Dofollow guest posts: we report what the publisher marked

A dofollow guest post is an article on someone else’s site with a contextual link that the publisher left as a normal followed link — no rel=nofollow, no rel=sponsored, no rel=ugc. You are buying the article and the placement. You are not buying a hidden crawl hint we inject after the editor hits publish.

Publishers decide the attribute. Some mark paid features as sponsored. Some nofollow contributed links by house style. Some leave a contextual citation followed because that is how they treat sources. We report the live HTML. We do not “fix” a sponsored link in the night and call it dofollow fulfilment.

English guest posts are $125 / $175 / $250 / $275 / $450. Content included. Typical TAT about two weeks, 20-day maximum. Replacement if the live link drops. The price is for the host and the article, not for a guaranteed followed attribute. The same five bands sit on pricing. You can order DR40+ at $250 or send the brief on the quote form. Dual path stays open. A followed link on a slot farm is still a farm link. SpamBrain devalues that layer whether the HTML says dofollow or not.

Dofollow is the default: a normal <a href> with no rel that tells crawlers to treat the link as a regular citation. Nofollow (rel=nofollow) is a hint that the publisher does not want to vouch for the destination. Sponsored (rel=sponsored) is how many sites mark paid or commercial features. UGC is for user content. Those are the HTML facts.

Google has said it treats sponsored and nofollow as hints, not as a magic switch that makes a farm safe. SpamBrain still devalues slot farms. A followed link on a thin blog is not “white-hat” because the rel is empty. An honest sponsored mark on a real publication is not a failed order. Read guest posts vs sponsored posts if the product is actually an advertorial.

Moz Domain Authority and Ahrefs Domain Rating do not tell you the rel. You have to open the live URL. That is why the report includes the live page, not only a DR badge. DataForSEO still has to like the host before we pitch. Google’s own documentation treats sponsored, nofollow, and ugc as hints it may use, not as a buyer-side product menu. We will not write a secret decoder that says sponsored is “worth 30% of dofollow.” We do not have that number, and we will not invent one. A marked link on a trafficked, on-topic host is still a mention a reader can click.

No. Anyone selling “100% dofollow guaranteed, publisher never marks it” is selling a story about someone else’s CMS. We will not promise an editor will skip their disclosure rules. If a host’s policy is sponsored on contributed posts, the report will show sponsored.

We also will not strip a rel in a screenshot and call it delivery. That is how marketplace disputes start. You get the URL as it shipped. If the publisher later changes the attribute, tell us — a replacement is for a dropped or broken placement, not for a house-style sponsored mark you disliked after the fact.

If the brief requires followed links only, say so on the quote. We will tell you which publisher classes make that realistic. We will not invent a SKU called “dofollow DR40.” The SKU is the English guest-post band, most often DR40+ at $250 (QJE1WN). Hard niches stay on their own paths: iGaming English $180–$550 quote-only; adult, CBD, and crypto Enquire Now. A followed casino dump on a lifestyle blog is not a loophole. Wikipedia outbound links are nofollow by design. Anyone selling “Wikipedia DR90 dofollow” is selling a misunderstanding.

No. A nofollow or sponsored citation on a page people read is still a referral, a brand mention, and a URL Google can see. Worthless is a followed link on a site nobody opens. Buyers who only count dofollow in a spreadsheet overpay for farms and underpay for publications that disclose.

For classic SERPs, followed contextual links on trafficked hosts are still the volume product we price. For AI Overviews and entity surfaces, mentions and Wikipedia-class citations can matter even when the link is nofollow. We do not promise an AI Overview citation either way.

Directories and Wikipedia are usually nofollow by design. Those remain Enquire Now. Do not order them as English guest posts and expect a followed DR40 row. Digital PR citations are a different mechanic — a newsroom chose the mention — and they are quoted, not sold as “dofollow press.” AI Overviews lean more on entities and mentions than on a raw followed-count. That is not a claim that ChatGPT ranks your site, and it is not a reason to buy only nofollow “for AI.” Classic SERPs still use links. Marked or not, the host still has to be real.

List the destination URLs, preferred anchors, and whether sponsored marks are acceptable. If a vertical is casino, adult, CBD, or crypto, say so. Those publishers are blunter about disclosure. Branded-first anchors still beat a spreadsheet of money phrases. Say the constraint up front so we do not waste a week on hosts that always mark contributed links.

Approve the host before we place. Open the site. Look at existing outbound links. If every article is sponsored, expect sponsored. If the archive looks like a magazine, a followed contextual citation is more plausible. DataForSEO plus a human still beat a DR filter.

Order a packaged English guest post when you already know the band. Quote when the brief is “followed only,” international, or mixed with niche edits. Dual path stays visible. We reply within 24 hours. International guest posts ($175 / $245 / $290 popular / $385 / $495) follow the same attribute honesty in another language. Niche edits from $99 insert into an already-live page and stay quote-only; the existing article may already contain marked outbound links you do not control. The monthly package ($1,500, SKU 2R60XR) is a scoped desk, not a followed-link quota.

Google’s link-spam policy cares about schemes and scaled paid links meant to manipulate rankings. Marking a paid feature as sponsored is closer to the documentation than hiding the payment. We will not tell you a sponsored mark “does nothing.” We will tell you hiding a scheme is worse.

SpamBrain devalues the farm layer regardless of rel. A thousand followed links from expired blogs is still a farm. One disclosed sponsored feature on a real title is still a feature. The longer policy note is Google link-spam updates.

Ahrefs DR is the price axis. Traffic and outbound profile are the QC axis. Neither is Google. We report metrics. We do not sell their logos. If you want the format comparison rather than the attribute pass, read guest posts vs sponsored posts. Buy the host and the mechanic. Do not buy an attribute fantasy. If the only acceptable outcome is unmarked followed on a named masthead, that is often digital PR or a no — not a DR20 cart.

Yes, if you want the article and the host. A marked link on a publication your buyers read is still a placement. A followed link on a site you would not show a client is still a problem. Buy the host and the mechanic. Do not buy an attribute fantasy.

Volume still lives on guest posts and pricing. DR40+ at $250 is the popular English band. You can order it or quote the mix. We will still refuse a host that looks like a slot farm. We will still write the mark the publisher applied. That is the whole honesty pass — dofollow, nofollow, and sponsored on one page, not three slugs.

Typical TAT about two weeks, 20-day maximum, replacement if the live link drops. Content included. DataForSEO before approval. Ahrefs DR on the invoice. Moz DA is a third-party score we do not sell against. SpamBrain still devalues farms. The attribute column does not change those rules.