These terms cover your account and every order you place on nobsmarketplace.com and app.nobsmarketplace.com.
Last updated 13 August 2026
MARKETPLACE TERMS OF SERVICE
NO-BS Marketplace is operated by NO-BS Marketplace LLC ("we", "us", "our").
They apply to you as the account holder placing orders ("you", "your"). Separate Publisher Terms apply if you host placements on your own site.
1.1. NO-BS Marketplace is operated by NO-BS Marketplace LLC ("NO-BS Marketplace", "we", "us", "our"). These Terms govern your use of nobsmarketplace.com, app.nobsmarketplace.com and every order you place through them.
1.2. By creating an account or placing an order you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.
1.3. These Terms are the whole agreement for a self-serve order. Anything specific to an individual order — deliverables, quantities, a schedule, an agreed scope — is set out on the order form, quote or subscription confirmation for that order, and applies only to it. Where an order form conflicts with these Terms, the order form governs for that order alone.
1.4. We may change these Terms. Changes apply to orders placed on or after the date they are published. Orders already placed stay under the Terms in force when they were placed, and we will state the effective date at the top of this page.
1.5. Separate Publisher Terms govern the relationship between us and the site owners who host placements. If you sell placements to us, those terms apply to you instead of the buyer provisions here.
Buyer means the account holder purchasing a Placement.
Publisher means the independent owner or operator of a website listed on the Marketplace.
Placement means a single link, guest post, link insertion, listicle entry or digital PR unit ordered through the Marketplace.
Marketplace means the NO-BS Marketplace platform, including the publisher catalogue, cart, checkout and dashboard.
Order means a confirmed purchase of one or more Placements.
Fees means the amounts shown on the order at checkout, which comprise the placement price, our broker fee, any applicable bank fee, and any add-ons you select.
Credits means pre-paid balance you buy from us, or that we add to your account, held in your account currency and redeemable only against Fees on the Marketplace.
Go-Live Date means the date the Placement is first observed live by our monitoring, which is the date every period in these Terms runs from.
DR Band means the Ahrefs Domain Rating range shown for a Publisher at the time you ordered.
3.1. Accounts are free. No card is required to create one or to browse the Marketplace.
3.2. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account details, for activity under your account, and for keeping your credentials secure. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.
3.3. You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into contracts.
3.4. One account per organisation, unless we agree otherwise in writing. Agency accounts may organise work by client project.
4.1. We operate a marketplace. We contract with independent Publishers to host the Placements you order, and we handle the ordering, quality checks, content coordination, delivery and monitoring.
4.2. Publishers are independent third parties. They are not our employees or agents. Editorial decisions on a Publisher's own site remain theirs, and a Publisher may decline an order or require changes to supplied content.
4.3. Publisher metrics shown on the Marketplace — Domain Rating, organic traffic, spam score, indexation status, niche, turnaround and price — are drawn from third-party data providers and from Publisher-supplied information, and are shown to you before you order. Third-party metrics move over time and we do not control them.
4.4. We reserve the right to decline or cancel an order, including where inventory is no longer available, where the target URL or content breaches clause 8, or where the order appears fraudulent.
5.1. Every Placement's price is shown before you add it to your cart. At checkout you see the placement price, our broker fee and any bank fee as separate lines. There are no fees that appear after purchase.
5.2. All prices are in US dollars unless stated otherwise on the order.
5.3. Payment is due at the time of order. We use third-party payment processors and do not store full card details.
5.4. Subscription and management fees are billed in advance for each period and are separate from any placement budget. You may cancel a subscription at any time, effective at the end of the current period.
5.5. Where a subscription includes a committed monthly placement budget, unspent budget rolls over for one month and then expires.
5.6. Volume discount. Where your order or committed monthly spend reaches the thresholds published on our bulk page, a discount applies to our broker fee: 10% at $2,500, 15% at $5,000 and 20% at $10,000. The placement price and bank fee are unaffected, and both lines remain visible on the quote. The volume discount does not stack with any entry-tier fee reduction or introductory discount.
5.7. You are responsible for any taxes, duties or withholding applicable to you in your own jurisdiction. Where we are required to collect sales tax, VAT or similar, it will be shown at checkout.
5.8. If a payment fails or is reversed, we may suspend delivery and pause monitoring on affected Placements until the balance is settled. Please raise a dispute with us before initiating a chargeback — clause 15 exists for exactly that.
5.9. Credits. You may pre-pay by buying Credits, which sit as a balance on your account and are redeemed against Fees at checkout. Credits can cover an order in full or in part, with any remainder charged to your card. Your balance and every movement in and out of it are shown in your dashboard.
