What do you pay for link development?

People and amount of money spent

[Crush]

I have 2 links guys and they cost me around 500 euro a month. Looking for a full timer too (poor sod). I am in central europe so the cost is not so bad. That will be about 1000 euro with the full timer. When you consider that we have 20 sites that is 50 euro a site. Not bad.

Just wondering what others are shelling out. I know in the old days when I was paying per link the cost was killing me and the work was slow.

[robotsdobetter]

Nothing, I do it myself :)

[moneymancn]

So if your time is worth nothing please come and work for me!
MM

[guynouk]

Hi Crush,
Care to share/elaborate on your "kick-ass" linking system? We're about to overhaul ours starting Monday next. We've had our Google hats on for 2 days looking at links from their point view and have come up with a linking philosophy that we hope will work & stand the test of time.

[Crush]

guynouk. To stand the test of time is the sure way to do it I guess. Hand picked links. But when you are in the travel industry dealing with some of the smartest people around you need lots of links + content +seo. We build a machine that automates must of the searching and the 2 guys I have just verify there are no jokers.

We could put it out on the market and make some money that way but I think this is far more valuable to us inhouse.

So from the benefit of my experience automate as much as possible. Try and get your robot " if you have one" to harvest relevant mails and look for page rank. Follow all this up with a human. Google may theme but not a site only a page that your link will be placed on so all this look for quality links does not wash with me presently. Look for as many links as you can on topic...and off topic too ( yes against the rules, I know). All about anchor to your site. Vary the anchor too. Have 3 or 6 sets of different anchor to your site, We learnt that after florida.

That is about it really. Get between 2-300 baclinks from different sites and you will be the almighty giant.

[guynouk]

Crush. Thanks for the info. They're more or less the same conclusions we came up with. We automate every single process in our business, huge amounts of code but worth the effort - I'm sure u know exactly what I mean.
When we've finished we'll be implementing something similar to Arelis but offering links from our alternative websites and rotating our link text. We'll also be auto-checking PR and topic to some degree. However, I don't like single, dedicated links pages (not natural), so we've got to decide whether to go the easy way & create some kind of themed linking structure per site or the difficult route and re-code our regen .htm pages to spread links on existing non-themed pages. BTW I'm impressed with your translations. We do some translation and it pay's dividends.

[rj87uk]

Hey Crush,

Employ me! I'll get more for ya ;)

Lol

[nuevojefe]

I have tried many different solutions. None have I been too pleased with.

I have tried outsourcing to english major US citizens at $10-15 per quality PR4+ link.

I have tried using Indian outsourcing at $5 per link.

I have always done it remarkably better myself. I find that the best method is arranging powerful trades outside of the link directory. A link outsourcer can't know what trades I will or will not allow on my site's inner pages so we lose out on those possibilities.

It's best in my experience to higher in-house and just train them to think like you in terms of linking opportunities.

RJ87 - Sticky me if you're serious about being good at this.

[rj87uk]

Hi, nuevojefe

>>I have tried many different solutions. None have I >>been too pleased with.
>>I have tried outsourcing to english major US >>citizens at $10-15 per quality PR4+ link.

have you been paying people to get sites with a page rank of atleast 4 ... or getting your link on a page with atleast 4?

Say the obvious here, lol i only accept being on a page with a pr of 4...

Dont you all think we are Shallow!?! lol
wee rj

[Fryman]

I don't understand... what you are paying, is for getting themed reciprocal links, or what kind of links?

[rj87uk]

>>I don't understand... what you are paying, is for getting themed reciprocal links, or what kind of links?

Sounds to me like themed recip links.

I know it goes agianst every1's rules by saying this, but in my market its very strong, many poeple with lots of full time link hunters! So, in this world i will take a link off any 'safe' site that has a good pr to offer! ok fair enough im only taking not giving a lot...

I feel that a Recip link of the same content... is good link, but i also feel that in numbers and high pr links will also get you to the clouds!

Getting links to your site: is it worth it?

I have got to say i see links as the backbone of the site. and if our sites where to drop off Google as many jobs as 70 would have no work... So its a really important part, therefore if people want to link let them :)

rj
(i should of used that time to find a link eh?)

[Crush]

We got 348 links yesterday. Beat that..If anyone wants to be pay me 10-15$ a link...no troubles.

[rj87uk]

When you say WE......

how many?

any software?

;p

[Crush]

software and and 1 person. We refers to my company

[nuevojefe]

That's very impressive. I'd say that from those numbers they can't all be super high quality, themed links right?

Even if so that's still quite nice for one day. I'd say you could get decent revenue from your link building services. You could most likely do a few outside campaigns per month and have that pay for your link guy.

[SlyOldDog]

I am Crush's brother. He forgot to tell you he got 1 link all of last week :)

That was the most expensive link we ever got. We still had the 250 euro running costs.

Sometimes software is good and sometimes it is not!

[rj87uk]

>> That was the most expensive link we ever got. We still had the 250 euro running costs.

Sorry what? dont understand that to well...

[SlyOldDog]

We had a software glitch and we were down for a week. Of course we still had to pay the staff, but we got no links.

[nuevojefe]

Sort of confused... still 200+ links per week average isn't too shabby.