you talk. If you agree on something, you write the agreement down inside the platform, and each side declares what they owe the other.

That written agreement is the part that matters. A link that exists without one is just a link. A link that follows a declared commitment is something both sides agreed to, in a form that can be looked at later.

When a placement goes live, it is recorded against the person whose site it points to, not the person who published it.

This sounds like a detail and it is not. It decides who gets told when the link disappears, who sees its history, and who can act on it. The person with something to lose is the person who hears about it.

What we watch after that

Every tracked link gets checked on a schedule. If it is removed, if the page disappears, if a nofollow appears where dofollow was agreed, the check catches it and both sides are told.

A single failed check does not raise an alarm. Sites go down, pages move, and a notification for every hiccup would train you to ignore all of them. We tell you after the same result comes back three times.

What we are not

We are not a marketplace and no money changes hands here for links. There is no price on a placement and no order to fill.

The exchange is reciprocal by design. Somebody who wants twenty links has to be able to offer something worth twenty back. That is also why the thresholds apply to everyone: a directory where half the sites are not worth a placement is a directory nobody searches twice.