How Much Would You Pay For Links?

Hi Everyone,

I've put together a plan to increase our rankings, based around creating good optimised content on our site, followed by monitoring the links of the top ranked sites and trying to emulate these backlinks. I need to put together a budget forecast for this and was wondring how much everyone would pay / charge for individual links with the following PR:

PR0
PR1
PR2
PR3
PR4
PR5
PR6

I know PR isn't everything, and a lot will depend on the type of link, relevance etc etc, but this is just to help in setting budgets for links...

Thanks in advance for any help!!

 

I would assume people pay depending on what type of niche you're in. If you're in entertainment or wallpapers, you can't really charge a whole lot for a link. but if you're in insurance/health / finance related then your links would be worth much more.
PR3 should be at least $5 for a low paying niche / mo rest can be as high as you want up to $80 on a pr5 but this is just me

 

I remember once i was contacted and offered $17.5/mo for
PR#3 and $22.5 for PR4 that was for technology website
..but i lost page rank and removed them subsequently..
Price for PR is exponential and while PR4 links can
be $40 and PR5 can be double of that.. $80..

 

I think what you have chosen is not the best route to follow - actually there are other solid methods you can go by, without having to dread the possible consequences. The damage done by paid linking may turn out hard to make up for.

 

I know best practice for purchasing links, there are anumber of steps I will follow. You must also take into account that the odds are stacked against 'bad' links actually harming your seo - they are much more likely to just be not valued at all - if it were otherwise then anyone could harma competitors site by linking to it from 'bad' sites...

I'm in the travel industry - so any ideas?

 

Buying and selling links that pass page rank are against the google webmaster guidelines. And since you reference "rankings" and "PR", both by name, I am guessing that you are buying those links to increase your page rank.

I can not recommend anything that might get your site a penalty. My answer is - I recommend that you do not buy links of any kind. If you do buy a link, make sure it uses the nofollow tag.

 

$0.

Don't buy links unless you want to be on the bottom of the SERPs. It is against guidelines as stated above and Google is getting better and better at spotting these practices. Just create good content and build natural links.

 

Buying links is Against by the TOS of Google. Do you remember they penalized Google japan for buying links? beware once they caught you doing the act. Anyway, I remember my friend got paid with his PR 3 blog with the amount of 55 euro. Lifetime basis.

 

Buying links is not recommended by google, really if you want to buy links the only legit way is to hire someone to submit your site to directories and hire a few writers to write and submit articles. You can also do the same for social bookmarking. Don't buy a link on a site attempt to get it in a legit fasion and if you have a budget hire freelancers to do some of the work for you.

 

People buy links all the time, but as other have said it can be dangerous. If your site doesn't have thousands of back links, buying links can be especially dangerous. If your URLs have only a few links each and a competitor does what you've been doing and looks at your backlinks, spotting paid links will be a piece of cake. If you have 10,000 backlinks to a URL, however, finding 10-20 paid links in there could be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

I know sites that buy links. TLA and LinkWorh and companies like that are generally cheap, but definitely MUCH more dangerous that buying from other companies that only work deals offline (and charge more for the confidentiality and better service finding relevant, trusted, authoritative sites to buy links from). Beware any company that will let you sign up for a login and then allow you to login and view their inventory online where your links can be placed.

I know banks and such that will pay $300-400 for a single PR3 or PR4 link from the right site. They might spend $100-150 from a PR0 link from a very relevant site. They might pay $150-300 for a PR1-PR2 link from a relevant site. But that is from a high end link broker, very secure, very picky about publishers AND advertisers that they deal with. Of course, half of that or more is going to the broker... So it's always more cost effective if you can work the deal directly with the site yourself rather than use a middle man.

 

you should base your link sales on traffic not PR

 

Hi, thanks for sharing the nice link.

thanks a lot.

 

I can't say I am for or against buying links... As with link exchange, buying and selling links or banners is present long before Google.

And, what about buying an PR article? Half of people/website owners I asked for PR article don't even know what nofollow is...They sell advertising and don't care for Google policies. Same thing applies for banners... If someone wants to buy banner with nice alt img and nice title, should it also be nofollow?

 

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the advice so far.

I'm not a newbie at this, and am aware of the risks, but as I say my personal opinion (and a lot of others on other forums such as WMW) is that paid links can't really harm your site unless they're done stupidly, but they can be devalued. My plan with the links is:

1) not using sites that have a lot of links coming from them
2) varying anchor text
3) not using big link building services which offer thousands of links - we'll be adding single links gradually, and maintaining a varying level of link addition after that
4) avoiding bad neighbourhoods
5) using relevant sites / pages to link from
6) won't use side-wide links
7) will be placing the links within relevant content
8) avoiding links from home pages
9) expanding content on target pages
10) not using links to pass page rank

On top of this, the site has been around for a few years, has good natural positions, is not spammy in any way, and is not an affiliate site. I really don't think we're going to see anything negative happen. Also, I've been checking the backlinks of all our top page competitors and it's pretty obvious that every single one of them has had a paid links campaign going.

I'm going to be doing some article / blog submissions and some directory submissions (although only 'good' directories) - although both these avenues are seeing devaluing by G at the moment.

As Canonical says, the biggest risk really comes from a competitor seeing what we're doing and reporting the site, but we'll see on that one...

This whole post really is just to help me formulate a budget - my bosses know that it won't really be anywhere near, but they want a rough idea.

Any other ideas on how to set some sort of pricing structure and example costs would be greatly appreciated...

 

i have paid 20 usd for a web directory.

 

It varies depending on page quality etc.
Usually I would pay $10 for a decent PR 1 (less than 30 links)
$15 for a PR 2
$20 for a PR 3.
Make sure you check the sites first for "dodgy" aspects eg. casino links, that may make a site less valuable to you.

 

I use these metrics for evaluating links:
- Domain/Website age
- Linkdomain
- Link to page
- Alexa
- PR
- Topical relevance

If you want i can send you structured document and some examples on PM. Based on your budget you can add values in $

 

I'm not a big fan of paid links. The benefits of paid links tend to be temporary. Building natural links is still the best, plus it's free!

 

Buy Links, PM if you like.

 

You can spend years creating links for free before buying them.