Compared on method
The best link building services, compared on what they actually do.
Every listicle in this search ranks these companies by review count, which measures how long a company has been trading and nothing about the product. Here they are ranked by model instead: what arrives, how long it takes and what it costs to start. We sell one of them, and we say so at the top rather than at the bottom.
- One buyer per package
- Live in about an hour
- From $79 a year
Head publisher
theverge.com
- No rate card
- Dofollow
- Placed 2012
- 1,756
- links in the package
- 82
- independent sites
The name is released to your account the moment the package is yours.
$1,299per year, one buyer
Read live before you pay
Publishers in the catalog tonight
What to compare
The four questions that separate them.
Four services, and the four things that actually separate them once you stop counting reviews.
Does a placement get created, or does one already exist
Outreach and niche edits both put a link somewhere it was not before. That act is recent, and recency is what a search engine can see. A profile that grew over a decade has nothing recent in it.
Who wrote the anchor text
Every outreach product asks you for it, because it has to. Anchor text you specified is the single most reliable marker that a link was bought.
How long before it is working
Two to five weeks for everything built on persuading a publisher. About an hour for something already standing.
Is it yours alone
A site that takes one guest post can take another. A package here sells once and comes off the catalog.
The part that matters
Where each one is the right answer.
This is our page, so read the recommendation accordingly. It is still worth saying plainly which of these to pick when the answer is not us, because the alternative is a listicle nobody believes.
- Pick FATJOE if you want a placement on a specific class of site, at volume, with a clean self-serve flow and reseller pricing.
- Pick The HOTH if you want one vendor covering content, technical work and links together rather than links alone.
- Pick Loganix if you want to approve every individual domain before anything is placed and you have three weeks.
- Pick us if you want depth and age immediately, from publishers that do not sell placements at any price, with one buyer per package.
Side by side
Four services, three questions.
Each row is what the company publishes about its own product. Nothing here rates anyone's link quality, and no review scores appear, on purpose.
| Model | Time to live | Published entry price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SeoBoosty | A whole backlink profile: 1 to 2 links from a publisher with no rate card, and 250 to 1,500 behind them | About an hour | From $79 a year, per package |
| FATJOE | Blogger outreach, a new guest post priced by DR tier | Two to three weeks | About $72 per link at DR10+ |
| The HOTH | Guest posts and link insertions priced by DA tier, plus managed SEO | Weeks, about thirty-five days on the premium tier | From about $175 per link at DA20+ |
| Loganix | Guest posts and niche edits on domains you approve first | About three weeks | From about $200 per guest post |
Reviews are not on this table because every service in it has good ones and they do not tell you what you are buying. Speed, model and price do.
What one of ours actually contains.
Four packages that were in the catalog, with the size of the profile behind each. This is the row the table above compresses into one line.
| Price | Head publisher | Links | Sites linking |
|---|---|---|---|
| $149 | massart.edu | 76 | 47 |
| $799 | technologyreview.com | 142 | 79 |
| $1,299 | theverge.com | 1,756 | 82 |
| $1,999 | microsoft.com | 385 | 169 |
Questions
What people ask about this list.
- Why are you at the top of your own list?
- Because it is our site and pretending otherwise would be worse. The table gives you each company's published figures so you can disagree with the ranking, and the section above says which of the others to pick and when.
- Why are there no review scores?
- Because all four have good ones. A review count measures how long a company has been trading and how well it handles support, not what its product does to a link profile.
- Which is cheapest?
- Per link, ours by a distance, because a package carries hundreds. Per order FATJOE's entry tier is lower. Those are two different questions and the honest answer depends on which one you are asking.
- Which is fastest?
- Ours, at about an hour against two to five weeks. Nothing here has to be pitched, written or approved.
- Can I use more than one?
- Most serious programmes do. Outreach builds visible presence on sites you name; packages add depth and age quickly. They are complementary rather than competing.
- Is any of this against search engine policy?
- Paying a publisher to place a link is the transaction the policy describes, and three of the four models involve it. Ours does not, because no publisher is contacted or paid. None of us can promise you an outcome.
See what one of ours contains.
Open the catalog, pick a publisher and see the link count, the age and the price before you spend anything.