Linkquire Buyer Guide

Use Linkquire to publish a placement request, compare supplier quotes, unlock assessments and content plans, and record delivery and acceptance. You arrange publication and pay the supplier directly.

1. Create an account and verify your email

1. Open Buyer sign-in, then choose registration. Use Google or enter your name, email and a password of at least 10 characters.
2. Complete the Cloudflare security verification before email registration or starting Google sign-in. If the verification expires, complete it again before submitting.
3. On your first visit, choose the buyer role and enter your company or brand name to set up your workspace.
4. For email registration, open the message titled Verify your Linkquire email and follow its link. Check spam if it does not arrive. Use the verification banner to resend; there is normally a 60-second wait before another resend.
5. Return to the workspace and refresh your verification status using the banner. Google sign-in usually needs no separate verification email when Google supplies a verified email; follow the actual account status shown on screen.

A verified email is required to publish requests, redeem trial credits and submit product feedback. If you already have an unverified email/password account, verify it before trying to link the same Google identity. Use the password-reset option on the sign-in page if needed.

The interface defaults to English. Use the top-right language switch for Chinese. Switching the interface does not rewrite existing assessments, quotes or articles.

2. Find your workspace tools

An administrator account also has a separate Administrator tools section. Use the normal buyer workspace for your own purchases and placements.

3. Research prospects or publish a request

Research competitor backlinks before requesting quotes

When your account is included in the pilot, open Backlink research. If research is unavailable, use the normal request flow or contact the operator for pilot access.

1. Enter your own website and one to three distinct competitor domains. Optionally reuse one of your own requests, enter a target page on your website, or add a factual business summary. Reusing a request preserves its original quotes and history.
2. Choose Extract from website to read a fresh website excerpt, then review and correct it, or write your summary in English or Chinese. A failed extraction preserves your existing text. Research prepares English topic terms from non-Latin descriptions on the server while keeping your original description. If preparation cannot be verified, the report says so and retains limited coverage. Inaccessible pages are not proof of poor quality.
3. Confirm the note that a new run uses one Research Allowance, then start. Leave and return to the saved report to follow real source/screening stages. No percentage guarantees a result.
4. Review up to twenty prospects. Open source evidence, competitor destination, anchor and observation dates. Business fit and website type are an initial screen. Ahrefs DR has its own source/date; Unknown is not zero or a minimum-DR pass. DataForSEO Rank is not DR. An index result does not establish current page access, PBN absence or availability to buy publication.
5. Sites not found linking to you in the bounded lookup are prioritized. Expand Include sites with an observed buyer reference to see/select existing references. Not found describes this sample or scoped index query, not the whole web. Failed checks remain unverified.
6. Filter/sort for free, select one to twenty retained sites and choose Create inquiry preview. Saving a selection or opening the preview does not recruit suppliers. Review budget, market, language, minimum DR, format and Accept similar alternative websites, then confirm the English supplier brief and publish.

If you edit the inquiry conditions, choose Update preview, review the saved version, then approve publication. Approval stays disabled while the preview is outdated.

Research Allowance is separate from Opportunity credits. Each verified buyer, new or existing, receives one lifetime pilot research run; administrators can add test runs. Research does not use the two opportunity-unlock trial credits or pay suppliers. Technical failure or no system-generated prospects returns the reserved run once. One to twenty prospects consumes one run even if some sources/metrics fail, all prospects already link to you, filters hide everything, or suppliers never quote.

The same analysis inputs reuse a completed report for seven days, without another run. View old reports, change display filters and select sites again for free. After the reuse period, or after changing analysis inputs, explicitly confirm a new run; refreshing the page does not start one. Launches are limited to three per Beijing calendar day and one active run per buyer; returned allowance does not reset that daily limit. No paid research package or automatic renewal is offered during the pilot.

Follow a specified-site inquiry

The signed-in supplier brief includes your selected publishing domains. Public recruitment can show these domains with an independently anonymized brief. Your buyer website, target-page fields, competitor list and research source URLs are not automatically shared. Check the English supplier text for anything you do not want suppliers to read.

