Compared on method
The best link building services, compared on what they actually do.
youtube.com$3,198
microsoft.comfrom$1,599
nytimes.comfrom$799
arstechnica.comfrom$499
mit.edufrom$79
Most lists rank these companies by review count, which shows how long a company has existed, not what its product does. This list compares them by model: what you get, how long it takes, and what it costs to start. We sell one of them, and we say so up front.
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- From $79 a year
Publishers in the catalog now
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. Backlinks here come off the catalog the moment they sell.
Head publisher
theverge.com
- Does not sell links
- Dofollow
- Placed 2012
- 1,756
- backlinks in total
- 82
- independent sites
The domain name appears in your account as soon as you buy.
$1,299per year
Checked live before you pay
The part that matters
Where each one is the right answer.
This is our page, so read the recommendation with that in mind. We still say which service to pick when the answer is not us.
- 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, and no one else gets the same backlinks.
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 website that does not sell links, and 250 to 1,500 behind them | About an hour | From $79 a year, one flat price |
| 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 real examples that were in the catalog, with the size of the profile behind each. This is the row the table above compresses into one line.
- $149
massart.edu
76 backlinks in total · 47 independent sites
- $799
technologyreview.com
142 backlinks in total · 79 independent sites
- $1,299
theverge.com
1,756 backlinks in total · 82 independent sites
- $1,999
microsoft.com
385 backlinks in total · 169 independent sites
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 in business and how well it handles support, not what its product does to a link profile.
- Which is cheapest?
- Per link, ours by far, because you get hundreds. Per order, FATJOE's entry tier is cheaper. Those are two different questions.
- 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 programs do. Outreach gets you placements on sites you choose. Aged backlinks add depth and age fast. They work together.
- 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.
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