# Connectively review (2026): is it worth it? > Matches subject matter experts with publishers' questions Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Connectively connects subject matter experts with publishers. Experts answer publisher queries, submit articles and give interviews, and the content is featured on partner media sites. It also lists expert pages, press releases and an API. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** Connectively - **Website:** https://www.connectively.us - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need to know what it costs: the pages we could read show no plans. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Connectively's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Publisher queries:** Publishers submit questions and experts answer them, which the homepage describes as a way to create ready-to-publish content. - **Expert pages:** Experts can create a page that presents their background and lets publishers find them. - **Interviews and articles:** The homepage says experts can submit articles and conduct interviews in their area of expertise. - **Press releases:** The site navigation lists a press releases section alongside the expert and publisher areas. ## Good for - Experts who want to be quoted by publishers - Publishers looking for expert answers and contributed content ## Worth knowing - Pricing could not be confirmed: the homepage shows no plans and the FAQ, API and review-process pages were blocked by a security check when read. - Whether a given feature is free or paid for experts, and what publishers pay, is not stated on the pages that could be read. - The homepage says features appear on publishers' sites, but this listing could not confirm whether those mentions carry links. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Connectively puts subject experts in touch with publishers: publishers post questions, experts answer, and the answers run on partner sites. We could not confirm any pricing, and several of its pages were blocked when read. Whether the mentions carry links is not stated. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published on the pages we could read, so it sits in the middle by default. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial on record. We could not confirm whether experts pay. - **Features: D.** One narrow job on record: publisher queries, expert pages, interviews and press releases. Nothing says what the mentions are worth for SEO. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. An expert makes a page and answers queries as they come. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. An API is mentioned but no integrations are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Connectively's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among link building tools - Connectively's GPA of 1.4 is higher than 0 of the 53 other link building tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 8 of 53) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Connectively you would be making a network of journalists who post requests for sources. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 52 of the 53 other link building tools grade higher. - You could not: A network of journalists who post requests for sources. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Journalist requests, Public API ## Alternatives - [Qwoted](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted): Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connectively-vs-qwoted) - [Featured](https://toolgpa.com/tools/featured): AI assistant for PR that finds journalist requests and drafts pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connectively-vs-featured) - [HARO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/haro): Free email digest of journalist requests for expert sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connectively-vs-haro) - [SourceBottle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sourcebottle): Media call outs and expert profiles for people seeking press. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connectively-vs-sourcebottle) - [Muck Rack](https://toolgpa.com/tools/muck-rack): Media database, pitching and coverage monitoring for PR teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connectively-vs-muck-rack) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.connectively.us - https://www.connectively.us/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/connectively Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).