Linkavista review: adult inventory and second price

Where an English-language adult site finds its inventory

Linkavista splits publishers that write about adult topics from publishers that merely accept an adult link, and an English buyer needs the second group. The first group lives in a topic called Adult - Dating, first of the 28 topics in the catalogue. It holds 829 sites in all languages, and only 92 of them are English. The second group hides in the catalogue options, behind a tick box reading that the site accepts sensitive categories, plus a three-value menu offering gambling, CBD and adult. Set to adult and narrowed to English, that filter returns 8 272 sites.

Those two populations barely overlap. Across all languages, 829 sites carry the adult topic, 26 145 accept an adult link, and only 309 do both. An English adult site chasing authority therefore works almost entirely inside the sensitive-category filter, buying links on business blogs, tech magazines and news sites that have agreed to take adult work for a fee.

The language split matters for an English buyer. French sites make up 47 411 of the catalogue against 27 391 in English, and the adult topic follows the same shape, 690 French entries against 92 English ones. English inventory is therefore deep on the sensitive-category side and thin on the topical side, which is the opposite of what a French buyer sees.

The three sensitive niches are not equally welcome. Gambling is accepted by 33 117 publishers, CBD by 31 448, adult by 26 145. Adult trails the other two by roughly 7 000 publishers, which is still the deepest sensitive inventory of any marketplace in this category.

What sits inside the Adult - Dating topic

The topic name covers two trades at once and the contents follow. Among the 92 English entries are genuine adult publishers such as lovenspa.fr at 674 € and eroticatale.com at 573 €, alongside a wedding magazine, a personal blog and a self-improvement site. A domain search for escort returns seven listings, including escort-boeken.be at 35 €, cupidescorts.co.uk at 278 € and escortnews.eu at 1 032 €. The last of those carries no topic at all, so it never appears for anyone filtering by category.

One habit deserves a warning. Part of the English adult inventory ships with masked domain names, printed as on******************.com, revealed only after purchase. Three of the five cheapest English adult listings behave this way, one of them priced at 1 €, which matches the from 1 € claim on the home page. Buying a neighbour you cannot see is defensible at a euro and reckless at three figures.

Metrics come with every row: monthly traffic, ranking keywords, Trust Flow, Citation Flow, referring domains and Domain Authority. Publishers who granted Linkavista access to their Google Search Console carry an SC pill and a verified-data label, and their traffic figure comes from that access rather than a third-party estimate. A separate Gnews label marks the 3 015 sites indexed in Google News, of which 302 also accept adult work.

Two prices on the same row, and the one your budget follows

With the sensitive filter active, every catalogue row shows two figures, the publisher's ordinary rate and the rate it charges for the sensitive niche you picked. The gap belongs to the publisher alone. No ceiling, no formula, no say from the platform. Eight publishers that accept adult work, in catalogue order:

Doubling is the common case. A surcharge of twelve times, as on lessentieldeleco.fr, is rare enough to read as a polite refusal, and a handful of publishers such as quingey.com charge adult buyers the same as everyone else. An English buyer scanning a long list should sort by the adult figure and ignore the ordinary one entirely.

That matters for filtering too, because the price slider works on the sensitive rate rather than the printed one. Set the floor to 1 000 € and the catalogue returns 116 publishers, with lessentieldeleco.fr among them still displaying 390 €: its 5 000 € adult rate is what qualified it. Every figure in the catalogue excludes VAT, which is added according to the buyer's tax status.

A low-price-guaranteed label marks publishers who agreed to cap their rate at the lowest price observed on competing platforms that Linkavista tracks. The cap moves when those competing prices move, and the platform reserves the right to change both the list of tracked platforms and the calculation method without notice.

What the adult shelf actually costs

Inside the Adult - Dating topic, 109 of the 829 listings sell for 10 € or less and 512 for 50 € or less. The cheapest observed placement is 5 € on a French dating blog, cut to 4.50 € by a 10 % promotion, and one masked English listing sits at 1 €. Prices then climb through maitressecharlotte.com at 39 €, saraconte.fr at 46 €, hellovibro.com and pleazya.com at 49 €, bespoke-bride.com at 150 € and cupidescorts.co.uk at 278 €.

The top of the shelf is thin. Ten listings in the adult topic pass 500 €: charlesjorlando.com at 1 573 €, parlerdamour.fr at 713.79 €, lovenspa.fr at 674 €, eroticatale.com at 573 € and a few others. So the whole adult topic spans a range of roughly 1 € to 1 573 €, against Domain Authority figures running from 1 to 57.

