Pricing explainer
Link building pricing, explained for a SaaS with $100
Placements here run from $1 to about $500. The spread is huge, and a founder with a hundred dollars needs to know which end of it deserves trust.
SupeSEO editorial team ·
The gist
Price tracks the donor, not your hopes
Cost per placement rises with Domain Rating, organic traffic and niche. A $1 row and a $60 row are different kinds of site. Spend your first $100 on a few mid-range rows you have actually read, not on forty cheap ones.
- Range: $1 up to about $500 per placement
- No subscription, you pay from a balance
- One link is a slow bet, never a promise of position
Three illustrative price bands for a tiny budget
| Band (example) | What the site usually looks like | What to check | Sensible count on $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Around $1 to $10 | Small or young site, little organic traffic, thin archive | Is the article readable? Is the niche close to yours? | Two or three at most, as a test |
| Around $10 to $40 | Established blog or niche site with some traffic and a real topic | Traffic trend, other outbound links on the page | Two to four, the usual sweet spot |
| Around $40 to $100 | Stronger Domain Rating and visible organic traffic | Whether the topic fits and the page will stay indexed | One or two, and nothing else that month |
| Above $100 | Top-tier domains up to about $500 | Honestly, whether you need it at all | Skip until revenue grows |
Why the cheap end is cheap
Price follows what a site can pass on. A donor with little traffic and a short history costs less, and that is fair. Fine. The link may reach few readers and carry little weight, which is the trade.
None of this makes a $1 row useless, since a tidy article on a relevant little site can still be a fine first signal. The trouble starts when a founder buys twenty of them in one afternoon because the sum looks small, then wonders why nothing shifted in Search Console six weeks later.
A better habit is to treat the cheapest rows as experiments with a hard cap, say 15% of the month. The rest goes to rows you read, with the scorecard open in another tab.
What sits inside the price, and what is extra
- The article itself, written automatically with one clean link to your target page
- Publication as a permanent dofollow placement, usually about 24 hours after payment
- Your choice of content mode: automatic, your own prompt, or your finished article
- Nothing for monthly access, because there is no subscription to carry
- Not included: a ranking, a traffic number or a promise of either, from us or anyone honest
Where $100 stops stretching
At $100 a month you can run one clear experiment. That means one target page, two to four donors, a note of the price of each, and a gap of six to eight weeks before you read the result.
Head terms rarely budge. Competitive head terms in SaaS rarely move on that scale. Ahrefs and Semrush will show referring-domain counts for the pages you are chasing, and if rivals hold hundreds, a $100 month is a seasoning, not a meal. Pick a narrower query, and read our worked month for a model of pacing.
Plan around the ledger, not the donor list. The list is long, the ledger is short.