JungleUp: review, pricing and how this link building platform works

What JungleUp is

JungleUp is a link building platform launched in 2019 covering six languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. That range is among the widest in this collection and makes it a candidate for anyone running sites across several European markets.

Its distinguishing feature is how the transaction happens. Alongside ordering through the dashboard, JungleUp supports direct exchange with the people who run the partner sites. You are talking to the site owner rather than only to a platform.

Negotiation instead of a fixed price list

Direct contact changes the economics of a placement. A catalogue price is a take-it-or-leave-it number set to work across every buyer. A conversation lets you discuss what the article covers, where the link sits, whether the piece can be updated later, and what a repeat relationship is worth.

It costs time, which is the trade-off. If you want thirty placements this month with no discussion, a fixed-price marketplace is faster. If you want a smaller number of placements that actually fit, negotiating with the person responsible for the site usually produces a better result than filtering a catalogue.

The platform states its own position clearly: the aim is partnerships that make sense rather than accumulating links. That is the right framing, and it is also a reasonable description of how the model works in practice.

The offers and the pricing

Pricing is not published and is set per site, with room for direct negotiation. Placements are in-content, ordered through the dashboard or agreed directly with the partner site manager.

Inventory covers blogs, media, forums, niche sites, generalist sites and networks, across six languages.

How it works

You create an account, browse partner sites, and either order through the dashboard or open a direct exchange with the site owner. Sites are visible before purchase.

Guarantees, limits and what to watch

Three points. Sites are visible before purchase and negotiation is possible, both in your favour. There is no API and no affiliate programme. And the platform carries no Trustpilot rating, so there is no external signal on delivery reliability.

The six-language coverage is the reason to pick JungleUp over a domestic platform. Check the depth per language before planning around it, since breadth of listing and depth of inventory are not the same thing.