pricing · Shopping

How much does a shopping backlink cost?

The median shopping backlink costs $183 across 9,864 publishers; half of asks fall between $101 and $347. That is 27% above the median for any placement ($144). The median publisher in this subject claims DR 19.

Buyer prices through Placement API, cheapest seller per domain, suspect domains excluded. Refreshed hourly; measured 2026-10-30.

How these prices are measured ↗
Median placement priceUSD
$183

Cheapest seller per domain. Suspect domains excluded.

$101–$347middle 50% of prices
9,864publishers in the sample

What is the full range for shopping backlink?

$69
10th pct
$101
25th pct
$183
median
$347
75th pct
$680
90th pct

Ten percent ask under $69 and ten percent over $680. Suspect domains, excluded above, ask a median of $204; the cheap tail is not a bargain.

How much does a shopping backlink cost at each DR?

By the seller’s claimed DR decade, root domains only; rows under 100 publishers are not shown.

claimed DRpublishers25th pctmedian75th pctsuspect median
DR 20–291,691$114$192$361$192
DR 30–391,405$114$227$408$242
DR 40–49787$129$240$506$236
DR 50–59467$141$244$520$240
DR 60–69242$266$402$814—
DR 70–79211$290$502$1,041—

Which kind of placement, at what price?

placement typepublishers25th pctmedian75th pctsuspect median
guest post5,828$110$192$369$220
niche edit2,079$80$129$221$131
link insertion882$104$186$320$189
homepage link1,065$170$284$562$426

What changes the price of shopping backlinks?

  • Whether the authority is real. Domains our tests flag as suspect ask a median of $204 here, against $183 on the rest. The cheap end of any band is where bought authority lives; see the five tests.
  • Which seller you buy through. The same placement on the same domain is often sold by several marketplaces at different prices; the median gap is on the market report. These figures use the cheapest.
  • Saturation. Publishers that link out to far more domains than link in charge more, not less, in almost every topic; see finding 07.
  • Turnaround. The median promised turnaround for shopping backlinks is 4 days; faster sellers of the same domain usually ask more.
  • Who writes the article. Guest-post prices usually include the publisher writing; supplying your own copy rarely lowers the price, and some publishers charge to review it.

How do I buy shopping backlinks at these prices?

These are the prices the API quotes. The same brief returns held offers, named domains each with its verification, survival record and score, for four hours:

POST https://api.placementapi.com/v1/quote
Authorization: Bearer pk_live_…

{
  "links": 3,
  "strategy": "safest",
  "verified_only": true,
  "topic": "shopping",
  "budget_credits": 55014
}

Or say it to an agent with the MCP server connected: “Plan 3 shopping backlinks on shopping sites, under $550 total, verified only.”

76 published figures on this page, measured 2026-10-30. Dotted numbers carry their sample size on hover. Methods: pricing methodology, data sources, quality methodology.