Link Building Services That Show You Proof Before You Pay
Most link building services ask you to trust a spreadsheet: a Domain Rating number, a "high quality" label, and a price. You can't verify any of it until your money is already spent. LinkVetted works the other way around. Before you pay for a single placement, you get live Ahrefs screenshots for every site on your prospect list — real DR, real organic traffic, real trend line. If a site can't survive that scrutiny, you never see it, and you never pay for it.
Every placement is an editorially written guest post or content placement on a vetted, traffic-earning site, secured through manual blogger outreach. Every link carries a 6-month replacement guarantee. And every price is published on this page, per link, so you know the cost before the first outreach email goes out.
[Request a Quote] — send us your niche and target pages, and we'll reply with a vetted prospect list backed by live Ahrefs proof.
The Problem With Most Link Building Companies: Fake DR
Domain Rating is trivially easy to inflate. A site owner points a few hundred links from expired domains or link networks at a homepage, DR jumps to 55, and the site gets sold as a "DR 55 guest post" to every link building company that only reads the headline metric. The site has no rankings, no traffic, and passes no real authority — Google discounted it long ago; the DR number just hasn't caught up.
This is the core economics of cheap link inventory. Vendors buy placements on inflated-metric sites for a few dollars, resell them at a markup, and count on you never opening the referring domains report. It's why "don't buy on metrics alone" is the single most important rule in this industry — and why our entire service is built around showing you the underlying data instead of the headline number. If you want to learn to spot inflated metrics yourself, our guide to how to check backlink quality walks through the exact checks.
What's Included in Our Link Building Service
This is manual link building end to end. Nothing is pulled from a marketplace, nothing is automated, and nothing goes live without your approval.
1. Prospecting. We build a prospect list specific to your niche and target pages — not a recycled inventory sheet. Sources include competitor backlink gap analysis, topical search operators, and direct outreach to publishers in your vertical.
2. Vetting. Every prospect passes our five-point Ahrefs SOP (detailed below) before it reaches your approval list. Most candidates fail.
3. Content. Our writers produce the guest post around a topic the publisher's audience actually reads, with your link placed contextually in the body — never in an author bio or footer. You can review every draft before it goes out.
4. Placement. We handle the blogger outreach, editorial back-and-forth, and publication. Links are dofollow unless the publisher's policy dictates otherwise — and we flag that before you approve the site, not after.
5. Reporting. You get the published URL, the anchor text, and an Ahrefs screenshot of the linking site's metrics on the day of placement — a timestamped record of what you approved and what went live.
Link Building Packages and Per-Link Pricing
Most vendors hide pricing behind a sales call. Ours is on the page. Each tier pairs a DR range with a traffic floor — a minimum level of verified organic traffic the site must show in Ahrefs, live, before it can be offered to you. DR alone is fakeable; consistent organic traffic is much harder to fake.
| Starter | Growth | Authority | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per link | $69 | $149 | $279 |
| Domain Rating | DR 20–39 | DR 40–59 | DR 60+ |
| Organic traffic floor | 500+/mo | 1,000+/mo | 3,000+/mo |
| Placement type | Guest post | Guest post | Guest post |
| Content | 800+ words, written by us | 1,000+ words, written by us | 1,000+ words, written by us |
| Ahrefs proof before payment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Replacement guarantee | 6 months | 6 months | 6 months |
All three tiers are fulfilled through our guest posting service — new content written and published on vetted sites. Prefer contextual links added to existing, already-ranking articles? Our niche edits start at $59. Volume discounts and monthly link building packages are on the pricing page.
If those numbers seem low or high, benchmark them: we published a full breakdown of how much backlinks cost across the industry, including what the cheap end is actually selling you.
LinkVetted vs. a Typical Link Building Vendor
| LinkVetted | Typical vendor | |
|---|---|---|
| Proof before payment | Live Ahrefs screenshots for every site | Spreadsheet of self-reported metrics |
| Traffic requirement | Hard floor per tier, verified live | "High traffic" claimed, rarely verified |
| DR verification | Cross-checked against referring domains | Headline number only |
| Site approval | You approve every site pre-payment | Links appear; you find out after |
| Pricing | Published per-link rates | Quote after a sales call |
| Inventory | Fresh prospecting per campaign | Recycled inventory sold to everyone |
| If a link drops | Replaced free within 6 months | "Links are outside our control" |
| Content | Written for the publisher's audience | Spun or generic filler |
How We Vet Every Site
The vetting checklist below is our internal SOP. It's also, not coincidentally, the checklist you should run on any vendor's prospect list — including ours. The best link building services survive their own criteria.
