Buying an SEO link means paying a real outlet to publish an article that links to you. Google reads that link as a vote of trust and passes authority to your domain. The catch: only links with real traffic, topical fit and a natural anchor count. The rest are noise, and the cheap ones are risk.
Five signals separate a link that builds authority from one Google ignores. The catalog shows every one before you spend.
The clearest sign an outlet is alive and trusted. A high metric on a site with flat traffic is a red flag.
A link from a site in your industry passes more relevance than a stronger link from an unrelated one.
Only dofollow links pass authority. The catalog shows how many each outlet allows.
Vary brand, URL and generic phrases. Exact-keyword anchors on every link is the fastest flag.
DA, DR and Authority Score together, plus spam score. Three sources beat one typed-in number.
One dofollow link inside a real article on a DA 70 newspaper in your niche moves more than fifty links on sites with no traffic. Google stopped counting raw link totals a long time ago. It weighs the trust of the source, and trust does not come in bulk.
A defensible pace: 2 to 4 strong links a month for a new site, 5 to 10 for a domain with history, with anchors varied across brand, URL and topic. What gives a campaign away is never the exact number, it is the sudden jump. Going from zero to fifty referring domains in a fortnight does not look natural because it is not.
Prefer to not think about pace at all? Backlink Autopilot sets a monthly budget and picks outlets, writes and publishes on a natural cadence for you.
Price per published article with your link. Writing is included or optional per outlet, and volume discounts apply automatically.
Niche blogs with organic traffic
from $15Regional newspapers, DA 50-70
$75 - $160National press, DA 80+
$160 - $550Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Live data from the +3,900 active outlets, sorted by Domain Authority.
| Outlet | Type | DA | DR | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| msn.com | Newspaper | 95 | 92 | 28.9M |
| gorod.it.com | Blog | 93 | 92 | 9.1M |
| evernote.com | Blog | 92 | 90 | 2.6M |
| jpost.com | Newspaper | 91 | 86 | 1.1M |
| zimbio.com | Blog | 90 | 76 | 2K |
| ibtimes.co.uk | Newspaper | 89 | 82 | 228K |
| radaronline.com | Newspaper | 88 | 78 | 198K |
Register free and see DA, DR, Authority Score, traffic and price on all +3,900 outlets before you spend a euro.