What is covered, and for how long
Cover starts the moment the publisher records the live URL — not when you approve the order. Approval releases the money; delivery starts the clock.
12 months
Guest posts and sponsored articles
A whole article we can monitor as a unit, so it carries the longer window (365 days).
6 months
Link insertions and niche edits
Your link sits inside someone else's existing article, which gets edited more often (180 days).
What a check actually looks for
We fetch the live post and read its links. Four things count as a failure, and the check records the URL, rel value, HTTP status and timestamp it observed each time — so there is evidence either way.
Removed
The link is gone
No anchor on the page points at your target URL, and none carries your anchor text.
Href-Changed
The link points somewhere else
The anchor is still there but its destination no longer matches the URL you paid for.
Rel-Changed
The rel attribute changed
A link agreed as dofollow picked up nofollow, sponsored or ugc — or one agreed as nofollow or sponsored lost it.
Page-Down
The page stopped loading
The post returns an error status instead of the article. Re-checked on the next 24-hour pass.
What happens when one fails
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Within a day
A check fails
Every monitored placement is fetched at least once every 24 hours. One bad result is recorded but changes nothing — pages fail to load for all sorts of reasons.
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After 2 in a row
The placement goes At Risk
You and the publisher are both notified by email and in-app at the same moment. Nobody is quietly given a head start.
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72 hours to repair
The publisher can put it back
If the next check finds the link restored and matching, everything closes itself and the placement returns to normal monitoring. No case, no penalty.
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If the window passes
A dispute opens automatically
You do not have to chase it. The system opens the case itself and freezes the publisher's earnings wallet so nothing can be withdrawn while it is reviewed.
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An operator decides
The money moves
Decided for you: the publisher's escrowed earnings are reversed and the full order amount is refunded to your wallet. Decided for the publisher: the placement is marked resolved and they keep the earnings. Either way the freeze lifts.
What this does not cover
Worth reading before you rely on it. We would rather be plain than have you find out during a claim.
Anything about performance
Rankings, indexing, traffic, conversions and how any search engine chooses to treat the link. We guarantee the link stays as agreed, not what it does for you.
Anything agreed off-platform
Payments, edits or extra placements arranged directly with a publisher have no order record, so there is nothing to monitor and nothing to refund.
Metric accuracy
Domain Rating, Domain Authority, spam score and traffic come from third-party providers as point-in-time readings. We show their source and age, not a promise.
Orders that never reached delivery
Cancelled and refunded orders are handled by the cancellation and refund rules instead. The uptime guarantee only starts once a link exists to monitor.
This is meant to be fair to publishers too
A monitoring alert is a request to check something, not an accusation. It takes 2 consecutive failures before a placement is raised at all, and the publisher is notified at the same moment you are, with 72 hours to respond.
Restoring the link closes everything automatically on the next check — no case, no penalty, no mark on the record. A wallet freeze only ever attaches to an open case, and lifts as soon as that case is resolved and no others are outstanding.
What is not tolerated: repeatedly breaking placements, false ownership claims, manipulated metrics, or pushing a covered order off-platform to avoid the record.
Questions people ask
When does the guarantee clock start?
When the publisher records the live URL, not when you approve the order. Approval releases the money; delivery starts the window.
Do I have to notice the problem myself?
No. Monitoring runs on its own and checks every placement at least once every 24 hours. You are emailed the moment a placement goes At Risk. You can also claim manually from your order history if you spot something first.
What if the publisher fixes it straight away?
Then nothing happens to them. A restored link closes the case automatically on the next check and the placement goes back to normal monitoring. The alert is a repair request, not a finding of fault.
What do I actually get back if it is not fixed?
If an operator decides the case in your favour, the publisher's escrowed earnings are reversed and the full order amount is refunded to your BlogReach wallet.
Why is one window 12 months and the other 6?
A guest post is a whole article we can monitor as a unit, so it carries the 12-month window. A link insertion or niche edit sits inside someone else's existing article, which is edited more often, so it carries 6 months.
Does a single failed check put a publisher in trouble?
No. It takes 2 consecutive failures to raise a placement, and then a 72-hour repair window before anything escalates. Every check stores the URL, rel value, HTTP status and timestamp we observed, so a publisher can see exactly what was found.
Can I cancel instead of waiting?
Before delivery, yes. Orders auto-approve after 3 days of silence, and cancelling a paid order refunds to your wallet less any protection fee.