Price and authority pull apart badly at the top of this shelf. The dearest adult listing, charlesjorlando.com at 1 573 €, carries Domain Authority 15 and roughly 2 300 monthly visits, while lovenspa.fr at 674 € carries Domain Authority 54 and more than 154 000. At the bottom, maitressecharlotte.com asks 39 € on Domain Authority 6 and pleazya.com asks 49 € on Domain Authority 9. Reading the metric columns before the price column is the only way to avoid paying magazine money for a parked blog.

Two more numbers frame the shelf. Nine sites in the entire catalogue are free, and 457 sites carry a promotion at any given moment, with discounts of 10 % to 20 % applied to the displayed rate. Promotions and free slots both come and go, so a shopping list built one week rarely reprices identically the next.

One indicator stays unexplained. Some rows carry a green pill and a percentage, between 80 % and 100 %, and no help page states what it measures. We do not use it to pick a publisher, and neither should you until the platform documents it.

The twenty-four month retention rule stops at sensitive content

Publishers owe twenty-four months of live, indexed publication on every order, and one clause removes that promise from adult content. The wording covers four niches, gambling, CBD, adult content and tobacco, and removes three things from each: maintenance, replacement and refund. Nothing in the written rules replaces them with a lighter remedy.

The size of the loss becomes clear from what ordinary buyers get. A publisher who deletes a link early, adds a nofollow or sponsored attribute, redirects the page somewhere unequivalent or hides it behind a paywall owes the net price back, a 15 % handling charge and a sliding penalty: 100 % of the net price in the first six months, 75 % up to twelve, 50 % up to eighteen and 25 % up to twenty-four, capped at 240 % of the net price. An adult order carries none of that.

Two informal remedies remain. The help centre asks buyers to open the internal messenger first and ask the publisher to restore or replace the link, then allows a support ticket if the publisher stays silent for five days, at which point the platform says it will step in without promising an outcome. Separately, a backlink-status screen tracks whether purchased links are still live, and a re-linking screen helps place a replacement.

Our practice with this clause splits by price. Below 100 €, we accept the exposure and rebuy elsewhere when a link drops. Above it, we ask the publisher for a written retention commitment inside the messenger before paying, because a promise recorded there still binds the publisher when the penalty scale does not apply.

Credits, cancellations and the fee a buyer does not pay

A listing priced at 245 € asks for exactly 245 € of balance, with no platform commission added. Linkavista takes its cut from publishers instead, on each sale and again on each withdrawal. Balance is topped up by card through Stripe, by PayPal with a 2.5 % surcharge, or by bank transfer at the buyer's cost. The minimum top-up is 20 € excluding VAT. Transfers take 48 to 72 hours and require a double confirmation inside the platform, without which the incoming money cannot be matched to the account.

Credits expire twenty-four months after purchase. Expired credits are cancelled with no refund and no extension, and credits are neither refundable, exchangeable nor transferable. Closing an account, voluntarily or after termination, forfeits whatever remains.

Cancelling an order runs in three stages. Before the publisher accepts, a button cancels and refunds automatically. After acceptance, the buyer needs the publisher's agreement through the messenger, and the refund follows if it is given. Once the article is published, no automatic cancellation or refund exists. Publishers keep their own exits too: a publisher may decline an accepted order for technical or editorial reasons, or answer with a counter-offer on price, deadline or publication terms, so a validated basket is a firm offer rather than a completed sale.

Each top-up produces a PDF invoice in the account area, and every movement appears in a transactions tab, project by project.

One rule aims straight at the buyer: contacting a publisher or writer found through the platform directly is barred for twelve months after the last order, with a 30 % indemnity on diverted transactions. Spotting a good publisher and going around the platform would cost more than it saves.

Who writes the article, and what the published link looks like

Buyers either upload their own text or order writing under four named tiers, Essentiel, Expert, GEO and Éditeur. The Essentiel tier produces copy written by the platform's own artificial intelligence, recommended for general subjects and discouraged by the help centre for technical or tightly niched topics. The Expert tier adds a human edit and detailed instructions. No writing price is published, and briefs are stored per tier and per project for reuse.

