The internet is littered with the corpses of link schemes: private blog networks, article spinners, and directories that Google eventually deindexed en masse. Niched is designed to be the opposite of that.
Three structural defenses
1. Verified traffic gates entry
Every earning site must be GSC-verified with 100+ monthly clicks. Empty, freshly-spun domains simply can't participate — there's nothing to fake because Google is the referee.
2. Editorial opt-in, not bulk injection
Publishers read and choose each article. There's no API to blast a link across a thousand sites overnight. That friction is a feature: it keeps placements relevant and contextual.
3. Measurement exposes junk
Because every placement is tracked, low-value spots reveal themselves — no traffic, no LLM citations, no reason to pay again. The market self-corrects toward placements that actually work.
Relevance by design
When a site connects, we classify its niche automatically and match it to articles that fit. A fintech article doesn't land on a gardening blog. Relevance isn't a nice-to-have here; it's how the marketplace is wired.
A network survives on quality signals, not volume. We optimize for the former.