How we make this list: we compare pricing pages, product documentation and public user reviews. Ratings come from G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, with the date we checked them.
Key takeaways
- Page One Power is the genuine outreach pick: custom pitching to real publications, priced per campaign rather than per link.
- Loganix leads the productised tier, from $200 a post, with client approval of publisher domains before placement.
- Authority Builders runs the strongest marketplace, from $160, with a stated floor of 1,000 monthly visits on linking domains.
- FatJoe is the entry price: from £60 a post by DR tier, white label for agencies, with a lifetime link guarantee.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|
 Page One Power | Genuine editorial outreach | See website | No |
 Loganix | Productised posts with domain approval | From $200/post | No |
 Authority Builders | Marketplace with traffic floor | From $160/post | No |
 Stellar SEO | Managed outreach with traffic guarantees | From $297/post | No |
 The HOTH | Broad white label menu | From $150/post | No |
 FatJoe | Lowest entry price, agency white label | From £60/post | No |
 Rhino Rank | Low-cost productised posts | From $75/post | No |
 uSERP | Managed link building retainers | See website | No |
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The best guest post services in 2026
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Page One Power leads this list because its model is the one that survives scrutiny: make something worth linking to, pitch it to editors who might agree, and accept the rejection rate as the cost of legitimacy. In a market restructured by repeated spam updates, the agency whose placements are editorially earned carries the least policy risk per link.
The trade is predictability. An agency roadmap will not promise forty links by quarter end, and buyers who need catalogue certainty will drift to the services below. What Page One Power sells instead is an asset and a record a client can show their own compliance review without flinching.
What we like- A true outreach agency: strategists pitch relevant publications and earn placements, rather than selling inventory, custom campaigns built around content assets, which is the model search policies are written to allow, long track record with in-house and agency clients, transparent about process in an industry that hides it
Watch out for- Slow by design: outreach campaigns run in months, not the days productised services promise, priced per campaign and engagement, not per link, so unit economics need a conversation, earned coverage cannot be guaranteed by topic or date the way a catalogue order can, results vary with the quality of the content asset being pitched
Starting priceFrom $200/post
Free planNo
Loganix is the productised service run most like an editorial operation. Pre-approval of domains is its defining discipline: you see where your post will live before it is written, which kills the standard complaint of this category (payment taken, placement on a site you would never have chosen) at the root.
Its pricing sits at the top of the productised band, roughly where genuine outreach begins, and that positioning is the honest summary: more care than the catalogue services, less custom than an agency. For agencies white-labelling guest posts to clients whose brands they must protect, that middle is often the right risk point.
What we like- Two clear tiers: Essential Links from $200 on DR/DA 30+ sites, Authority Links from $400 on niche sites with at least 1,000 monthly organic visits, clients approve publisher domains before placement, the control that separates a service from a slot machine, content written by US and Canadian writers per the company, with rejected placements replaced and links guaranteed live for six months, self-serve database of 10,000-plus sites for buyers who want to pick
Watch out for- Turnaround around three weeks, slower than marketplace rivals, the premium tier doubles the entry price, and niche relevance at the Essential tier is looser by design, six-month link guarantee is shorter than FatJoe's lifetime promise, like all placement services, the link's policy status depends on disclosure, which the buyer must verify
Starting priceFrom $160/post
Free planNo
Authority Builders built the marketplace buyers asked for: sites with verified organic traffic, visible before purchase, at prices from $160. The traffic floor is the meaningful innovation, because authority metrics alone (DA, DR) are gameable and routinely gamed; a site with real search traffic at least exists in the world.
Do the diligence its own model invites. Browse the inventory in your niche, check a few candidate sites' content quality and outbound link patterns yourself, and reconcile the refund promise between the sales page and the terms before the first order. Used that way, it is the strongest self-serve option here.