5.10. Credit purchases are final. We do not refund them. Once a top-up has been paid we will not refund it, in whole or in part, whether or not you have spent the Credits, and we will not convert a Credit balance back into cash. Buy the amount you intend to spend with us.
5.11. Credits have no cash value, do not earn interest, are not a deposit or stored-value instrument, and cannot be transferred, sold or assigned to another account or person.
5.12. Bonus Credits. Where a promotion adds bonus Credits on top of a top-up, those bonus Credits are promotional. They are never redeemable for cash, they are not refundable on any basis, and we may remove any unspent portion of them if the top-up that earned them is reversed.
5.13. Credits do not expire while your account is open. If you close your account, any unspent balance stops being usable and clause 5.10 still applies — so tell us before you close it if you have a balance to spend. If we terminate your account under clause 17.1 for breach of these Terms or for non-payment, any unspent balance is forfeit.
6.1. If you find the same Placement offered for less elsewhere, we will beat that price by 5%, subject to this clause.
6.2. To claim, send us within 7 days of your order a verifiable reference to the competing offer: the seller, the specific Publisher or site, the placement type, and the total price. A public price page, a written quote or an invoice all qualify.
6.3. The competing offer must be for the same Publisher and the same placement type, available to you at the time of your claim, at a publicly obtainable or documented price, and on comparable terms including link type and content length.
6.4. The 5% reduction is applied to our broker fee first, and to the order total where the fee alone cannot absorb it.
6.5. The promise does not apply to: auction, clearance, member-only or introductory pricing; bundles where the individual placement price is not separately stated; private blog networks, link farms or any source we would not list; offers from a seller we cannot verify actually supplies that Publisher; or orders already discounted under clause 5.6 or an entry-tier price.
6.6. Where beating the price would put the order below our own cost of supply, we will tell you so plainly and show you what we can do instead. We would rather lose the order than quote a price we cannot honour.
6.7. One claim per order. We may substantiate a claim with the competing seller before applying it.
7.1. You may supply your own content or select one of our paid content tiers at checkout. Content tiers are priced as separate line items.
7.2. Where you supply content, you confirm you own it or have the right to publish it, that it is original, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or breach any law.
7.3. Publishers apply their own editorial standards. Where a Publisher requires changes, we will pass those on, and where content we wrote is rejected we will revise it once at no charge.
7.4. You grant us and the Publisher a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish, host and display supplied content and the agreed link for the duration it remains published. You keep ownership of your content.
7.5. Anchor text and target URL are yours to set, within the Publisher's stated requirements and clause 8.
8.1. You must not use the Marketplace to place links to content that is unlawful, deceptive, infringing, defamatory, malicious, or that promotes discrimination or harm.
8.2. Some categories — including adult, CBD, cryptocurrency, gambling, payday lending, pharmaceutical, vaping and weaponry — are only available where an individual Publisher has opted in, and may carry additional fees. Attempting to route such content through a Publisher that has not opted in is a breach of these Terms.
8.3. You must not scrape, crawl, resell or systematically extract the publisher catalogue or its data, or use automated means to access the Marketplace outside a documented integration.
8.4. You must not attempt to contact Publishers to circumvent the Marketplace on orders sourced through us.
8.5. We may suspend or close an account that breaches this clause, and cancel affected orders.
9.1. We guarantee, for 12 months from the Go-Live Date, that: the agreed link is published on the agreed Publisher; it remains published and reachable; it continues to point at the agreed destination; it is not changed to rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc"; and the Publisher met the DR Band you paid for, measured at the time of order.
9.2. We check Placements weekly and will usually detect a problem before you do. You can also report one at any time through in-app support.
9.3. Our cure period. When a qualifying failure is reported or detected, we verify it within 5 business days. From the date we confirm it, we have 30 days to cure the failure by restoring the original Placement or providing a replacement Placement on a Publisher of equal or better DR Band. A cure inside that window fully discharges the guarantee for that Placement, and no refund is due.
9.4. If we do not cure within the 30-day period, we refund that Placement. The remedy is replacement first, refund second.
9.5. Claims must be raised no later than 30 days after the end of the 12-month period. The guarantee covers one remedy per Placement.
9.6. The guarantee covers Marketplace guest posts, link insertions and listicles, digital PR placements, and the placements underlying managed, campaign and white-label orders. It does not cover press-release syndication or directory listing products, which are nofollow by nature and have no editorial placement to keep live.
