AbGuestPost Review: What Its Own Page Shows

AbGuestPost (abguestpost.net) sells guest post placements on its own list of websites for $1 to $3 each, ordered through WhatsApp. We read its homepage on 11 September 2026 and counted every row on it. The page contradicts itself in three measurable ways, it advertises its paid links as DoFollow while Google's spam policy says paid links should carry rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored", and we found no customer reviews on the review platforms we checked. This is what we saw, how we checked it, and what to do instead.

What AbGuestPost Sells

In its own words, AbGuestPost is "a private network of 44+ high-quality websites" that sells guest posts to resellers, agencies and individual buyers. The homepage lists three packages: 10 posts for $10, 25 posts for $25 and 40 posts for $40. Every package names "DoFollow Links" as a feature, alongside publishing within 24 to 48 hours and help with indexing requests.

Ordering runs through a WhatsApp button and a WhatsApp group. Payment options shown on the page include Payoneer, Binance, a crypto wallet, Tether, Bitcoin, Fiverr and bank transfer. The page claims "500+ Posts Published" and "100+ Happy Clients", which we had no way to check. What the homepage does not link to is just as informative: no terms of service, no refund or replacement policy, no privacy policy, and no registered company name or address. The earliest capture of the domain in the Wayback Machine is from 17 January 2025.

Topic	What the page says	What we observed on 11 September 2026
Size	"44+ high-quality websites" in several places; a table titled "Guest Post Marketplace (44 Sites)"	64 rows in that table
Authority	A "DA 30+ Network" badge	DA from 1 to 59; 21 of 64 sites below 30, nine of them at DA 1
Price	"Only $1 per site"	20 sites at $1, 31 at $2, 4 at $3 and 9 free
Link attribute	"DoFollow Links" in every package	No sponsored or nofollow option mentioned on the homepage
Written terms	None	No terms, refund, replacement or privacy page linked from the homepage
Ordering	"WhatsApp Now" and "Join WhatsApp Group"	Order buttons and WhatsApp links; the number is not reproduced here

Three Claims the Vendor's Own Page Contradicts

None of what follows depends on outside tools. Every number comes from counting the 64 rows of the marketplace table on the vendor's homepage, as it stood on 11 September 2026, and setting the result beside what the same page says about itself. DA here means the figure the vendor lists; the page does not say which tool produced it.

"44 Sites" Above a 64-Row Table

The number 44 appears in the hero text, on a badge, in the closing section and in the About paragraph. The table heading repeats it: "Guest Post Marketplace (44 Sites)". Directly beneath that heading, the table runs to 64 numbered rows. The vendor's own list is 45 percent longer than the vendor's own description of it.

A "DA 30+ Network" With Nine DA 1 Sites

The badge promises a floor. The table breaks it 21 times. One site in three sits below DA 30, 13 sit at DA 10 or lower, and nine are listed at DA 1. Two of those DA 1 sites are in the most expensive tier.

Row 29 deserves its own sentence. It is abguestpost.net itself, listed at DA 4 and priced at $2. The site that advertises a DA 30+ network sells a placement on its own domain, at a DA it lists as 4. Authority scores and editorial standing answer different questions anyway, a gap we measured separately in Domain Rating vs Press Verification: The Data.

Paying More Buys Less Authority

Sort the table by price and the pattern inverts what any buyer would expect. The four $3 sites average DA 12.2. The twenty $1 sites average DA 34.2, and none of them sits below 30. Paying three times as much bought about a third of the average authority.

Price tier	Sites	Average DA	Median DA	DA range
$3	4	12.2	5.5	1 to 37
$2	31	27.4	32	1 to 59
$1	20	34.2	34	30 to 41
Free	9	19.0	19	1 to 44

Whatever sets prices in this network, it is not the metric the network advertises. The free tier makes the same point from the other side: nine sites at no charge, ranging from DA 1 to DA 44, with one of them scoring higher than all four of the $3 sites.

