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What should backlinking services cost?

by pokerdawg
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I'm speaking to several services who want to build links for us.

We're looking at PR1-5 links from industry relevant websites. Not blog comments or signature links, but actual on-page links from the webmasters.

What would be a reasonable price to pay for a service like this? I'm getting numbers all over the place... some seem insanely expensive, while others are too good to be true...

If you offer this service, feel free to PM me with details, if it is not appropriate to "promote" yourself in the thread.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author dmadnani
    It all boils down to what PR and traffic these links will accordingly pass on.

    You mentioned on-page links, are these links on the actual PR pages or inner pages?

    Are these links sidelined, or do they have any soft-sell before the link is actually placed?

    When it comes to back-links, packages that are too good to be true, are usually just that.
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  • Profile picture of the author pokerdawg
    Right...

    Links could be PR1 to PR6. Many services want to price by the link built, not the PR of the link built. For example, it is $XXX for 100 links that are PR1-PR6, without setting the price of $A for PR1, $B for PR2, etc...

    The links I saw were either in content or near the bottom of the page, but not in the footers. These aren't sidelined links. Basically, what you would get in a legitimate link exchange with another webmaster. But no, not necessarily a softsell/intro before the link.
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  • Profile picture of the author pokerdawg
    Sorry if my original post was vague dmadnani, but basically if you are hiring a link building service, what a typical quality link is, assuming:

    PR 2 Page: $
    PR 2 Site, regular page: $

    PR 3 Page: $
    PR 3 Site, regular page: $

    PR 4 Page: $
    PR 4 Site, regular page: $

    PR 5 Page: $
    PR 5 Site, regular page: $

    PR 6 Page: $
    PR 6 Site, regular page: $

    Again, just looking for ballpark numbers, trying to figure out what is "reasonable"

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Flipfilter
      Hi Pokerdawg,

      I think a quick search through digital point forums should give an idea of going market rates for buying each of these links, but it really comes down to volume.

      If this is something that you do on a full time basis or have a lot of sites the cost is effectively the monthly salary of hiring someone (approx $300 pm from somewhere like bestjobs.ph) and theoretically they'll build an infinite amount of links for you.

      From personal experience, you stand a better chance hiring someone who really gets link building rather than someone who will go out blind trying to get PR6 links with no relevance, buried behind pages google cant or wont index.

      A good link builder will analyse the landscape and give you mix of different link types, everything from in-content to bookmarks to blog comments to profiles and know how to adequately mix between follow and no follow, anchor text and url text to get the best results based on what you currently have. For these type of guys I find it easier to go to an edited directory like www.theseova.com rather than play russian roulette with sites like elance or rentacoder.

      A few high PR links will never hurt, but long term it's probably cheaper to find someone who can do this for you on an ongoing basis without needing to be told exactly what to do.

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  • Profile picture of the author pokerdawg
    Flipfilter,

    I'm not familiar with SEOVA ... is it basically an eLance for SEO?

    Is it a company that manages their own team of VA's or more of a job board for VA's?

    Thanks
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