9.7. Exclusions. No remedy is due where the cause sits outside the Placement itself, specifically where: your own domain goes offline, is deindexed or is penalised; you asked for the link to be removed or edited; content you supplied is removed for a legal or policy reason; the Publisher's entire site goes permanently offline and no equivalent replacement exists, in which case clause 9.4 applies directly; or the Publisher's Domain Rating moves after your order date. The DR Band is measured at the time of order and not thereafter.
9.8. The guarantee is a promise about our delivery and our remedy. It is not a promise about search rankings, traffic, indexation or any third-party outcome — see clause 12.
10.1. This clause is about Placements. Refunds are issued per affected Placement, not per order, and only in the circumstances set out below. Buying Credits is not buying a Placement, and nothing in this clause makes a Credit purchase refundable — see clause 5.10.
10.2. We refund a Placement where: we did not cure a qualifying guarantee failure within the period in clause 9.3; we cancel an order we cannot fulfil; or we agree in writing that a Placement was delivered materially outside its specification and cannot be corrected.
10.3. You may cancel an order and receive a full refund at any time before the Placement is submitted to the Publisher. Once submitted, the order is in production and clause 10.4 applies.
10.4. We do not refund: a Credit purchase or any unspent Credit balance, under clause 5.10; a Placement delivered as specified; change of mind after publication; removal or edits you requested; content you supplied that a Publisher declined for editorial, policy or legal reasons, where we have offered one revision; elapsed subscription or management-fee periods; or placement budget already spent on delivered Placements.
10.5. Refunds go back the way the money came in. Fees paid by card are refunded to the original payment method, or as Credits where you prefer it or where the original method is unavailable. Fees paid with Credits are refunded as Credits — restored to your balance for use on the Marketplace, not paid out in cash. We aim to process approved refunds within 10 business days.
10.6. To be clear about how these two things fit together: a qualifying guarantee failure on a Placement you paid for with Credits is remedied under clause 9 and, if we do not cure it, refunded as Credits under clause 10.5. Your guarantee is unaffected by how you paid. What it does not do is turn the top-up that funded the Placement back into cash.
10.7. Where a refund is issued, any licence granted under clause 7.4 for that Placement ends, and we may request removal of the link.
10.8. Nothing in this clause limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law that cannot be excluded.
11.1. Managed, campaign and white-label arrangements are subscriptions. Their scope, budget and reporting are set out on the order form or subscription confirmation.
11.2. You may cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period. We do not charge an early-termination fee.
11.3. Where a subscription includes publisher approval, Placements are not ordered until you approve them. Where you have turned approval off, we proceed on the agreed brief.
11.4. On white-label orders, reporting is provided to you. We do not contact your clients.
12.1. We are confident in what good placements do, and we will tell you plainly what we think a campaign can achieve. But search results are controlled by search engines and AI systems, not by us.
12.2. We therefore do not guarantee, and nothing on our sites should be read as guaranteeing, any particular search ranking, traffic volume, Domain Authority or Domain Rating movement on your own domain, indexation of a page, or citation by any AI or large-language-model system.
12.3. Any timeline, projection or example we discuss is an estimate based on experience, not a contractual commitment.
13.1. The Marketplace and the services are provided as described. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
13.2. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost rankings or lost data, however caused.
13.3. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms is limited to the Fees you paid us for the affected Placement or, for a claim not tied to a specific Placement, the Fees you paid us in the 6 months before the claim arose.
13.4. Nothing in this clause excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud or wilful misconduct.
14.1. You will indemnify us and the relevant Publisher against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from content you supplied, the destination you linked to, your breach of clause 8, or your infringement of a third party's rights.
15.1. Start with in-app support. Every guarantee claim, refund request and billing dispute is raised through the support and request flow in your dashboard, which is where our team receives, records and answers it. Most issues are resolved there.
15.2. If we cannot resolve a dispute within 30 days of you raising it, either of us may pursue it through the courts identified in clause 16.
15.3. Both of us agree to raise a dispute within one year of the event giving rise to it.
16.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
16.2. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties submit to that jurisdiction.
16.3. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
17.1. Suspension and termination. You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account for breach of these Terms, for non-payment, or where required by law. Termination does not affect Placements already live or guarantee obligations already running.
17.2. Confidentiality. Each of us will keep the other's non-public business information confidential and use it only to perform these Terms.
17.3. Intellectual property. We own the Marketplace, its software, its catalogue structure and our brand. Nothing here transfers any of it to you.
17.4. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
17.5. Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
17.6. Severability and waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
17.7. Notices. We will contact you at the email on your account. You can reach us at the address in clause 18.
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