The default format is a new article. An existing-article label marks publishers that accept an insertion into a page already published and already ranking, which skips the wait for indexing. An express-publication label marks the fastest publishers. For an adult buyer, an insertion has one drawback worth weighing: the host page was written for another subject, and the link arrives as a cited source rather than as the point of the piece.

Links are sold dofollow by default. The written rules require links visible to search engines and free of nofollow or sponsored attributes unless the buyer asks otherwise. A paid link that passes ranking credit is link spam in Google's own words, and stays acceptable only with rel sponsored or rel nofollow on it. Asking for that attribute is possible here and removes most of what the link was bought for. Every buyer settles that trade-off knowingly, and this review offers no method for hiding paid links from search engines.

One technical requirement affects privacy. The platform asks both buyers and publishers for access to their Google Search Console property, to verify traffic and feed its analysis screens. The authorisation is revocable from the Google account at any time. An adult project that keeps its analytics compartmentalised should settle that question before signing up rather than halfway through a campaign.

Selling links from your own adult site

An adult publisher can register its own site and set both an ordinary rate and a sensitive-niche rate. Two pricing regimes exist. Capped pricing, the default, limits the sale price to the lowest rate observed on tracked competing platforms and costs 5 % of each sale plus 10 % on withdrawal. Free pricing lets the publisher name any figure and costs 10 % per sale plus 15 % on withdrawal. The second regime is granted case by case and can be revoked without notice or compensation.

Earnings are filed into sub-balances according to the regime in force when each sale happened, and a withdrawal consumes them in an imposed order, historic balance first, then capped, then free, each at its own rate. The minimum withdrawal is 100 € excluding VAT. Switching regimes is allowed at any time with no retroactive effect, and dropping back to capped pricing pulls the site's rate down to the current competitive ceiling.

For an adult publisher the attraction is the second price: ticking the sensitive-category box makes the site visible to adult buyers, and the rate charged for that niche is unconstrained. That freedom is where the multiples in the table above come from. Linkavista keeps a discretionary right to refuse a site, remove it from the catalogue without notice and end the relationship without giving reasons, with unspent credits remaining withdrawable in that case.

Instant Link, a separate network built for volume

Alongside the marketplace, Linkavista sells a beta service called Instant Link that writes, illustrates and publishes an article on its own network in under an hour or refunds the order. The network is advertised at more than 1 000 active French sites, a capacity of 100 articles an hour, 20 topics and four anchor types, with a promise that no site is reused twice for the same buyer domain and a URL report delivered on publication.

The service states its own purpose plainly: tier two, private blog networks, expired domains, parasite SEO and short-lived sites, and it points buyers back to the marketplace for their main property. That framing matches the sensible use of these links in an adult profile, where cheap volume dilutes an anchor text distribution instead of carrying the pages that sell. No price appears before a pack is chosen, and the per-link figure resolves only once volume and topic are set.

The counter on that page runs live, showing the hour by which the order will be online, and the network claims more than 15 000 links published since 2025. Both the writing and the illustration are included in the pack price, so nothing is ordered separately.

A young French company with French-first support

Linkavista SAS was incorporated in early 2025, based at 128 route des Écureuils in Sourzac, in the Dordogne, and led by Mickael Delpech. Hosting runs on Hetzner in Germany. For an English-speaking buyer the practical point is the age of the operation rather than its size: the catalogue is large, the company behind it is barely a year old, and the first links bought here are the ones that will tell you whether its publishers hold.

The interface exists in English and the written rules are published in English and Spanish as well as French. The support team, its help centre and its help articles are French first, and the writing tiers still carry French names inside an English interface. Response time is advertised at 24 hours, with the home page promising seven-day availability and the managed-service page promising six.

The published counters do not agree with each other either. The home page claims more than 92 895 sites, the catalogue returns 92 637, the international marketplace page claims more than 5 000 publishers and the managed-service page claims more than 20 000 sites. That same managed-service page claims more than five years of experience for a company incorporated in 2025. None of this changes the inventory an account actually shows, and all of it argues against trusting any size claim printed outside the catalogue.

The managed service itself runs in four stages, audit and strategy, site selection, negotiation and purchase, then monitoring. Its entry budgets are 500 €, 1 000 €, 2 000 € and 5 000 € or more a month, with a custom tier. An adult buyer should note that a delegated purchase runs under the same written rules, so the retention carve-out applies exactly as it would to a self-serve order.