Why does this matter to a buyer who never planned to read the table? Because the packages on the homepage are sold by count, 10, 25 or 40 posts, without naming the sites, and the averages above say that a cheap-looking listing and an expensive-looking one can deliver very different things. The only way to know what a package contains is to ask for the list of domains before paying, and to check it against the claims on the page.

There may be ordinary explanations for some of this. A table can grow faster than the copy around it, and DA values go stale if nobody updates them. We put these points to the vendor before publishing, and the right of reply at the end of this article records the outcome. What the explanations cannot change is what a buyer saw on the page on the day we checked.

Two smaller details point the same way. The pricing section's tagline says "Only $1 per site", yet 35 of the 55 priced listings cost $2 or $3. And the $40 package lists both "40 Guest Posts" and "25 Guest Posts" in the same card. Either is minor. Together with the rest, they suggest nobody is checking the page against itself.

One Operator, Many "Independent" Sites

trendtracker.us is one of the sites AbGuestPost sells: row 37, DA 33, $2. Its own sidebar carries two lists of other domains. One is headed "Brand New Free Guest Posting Sites!" and holds five domains, each marked NEW. The other is headed "Explore Our Other Websites" and holds 13 entries, one of them trendtracker.us itself. That leaves 17 sister domains. All 17 also appear in the AbGuestPost marketplace table. The same author handle appears on both abguestpost.net and trendtracker.us.

The word "Our" is the site's, not ours. We are not saying who operates these domains. We are reporting that one site the network sells describes 17 others the network sells as its own, and that buyers are offered them as separate placements.

The sidebar also shows what a placement sits next to. trendtracker.us is listed in the marketplace under the niche "General". Its category list, on the same day, counted 11,663 posts under Business and 5,892 under Health, and also 410 under Gambling, 126 under Escorts and 60 under Dating. Its pagination ran to 4,115 pages, and posts dated December 2017 appeared beside posts from August 2026. A brand article bought as a "General" placement lands in that neighborhood, and the marketplace listing gives no hint of it.

Other details fit an open submission model rather than a newsroom. The page shows many different author accounts, several of them brand names rather than people.

Shared control matters for a practical reason. A buyer who orders 25 posts on 25 domains is paying for 25 separate endorsements. If those domains answer to one operator and cross-link to one another, the variety is on the invoice, not on the web. Google's December 2022 link spam update describes SpamBrain as detecting both sites that buy links and sites used to pass outgoing links, so a cluster built to pass links is exactly the kind of pattern that system is designed to find.

A note on method: the Wayback Machine declined to capture trendtracker.us on 11 September 2026, so we archived it through archive.today instead and kept a dated printout.

"100% DoFollow" Meets Google's Spam Policy

Google's spam policies, as published on 11 September 2026 (last updated 28 August 2026), list buying or selling links for ranking purposes as link spam, including exchanging money for links or for posts that contain links. The same list covers advertorials and native advertising where payment is received for articles with links that pass ranking credit, and links with optimized anchor text in articles, guest posts or press releases distributed on other sites.

Then comes the sentence that decides this review. Google says buying and selling links is "a normal part of the economy of the web" for advertising and sponsorship, and that such links do not violate its policies as long as they carry rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored". In other words, the payment is not the problem. The missing qualification is. AbGuestPost's homepage lists "DoFollow Links" in every package, which is the unqualified version, offered as the selling point. The page mentions no sponsored or nofollow option.

Policy point	What Google's page says	What the abguestpost.net homepage says
Paid links	Buying or selling links for ranking purposes is link spam	Links are sold per site and per package
Guest posts	Paid articles and guest posts with links that pass ranking credit are covered	The product is guest posts
The carve-out	Paid links are fine when qualified with rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored"	"DoFollow Links" listed in every package

Whether a guest post is worth buying at all is a separate question from whether it is disclosed. We covered the site-by-site side of that in Sites That Accept Guest Posts: How To Judge Them, and the press release version in Do Press Release Backlinks Pass Authority?

