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Link building packages you approve before they go live
Five, twelve or thirty editorial placements a month from $500/mo, with publisher metrics shown before anything is placed and every target approved by you first.
In one line
Link building packages buy a set number of links from other websites each month, from $500/mo. Here that means editorial placements on real sites, with the publisher’s metrics disclosed to you before outreach is accepted, and a live-link report at month end.
Link building packages and what each tier costs
Starter
5 links/mo
$417/mo billed yearly
- 5 editorial placements
- Publisher metrics shown before placement
- You approve every target
- Live-link report
- Not included: PBNs
- Not included: Sitewide footer links
- Not included: Directory or comment links
Growth
12 links/mo
$958/mo billed yearly
- 12 editorial placements
- Everything in Starter
- Anchor-text planning
- Competitor link gap report
- Not included: PBNs
- Not included: Sitewide footer links
Scale
30 links/mo
$2,167/mo billed yearly
- 30 editorial placements
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated outreach manager
- Quarterly profile audit
- Not included: PBNs
- Not included: Sitewide footer links
These link building packages are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. First placements live within 30 days.
Every tier is billed monthly, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
Page one mixes vendor pages promising guaranteed placement with listicles ranking the vendors. Approval rights before placement are almost never mentioned, and they are the term that decides your risk.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
5 links/mo
Included
- 5 editorial placements
- Publisher metrics shown before placement
- You approve every target
- Live-link report
Not included
- PBNs
- Sitewide footer links
- Directory or comment links
Growth
12 links/mo
Included
- 12 editorial placements
- Everything in Starter
- Anchor-text planning
- Competitor link gap report
Not included
- PBNs
- Sitewide footer links
Scale
30 links/mo
Included
- 30 editorial placements
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated outreach manager
- Quarterly profile audit
Not included
- PBNs
- Sitewide footer links
Which tier you actually need
Tiers are separated by monthly placement count. The right number is set by the gap between your profile and the sites currently ranking, not by ambition.
All three link building packages run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
A site with good pages and a thin profile, testing whether links move anything before committing further.
You are on this tier when: Your target pages are solid, and competitors outrank you with visibly weaker content.
Growth
An active campaign where anchor distribution and competitor gaps have started to matter as much as volume.
You are on this tier when: You have enough links that the anchor profile needs planning rather than improvising.
Scale
Sustained outreach across many target pages, with a quarterly audit of the whole profile rather than the new links alone.
You are on this tier when: You are placing consistently and the constraint is outreach throughput.
Four things we will not sell, at any tier
Short answer
No private blog networks, no sitewide footer links, no directory or comment links, and no placements on sites we would not show you first. All four are excluded in writing at every tier rather than being quietly available on request.
This site’s own domain carries a toxic backlink profile from a previous owner, dominated by exactly these link types. That is a documented liability we inherited, and it is the most direct argument we can make for the exclusions.
A vendor who will not let you hand-pick placements is the single clearest warning sign in this market.
As a general rule of thumb, the most relevant links are going to be best.
Why this matters
What a link building month actually contains
Thirty days to a first live placement is slower than most sellers quote, and the reason is the vetting between order and outreach. Step through where the time goes.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Week 1
Targets proposed
A list of candidate publishers with their metrics. You approve or reject each one.
- 2
Weeks 2 to 4
Outreach and placement
Outreach runs against approved targets only. First placements are live within 30 days.
- 3
Month end
Live-link report
URLs, anchors, dates, and anything that slipped to the following month.
- 4
Quarterly
Profile audit
At Scale, a quarterly review of the whole backlink profile rather than just the new links.
Find vendors that allow you to hand-pick your backlinks.
Why this matters
What Google actually says about paid links
Short answer
Google treats links intended to manipulate ranking as link spam, and that includes paying for links that pass ranking signals. The safe version of this work is editorial placement earned by content a publisher wanted, which is the only version sold here.
This is worth stating plainly on a page that sells link building, because the alternative is letting a buyer discover the risk later.
Every placement is on a site with its own audience and editorial standards. If a publisher would not have run the piece on its merits, it is not a target.
How targets are judged
- Does the site have organic traffic of its own, not just a domain metric
- Does it publish on a real editorial schedule
- Is the topic genuinely adjacent to yours
- Would you be comfortable showing the placement to a customer
The last one is the test that catches what the metrics miss, and it is why you approve the list rather than receiving it afterwards.
