You're Spending $8,500/Month on Link Building. Here's What That's Getting You. — LinkingUp.io
Currently onboarding new agency partners. We typically take on 4–6 new agencies per month to maintain delivery quality.

You're spending $8,500/month on link building.
Here's what that's actually getting you.

Salary. Taxes. Tools. Content. Link fees. Most in-house link building setups cost far more than they appear — and still can't cover every link type your clients need. We plug in as additional capacity, not a replacement.

10,000+
Links Delivered
200+
Clients Served
10+
Years in SEO
$120
Agency Price Per Link
6-Month
Replacement Guarantee

It's not just salary. It's everything around it.

Most agency owners undercount by 40–60%. Run the actual numbers.

Your Current In-House Setup

Outreach manager salary$3,500/mo
Writer / content$1,500/mo
Taxes, NI, benefits$900/mo
Outreach tools (Pitchbox, Hunter, etc.)$400/mo
Link fees and placement costs$2,200/mo
All-in monthly~$8,500
Output: 10–15 links/month of 1–2 types. Collapses the moment one person leaves.
VS

LinkingUp — Agency Pricing

20 links/month @ $150 avg$3,000/mo
Tools, team, outreach$0
Content for all placements$0
Every link type coveredIncluded
Sits in your SlackIncluded
All-in monthly~$3,000
Save ~$5,500/month. Double the link types. Zero overhead.

The math is uncomfortable once you see it.

Most in-house teams are limited to 1–2 link types. We cover every type — niche edits, guest posts, SaaS exchanges, digital PR, editorial. Your clients get more. Your team gets breathing room.

See the Full Pricing Breakdown →

Your team is great at 1–2 link types.
Your clients need all of them.

Link Type In-House Team LinkingUp
Guest Posts✓ Covered✓ Covered
Niche Edits✓ Covered✓ Covered
SaaS Link Exchanges✗ Hard to scale✓ Full network
Digital PR / Earned Links✗ Needs specialist✓ Included
Editorial Placements✗ Limited access✓ HubSpot, TechCrunch-tier possible
Overflow Capacity✗ Hire = 3 months✓ Available immediately
Slack IntegrationInternal only✓ We join your Slack
Custom Metrics Per ClientManual process✓ Per-link DR, traffic, niche criteria

Don't replace your team.
Give them a backend they can reach for.

01

Brief us like a team member

Link type, DR floor, traffic minimums, niche, red flags. One brief per client or campaign. We work to your standards, not ours.

02

We pre-screen every site

Nothing reaches you that hasn't already been vetted. You review a clean shortlist. No spam filtering on your end.

03

You approve before anything goes live

Every site, every time. Your standards. Your sign-off. Your client presentation if they ask.

04

Links live in 1–3 weeks

First links on any new order within Week 1–3. Standing orders run on a rolling monthly cycle. No 3-month ramp-up.

Real results from agencies that plugged us in alongside their team.

Osbornes Law — Legal Vertical
24k → 84k
Monthly organic traffic in 8 months. Delivered across niche edits, guest posts, and editorial placements — all three types the in-house team couldn't sustain at volume.
FluidFreeRide — E-Commerce
Page 2–3 → Top 5
Competitive e-commerce terms. Moved with a targeted campaign across link types that require direct publisher relationships — not marketplace sourcing.
Babbel — SaaS / EdTech
DR70+ Editorial
Top-tier editorial placements in language learning and education. The kind of links that require a network most in-house teams can't build in under 3 years.

From agencies who already had teams.

★★★★★
"We had an internal team and still couldn't get SaaS editorial links at scale. Aleks plugged straight into our Slack and we had a completely different capability within a month."
JB
Jason Berkowitz
SEO Agency Owner
↑ SaaS and editorial coverage added in month 1
★★★★★
"The cost comparison was obvious once I did the math. We cut our link building budget by almost half and doubled the output. The quality is genuinely better than what we were doing ourselves."
GM
Gary Magnone
SEO Consultant
↑ Budget cut by ~50%, output doubled
★★★★★
"I was sceptical because we already had processes in place. But the link types we couldn't do in-house were exactly what our clients kept asking for. Now we just order them."
WM
Wyatt Mayham
Digital Marketing Agency
↑ Full link type coverage added without new hires
Links delivered for clients including
HubSpot Wooclap Babbel BeeBaltic FluidFreeRide Osbornes Law

See exactly what you'd pay and what you'd save.

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⚡ We onboard 4-6 new agency partners per month. Current availability: this month.
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Things agencies with in-house teams always ask.

Your internal team is probably great at 1–2 link types. We cover every type. When they're at capacity or a client needs digital PR, SaaS exchanges, or top-tier editorial, that's where we come in. We're an extension, not a replacement. You keep full control of the client relationship.
No. We operate fully white-label. We sit in your Slack, deliver reports under your branding, and have zero visibility to your clients. Your team does the work, as far as they're concerned.
The ones most in-house teams can't scale: SaaS link exchanges, digital PR earned coverage, and top-tier editorial placements (HubSpot, TechCrunch, Canva-tier). These require publisher relationships that take years to build. We have them.
No. Our delivery doesn't depend on any single person on your side. You brief us, we deliver. Standing monthly orders run on a consistent cycle regardless of what's happening internally.
No minimum contract. Most agencies start with a small test order — 5–10 links — to verify quality before setting up a standing monthly order. We prefer standing orders because they're more efficient for both sides.
All links come with a 6-month replacement guarantee. If a link goes down within 6 months of going live, we replace it at no extra cost.

Your team does what they're great at.
We cover everything they can't.

No overhead. No hires. Every link type covered. Agency pricing from $120/link.

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