Collaborator.Pro Review (2025)

What is Collaborator.pro?

Collaborator.pro is a well-known guest-posting marketplace where you can submit your article to be published on other websites for PR purposes or to acquire a backlink. Writing services are also available from many publishers, making it possible to manage the whole link-building process in one place.

Collaborator.pro was founded by Ihor Rudnyk on July 29th, 2018, in Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦. As of October 2024, it has an online catalog of 37,412 websites available for publication.

In this review, we’ll check if Collaborator.pro is legit.

I’ll test the platform from a user perspective to collect data for our guest-posting marketplace rating.

Our review

Visibility (traffic & founder presence) – 20%

Publisher sites’ transparency – 50%

Support quality – 30%

PROS

+ Great marketplace & well-known founder
+ Excellent data transparency about publisher sites
+ Organized and helpful filters
+ Stellar support quality

CONS

– Some traffic data might be outdated
– The traffic countries filter is misleading

Overall Score

Ranked #2 of 18

Key Facts about Collaborator.pro

# of listings: 37K

Headquarters: Estonia, Tallinn

Key people: CEO Ihor Rudnyk, CMO Mykhailo Shcherbachov

Commission: 10% on deposits + payment system commission (1% to 4%), added at checkout

Most traffic comes from: Ukraine, Germany, and the United States.

Publisher metrics:

Domain authority metrics: Yes (Ahrefs, MOZ, Majestic, Serpstat)
Organic traffic: Yes (Ahrefs)
Total traffic: Yes (Similarweb, Google Analytics)
Traffic by country: Yes
Traffic trends: Yes

Copywriting: available from most publishers, $5 – $100 +

Interface

The first thing I learned about Collaborator.pro was the 1* review in Trustpilot, which made me like this platform!

The publisher complained that Collaborator removed their website from the marketplace. The marketplace team answered the review (good!) and mentioned the removed website.

I’ve checked its performance and concluded that the Collaborator’s team is doing a great job by eliminating junky websites. Take a look:

Complaining publisher site's declining traffic — *The complaining publisher’s site had near-zero keyword rankings. Source: Semrush*

The website lost traffic in March ‘24 and has an “AI content cliff” on its traffic graph, indicating it was affected by Google’s Helpful Content Update presumably because of excessive AI-generated content.

Great job for removing it, Collaborator team!

In addition, Collaborator.pro has an easy-to-use interface. The publisher metrics are well organized here, I quite like that.

Buying backlinks

From the user’s perspective, we are replicating the same customer journey on every guest-posting marketplace. As a user, I want to promote my Content Audit Tool on a truly authoritative website. This includes:

The publisher’s website must receive at least 1,000 monthly visits from organic traffic. I want a backlink from a Google-recognized site.
The traffic should be stable or growing, not declining. My investment should increase in value over time, or at least not decrease.
The traffic source should be the US, as it’s my home market, and 90% of my audience is based here.
The publisher’s relevance matters for topical authority. A cooking website isn’t the best place to promote an SEO SaaS tool.
I want a Semrush Authority Score (AS) higher than my website’s, which is 24 as of today. I don’t consider legacy metrics from Moz, Ahrefs, and Majestic, as they became useless after Google’s Useful Content Update in March 2024. DA and DR were too easy to manipulate for years before the March update.
I prefer the content publisher or platform copywriter to create content following their guidelines, using my input as the foundation.
Lastly, I want to spend $200 or less on my backlink. Price matters.

So, I set out to filter sites based on these criteria.

I am more focused on the filters. And collaborator.pro has excellent filters – one of the best, if not the best, I’ve seen on marketplaces.

The first screen immediately displays almost all of my customer journey checkmarks, and ten more filters are present. It even shows the region and city filters along with the country filter.

I spent a minute looking for the “Organic Traffic” data and found it under the Trust/Spam tab.

To summarize, only one of the seven filters needed for my task is missing—the Authority Score. Other than that, everything is well organized.

Based on my criteria, I found 250 websites, which is solid!

I manually checked some publishers since marketplace data can sometimes be outdated or misleading.

And the data seems to be updated. Except for one small thing.

According to Semrush and Ahrefs data, the publisher I selected (startupopinions.com) was getting more than 90% of its traffic from India!

Reminder: I need a publisher with US traffic.

It was sorted based on the US traffic filter and even marked with the USA flag in the Collaborator.pro interface!

Again, this is where country filters get misleading. When I filter for US websites, I am looking for sites with major traffic from the US. The filter probably shows sites that are set up in the US, which has no value in itself.

After being so impressed with Collaborator.pro filters, I was disappointed. The traffic from non-target countries is useless for my true domain authority. Most SEOs will agree!

Data accuracy

Next, I compared the data on SEO tools on the platform with the same data on Collaborator.pro to ensure the metrics are updated.

I do it because sometimes marketplaces “forget” to show significant changes in publishers’ metrics, especially negative ones. I randomly took a few websites and compared Collaborator.pro claimed data from Ahrefs with the traffic data in the tool itself.

It seems like the platform updates metrics regularly, which is excellent.

However, I found a weird case where Ahrefs showed 59.5k visits – much higher traffic than 26.8k on Collaborator.pro. This website’s traffic wasn’t that low for at least a year!

The lowest traffic point was 49k visits:

I haven’t found any websites with misleading data, though. The metrics in the platform interface were usually close to the data in the SEO tools interface or showed lower values, which cannot hurt users.

Customer support speed and quality

To check the company’s support quality, we submitted an anonymous support request asking about how to use filters.

The company replied within 12 hours, which is about average for the companies on the market. The reply quality was outstanding – with detailed explanations and screenshots explaining the solution.

Public reviews responsiveness

We’ve also read through all 146 reviews on Trustpilot to understand what users say and how the company reacts.

From our perspective, Collaborator.pro is doing great, answering reviews, including the negative ones, politely and professionally. This is a huge green flag!

Founders accessibility

We love talking to founders about their products and requested a short interview from all the rating participants.

Unfortunately, Collaborator.pro declined our request, so we couldn’t gather any additional insights from its founders.

However, Ihor is well-known in the SEO community, has many publications, and holds a solid professional reputation, unlike the founders of some other marketplaces.

Collaborator.pro alternatives

If you are interested in alternatives to Collaborator.pro – feel free to check our global rating of guest-posting marketplaces.

You can find Collaborator.pro’s inventory and see how their prices compare on fatgrid.com, which pulls data from all major platforms.

Bottomline

We definitely consider Collaborator.pro to be one of the market leaders in the guest-posting and link-building space and a legitimate marketplace website, despite one minor flaw in the data quality.

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