Each specified site shows quotes, distinct quoting suppliers, review/evidence states and explicit inability responses. No reply is not an inability statement. Request email totals do not prove a particular domain was read or is available. Similar alternative sites are labeled separately and undergo the same formal quote assessment. Guest Post and Link Insertion remain independent proposals, even on one site.

If there are no suitable quotes before the deadline, return to the same report, adjust selections and explicitly create/confirm a new inquiry. This does not rerun research or return the consumed research run. Previous requests and quotes keep their history. Closing/expiry stops new quotes; existing valid qualifying quotes keep their own validity. A prospect is a lead, not a qualified opportunity: continue with the assessment, unlock, content and delivery steps below once a real supplier quote qualifies.

Step 1: Enter requirements

From My requests, create a new request, or open New request.

Use the guest post brief template to organize audience, budget and sharing requirements before preparing the preview.

Choose Next: preview request. Linkquire reads your website and prepares an English preview. This is still a draft and is not visible to suppliers.

Step 2: Preview and publish

1. Review the English title and description, industry, market, language, budget and DR requirement.
2. Open Edit requirements (optional) if needed. Changes to the original require an updated English preview. You can also edit the English preview manually.
3. If preparation fails, retry or complete the English title, industry, market, language and brief manually. Your original text is retained.
4. Check the box approving the supplier brief and Linkquire's automatic anonymous public recruitment.
5. Choose Publish request and start receiving quotes. A published confirmation and quote deadline indicate that suppliers can now view the request.

No administrator approval is needed. Quote collection normally runs for three working days; use the actual deadline displayed on the request. Displayed times use Beijing time (UTC+8). Resume an unfinished draft from My requests using Continue publishing.

Understand supplier visibility and anonymous recruitment

Registered suppliers see your approved English supplier brief. It may contain appropriate brand or product names. Review the text itself and remove private contacts, confidential information and URLs you do not want suppliers to read. Your website, target page and private business note remain hidden as separate fields; information manually included in the brief can still be read by suppliers.

Linkquire separately prepares and checks an anonymous summary for public listings and recruitment. You do not need to anonymize it yourself or approve a second summary. If anonymous preparation needs attention, supplier quoting can continue on the published request. The platform operator chooses whether to promote it on LinkedIn; publishing a request does not automatically publish a LinkedIn post.

Check recruitment and quote progress

On a published request, Recruitment and quote progress shows distinct responding suppliers, valid qualified quotes, reviews in progress, evidence gaps, rejected/expired/withdrawn quotes and review failures. It refreshes while the page is visible; use Refresh to check again. A closed or expired request stops collecting quotes, while valid qualified quotes can still be selected under their original terms.

Expand Recruitment delivery details for email status counts. Sent means the mail provider accepted the message; it does not prove inbox delivery or reading. Recipient identities stay private. The first publication/qualification dates are shown only when recorded reliably; older requests can show Unknown.

If no suitable quote is available, use Create a new request from these requirements. This copies your own website, target, markets, language, budget, minimum DR, placement type and business description into a new form. Review and submit it, then use the normal preview/publication step. Nothing is created just by opening the form, and the original request and plans keep their history. You can close the original request separately if you want to stop collecting quotes.

4. Compare quotes and assessment results

Open a request to see recommended and unverified opportunities. Quotes from different suppliers or for different placement types remain separate, even on the same domain.

Assessment considers public content and supported quality-risk signals, DR, business relevance and offer conditions. Traffic can be unavailable; total traffic and geographic distribution are advisory. You and the supplier do not need to provide traffic screenshots.

Search summaries are distinguished from inspected pages. A background-based assessment is not a current editorial audit, and a high DR does not verify a supplier's publishing authority.

For a manual review alongside platform results, organize evidence before comparing quotes in a spreadsheet.

If no qualifying offers exist, you do not need to purchase credits. Wait or create another request with adjusted scope, budget or placement type. To stop collection early, expand the request's public brief/conditions section and use the close-collection action. Closing stops new quotes and retains existing records.