- Real DR — we open the referring domains report, not just the score. Profiles dominated by expired domains, foreign-language spam, or network footprints are rejected.
- Live organic traffic — a site with genuine authority ranks for something. Below the tier's traffic floor in Ahrefs, the site is out, whatever its DR says.
- Traffic trend — a cliff-shaped drop usually means an algorithmic hit or deindexing. We don't place links on sites Google has already demoted.
- Niche relevance — a human confirms the site publishes for an audience in or adjacent to your space, which is where topical authority actually transfers.
- Outbound-link ratio — if a "blog" links out to casinos, payday lenders, and CBD shops from every post, it's a link farm with a content skin. Rejected.
- No redirect or rebuild tricks — expired domains rebuilt purely to sell placements, or metrics borrowed through redirects, are cut.
You see the Ahrefs data for every approved prospect before you pay. If we can't show you the proof, we don't expect the order.
Who Our SEO Link Building Services Are For
- Agencies — outsource link building without staffing an outreach team. We deliver under your brand with white label reports; details on our white-label link building page.
- SaaS companies — placements that support commercial and BOFU pages. See SaaS link building.
- Ecommerce brands — category and product page campaigns with a natural anchor mix. See ecommerce link building.
- Local businesses — geo-relevant placements for map pack and local organic visibility. See local link building and our dental link building service for practices.
- In-house SEOs — you already know how to read an Ahrefs report. We're the vendor that expects you to.
What Makes a Good Link (and Why Quantity Loses)
Ten placements on relevant, traffic-earning sites will outperform a hundred on inflated-DR shells — because Google evaluates the linking page's relevance, authority, and real audience, not the count. A good link is editorially placed in the body of content a real audience reads, on a site that ranks for terms in your topic, with anchor text that looks natural in context. (Aggressive exact-match anchors are a footprint; here's the anchor text ratio we recommend.) New to the fundamentals? Start with what backlinks are and why they still drive rankings.
One honest caveat the sales pages skip: links amplify pages that already deserve to rank. If your content is thin or your on-page basics are broken, fix that first — we'll tell you so in the first email rather than take the order.
What We Refuse to Sell
The fastest way to judge a link building company is by what it won't sell you:
- PBNs — private blog networks built to pass fake authority
- Link farms — sites that exist only to publish paid posts
- Fake-DR networks — inflated-metric domains with no organic traffic
- Automated spam — comment links, forum profiles, directory blasts, tiered automation
If a vendor's inventory is cheap and unlimited, it comes from one of those four buckets. Before spending anywhere, read our unvarnished take on buying backlinks — including the risks nobody selling them mentions.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long until link building shows results? Typically 3–6 months from first placements to measurable movement, depending on your site's history, content quality, and competition. Links are a compounding investment, not a switch. Anyone promising ranking jumps in weeks is describing tactics that get sites penalized.
Do you guarantee rankings? No — and no one honestly can. Rankings depend on your content, your site, your competitors, and Google's algorithm, none of which any link building service controls. What we do guarantee: every site meets published DR and traffic standards you verify before paying, and every link is replaced free if it drops within 6 months.
What makes a good backlink? Topical relevance, real verified organic traffic, editorial in-content placement, a clean link profile on the linking site, and natural anchor text. A link failing any of those is decoration — whatever its DR badge says.
What's the turnaround time? Most placements go live within 2–4 weeks of order confirmation: prospecting and your site-list approval in the first week, then outreach, content, and publication. DR 60+ placements can take longer because premium publishers run slower editorial queues.
Which niches do you cover — and decline? We work with most B2B, SaaS, ecommerce, health, finance, home services, and local niches. We decline casino, gambling, and adult, and assess grey areas (CBD, crypto) case by case, because publisher acceptance and link durability are unreliable there.
Do you offer white label link building? Yes. Agencies get unbranded reports, wholesale volume pricing, and direct fulfillment under your brand — your client never sees our name. Details on the white-label page.
How do international clients pay? We accept Wise, Payoneer, credit/debit cards, and bank transfer, and invoice in USD. Payment is due only after you've approved the sites — the proof-first model applies to everyone, in any country.
What happens if a link drops? Every placement carries a 6-month replacement guarantee. If a link is removed or the page is deleted within 6 months, we replace it on a site of equal or better metrics at no charge. We monitor placements ourselves — we usually catch a drop before you do.
See the Proof Before You Spend a Dollar
Send us your niche and target pages. Within a few business days you'll have a prospect list with live Ahrefs data attached to every site — real DR, real traffic, real trend lines. If the list doesn't meet your bar, you've lost nothing but the time it took to read it.
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