A typical link vendor
- Price
- Per link, quoted on request
- Target approval
- Rarely offered
- Metrics
- Shown after placement
- PBNs and footers
- Often included quietly
- Reporting
- A list of URLs
The Super Panel
- Price
- Per month, published, by link count
- Target approval
- Every target, before outreach
- Metrics
- Shown before placement
- PBNs and footers
- Excluded in writing, every tier
- Reporting
- URLs, anchors, dates, and what slipped
Cost per link, worked out
Short answer
Starter works out at $100 a placement, Growth at about $96, and Scale at about $87. For comparison, a provider ranking on this same term publishes $1,050 a month for three links, which is $350 a link.
A per-link figure is the fastest way to test any link quote, and it is the number the market is least willing to publish.
It is not the only thing that matters. A $350 link on a site with real readers beats a $40 link on a site nobody visits, which is why the vetting criteria are published further down rather than left implied.
The comparison figure is published by a competitor publishing $1,050 a month for three links.
What the price buys at each tier
A promised placement is a contradiction
The first organic result on this search advertises promised placement in its own title tag. It is worth sitting with what that means.
An editorial placement is a decision made by somebody who runs a publication. If that decision can be promised in advance by the person selling you the link, then no editorial decision is being made at all.
Nothing here is promised to be accepted. Targets are proposed, you approve them, and a publisher can still decline. That is the cost of the thing being real.
The claim above is on a provider advertising a promised placement.
What a DR number hides
The market sells on a metric threshold. DR 50 or higher, DA 30 to 50, a 27-point audit whose 27 points are never listed.
A domain metric describes a whole site, not the page your link sits on, and it can stay high while the page itself gets no visitors at all. A site can also carry a strong metric and publish nothing anyone reads.
That is why publisher metrics are shown per target before placement and you approve each one. An independent reviewer of this market names exactly that transparency as what separates a provider from a black box.
DR and DA are both useful as a first filter and useless as the whole test. Outreach is judged on whether a real publication would run the piece, not on whether a number clears a threshold.
The risk nobody selling links mentions: the site that publishes them
Almost every safe links promise in this market is about one direction of travel: the buyer is told their own site will not attract a penalty.
Google’s manual actions documentation describes two separate actions, though, and the second one lands on the publisher. Unnatural links pointing to a site, and unnatural links pointing from one, each carry their own Search Console notification and their own reconsideration request.
That matters when you are buying, because it tells you what a publisher is risking to take your money. A site selling placements at volume that never qualifies them with the rel=sponsored or rel=nofollow attribute is carrying an outbound exposure it has decided to ignore.
A publisher willing to ignore that is not one whose editorial judgement is protecting you either.
So the question to ask a vendor is not whether their links are white hat or black hat, which is a label rather than a test. Ask whether the publisher discloses paid placement, whether outbound links are qualified where the Google Search spam policies say they should be, and whether you see the site before outreach is accepted.
Those three answers are checkable before you spend anything, which is more than a guarantee is worth. They are also the questions a rate card cannot answer: vendors such as Loganix, Link Fish Media and Search Logistics publish prices for this category, and a price alone tells you nothing about qua editorially.
Buying a placement on this site is a separate route, priced on write for us.
That is why this is sold as a monthly retainer against a stated placement count, in the productized service shape the rest of this site uses, rather than as a price per link.
What this does not say: The documentation lists action types and the reconsideration process; it does not state how frequently either action is issued.
| Google Search Central, Manual Actions report - the action types and reconsideration requests | read 2026-09-06 |
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Anchor text, niche edits, and what is not sold here
Anchor text is chosen with you rather than optimised behind your back, because an over-optimised anchor profile is one of the few link patterns that is visible from outside.
A niche edit, an insertion into an existing published page, is not on the list here. It is cheaper and it is harder to check: you cannot see what the page was before, or what else was inserted into it.
What we cannot show you, and what to check instead
Providers ranking above this page cite brand counts, reviewer endorsements and trial packs. There is none of that here, and none of it will be invented.