What we like- Curated marketplace of about 2,000 publisher sites, filtered by authority, traffic and niche, with the catalogue browsable before you pay, stated floor: linking domains have 1,000-plus monthly organic traffic, or a refund with the post kept, guest posts from $160 and link insertions from $177, with most posts delivered in 7 to 10 days, managed service (ABC Plus) from $1,000 a month for buyers who want the picking done
Watch out for- Its guest post page promises a 365-day money-back position while its terms describe purchases as final
- Read both, as comparison guides flag, marketplace model means you carry selection risk: a real-traffic site can still be a poor editorial fit, traffic floors measure the domain, not the page your link lands on, founder-led brand (Matt Diggity) polarises the SEO industry
- Judge the inventory, not the personality
Starting priceFrom $297/post
Free planNo
Stellar SEO sells managed outreach to buyers who want a person accountable for the result. Its differentiator in comparisons is the written traffic standard applied to placements, an attempt to contractually exclude the metric-inflated sites that make cheap guest posts worthless.
It will suit in-house teams buying expertise rather than inventory. Compare its per-post economics against Loganix's approval model and Authority Builders' catalogue on the same niche shortlist, and let the site lists each produces, not the rate cards, decide.
What we like- Managed blogger outreach with a written traffic floor on placements, per its published terms, positioning against raw DA selling, custom outreach campaigns rather than a static catalogue, per-post pricing in comparisons runs from about $297 toward $600 for higher tiers, US-based agency with direct client relationships rather than pure white label volume
Watch out for- Published detail is thinner than the productised giants
- Expect a sales conversation for specifics, smaller operation than The HOTH or FatJoe, so volume capacity is limited, pricing sits above the marketplaces for comparable metrics, its guarantee terms need reading in full, like every guarantee in this category
Starting priceFrom $150/post
Free planNo
The HOTH is the supermarket of this category: everything available, priced by tier, delivered to a dashboard, resold by agencies everywhere. For standardised, volume guest posting inside a broad SEO programme, that convenience is the product, and its six-month link replacement policy matches the productised standard.
Its weakness is the mirror image: no site choice at order time. Agencies comfortable delegating selection gain scale; brands with reputations to protect usually move up this list to approval-based or outreach models. Know which buyer you are before the menu's convenience decides for you.
What we like- The broadest productised menu in SEO: guest posts from $150 by DA/DR tier, plus blogger outreach and premium authority tiers, white label reporting and a dashboard agencies have resold through for years, no minimum orders and frequent promotions, broken links fixed or replaced for six months per its terms
Watch out for- You do not pick the sites: placements are assigned by tier, the control gap Loganix and the marketplaces close, quality variance across a menu this broad is the standing review theme, entry tiers place on modest sites
- The premium tiers are where its value concentrates, a generalist SEO factory: guest posts are one of dozens of products
Starting priceFrom £60/post
Free planNo
FatJoe industrialised the agency guest post: order by tier, receive a written post on a real blog, report it white labelled to your client. Its lifetime guarantee is a genuine differentiator in a category where links evaporate, and its entry price lets small agencies offer guest posting at all.
The discipline it demands is tier honesty. A DR10 blog at £60 and a niche-relevant placement at Loganix's $400 are different products sharing a name. FatJoe is the right buy for volume foundation work inside a varied link profile, and the wrong buy when a specific audience must actually read the post.
What we like- The lowest entry price among managed services: from £60 a post at DR10+, scaling by DR tier to premium placements, written for you, with turnaround from 14 days, lifetime link guarantee: if a link drops, they replace or refund per the guarantee terms, the guarantee headline of this category, fully white label with an agency dashboard, and no contracts or minimums
Watch out for- Priced in pounds and tiered by DR, a metric that says nothing about a specific site's relevance to you, you do not choose the sites, entry tiers are modest blogs
- Expectations should match the £60 entry, UK company serving a global agency market, support hours follow
Starting priceFrom $75/post
Free planNo
Rhino Rank competes with FatJoe for the budget productised slot and undercuts most of the market at $75. Its curated packages simplify buying to a tier and a quantity. For agencies building baseline coverage for low-risk clients, the economics work.
Test before scaling, as with every no-selection service: order the smallest package, inspect the delivered sites' content and traffic yourself, and only then commit volume. At these prices the inspection habit is not paranoia; it is the quality control the price excludes.
What we like- Productised guest posts from $75 by Moz DA tier, among the lowest entry points with a managed service attached, curated packages bundle posts at set tiers for simple budgeting, white label delivery for agencies, turnaround typically 7 to 14 days in comparisons
Watch out for- DA-only tiering is the weakest targeting in this list
- Moz DA is the most gamed metric of the three majors, no site selection at order, quality control claims need testing with a small first order, guarantee terms are less prominent than FatJoe's or Loganix's
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
uSERP closes the list at the managed end, where guest posting merges into digital PR. Its clients are typically funded software companies buying authority in publications their market reads, on a retainer, with the strategy set by the agency. The per-link cost is the highest here and the per-link value argument is the strongest, which is the actual trade in this market.