Manual Actions vs Silent Neutralization

Google enforces in two ways. A human reviewer can issue a manual action, which appears in the Manual actions report in Search Console. More often, the work is algorithmic. Since its December 2022 link spam update, Google has used SpamBrain, its AI-based spam system, to detect both sites that buy links and sites used to pass outgoing links, and to neutralize those links. Google's documentation on spam updates is blunt about the result: when the effect of spammy links is removed, whatever ranking benefit they produced is lost and cannot be regained. For a buyer, that is the realistic downside. Not a dramatic penalty, just money spent on links that stopped counting.

The Seller Side Gets Hit Too

Publishers are not outside the policy. Search Console has a separate manual action, "Unnatural links from your site", for sites where Google detects a pattern of artificial or manipulative outbound links. Google's site reputation policy, previously called site reputation abuse, adds another layer for hosts that publish third-party content mainly to exploit their own ranking signals. Enforcement started in May 2024 and the policy was clarified on 19 November 2024. The treatment now differs by region: outside the European Economic Area, affected pages can receive a manual action; inside it, they may instead be categorized separately from the main domain and ranked on their own merits.

What We Could and Could Not Verify

We checked for independent reviews on 9 September 2026. Reddit searches inside each subreddit were run by hand while logged in. The results are worded exactly as they appeared.

Where we looked	What we searched	Result on 9 September 2026
Google	site:reddit.com abguestpost	No documents matched
Google	site:reddit.com "abguestpost.net"	No documents matched
r/SEO, r/bigseo, r/juststart (Posts tab)	abguestpost	General guest-posting threads; none of the result titles mentioned abguestpost
Same subreddits (Comments tab)	abguestpost	No results
Same subreddits (Media tab)	abguestpost	No results in r/bigseo or r/juststart; two unrelated posts in r/SEO
Google	site:blackhatworld.com abguestpost	No documents matched
Trustpilot	abguestpost.net	A profile claimed by the company in January 2026, with 0 reviews
Sitejabber address	abguestpost.net	A listing shown under SmartCustomer branding, unclaimed, with 0 reviews
G2	abguestpost	No listing for the vendor
Clutch	abguestpost	Other guest post providers returned; no profile for the vendor

The Posts tabs need a word of caution. Reddit's in-community search matched the phrase "guest post", so it returned ordinary threads about guest posting. The Google site: searches and the Comments tabs are the ones that returned nothing at all.

No reviews is not the same as no customers, and we are not treating it that way. The conversation around this vendor seems to happen elsewhere. A public Facebook group named AbGuestPost had 232 members when we checked, and its description offers access to more than 15 free guest post sites. Group chats and WhatsApp leave no public review trail. The pages that did rank for "abguestpost review" read as promotional; one of them repeatedly pointed readers toward a competing marketplace while conceding it could not verify the vendor's claims.

Is Anyone Actually Searching for This?

An Ahrefs export we pulled on 7 September 2026 showed 3,100 monthly searches for "abguestpost" in Japan (keyword difficulty 54) and 600 in the United Kingdom (keyword difficulty 5). When we checked Similarweb on 11 September 2026, it showed no traffic estimate for abguestpost.net for August 2026. That does not mean zero visits. It means traffic sat below the threshold Similarweb reports. With no discussion of the vendor anywhere we looked, we read the Japanese figure as unexplained rather than as demand. We would not build a content plan on it, and we did not write this article for that audience.

How to Vet a Link Vendor, Not Just a Site

Most vetting advice is about the site that will host your article. That still matters, and our seven site-level checks cover it. The signals below sit one level up, at the vendor. Each takes minutes to check from public pages, and the right-hand column shows what one vendor's pages showed.

Count before you trust the headline. A vendor that advertises a number of sites and an authority floor should survive a row-by-row count. AbGuestPost's did not, on either figure.

Sort price against the metric. If a vendor sells on authority, prices should rise with it. When the most expensive tier holds the weakest sites, the metric is decoration.

Look for shared ownership. Check the sidebars, footers and author pages of three or four listed sites. "Our other websites" lists and repeated author handles tell you whether the sites are separate publications or one operation.

