What we publish
Two kinds of content: website analyses, one per site, and guides to evaluating links. How metrics are read and verdicts reached is set out separately in our methodology.
How websites are chosen
We analyse websites that link buyers ask about: sites offered by sellers, sites readers suggest, and sites that come up in our own research. Once a site is accepted for analysis it is published whatever the findings are, including when the verdict is to avoid it.
The verification standard
- Numbers come only from measured data with a stated date. Nothing is estimated, rounded up or carried over from another site.
- Claims about a website, such as whether it accepts guest posts or how it marks links, are checked against that site’s own pages, and the article links to them.
- What we can’t verify is labelled “not confirmed”, never guessed.
- Opinion is labelled. Each page marks which blocks are measured data, our analysis and our recommendation.
How analyses are written
Each analysis is written for its own website from that site’s evidence, with the site’s name, numbers and policies doing the work rather than generic advice. Before publication every analysis passes checks for accuracy against its data, for depth, and for overlap with our other pages.
Updates
Websites are re-measured over time. Every analysis shows two dates: when its data was measured and when the text was last edited. When new data changes what the analysis says, the text is updated, not just the numbers.
Corrections
If something on the site is wrong, email contact@rapidpalace.com with the page address and your evidence. We re-check the claim against primary sources and, where it is wrong, correct the page and update its edited date.
Website owners
Owners of analysed websites can send public evidence we may have missed, such as contributor guidelines or a link policy. Evidence can change an analysis; a request on its own does not.