A backlink exchange that doesn't look like one.

Niche-vector matched contextual links between brands in your category. No PBNs, no reciprocal-pair patterns, no Fiverr gigs. Just contextually relevant links inside articles you're already publishing.

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Why traditional link exchanges blow up.

Three-way link triangles. Footer link farms. PBN swaps. Spreadsheets of "you link me, I link you" deals. Google has a model for every one of these — and it lights up your profile like a Christmas tree the moment the link graph turns reciprocal at scale.

The version that works is the one that doesn't look like an exchange: a small number of contextually relevant links inside genuinely useful articles, placed between brands that share an audience. That's what Ranket automates.

The safeguards Google can't flag

Niche-vector relevance gate

A link is only proposed when the source article and the destination article have a topical embedding similarity ≥ 0.65. If they're not actually on the same subject, the matcher skips.

Anchor-text diversity caps

Per brand: exact-match ≤ 15%, branded ≤ 30%, the rest descriptive or partial. Enforced in real time at placement, not after the fact.

No reciprocal-pair patterns

Each brand routes its outbound links across the whole network, not back to whoever linked to it. The graph looks organic, not 1:1.

Weekly verification

A scheduled crawl checks every placement is still live, still in context, and still pointing where it should. Removals are logged and rebalanced automatically.

5-article eligibility floor

New brands wait until they have 5+ published articles + 30 days of GSC data before joining. No fresh, untested sites enter the network.

Competitor blocklist

Per brand, paste any domains you don't want matched against. Excludes both inbound and outbound placements indefinitely.

Traditional link schemes vs the Ranket exchange

Dimension PBN / footer swaps / Fiverr Ranket exchange
Placement contextFooter / sidebar / unrelatedInside a relevant paragraph
Topical relevanceNoneEmbedding ≥ 0.65 required
Anchor diversityExact-match heavyCaps enforced per brand
Network shapeReciprocal 1:1 pairsDistributed graph
EligibilityAnyone with $5+ articles + 30d history
VerificationNoneWeekly automated crawl
Google responseManual action riskIndistinguishable from organic

What the exchange ships with

✓ Inbound + outbound link dashboard
✓ Per-link DR + traffic estimate
✓ Anchor-text diversity charts
✓ Weekly verification log
✓ Niche-similarity score per match
✓ Competitor blocklist
✓ Pause / resume per brand
✓ Removal alerts + auto-rebalance
✓ Disclosure-compliant rel attributes
✓ CSV export of all placements
✓ Includes all eligible Ranket brands
✓ Zero extra cost on Pro plan

FAQ

Isn't link exchange against Google's guidelines?
Link schemes designed to manipulate PageRank are. A small number of relevant contextual exchanges between brands operating in the same niche — where the link genuinely helps the reader — is not. Ranket is built specifically to stay on the safe side of that line: every link must be topically relevant (embedding similarity ≥ 0.65), anchor diversity is enforced, and reciprocal pairs are capped so the link graph never looks like a 1:1 swap network.
How does the niche-vector matching work?
When you onboard, Ranket scrapes your sitemap and builds a brand embedding — a dense vector representing your topical area. The matcher only proposes a link placement between two brands when their embeddings are within a tight cosine-similarity window AND the specific article on each side is relevant to the other's anchor. This is structurally different from blanket reciprocal link schemes.
Do I have to write extra content for the links?
No. The matcher inserts contextual links into articles Ranket is already writing for you. A 3-word phrase inside an existing paragraph becomes a link to a partner brand — only when that phrase is the article's actual subject and the partner article is the best resource on it.
How many links do I get per month?
Volume scales with your output. On Pro (30 articles/mo), you typically place 8-15 outbound contextual links and receive 8-15 inbound — but only after the matcher finds genuinely relevant pairs. Months with thin niche matches will have fewer; months with rich matches more. Quality over quota.
When do I become eligible?
After your brand has 5+ published articles and 30 days of history. The waiting period lets us build a reliable brand embedding from real content rather than the initial sitemap, and gives Search Console time to start reporting impressions so we can verify the brand isn't penalized.
What if a partner removes a link?
Every placement is verified weekly. If a partner removes a link without warning, the matcher logs it, lowers their trust score, and (if the pattern persists) removes them from the exchange. Your inbound count stays balanced — if they take one down, our matcher places one of yours into a different partner.
How is anchor text decided?
Claude generates the anchor text based on the surrounding sentence and the destination article's topic. Each brand has a global anchor-text profile: exact-match anchors are capped at 15% of total inbound, branded anchors at 30%, and the rest are descriptive / partial-match. This profile is enforced in real time on every placement.
Can I block specific competitors from being matched to me?
Yes. The brand settings page has a blocklist — paste any domain to exclude it from both inbound and outbound matching, permanently or with an expiration.

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