Ask for written terms. Refund, replacement and link permanence terms protect you when a post disappears months later. A vendor with none published is asking you to accept that risk on trust.

Ask about the link attribute. Ask whether rel="sponsored" is available. A vendor that sells only followed links is selling the version Google's policy names.

Check whether the vendor sells itself. A seller that lists its own domain in its inventory, at a low score, is telling you how it assembled the list.

The pattern behind all six is simple. A vendor worth paying publishes things you can count, and the counts match the claims.

Disclosure: Arfadia sells media placement services that include backlinks, which puts us in the same broad market as several companies named below. We are not paid by any of them, and none of them commissioned this article.

What to Do Instead

One rule applies to everything in this section that involves paying for a placement. Under Google's policy, a paid link should be qualified with rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow", whoever the vendor is. The differences between vendors are real, but they are not "compliant versus non-compliant". They are about what a buyer can verify before paying.

Earn Coverage Instead of Buying It

Journalist-request platforms connect experts with reporters who need a quote. Nobody sells you a link; the publisher decides whether to link and how. HARO, founded by Peter Shankman in 2008, passed to Vocus in 2010 and to Cision when it merged with Vocus in 2014. Cision renamed it Connectively in 2024, added paid tiers, and shut Connectively down on 9 December 2024. Featured.com bought the HARO brand and relaunched it on 22 April 2025 as a free newsletter with three digests a day, funded by sponsorship. Prices below were checked on each vendor's pricing page on 11 September 2026.

Platform	Model	Price checked 11 September 2026
HARO	Free email digests of journalist requests	Free
Qwoted	Expert sourcing platform	Basic free (2 pitches a month, 2-hour delay); Pro $149 a month; Teams custom
Featured	Journalist requests and PR tools	Free; Lite $29 a month and Pro $79 a month, both billed annually
SourceBottle	Journalist call-outs by email	Free call-outs and alerts; paid pitching plans, price not verified
ResponseSource	Journalist enquiry service, UK and Ireland	Not verified

If You Do Pay for Placements, Compare What You Can Check

Paid placement vendors differ in ways a buyer can see before spending anything: whether the inventory is disclosed, whether terms are written down, who owns the publishing sites according to the vendor itself, and whether price moves with the metric being sold. The table puts AbGuestPost beside two established managed vendors on exactly those points.

What to check	AbGuestPost	FATJOE	Loganix
Price checked 11 September 2026	$1 to $3 per site; packages from $10	$72 (DR10+) to $456 (DR60+) per placement	From $200 (Essential Links) and $400 (Authority Links)
Inventory before you pay	Full list with DA and price	No pre-approval; placements shown once secured	Shortlist sent for approval; searchable database of more than 10,000 sites
Written terms	None linked from the homepage	Money-back and lifetime link guarantees stated; terms linked	Placement guarantee; refund policy and terms linked
Who owns the sites, per the vendor	"A private network"; one listed site calls 17 others "Our Other Websites"	Real bloggers reached by outreach; says it never works with PBNs	Third-party publishers, pre-vetted
Price against the metric sold	Moves against DA	Rises with DR tier	Rises with tier
Link attribute on the page	"DoFollow Links"	"Do-follow" listed as included	Not stated

Note the FATJOE row. Its pricing page lists do-follow as part of the service, which tells you this practice is industry-wide, not a quirk of cheap networks. That is exactly why the rule above applies to every vendor: ask for rel="sponsored", and judge the placement on its audience and editorial context rather than on link equity.

Doing It In-House

Running outreach yourself costs time instead of placement fees. An outreach CRM such as BuzzStream keeps prospects, emails and follow-ups in one place; its plan cards showed Starter from $49 a month on 11 September 2026, though an older comparison table lower on the same page listed different prices, so confirm at checkout. The list you pitch matters more than the tool, and our guide on how to build a media list that holds up covers that part.

