Link Building Services

ink building cossts vary significantly depending on the types of links you are looking to get as well as the niche, criteria etc. Below we provide “average” costs.

GENERAL NICHES: Vetted niche edit average cost: £200 or around – $260 Guest post average cost: £200 or around $260 HARO/Pitch & Earn cost: £200 or around $260 Digital PR Links: £400-£500 or around or $530 -$660 COMPETITIVE NICHES: (Casinos, Pharma, Finance) Vetted niche edit average cost: £300 or $330-$400 Guest post average cost: £300 or $400 HARO/Pitch & Earn cost: £350-£350 or $330-$400 Digital PR Links: £600-£800 or $800 – $1050 We offer volume discounts or retained discounts – these are averaged prices.

Link building requirements are completely bespoke based on the niche, the current domain, size of domain, pre-existing brand establishment. We can provide you with a link building review and recommended link acquisition rate based on your target objectives.

In general – Smaller business sites can typically expect to build 3-5 links per month Medium business sites can typically expect to build 5-10 links per month Larger business sites can typically expect to build 10-50 links per month Sites in eCommerce can expect to build 25-50 links per month Sites in competitive niches can expect to build north of 50 links per month The amount of links your domain requires is subject to an assessment from one of our in-house SEO specialists who can evaluate your current domain, your objectives, current organic performance, competitive landscape and from this, provide recommendations around link budgets and accruement rates.

Link building should be a rolling indefinite process. Each month, expanding on external links can help to maintain and grow trust signals which are important for not only organic performance but inclusion in AIOs and AI search.

Building links continuously allows you to maintain growth, rather than potential competitors outpacing your growth and overtime, becoming more authoritative. Link building typically runs month on month.

Here at Assertive we use a number of ways of ascertaining link building impact. We use a specialist process called query counting where we look at correlation between link building and the impact on a domains/URLS served queries. What we typically do is: 1. Pre link building review of your domain / pre-existing links 2.

Tailored link building strategy 3. Link building campaign runs 4. As the campaign runs we track the impact of links built to URLS looking at served queries, position grouping changes etc. Generally – as long as other areas are covered such as good quality landing page content, UX, needs met / value content, we look for signal indicators that links coming in are helping to drive ranking growth and ultimately ROI.

Most link building campaigns start showing early results in the first 3-6 months but significant improvements in rankings and traffic usually take 6–12 months. The impact tends to follow a compounding curve over time – as a domain gets stronger it also tends to accrue more links naturally.

Factors like backlink quality, domain authority, and niche competition affect how fast you’ll see impact.

Start link building once your website is technically compliant, indexed by Google, and has high-quality, valuable content worth linking to. Kicking off too early before your site offers real value or a clear SEO strategy can nullify the initial impact of links.

You can in theory start link building whenever you want, but, for the BEST outcomes we generally recommend addressing ALL technical SEO issues, ensuring the sites indexed URL profile is healthy, review content and ensure content is in the best possible state so that links COMPLEMENT the performance gains.

There’s no definitive answer to this, link investments and the amount to spend is entirely dependent on your domain, your domains history & current link profile, your organic performance, your market/competitors and niche. Most businesses tend to set aside a budget for SEO which will include spend for links, however some businesses may earmark budget for link building campaigns where a budget is provided and then a “net cost per link is set” to average the output.

A backlinks worth is USUALLY calculated by common metrics such as DR (domain rating), DA (domain authority), TF (trust flow) and domain traffic. But in reality, this is flawed because backlinks should never be valued by a domains “vanity metrics”.

A backlinks worth is entirely dependent on: Quality of the overall domain Quality of the page/content linking to your site Estimated domain AND URL linking traffic Outbound link ratios from the linking URL Amount of effort required to get the link (labour cost) A backlinks worth should GENERALLY be based off of the quality of the link as opposed to domain vanity metrics.