LinkGathering

Published 2026-09-07 · Updated 2026-09-07

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LinkGathering is a Serbia-based search company selling audits, managed retainers and listed marketplace placements.³²¹ Its public offer spans editorial link building, managed white-label fulfilment and artificial-intelligence search optimisation.⁶⁵⁴ The current Public Evidence Score shown in the infobox reflects round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

No legal-entity name or company number appears beyond the trading name and Serbian operating jurisdiction.³⁷ The company names Marko Ristic as chief executive and Predrag Jovanovic as co-founders of the business.⁸³ As of September 2026, LinkedIn shows two to ten staff with a 2023 founding date recorded.⁹ Homepage copy claims thirteen years of experience, while some pages state operation since 2013.¹⁰ The earliest archive capture from May 2012 shows a web directory, not the current agency.¹²¹¹ The live homepage returned an error to the research host, so copy comes from indexed official pages.¹⁰

Services

Three public engagement tiers cover audits, implementation and retainers with stated minima and inclusions.² Managed link building is listed at 4,800 dollars monthly with six to eight editorial placements.⁶ A marketplace lists over two hundred vetted publishers with filters, carts and per-listing prices.¹ White-label fulfilment offers agency discounts with non-disclosure terms plus a formal written application step.⁵¹⁰ Artificial-intelligence optimisation and startup verticals carry dedicated public pages where audits start each engagement.⁴¹³ Gated specialist verticals cover cannabis, crypto and adult placements behind separate gated application routes.¹⁰⁶¹⁴ The stated method combines manual outreach with marketplace selection, described on the methodology page.¹⁵ Publisher totals differ across pages, from two hundred to nineteen hundred vetted outlets stated.¹⁰¹⁶

Pricing

As of September 2026, audits are listed from 1,800 to 5,500 dollars one-time with a five-day window.² As of September 2026, implementation retainers run 8,500 to 15,000 dollars monthly with a three-month minimum.² As of September 2026, standard retainers start at 4,500 dollars monthly with a six-month minimum.² As of September 2026, a cryptopolitan listing is priced at 835 dollars with DR 75 and dofollow status.¹⁶ As of September 2026, price-ascending listings show 150 and 266 dollars for DR 53 and DR 43 outlets.¹⁷ Many catalogue prices stay hidden until sign-in, and no completed checkout was ever observed.¹ Frequently asked questions note credit of audit fees against longer engagements for committed buyers.¹⁸

Terms and buyer protection

No public terms-of-service page was found, with buyer terms spread across questions and listings.¹⁸¹⁷ Engagement fees are stated as non-refundable, while undelivered marketplace orders still carry seven-day refunds.¹⁸¹ Removed placements carry twelve months of free replacement cover on the main marketplace pages.¹ An example listing instead states seven days of cover, differing from the marketplace-wide window.¹⁶ Audit delivery is stated at five to seven business days, with marketplace delivery at fourteen to twenty-one.²¹⁸ Retainers pause without penalty after month six, with no dispute forum named publicly anywhere.¹⁸

Reputation

No Trustpilot profile with ratings was found as of September 2026, with the locator returning an error.¹⁹ No G2, Clutch, or Google Business profiles with ratings were found as of September 2026.¹⁹ The methodology page describes the review smoothing method used for ratings.

Delivery evidence

No live third-party placement samples with visible links were opened during evidence gathering for this round.¹⁶ Three named case studies report clicks and impressions, but describe sites built from scratch.²²²¹²⁰ One parenting example reports about thirty-five thousand clicks across sixteen months of steady growth.²² A second example reports about one hundred twenty-four thousand clicks with millions of impressions.²¹ The index page gathers the studies, while the marketplace states dofollow defaults for listings.²³¹

Operational footprint

Two founders are named, with no office address published on the about or contact pages.³ Contact runs through email, booked strategy calls and marketplace carts for new placement requests.⁹³¹ No readable LinkedIn headcount was established, with access limited at the time of review.⁹ Stated delivery windows span days for audits to weeks for gated specialist marketplace verticals.¹⁸

Value for money

No priced G30, G50, N30 or M1 basket units with defined authority floors were found as of September 2026.²¹ Managed tiers sell calls rather than units, while marketplace units are per-publisher and often gated.²¹ The methodology page describes the price-basket comparison used for value assessment across providers.

Penalties

Pre-approval is offered as standard, with publisher lists and client briefs approved before outreach.³² No guarantee of rankings, traffic or authority-metric increases was found in the public copy examined.¹⁰¹ With no public terms page, no headline promise is contradicted by legal text on the site.¹⁸¹ No established evidence was found that placements land on controlled sites sold as editorial placements.¹ No review-platform alert, incentivised-review flag or sanction on any profile was found as of September 2026.¹⁹ Listings state dofollow status openly, so no hidden nofollow default was found as of September 2026.¹¹⁶

Category evidence

Managed building, guest posts and niche edits carry scope with prices, terms and approval steps.⁶¹ White-label fulfilment defines agency scope with volume discounts, while packages tier audit to retainer.⁵² High-authority inventory is filterable by metric, with DR 75 plus publishers all listed publicly.¹ Software and commerce verticals carry dedicated public pages, with gated rules for regulated niches.¹⁰²⁴¹⁴ Crypto pricing appears on a public listing, while adult scope sits within gated tiers.¹⁶¹⁴ Artificial-intelligence optimisation carries a public audit price and ongoing managed scope without any published samples.⁴

Frequently asked questions

What does LinkGathering sell?

Three public engagement tiers cover audits, implementation and retainers with stated minima and inclusions.² White-label fulfilment offers agency discounts with non-disclosure terms plus a formal written application step.⁵ ¹⁰ The public ecommerce and startup vertical pages carry scope, with audits starting each engagement.²⁴ ¹³

What does LinkGathering charge?

As of September 2026, audits are listed from 1,800 to 5,500 dollars one-time with a five-day window.² As of September 2026, implementation retainers run 8,500 to 15,000 dollars monthly with a three-month minimum.² Marketplace listings show 150 and 266 dollars for lower-metric outlets, with a cryptopolitan listing at 835 dollars.¹⁷ ¹⁶

Can buyers approve sites before outreach?

Pre-approval is offered as standard, with publisher lists and client briefs approved before outreach.³ ² On the marketplace, buyers select listed publishers directly through carts and placement request flows.¹ White-label delivery always waits for formal client brief approval before any placements go live.⁵

What refund and replacement terms apply?

Where is LinkGathering based and who runs it?

No legal-entity name or company number appears beyond the trading name and Serbian operating jurisdiction.³ ⁷ The company names Marko Ristic as chief executive alongside Predrag Jovanovic as fellow co-founders.⁸ ³ The earliest archive capture from May 2012 shows a web directory, not the current agency.¹² ¹¹

What delivery proof and public reviews exist?

No Trustpilot, G2, Clutch or Google Business ratings were found as of September 2026.¹⁹ The public case-study index gathers three studies reporting clicks and impressions for built sites.²³ One parenting example reports about thirty-five thousand clicks across sixteen months of steady growth.²²

How is LinkGathering scored?

The current Public Evidence Score for the provider appears in the infobox beside the lead. It reflects round 2026-09-pes1 evidence across the published criteria and buyer-protection checks. The methodology page describes the criteria, weights and coverage rules behind the score in full.

History

This article was created from round 2026-09-pes1 evidence, with later revision entries rendered from stored data.