It is the wrong shape for transactional buying and the right shape for a brand programme. If your board measures links by count, uSERP will frustrate you; if it measures them by where they live, it belongs in the same conversation as Page One Power, with a more PR-led flavour.
What we like- Managed service on retainer: digital PR and guest posting aimed at SaaS and technology brands, positions placements on recognised industry publications rather than generic blogs, team-led strategy rather than per-post ordering, suited to brands buying an outcome, suits companies that want links from sites their customers have heard of
Watch out for- Retainer pricing is the top of this market's range and quoted per engagement, slower, PR-led timelines do not fit per-post procurement habits, minimum engagements exclude small buyers, outcomes are placements earned, so link counts per month vary
How we chose
Services were included if they sell guest posting or blogger outreach today with published pricing or a defined managed model, and if their model can be described without endorsing link schemes. Excluded by design: private blog networks, link farms and any service selling undisclosed paid links as its pitch. Prices are from the providers' own sites as checked by October 2026 comparisons: FatJoe from £60, Rhino Rank from $75, The HOTH from $150, Authority Builders from $160, Loganix $200 and $400 tiers, Stellar SEO from about $297. Nothing here was ordered or tested first-hand, and no placement's ranking effect is promised by this guide, because no honest guide can promise it.
How to buy guest posts without buying a penalty
Insist on seeing sites, or accept that you chose not to. Approval-based services (Loganix), marketplaces (Authority Builders) and outreach agencies (Page One Power) all let you evaluate the publication. No-selection tiers are a deliberate trade of control for price; make it deliberately.
Check three things on any candidate site: real organic traffic with a plausible history, content a human editor appears to run, and an outbound link profile that is not a bazaar. Two minutes per site in a traffic tool eliminates most of the risk in this market.
Require disclosure terms in the order. The link should be placed so the placement complies with the publisher's and Google's policies on paid content (sponsored or nofollow attributes where payment is involved). A service that refuses to discuss disclosure is telling you its business model, and it should not become yours.
Frequently asked questions
Are guest post services against Google's rules?
Guest posting for audience and brand is legitimate marketing. What violates Google's spam policies is buying or selling links that pass PageRank without proper sponsored or nofollow disclosure, and large-scale link-driven guest posting campaigns. Google reinforced this with spam updates in December 2024, August 2025's cycle and March 2026. The services here are judged on how close their model sits to the legitimate end: earned outreach closest, paid catalogues furthest, with disclosure deciding much of the difference.
How much does a guest post cost in 2026?
Published entry prices run from £60 at FatJoe (DR10+) and $75 at Rhino Rank, through $150 at The HOTH and $160 at Authority Builders, to $200 and $400 at Loganix and $297-plus at Stellar SEO. Genuine outreach agencies price per campaign, typically working out at $200 to $600 per earned link. Price tracks the site's real traffic and relevance more honestly than its authority score.
What is the difference between DA, DR and traffic?
DA (Moz) and DR (Ahrefs) are third-party authority scores estimating a domain's link strength. Both can be inflated by manipulation, which is why better services add a traffic floor: verified monthly organic visits, as Authority Builders and Loganix's premium tier specify. A site with 1,000 real monthly visitors exists in the world; a DR40 site with no traffic is a number.
Do guest post links come with guarantees?
Placement guarantees are common: Loganix replaces rejected placements and guarantees links live for six months, The HOTH fixes or replaces broken links for six months, and FatJoe markets a lifetime link guarantee. Read the terms behind the headline, because they define what counts as dropped and what the remedy is. No guarantee covers rankings, and any service implying one is mis-selling.
Is it better to pick sites myself or let the service choose?
Picking sites yourself (marketplaces, approval models) costs time and buys control: you see the publication before your brand appears on it. Letting the service choose buys speed and scale at the price of surprises. For brand-sensitive buyers the evidence of this market favours control; for volume foundation work, tier-based services with guarantees are a defensible trade when you inspect deliveries.
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