For bloggers

If you run a blog, you know the pattern. An agency emails asking to place an article, you agree a price, you publish, and then the invoice goes quiet. Outreach Ratings lets you check a buyer before you say yes, and warn other bloggers when someone does not pay.

Check before you publish

Paste any outreach email into the lookup on the home page. You will see the buyer’s average payment rating and how many bloggers have dealt with them. As a verified member you also see the full breakdown: how many paid upfront, how many paid late, and how many never paid at all.

No ratings does not mean a clean record. It means nobody has rated them yet, which is exactly when the first rating matters most.

Rate the buyers you deal with

You do not pick a star count. You pick what happened, and the stars follow:

• Paid upfront or within 24 hours: 5 stars
• Paid within the agreed terms: 4 stars
• Paid late: 3 stars
• Paid only after repeated chasing: 2 stars
• Not paid: 1 star, once a moderator has checked your evidence

Evidence for non-payment, such as the invoice and your reminders, is seen only by our moderators. If a buyer pays later, update your rating from your dashboard and their score changes with it.

Joining is free

• Create an account with the blog you run.
• Prove you own it by adding a short tag to your homepage or uploading a small file.
• Place a link to Outreach Ratings on your blog. We check it weekly, and it is what keeps the ratings coming from real sites.

Once you are verified you can look up buyers with the full breakdown, rate the people you work with, and add our footer banner to your emails so outreach senders know you check them first. We also email you when a buyer you have rated gets a new rating, so you hear about it before their next pitch.

Pro, for busy inboxes

If you handle a lot of outreach, Pro adds bulk lookup for up to 200 addresses at a time and a blocklist export that drops low-rated senders straight into Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird or your mail server’s filters. It costs £2 a month, £19.99 a year or £34.99 once for life, payable in pounds, euros or dollars.

Also running outreach yourself? See how it works for guest posters. It is the same free account: claim your address from your dashboard.