What Links Cost, and What AI Citation Research Shows

Two 2026 datasets give a sense of the market. Adsy's analysis of 52,671 websites put the average guest post at $459, up from $427 in 2025, and the average link insertion at $225. BuzzStream's June 2026 study put the average guest post at $295 bought directly from a site and $461 through a vendor, rising to $3,836 direct and $7,209 through a vendor for top-tier news sites. The studies measure different samples and neither is a price list you can order from, so treat them as ranges, not as one number. Against those averages, $1 to $3 is roughly 100 to 460 times cheaper.

On AI assistants, the honest position is that no controlled study compares paid placements with earned editorial mentions. The research that exists is correlational. Seer Interactive ran 10,000 finance and SaaS questions through ChatGPT and found brands ranking on Google's first page correlated with ChatGPT mentions at about 0.65, while backlinks showed a weak or even neutral effect. SALT.agency found a moderate correlation between link metrics and visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, and little to none for Google's AI Overviews. The one experiment that did raise visibility in generative engines, Aggarwal and colleagues' GEO study at KDD 2024, got its 30 to 40 percent relative gains, on the study's own visibility measure, from editing the content itself: citing sources, adding quotations and adding statistics. Not from links. The only research showing a lift in AI answers points at content quality, not at backlinks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is AbGuestPost?

AbGuestPost (abguestpost.net) is a guest post seller that describes itself as a private network of 44+ websites. On 11 September 2026 its homepage listed 64 sites at $1 to $3 each, with packages from $10 for 10 posts, ordered through WhatsApp.

How much does AbGuestPost charge?

On 11 September 2026 its table listed 20 sites at $1, 31 at $2, 4 at $3 and 9 free. Packages were $10 for 10 posts, $25 for 25 and $40 for 40. The homepage linked no refund, replacement or permanence terms.

Is AbGuestPost's "DA 30+ Network" claim accurate?

Not according to its own table. On 11 September 2026, 21 of the 64 listed sites were below DA 30 and nine were at DA 1. abguestpost.net itself was listed at DA 4. The page does not say which tool produced the DA figures.

Are AbGuestPost links DoFollow, and is that a problem?

Every package lists "DoFollow Links". Google's spam policy treats paid links that pass ranking credit as link spam and says paid links should be qualified with rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored". The homepage mentions no such option.

Does Google penalize paid guest posts?

Google can issue a manual action, but more often its SpamBrain system neutralizes the links. Since December 2022 it has detected both link buyers and sites used to pass links, and Google says ranking benefit lost this way cannot be regained.

Who owns the sites AbGuestPost sells?

We cannot say who operates them. We can say that trendtracker.us, row 37 in the table, lists 17 other domains under headings including "Explore Our Other Websites", and all 17 are in the same marketplace table.

Are there reviews of AbGuestPost?

On 9 September 2026 we found none. Trustpilot showed a company-claimed profile with 0 reviews, and our Reddit, forum, G2 and Clutch checks found no discussion of the vendor. A public Facebook group with 232 members exists.

Why are AbGuestPost's prices so much lower than other vendors?

The page does not say. For context, Adsy put the average 2026 guest post at $459 and BuzzStream at $295 direct or $461 through a vendor. On AbGuestPost's own table, higher prices went with lower DA.

How is AbGuestPost different from FATJOE or Loganix?

All three sell paid placements. The differences are checkable: Loganix sends a shortlist for approval and links refund terms, FATJOE states guarantees, and both price rises with the metric. AbGuestPost links no terms, and its prices move against DA.

Is HARO still running?

Yes. Cision shut HARO, then called Connectively, on 9 December 2024. Featured.com bought the brand and relaunched it on 22 April 2025 as a free newsletter with three daily digests of journalist requests.

Do paid links help you get cited by AI assistants?

No controlled study has tested it. Correlational studies found Google page-one rankings matter more for ChatGPT mentions than backlinks do, and the one experiment that raised AI visibility did it by improving content, not by adding links.

How do I check a link vendor before paying?

Count the inventory against the claims, sort price against the metric sold, look for shared ownership between listed sites, find written refund and permanence terms, ask for rel="sponsored", and check whether the vendor sells its own domain.

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