how much would you pay for high quality links?

[boring-friday]

I've been buying quite a few links from someone and hes giving me a decent discount now, considering reselling it. More of the sites have mostly American traffic but some are UK, as a example the independent how much would you pay for a link on the main domain thats guaranteed to stay up for at least a year or be replaced?
Its mainly for traffic, I got 5000 visitors the first day I had a article published on there and around 12,000 total. But you definitely get serp increases too.

 

[GoldenLeads]

How many of those 5000 /day were fake crawler bots ?

 

[SEOpie]

Before you get shot down, could you give us an example of what you would call a 'good quality link' which you have purchased recently.

Simply put, good quality links mean different things for different web sites. The value of a link is determined by so many factors that a link from a site that Moz and co consider to have high DA, might not be as beneficial as a link from a site that is more related and relevant to the content it is linking to.

As for the traffic figures, with all due respect, this means nothing. Again, the traffic that you are driving to your site must also be serving a purpose; either to purchase a product or to gain information. It's all very well buying a link that sends you 12,000 unique visits per month, but if none of them purchase anything, or bounce, this doesn't benefit your website at all. If anything it can hurt your rankings due to reduced page view times, increased bounce rate etc.

 

[Shopclicks]

how much would you pay for high quality links?

About as much as I'd pay for Facebook Likes ..... Nothing.

 

[Mystro]

A article professionally written and published on the independent is around £140

 

[Opinion87]

Traffic is vanity, conversion is sanity.

 

[GoldenLeads]

Define 'high quality '?

 

[boring-friday]

Before you get shot down, could you give us an example of what you would call a 'good quality link' which you have purchased recently.

Simply put, good quality links mean different things for different web sites. The value of a link is determined by so many factors that a link from a site that Moz and co consider to have high DA, might not be as beneficial as a link from a site that is more related and relevant to the content it is linking to.

As for the traffic figures, with all due respect, this means nothing. Again, the traffic that you are driving to your site must also be serving a purpose; either to purchase a product or to gain information. It's all very well buying a link that sends you 12,000 unique visits per month, but if none of them purchase anything, or bounce, this doesn't benefit your website at all. If anything it can hurt your rankings due to reduced page view times, increased bounce rate etc.

the independent.co.uk was a example. Theres loads of different sites I can get links on but they're all a difference price so I just listed one but: techcrunch,theguardian,mashable,forbes,huffingtonpost,entreprenaur,searchenginejournal,nytimes,usatoday.

Really can't be bothered going into the rest of your post as I was just interested in how much people would pay, I'm not planning on selling on here as they're mostly US sites and I know people here think google will come round your house and snatch your website from beneath you if you build any link.
But yes the link more than paid for itself for me with just the traffic, let alone bumping my keyword from 12th to 7th within a week.

And honestly lol with you selling seo I'm going to have to ask. Do you seriously think if a site got links from all of the above that it would lose serp positions? In real life? Ever? From watching your google videos, do you think that would actually happen?

 

[Mystro]

These post are getting so boring now, the OP asked a simple question then it turns into a fight

The independent and others are very high traffic sites the link will be about as best as you can get, very well written very well researched linked to a few resources within the content

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...es-how-to-hire-a-car-on-holiday-10304046.html

Its a fact a new article will generate a lot of traffic when first published slowly dropping off over the next days and weeks

Great Metrics of a site very authoritative, will initially be on the front page for a while dropping off

So simple question is how much would you pay, if you wouldn't pay then don't answer, if you need more info ask for it, but please stop the pointless flames as if your some kind of oracle and know best

Rant over

 

[GoldenLeads]

I would be interested in trying those type of links, I haven't used it as we have our own service that provides SEO agencies with high quality backlinks - <<<Link Removed>>> , overall I really doubt that it would give greater benefit than having a link from a homepage tf25,150+ref ips website, and probably cost x10 times more, but would be interesting in trying none the less.

 

[SEOpie]

And honestly lol with you selling seo I'm going to have to ask. Do you seriously think if a site got links from all of the above that it would lose serp positions? In real life? Ever? From watching your google videos, do you think that would actually happen?

I was actually trying to offer you the chance to defend yourself before others answered. Don't take that as a jibe.

