Earn More Money From Your Authority Site (Hands-Off)

Our done-for-you service sources and manages sponsored posts and link placements to build an additional, ongoing revenue stream for your website from start to finish.

(100% performance-based: We only get paid when you do)

Why Site Owners Love Partnering With Us:

100% Done For You

After a brief onboarding and setup process, we get to work sourcing sponsored post placements on your site with no ongoing work required on your part.

Keep Doing Your Thing

You keep running your website as usual. The sponsored content we create is independent of your existing site work and won’t interfere with your SEO and content strategy.

Enjoy The Passive Income Stream

We constantly seek out new clients and manage the entire process from initial contact through to publishing and payment collection. You’ll receive your payment at the beginning of each month.

Jake Willhoite, Founder & CEO

Our Origin Story

We run a portfolio of SEO-based affiliate websites that have seen (more than) their fair share of Google updates over the years, which has led to declining traffic and ad/affiliate revenues on several sites…

However, many of our websites still have solid domain authority from our own white hat link building efforts and still make for good backlink opportunities.

Which got us thinking…

We decided to test out accepting sponsored posts on a site receiving a lot of inbound requests as a way to become less dependent on Google traffic.

The test succeeded in dramatically increasing revenue to more than compensate for the lost affiliate sales. We were pleasantly surprised, to say the least.

From the test on that one website, we expanded to running the same process on more of our websites and now we are offering it as a service for other site owners and portfolio managers looking to profit from the link juice their sites have to offer.

Our Stats to Date:

25+

Current Partner Websites

450+

Satisfied Link Clients

1,500+

Sponsored Placements

100%

On-Time Distributions

Why Work With Us As Your Partner?

We have 7+ years of experience creating additional revenue streams from our websites and partner sites via sponsored posts.

Unlike marketplaces where you passively list your website and hope for link orders to come in, our team actively works on generating new clients for each site and cross-promoting with previous clients to maximize sales for your asset.

Leverage Your Existing Web Asset

You’ve already done the hard work to build up your site’s authority and traffic. Let us help to further leverage your asset by finding clients who would love a backlink from it.

Won’t Compromise Your SEO Strategy

You can keep publishing content and building links and as you normally do. We operate independently of the existing SEO strategy and content plan you have in place.

100% Transparency

You will have access to a live dashboard that lists each sponsored post and link placement on your site as well as when each client has paid. All posts and links we publish on your site will be tracked here and updated in real-time.

Results We’ve Generated For Partner Sites

Cannabis Website: From $0 to $2,100+ Per month

  • DR: 30-35
  • Ahrefs Traffic: 3,000-10,000

This was an unmonetized hobby blog in the cannabis niche ($0 lifetime earnings). The site creator was passionate about the topic but unskilled at actually getting paid to write about it…

After promoting this DR30+ site to our existing client base, the monthly revenue from sponsored posts and link placements grew to average over $900 per month with the highest earning month bringing in over $2,100 and a total of over $11,000 in the first 12 months.

Education Website: From $100 to $1,400+ Per month

  • DR: 30-35
  • Ahrefs Traffic: 8,000-12,000

This educational site in the test prep space was making around $100 per month with Ezoic ads when we started working with them.

After promoting this aged DR30+ site to our existing client base, we got off to a slow start but were ultimately able to generate well over $1,000 per month in the last 4 months and a total of over $5,700 in the first 9 months. (Notice how the existing Ezoic ad revenue increased as well!)

Finance Website: From $0 to $1,900+ Per month

  • DR: 45-50
  • Ahrefs Traffic: 2,000-5,000

This was an unmonetized blog in the personal finance niche ($0 lifetime earnings). The site had a decent DR and consistent traffic in a lucrative niche so it was only a matter of time before we found high-paying clients.

After sourcing new clients for this niche, the monthly revenue grew slowly from a few hundred per month to over $1,900 in the highest earning month bringing in a total of over $6,900 in the first 9 months.

Note: We do not guarantee you’ll see the same results as above. We just want to share a few examples of how we’ve been able to successfully add or create completely new revenue streams for existing websites — without negatively affecting existing revenue sources.

The above revenue numbers are the monthly totals actually received in the bank after PayPal fees.

Do you think your website has what it takes to become another success story and earn over $500 per month in passive income?

How Does The Link Rain Process Work?

1. Onboard Your Site

We’ll work with you to define your requirements for link partners, get your WordPress login details (author- or editor-level only), and set up a real-time tracking sheet for you to see all deals closed for your site (we strive for full transparency).

2. Source Suitable Clients

We’ll start promoting your site to relevant previous link clients to kickstart sales. We will also tell you how to optimize your website’s contact page to start receiving inbound requests and ramp up long-term sales.

3. Negotiation

We will negotiate with each client in order to maximize the price per sponsored post & link. We won’t accept any offers below our agreed-upon minimum price.

4. Link Vetting & Quality Control

We check each link included in the sponsored posts to ensure they meet your quality standards and reject links to websites in shady niches or any niche you don’t pre-approve. We also check plagiarism and the overall writing quality of each post, rejecting low-quality submissions.

5. Publishing & Payment Collection

Once approved for quality, we’ll publish the sponsored posts/links on your website and request payment from the client. 93% of clients pay within 2 business days and we keep following up with the ones that don’t.

6. Your Payment

In the first week of each month, we’ll send you the payment (via bank transfer for no fees) for all posts and links paid in the previous month minus our cut. You can track all post statuses and payments in your site’s tracking sheet.

Who is This Service For?