Compare 2–4 independent quotes

Select Compare this quote on two to four offers to see price, publishing time, stated link attributes, DR/traffic sources and dates, relevance, quality evidence and assessment basis side by side. Offers from the same domain stay independent. Comparison is free; each chosen opportunity uses its own credit when unlocked.

Only a unique highest positive review score among at least two compared valid qualified offers is highlighted. Missing metrics show Unknown; background assessment does not verify current pages. The highlight is not a publication guarantee. Expired or unqualified offers cannot be unlocked. Contacts, exact insertion articles and full conditions remain in the unlocked plan. Scroll the comparison table horizontally on a phone; Clear selection resets the comparison.

5. Use your free trial, purchase, redeem and unlock

Start with two free opportunity unlocks. Once your buyer profile and verified email are ready, the trial is issued automatically. Google-verified email qualifies too. No card, automatic charge, code or trial-credit expiry is required. Open Opportunity credits for your balance and the welcome-trial record.

Existing buyers are topped up to two lifetime gifted credits. Earlier redemption-code gifts count even if already spent: one earlier gift means one additional credit; two or more means no additional welcome gift. Purchased credits and previous activity are preserved. Spending or logging in again does not renew the trial. Unverified buyers receive it after verification. Administrator codes can still provide additional authorized gifts.

After the trial, current platform prices remain $9.90 for one credit; $19 for two. Supplier placement fees are paid separately, including during the trial.

The publishing budget guide helps you separate platform, supplier and content costs before agreeing on a placement.

1. Select a valid qualifying quote and open the unlock confirmation.
2. With a balance, use one credit to unlock. Otherwise choose a purchase option and complete Stripe Checkout.
3. If the balance has not updated on return, wait for payment confirmation and refresh it. Buying credits and unlocking a quote are separate actions: return to the quote to use a credit.
4. For a trial code, open Opportunity credits → trial-credit redemption, paste the complete code and submit. You must have a verified email. Expired, disabled, redeemed or email-mismatched codes cannot grant credits again.

One independent proposal uses one credit, including different suppliers or Guest Post/Link Insertion offers on the same domain. An unlock provides the full report, supplier contact and content-plan entitlement; it does not arrange publication or pay the supplier.

Unused or restored credits can be used on later requests; current early-bird credits do not expire. Pay the supplier's placement fee directly. If a quote proves inaccurate, open the quote-exception section in the full report and submit the specific discrepancy and supporting evidence. After verification, the platform can restore the credit; this version does not issue refunds.

6. Contact the supplier and prepare content

Open Content and publication → unlocked plan.

Review the website assessment

Check relevance, quality evidence, metric sources/timestamps and conditions. Copy the supplier contact and confirm current availability, final price, editorial requirements, timing, link attributes and the exact target page directly.

Before paying the supplier, use the supplier confirmation checklist to record the publishing permission and delivery terms you have agreed.

Use the content plan

1. Enter the full confirmed target URL on your own website.
2. Enter the confirmed content brief: subject, audience, anchor text, length, article language and supplier rules.
3. For Guest Post, confirm that you have agreed the quote and requirements with the supplier, then generate the draft.
4. For Link Insertion, select an existing recommended article and confirm that you will discuss availability and the changes with the supplier. Generate the plan to obtain the original passage, an insertion/replacement position and proposed copy. Without a suitable readable article, an insertion plan cannot be generated.
5. Review the output for factual accuracy, wording and links. Edit and save, copy, or download Markdown.
6. To use the included AI revision, provide a clear change request. After that revision, you can still edit manually.

An unlock includes one initial generation and one AI revision. Generation does not publish the content on the external website. Send the final copy to the supplier and confirm publication. Direct Google Docs creation is not currently available; use copy or Markdown download.

7. Record cooperation and delivery requirements

After agreeing cooperation with the supplier, open Content and publication → plan → Publication and feedback → Placement delivery, then choose I have entrusted this supplier. An unlock does not automatically establish cooperation. Delivery management uses no extra credits.

Confirm:

• Publishing domain and placement type.
• Exact target URL, link attribute (sponsored / nofollow / dofollow / ugc) and optional anchor text.
• Delivery due date and other agreed publishing conditions.
• The agreed existing article for Link Insertion, if applicable.

