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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
A link building package buys a set number of links from other websites each month. 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.
What a month produces
Links are public, so every deliverable here is independently verifiable by you.
- The tier’s count of live editorial placements, each on a site you approved
- Publisher metrics for every proposed target, before outreach is accepted
- A live-link report with URLs, anchors and dates
- From Growth upward, an anchor-text plan and a competitor link gap report
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.
What a link building month actually contains
Week 1 — Target list built. A prospect list is built and filtered against stated criteria: topical fit, traffic floor, outbound-link behaviour, and whether the site sells placements openly. Rejects are counted in the report.
Week 2 — Outreach and vetting. Outreach runs against the surviving list. Every site that replies is checked again before anything is commissioned, because a fast yes is the most common sign of a site that publishes anything.
By day 30 — First placements live. The first placements go live within thirty days of brief approval. You approve every target before outreach, and each placement is reported with its live URL, the anchor used, and the page it points at.
Every month — Placement report. Live URLs, anchors, and targets for every placement that month, plus anything commissioned and not yet published. Nothing is counted as delivered until it is live and reachable.
Select any milestone to read what is produced at it. Every date is a published commitment from this page, not an estimate of results.
What the price buys at each tier
Billed monthly at the price shown. The yearly option is the same scope with two months off, and nothing here is quoted as a slice of your budget.
Placement count is the whole lever, and it is deliberately low against what cheap sellers advertise. The vetting criteria do not relax at higher volume, the list simply starts wider.
Prices resolve from the same source as the cards above. Switch metric to compare cost against volume.
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.
What the live-link report contains
Every claim in this report is independently checkable, which is unusual in this market and deliberate.
Editorial placements can be removed by a publisher at any time. A vendor claiming permanence is describing something they do not control.
- Each live URL, with the anchor text used and the date it went live
- The publisher metrics you saw before approving the target
- Anything that slipped into the following month, named rather than absorbed
- Links found to have been removed since the last report
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.
How this differs from the usual arrangement
Neither column is a verdict on quality. The left is how this service is normally sold, taken from the pages ranking beside this one.
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
The three things buyers ask before ordering
This is the highest-risk service on the site to buy badly, so the risky questions get direct answers.
Is this against Google’s guidelines?
Links intended purely to manipulate ranking are link spam, and paying for links that pass ranking signals falls under that. The version sold here is editorial placement: a publisher accepts a piece because it fits their site. If a placement would not survive that test, it is not a target.
Why is your link count lower than cheaper vendors?
Because the excluded types, private blog networks, sitewide footers, directories and comment links, are what make a high monthly count cheap. This domain’s own backlink history is dominated by exactly those, which is a liability we inherited rather than a hypothetical.
What if I do not like the targets you propose?
Reject them. Rejecting costs nothing and does not reduce your monthly count. Approval before outreach is the term that separates this from a link package that arrives as a surprise.
What this pairs with
Links amplify pages that already deserve to rank. Buying links for a thin page is the most expensive sequencing error in this market, which is why the SEO package or the content service usually comes first.
On competitive terms the two together are what moves the needle: on-page work sets the ceiling, links decide whether you reach it.
Links are usually the largest line in any quote, and where link budgets sit inside a wider SEO cost.
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
How much do link building packages cost?
Starter is $500/mo for 5 placements, Growth is $1,150/mo for 12, and Scale is $2,600/mo for 30. Yearly billing charges ten months instead of twelve.
How fast do links go live?
First placements are live within 30 days. Outreach, editorial review and publisher scheduling all sit between approval and publication.
Do I choose the sites?
You approve every target before outreach is accepted, with the publisher metrics in front of you. Rejecting a target costs nothing.
Are these paid placements?
Placement costs are inside the package price. The work is editorial: a publisher accepts a piece because it fits their site, and anything that reads as an advertisement is declined by them anyway.
Do you use private blog networks?
No. PBNs, sitewide footer links, and directory or comment links are excluded in writing at every tier.
What if a link is removed later?
It is flagged in the next live-link report. Editorial placements can be removed by the publisher at any time, and any vendor claiming permanence is overpromising.
Do you control the anchor text?
Anchor planning is included from Growth upward and proposed to you. The publisher has final say over their own page, which is a feature of real editorial placement rather than a limitation.
Can you fix a bad backlink profile?
A profile audit is included at Scale. Disavow work is judgement-heavy and we will tell you honestly whether the evidence supports doing it.
How many links do I need?
It depends on the gap between you and the sites currently ranking, which the competitor link gap report at Growth and Scale measures. Anyone answering that number without looking is guessing.
Will links alone improve my rankings?
Rarely. Links amplify a page that already deserves to rank. If the page is thin, the money is better spent on the page first.
Sources cited on this page
- 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.
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