As for the answer to your question, it isn't that simple, as you know.

 

[Mystro]

One link alone will be around £140 and that's one of the cheaper ones, but they are very authoritative genuine links, I know company's that have them and ain't done nothing for their rankings. but I suppose it depends on your goals.

 

[boring-friday]

Thanks to mystro for actually answering the question.

@GoldenLeads : Yeah I agree with you, I wouldn't of bought it for just seo benefits, it was mainly for the traffic. But having said that my way of thinking is the big sites linking to me is telling google 'hello this is a legit authority site' and the types you're talking about the powerful/cost effective ones. But also each link like this I buy I get 10-50 more from smaller sites picking up the story and linking to me too. And now on the homepage of my site I have 'as featured in the guardian.co.uk' etc.

@SEOpie Honestly it really is simple, sites with pr8-9,80-100 da,80-100 tf/cf will not move your site down, they're going to move it up 99% of the time. As above though, not really cost effective,not designed to be solely for seo.

 

[GoldenLeads]

Thanks to mystro for actually answering the question.

@GoldenLeads : Yeah I agree with you, I wouldn't of bought it for just seo benefits, it was mainly for the traffic. But having said that my way of thinking is the big sites linking to me is telling google 'hello this is a legit authority site' and the types you're talking about the powerful/cost effective ones. But also each link like this I buy I get 10-50 more from smaller sites picking up the story and linking to me too. And now on the homepage of my site I have 'as featured in the guardian.co.uk' etc.

@SEOpie Honestly it really is simple, sites with pr8-9,80-100 da,80-100 tf/cf will not move your site down, they're going to move it up 99% of the time. As above though, not really cost effective,not designed to be solely for seo.

I agree, but PR means nothing, and da/cf/tf is 95% more important of the page that the link is on, not the domain.

 

[ZeroDouble]

(Toolbar) PR can still a useful metric, even if you have to guestimate it a bit when dealing with new pages that have sprung up on old domains since the last time it was updated. It's like all the other metrics though, pretty useless if you take it in isolation.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Any SEO worth their salt should be able to tell in a few moments (like less than a minute or two) the value of a link. don't need all these fancy indicators (but they make it easier).

 

[GoldenLeads]

Any SEO worth their salt should be able to tell in a few moments (like less than a minute or two) the value of a link. don't need all these fancy indicators (but they make it easier).

Less than a few seconds - filters 99%, and if I'm not sure about the 1% then it takes additional 30seconds.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

So now we are going to argue over the difference between moments and seconds?

I give in, do do believe you could start an argument in an empty room

 

[rhys_td]

If it was on a high traffic site I'd probably pay around £150 for a good link - not for SEO purposes, purely for the potential traffic it could bring. Would have to be UK based though (clients outside of the UK tend to be a pain due to time constraints).

 

[Matt Thorpe]

I think it's difficult to put a price on a link because you don't know the quality or volume of traffic it will send. You also don't know if the article will be any good to the user. For a service, an advice article, opinion piece or top tips article will generally be very useful and create awareness but it may not convert into business.

For products, it is a slightly different approach in my opinion. I would create a PR strategy where the aim is to get the product placed as part of a feature or in the form of a product review. That will ultimately build links and drive sales at the same time.

Link building is a PR job and there is no one size fits all. The strategy needs to be unique to the product or service. There is no point creating articles just for the sake of it and then trying to get them placed.

As a priority, I would suggest you look at creating create 'amazing' content for your own site (i.e video). You can then seed / share this out and, if it's good enough, these sites will feature it and automatically create relevant content and a link directing back to your site. This approach works for both services and products.

This approach doesn't have to be expensive either. Seek out some film students or graduates who are looking to build up their CV. You can get some great video content and they get paid + experience.

WIN + WIN!

 

[sirbrandy]

Probably hard to give a figure.

That's because I have to consider a lot of factors to determine the forecasted ROI.

From there, I would also determine the value of the link.

 

[Carl Feldman]

From those 5000 did you notice a high level amount of sales? Was this bot traffic do you use Google analytics that will help paint clearer picture for you. It depends on how much the link is bringing you really. If its bringing you £2000 than 50% of that would be a good investment.