  • Do you have a DR20/DA20+ site with over 1,000 Ahrefs traffic?
  • Are you looking to regain lost revenue from declining organic traffic?
  • Are you an easygoing person to work with?
  • Are you still interested after reading this far down the page?

Awesome! This service is designed to give you a completely hands-off, passive revenue stream to complement your existing site (regardless of your current monetization scheme).

Even if your traffic has been smashed to pieces in recent Google updates [we feel your pain…], if you’re still over 1,000 (or even 500) traffic in Ahrefs we will still be able to find link placement clients for your site.

We have a list of hungry link buyers looking for sites that have survived the updates that would LOVE to buy links on your website.

Who is This Service NOT For?

  • Is your site DR/DA under 20 and Ahrefs traffic under 500?
  • Are you super picky about post topics and worried about your site’s branding?
  • Are you generally annoying, a micromanager, and/or a PITA to work with?

Then we won’t be able to help you in a meaningful way. Best of luck recovering your traffic, avoiding the future wrath of the Google Gods, and finding other creative ways to maximize more value from your site.

Hit us up in the future when your DR20+ site is back over 1,000 Ahrefs traffic.

What Do Other Site Owners Say About Us?

Scott M.

Outdoors Site owner

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

I thought my site was dead after the various Google updates over the last few years but Link Rain helps to make up lost revenue from affiliate sales so I can maintain a passive income stream.

FAQ

Expect to make anywhere between $100-$5,000 per month. Typical publication fees range from $30-$300 each depending on your site's SEO value.

The amount of money clients are willing to pay for each post or link can vary depending on the following factors:

  • SEO Metrics (DR, DA)
  • Organic Traffic
  • Site Age & History
  • Niche

Our team will negotiate with each client to maximize sales for your website.

We can work together on either a flat fee per post or a revenue share split. We'll chat with you to figure out which structure is best for both of us.

Either way, we'll agree on a minimum price for sponsored posts and sponsored link placements for your site to avoid time wasters and maximize sales.

We'll work with you to find the sweet spot to charge depending on your site's metrics.

We tend to charge more for sponsored posts and give a discount for sponsored links. For example, one of our site partners receives $50 per post and $30 per link placement.

Once sponsored posts/links are placed we will get the payment from the client and then payout your share accordingly early the next month based on the partnership structure.

Keep in mind that the lower price you are willing to accept (and the more niches you accept e.g. CBD, vaping, gambling), the more often we'll be able to get link clients for your site.

We are flexible with the sites we partner with and don't have set requirements (yet).

However, the sites that generate the most client interest tend to have higher DR/DA, higher US-based organic traffic, and better branding. If your site is lacking in one or more of the above categories it will be harder to find link clients.

Once your site is accepted, here's what we'll need from you to get up and running:

  • WordPress Access (Editor level) to make this income stream as passive as possible for you. We'll create and optimize a Write For Us page with a contact form to generate more inbound leads.
  • Blog roll on the homepage for latest posts (if you don't have one setup already). Clients like to see their posts initially show up on the site's homepage instead of hiding it under a random subcategory.
  • Your bank transfer details (preferred to avoid fees) or PayPal email.

No, we can likely find sponsored post clients regardless of the niche.

Our portfolio started with a group of health & fitness sites and we are expanding into other niches such as outdoors, travel and beyond.

The more your site's niche aligns with the rest of our portfolio the more successful cross-selling we'll be able to do with previous clients for your site to kickstart sales.

Also, the more "shoulder niche" content your site has, the wider of variety of clients it will attract. For example, one of our health sites has content silos about sleep and oral health. That site gets many additional targeted inquiries from various sleep products, mattress brands, and dentist sites as a result.

Typically we will be publishing sponsored guest posts on your blog which will include links to the client's site. These posts will be well-written, properly formatted with headings and images, and the topic will tie into your site's niche.

We also publish sponsored links which means adding a link (and accompanying text to make the link fit into the article) into existing posts. You can tell us which (if any) posts are off-limits for these link insertions, such as high-earning affiliate pages.

You can also setup an email inbox that forwards to us to add on your contact page to boost inquiries, but that's not required.

Yes, you can pre-approve topics (it is your site after all!). However, we recommend letting us work with the clients to come up with suitable topics to save both of us time.

You can suggest any important new topics and keywords you would like written about. We will send these titles to link buyers who will then write the content on your behalf and then pay you for the privilege of doing so!

Note that the ability to write about all of your topics depends on the relevancy of the link client's site and niche so we can't always guarantee we'll be able to use your suggestions.

Yes, of course.

We'll work with you upfront to set general guidelines on niches you will/won't link to and actively filter client requests to meet your requirements and quality standards.

For example, by default, we don't work with adult or casino/gambling sites (though we can if you are ok with it) but do allow CBD/cannabis content on some sites.

You can choose which niches are on- and off-limits. Keep in mind that the more flexible you are, the more clients we'll be able to find for your site. 

Typically we agree with link clients to keep their posts and links live for 12 months after publishing. Unlike many marketplaces, we don't promise "permanent posts" since there are just too many factors outside our control.

So, technically you can unpublish posts and remove sponsored links after 1 year though we recommend to just keep them published for as long as possible.

Rest assured that nearly all clients we work with are respectable business people and pay their invoices in a timely manner.

For the very small minority that doesn't pay in a timely manner, we follow up with them several times within the 1-2 weeks following the publishing of their post. If we still haven't heard from them by then, and they haven't paid, then we unpublish their post/link until payment is made.

In most cases we charge them an extra republishing as well as a penalty for paying late resulting in extra admin work.

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