What is checkable instead is on this page: the price per placement, the four link types excluded at every tier, the criteria a target has to meet, and the fact that you see and approve every site before anything goes live.
| Ask any provider what one link costs | not what the bundle costs |
|---|---|
| Ask whether you see the publisher before placement | and whether you can reject it |
| Ask what happens if the link is removed | three months later |
| Ask which link types they will not sell | and see whether they will name any |
How billing works, and what cancelling changes
Short answer
Billed monthly in advance. There is no minimum contract and no notice period, so cancelling stops the next renewal. Placements already live stay live, and they stay yours.
Links are not rented here. Nothing is removed because you stopped paying, which is worth confirming with any provider before you start.
The same policy is set out in what cancelling Link Building means in the terms.
When links are the wrong thing to buy
If there is nothing on the site worth citing, a placement has nowhere sensible to point. If a technical problem is keeping pages out of the index, links will not fix it.
And if the existing profile is the problem rather than the absence of one, adding to it is the wrong move. That is a clean-up job, not a package.
For where a link budget sits against everything else, what SEO actually costs across the whole plan.
When links are the wrong thing to buy
Short answer
Links are wasted on a site with thin content, unresolved technical problems, or no page worth linking to. Buying links before the page is worth a link is the most expensive sequencing error in this market.
- The target page is thin or duplicated. Fix the page first.
- The site cannot be crawled or indexed properly. Links will not rescue it.
- You want links for a page that exists only to sell. Publishers decline those, so the placement rate collapses.
- You want volume at any cost. That is available elsewhere, and it is what this domain’s own history looks like.
Questions before you order
Placements are counted in referring domains and reported with the Domain Rating of each host. Anything paid carries the sponsored attribute and a disclosure, because Google spam policies and the link spam policy treat an undisclosed paid link as one to be devalued.
Toxic links bought elsewhere are a disavow job, not this one, and a target you reject inside the stated turnaround is replaced.
Before ordering, it is worth checking whether links are your binding constraint at all. Send the site and the target pages and we will say whether the gap is authority or something cheaper to fix.
How much do link building services typically cost?
Published benchmarks for link building services run $500 to $5,000+ a month. Here it is $500/mo for 5 editorial placements, $1,150 for 12, and $2,600 for 30.
What does one link cost at each tier?
About $100 at Starter, $96 at Growth and $87 at Scale. A provider ranking on this same search publishes $1,050 a month for three links, which works out at $350 a link.
Do you sell PBN, directory or footer links?
No. Private blog networks and sitewide footer links are excluded at every tier, and directory and comment links are excluded too. The first result on this search sells directory links from $100; that is a different product.
Do I get to see and approve the sites before anything goes live?
Yes, every one. Targets are proposed with their publisher metrics attached, and you approve or reject each before any outreach concludes.
Can a placement really be promised in advance?
No, and a provider promising one is telling you something. An editorial placement is a decision made by whoever runs the publication. If it can be promised by the seller, no editorial decision is being made.
Is there a minimum contract or a notice period?
Neither. Billing is monthly and cancelling stops the next renewal.
Do the links stay live if I cancel?
Yes. Placements are not rented. Nothing is removed because you stopped paying, which is worth confirming with any provider before you start.
What happens if a publisher removes the link later?
It is named in the live-link report rather than quietly absorbed into the count, and a replacement placement is arranged.
What does Google actually say about paid links?
That links intended to manipulate ranking are link spam, including paid links that pass ranking signals. It is stated on this page rather than left for you to find, and it is why the criteria for a target are published.
Is DR 50+ a useful quality bar on its own?
Not on its own. A domain metric describes a whole site rather than the page your link sits on, and it can stay high while that page gets no visitors. Traffic and editorial activity are checked alongside it.
Sources cited here
| Source | Cited |
|---|---|
| Google’s spam policies on link schemes | Cited for the paid-links position. |
| Google on qualifying outbound links | Cited in the same section. |
Start Link Building from $500/mo
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
Still deciding?
Read how the process runs end to end: order, brief, production, delivery, report.
How it worksLinks are the slowest line item to show a return: what each link tier costs per month, and the content that gives a link somewhere to point.
Sources
| Google's spam policies on link schemes | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
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| Google on qualifying outbound links | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
| Manual Actions report: every action Google can apply, and what a reconsideration request must document | Google Search Console Help, read 2026-09-06 |
Each link was opened on the date shown. Where a figure is illustrative rather than measured, the page says so beside it.