Approve the agreement and submit. The engagement appears in Placement delivery. Later quote or draft changes do not automatically change these requirements.

If the agreement changes, discuss it with the supplier first, then choose Revise requirements in the engagement. Versions are retained and an existing submission is checked again. Other written conditions need your own review; the technical check does not evaluate every editorial term.

8. Review and accept delivery

The supplier submits the actual published article URL. Open Placement delivery → engagement → Delivery submission and checks for the result, final page URL, observed target links, anchors and attributes.

If you independently reviewed and accept a delivery with a mismatch or unreadable page, choose Manually accept delivery and explain why. The original technical result is preserved. A change request also requires a reason. Confirm that you reviewed the conditions and choose Confirm buyer decision. Administrators cannot accept on your behalf.

A missing-target result is not a Google indexing result. The agreed URL is compared with the actual link: https://example.com and https://example.com/product/ are different. Protocol, www, fragments and a trailing slash are normalized, but paths and query strings still need to match.

Read failures have retries scheduled approximately 1, 6 and 24 hours after the first failure. Manual retries require at least 10 minutes between checks; follow on-screen timing. The five-minute scheduler dispatches due work, rather than checking every published URL every five minutes.

9. Follow status and history

An overdue flag is a reminder, not automatic failure or acceptance. To end cooperation, enter a reason under End cooperation and cancel. You can establish a new engagement after cancellation while retaining the old record. If the supplier reports inability to deliver, decide how to handle it directly.

Use the top-right notifications and the engagement's Delivery history and Requirement versions for progress and evidence. Historical publication records remain separate and do not automatically become new engagements or accepted deliveries.

Link monitoring after acceptance

Open Placement delivery → accepted engagement → Link monitoring. The buyer chooses Enable link monitoring. The related supplier can view the same observations and incident evidence, but cannot enable, pause or recheck on the buyer’s behalf. Existing deliveries are not enrolled automatically.

• Included in the opportunity unlock, with no extra fee or credit debit: 90 days from first activation, up to 50 active placements per buyer, one monitor per accepted engagement.
• Activation and resumption queue a fresh first check. Checks normally run once a day. The five-minute Cron queues due work; execution may be delayed. Read Latest observation, Last monitoring check and Next monitoring check.
• Pausing stops new checks and alerts and frees an active slot, but the 90-day clock continues. Resume within the original period and active limit to queue a fresh check; expiry is not reset. Expired monitoring stops; history remains available and renewal is not offered in this version.
• An unreadable page stays unverified, not “link removed” or “not indexed by Google.” Access failures are retried at approximately 1, 6 and 24 hours from the first failure, then return to daily checks. Persistent access uncertainty produces one incident.
• On readable pages, differences in the target URL, agreed anchor/rel, publishing domain or insertion article need a new independent read at least one hour later. Transient differences do not produce confirmed alerts. Manually accepted deliveries still need a fresh baseline; acceptance does not prove link health.
• A confirmed incident sends one in-app alert and transactional email to each eligible verified, non-suppressed participant. Unchanged results remain quiet. A fresh healthy result sends one resolution alert; without a prior healthy observation, it is described as first verification rather than historical recovery.
• Buyer and administrator share a 10-minute cooldown and 3 manual rechecks per UTC day for each monitor. The supplier has read-only access.
• Expand the fixed baseline, confirmation/recovery evidence and paginated check/activity history. Routine checks retain the latest 180 days and at most 200 per monitor; incident evidence is retained independently.

Monitoring does not rewrite acceptance, requirements, the accepted URL or credits, check Google indexing, refund payment or decide disputes. Contact the other party to resolve confirmed differences. If the operator disables monitoring, new work and alerts stop while history remains readable; re-enabling does not resume buyer-paused records.

10. Troubleshooting and feedback

For unresolved problems, open Product feedback, select a category and describe the issue, steps to reproduce, expected result and relevant workspace path. Complete security verification and submit; follow your status and operator replies there. Do not include passwords, keys, payment details or customer secrets. The limit is five reports per account per day, at least 60 seconds apart.