Filters, alerts and the tools around the catalogue

The catalogue is a working surface rather than a plain list. Four numeric sliders cover Trust Flow, Citation Flow, Domain Authority and referring domains, with separate range fields for monthly traffic and price, and a currency switch offering euros, dollars, pounds, zloty and hryvnia. A topic selector, a language selector and a country selector narrow the shelf further, and single tick boxes isolate Google News sites, discounted sites, capped-price sites, verified Search Console data and sites added in the last thirty days.

Four more settings save real time on a repeat campaign. A complete search can be saved under a name and recalled in one click. An alert emails the buyer when a new site matching those criteria enters the catalogue. A favourites list parks a shortlist, and a stop list permanently excludes domains a buyer never wants to touch. One box hides sites where a link has already been bought, which prevents paying twice for the same neighbour, and the search field accepts a pasted block of domains so an existing target list can be checked against the inventory in one pass.

After the purchase, two screens keep working. A backlink-status screen checks whether paid links are still live, and a re-linking screen helps replace one that has gone. A beta screen called Link Opportunities looks for sites already linking to competitors. Agencies buying at volume can drive the same inventory through a documented programming interface reachable from the account.

Orders collect in a basket that can hold several placements, and budgets can be split per project, which suits an operator running one account across several adult properties. Each project keeps its own balance line, its own briefs and its own order history, so a shared account does not mix the spending of two sites.

How we would work this catalogue for an adult site

Four habits make the difference between a cheap shelf and a wasted budget here. First, filter on the sensitive category rather than the topic. The topic returns 92 English sites, the filter returns 8 272, and authority for an adult page comes from the larger pool.

Second, sort the results by the adult rate and cut everything above twice the ordinary figure unless the publisher is genuinely strong. A publisher asking twelve times its normal price is discouraging the order rather than pricing the risk, and a dozen alternatives at the same Domain Authority sit a page below.

Third, refuse masked domains above a token price. A hidden neighbour cannot be checked for an existing adult footprint, for an outbound link farm or for the kind of host page that makes a link worth buying. At 1 € the gamble is harmless, at 278 € it is not.

Fourth, use the messenger before paying anything substantial. Ask for the retention period in writing, ask whether the article will carry an advertising label, and ask whether the publisher has already run adult work. Those three answers cost one message and replace the guarantee that the written rules withhold. Publishers who refuse to answer have told you something useful for free.

A fifth habit applies to the shelf as a whole. Cross the sensitive filter with the Google News label and 302 publishers remain, which is a manageable shortlist of news-indexed hosts that take adult work. Those pages age better than a thin blog post, and their traffic figures come from a Search Console connection often enough to be worth checking row by row.

One last budgeting note. Because credits expire after twenty-four months and are never refundable, top up for the campaign in front of you rather than banking a large balance for a plan that may change. A 20 € minimum makes small, frequent top-ups practical.

What we like, and what holds it back

Questions readers send us about Linkavista

Does Linkavista accept adult sites?

Yes, and its written rules name adult content directly. The catalogue carries an Adult - Dating topic of 829 sites and a sensitive-category filter whose third value is adult, returning 26 145 publishers willing to host an adult link. The same document withdraws every retention, replacement and refund promise from sensitive content, which is the price of that openness.

Why do two prices appear on one catalogue row?

The first is the publisher's ordinary rate, the second is what it charges for the sensitive niche selected in the filter. The gap ranges from nothing to 12.8 times. Budget against the second figure, because the price slider filters on it as well.

Is there a commission for buyers?

No. The amount requested at checkout equals the amount displayed. The 5 % or 10 % sales commission and the 10 % or 15 % withdrawal fee fall on publishers. Only PayPal adds 2.5 % when topping up a balance.

How long does a purchased link stay online?

Publishers commit to twenty-four months, backed by penalties reaching 240 % of the net price for early removal. That commitment excludes sensitive content, so an adult link lasts as long as its publisher chooses. A written agreement in the internal messenger before payment is the only durable record.

Can a price be negotiated?

Yes. Each row opens a messenger thread to the publisher and the message can carry a proposed figure, with sent proposals tracked in their own tab. Negotiation is the only route to a lower sensitive-niche rate, since the publisher sets it without oversight.

Is the Spanish-language inventory usable?

Barely. The catalogue holds 1 249 Spanish sites, of which 174 accept an adult link and 9 carry the adult topic. A campaign aimed at Spain or Latin America will exhaust that shelf quickly.