About Guest Posts — and backlinks

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I do not accept guest posts on this weblog, whether sponsored or not. This is a deliberate editorial choice, not a default position. david.roess.li is a personal site: I write it myself, I edit it myself, and I take responsibility for everything that appears on it. Introducing third-party content would dilute that coherence and turn a personal publication into something transactional.

I also do not accept backlinks. In practice, nearly all such requests I receive do not come from readers or fellow authors who engage with what I write, but from SEO intermediaries operating at scale. These messages are generic, interchangeable, and largely indifferent to the subject matter of the site. They treat the blog as a ranking surface, not as a body of work.

This matters because the site is not built around traffic acquisition or search optimisation strategies. It exists to document ideas, positions, and experiences in my own words, at my own pace, without external incentives shaping what gets published. Allowing guest posts or paid links would introduce exactly those incentives.

If you are an actual reader and want to respond to something I have written, the appropriate way to do so is through discussion, citation, or disagreement on your own platform. This site supports webmentions, so responses, references, and critiques published elsewhere can be properly linked and surfaced here without duplicating content or inserting third-party material.

david.roess.li is not a link marketplace, and it is not open for content placement.

Thank you for reading, and for your understanding.