Transparent Link Building Pricing
Link building pricing: what you actually pay.
A transparent price guide: what link building costs, why bulk packages produce junk and how to budget properly instead.
- Published price anchors, no hidden margins
- Cost per ranking, not cost per link
- An honest warning on buying backlinks
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Most link building packages are priced on volume, not on outcome.We prefer to do the math out loud: what a link really costs and what it returns.This page is that math, published.
Most link building packages are priced on volume, not on outcome. We prefer to do the math out loud: what a link really costs and what it returns. This page is that math, published.
Link building pricing ranges from EUR 50 for a network link to EUR 25,000 per month for a serious editorial program. The difference comes down to three variables: volume, vertical competitiveness and asset complexity. On this page we publish our price anchors: editorial link building runs EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000 per month, a tier-one editorial placement has a fully loaded cost of EUR 400 to 1,500, and 'high DA' links below EUR 200 are network spam. No fixed packages, just a custom proposal after a free SEO audit.
See link building case resultsHow LASEO prices a link building proposal
How a LASEO link building proposal comes together
Five steps from free audit to custom proposal. You see every price line before you sign, and the budget is recalibrated on results every quarter.
- 01
Free SEO audit and baseline (week 1)
We audit your backlink profile with Ahrefs and Majestic, map your referring domains against your top three competitors and set the baseline: where you stand, what is missing, what is toxic. Free and without obligation. Deliverable: audit report with a link gap overview.
- 02
Link gap and value mapping (weeks 1-2)
We translate the gap into money: which money pages lack authority, which rankings are within reach and what traffic sits behind them. So you know what the links should return before we talk price. Deliverable: priority list with estimated value per cluster.
- 03
Scope and budget modelling (week 2)
We model the program: placements per month, asset mix, outreach intensity for your vertical. That produces a monthly budget within the EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000 range, justified line by line. Deliverable: budget model with the cost of each component.
- 04
Custom proposal, line by line (weeks 2-3)
You receive a proposal in which every euro is traceable: assets, outreach hours, reporting. No package tiers, no hidden margin on resold links. You can question every line before you sign. Deliverable: proposal with price build-up and monthly deliverables.
- 05
Quarterly recalibration on results (ongoing)
Every quarter we put cost next to outcome: placements, DR distribution, ranking movement per cluster. If a cluster does not move, the budget shifts. You keep paying for what works. Deliverable: quarterly report with cost-per-result analysis.
Not the price per link,but the price per ranking.
A link package vendor charges EUR 150 per link and calls it cheap. We calculate differently. Add up what a placement really costs once you include asset creation, outreach time and relationship maintenance: EUR 400 to 1,500 for a tier-one editorial placement. Then divide your total investment by the rankings and organic traffic the links produce. Ten real editorial links that push a money page to position three are cheaper than two hundred network links that move nothing. That is the only price comparison that matters.
What link building pricing really means in 2026
Link building costs, explained without the sales pitch
The price of a link means nothing without asking what the link is. An editorial placement given freely by a real editor has a different cost structure than a placement sold by a network owner. Comparing link building packages on price per link is comparing apples to spam.
What an editorial link really costs
A tier-one editorial placement has a fully loaded cost of EUR 400 to 1,500: the linkable asset that earns it, the outreach time to pitch it by name, and the relationship maintenance that makes the next placement possible. That is the real unit price of honest link building, and the anchor every other offer should be measured against.
Why links below EUR 200 are network spam
A 'high DA link' for EUR 99 cannot contain an asset, outreach time and relationship work, because those already cost more combined. What remains is a placement on a site that exists to sell links. A typical PBN link costs EUR 50 to EUR 200 and passes almost no authority once Google identifies the network footprint.
Buying backlinks and Google's spam policies
Paid links that pass PageRank have been an explicit violation of Google's spam policies for over a decade. When a network gets caught, the links are devalued, placements disappear once the owner stops paying for hosting, and you risk a manual action. You are paying for something that can actively start working against you.
Why fixed packages produce junk
A tier of 25 links for EUR 1,000 forces the vendor into placements of a few tens of euros each, otherwise there is no margin. Quality is mathematically impossible in that model, regardless of what the sales page promises. Fixed bulk packages and editorial quality exclude each other.
Cost per link versus cost per ranking
The right question is not what a link costs but what a ranking costs. Divide your total investment by the ranking and traffic gains per cluster. Ten editorial links that move a money page beat two hundred network links that do nothing, even at twenty times the unit price.
What the Dutch market charges
In the Dutch market freelance SEO specialists typically charge EUR 75 to 125 per hour and agency retainers run from EUR 1,500 to 10,000+ per month depending on scope. Serious editorial link building sits at EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000 per month. LASEO does not work with standard rates but with a custom proposal after a free SEO audit.
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Link package vendor vs LASEO
Link building packages compared honestly
Cheap and expensive mean nothing until you know what you are buying. Here is the difference, line by line.
Fixed tiers, invisible placements
- Fixed tiers: 10 links for EUR 500, 25 for EUR 1,000. The same package for every client, regardless of the link gap.
- Margin for the vendor and a few tens of euros for a placement on a resold blog.
- 'High DA' sites that exist to sell links, often below EUR 200 per placement: network spam.
- Paid links are a policy violation. When the network gets caught the links evaporate and a manual action looms.
- Price per link. Two hundred links that move no ranking are still wasted money.
- The network owner can revoke placements. Often you lose 60-80 percent within 90 days.
Custom proposal, checkable price build-up
- Custom proposal after a free SEO audit, within the market range of EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000 per month for editorial work.
- Asset creation, named outreach and relationship maintenance: the fully loaded cost of EUR 400 to 1,500 per tier-one placement.
- Editorial placements on real publications, placed by an editor making a real decision.
- Zero policy-violation exposure. Every placement defensible to a Google reviewer.
- Price per ranking. Budget tied to ranking and traffic gains per cluster, recalibrated every quarter.
- Editorial links stay live unless the publication takes the article down. Assets and playbook are yours.
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For a premium brand like ours link building cannot look shady. LASEO only works with domains we would happily cite ourselves.
Our backlink profile was thin for years. LASEO built targeted links via digital PR and sport media and our authority climbed steadily.
Honest answers about link building pricing 
Every pricing question buyers Google before committing a link building budget.
Editorial link building costs EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000 per month, depending on volume, vertical competitiveness and asset complexity. In the wider Dutch market freelance SEO specialists typically charge EUR 75 to 125 per hour and agency retainers run from EUR 1,500 to 10,000+ per month depending on scope. A single editorial placement in a tier-one publication has a fully loaded cost of EUR 400 to 1,500 once you include the linkable asset, the outreach time and the relationship maintenance. Vendors selling 'high DA links' below EUR 200 each are delivering network placements that violate Google's spam policies. LASEO does not sell fixed packages; we build a custom proposal after a free SEO audit.
Pricing call
Bring your link building budgetto a senior consultant.
30 minutes with a LASEO link building consultant. We will not pitch. We will calculate together what closing your link gap costs, which budget fits, and whether a proposal from us makes sense.
