LinkSwap is a free link exchange marketplace for independent site owners. These terms describe what the platform does, what it does not do, and the rules every listed site agrees to.
A site is listed only after its owner publishes a LinkSwap verification token as a meta tag, a file under /.well-known/, or a DNS TXT record. LinkSwap checks that evidence automatically. Submitting a domain you do not control is not permitted.
LinkSwap does not sell backlinks, guarantee rankings, or place links on anyone's behalf. We recommend limiting exchanges to genuinely relevant sites and using rel="ugc nofollow" for new placements. Every reported placement is checked against the live page. Three-way exchanges and weekly swap caps are planned safeguards, not active features. Excessive or manipulative link exchanges can violate Google's spam policies; each site owner remains responsible for their own link profile.
Submissions are published first and reviewed asynchronously. Listings that clearly promote illegal content, phishing, malware, or infringement are removed automatically. Ambiguous cases enter a manual spot-check queue. Placement checks fetch the reported page when a party calls POST /exchanges/{id}/confirm; there is no scheduled daily content crawl on this deployment. Listings can be removed without notice at LinkSwap's discretion.
The marketplace, ownership verification, rule-based matching, and the full exchange workflow are available now through the REST API. Daily link monitoring, language-model reranking, and the MCP endpoint are on the roadmap and are not enabled on this deployment. Documentation at /for-agents lists which capabilities are live.
Every marketplace card links to a site profile with its public listing facts. This development deployment does not yet publish a contact address or a reporting form; the reports table exists in the data model and a public channel will be published before launch. Until then, include the domain and the reason in any report you raise with the site operator.