Link building budget — map spend to the public card

A link building budget is only useful if it maps to inventory you can purchase. On this desk that inventory is the published English guest-post table on pricing: DR20+ $125 (GR4D2J), DR30+ $175 (6RZX7J), DR40+ $250 (QJE1WN), DR50+ $275 (PNKO6R), DR70+ $450 (EN1PXR). Content is included. Typical TAT about two weeks, 20-day maximum. Replacement if the link drops.

There is no DR10 farm row and no DR60 band. There is no unpublished “budget retainer” sitting under the card. The monthly package is $1,500 (SKU 2R60XR) and it is a scoped desk — not a coupon that turns six DR40s into a bundle after the fact, and not fifty links. Read monthly link building package cost for the wrapper. Read how much do guest posts cost for the per-article math.

Niche edits from $99 stay quote-only. International guest posts start at $175. iGaming starts at $180 and is quote-only. Wikipedia, digital PR, directories, adult, CBD, and crypto stay Enquire Now. Those lines do not become cheaper because you labelled the spreadsheet “Q1 authority.” Dual path stays open: order a packaged English band when you know it, or quote the mix.

$125 buys one DR20+ article (GR4D2J). $175 buys one DR30+ (6RZX7J). $250 buys one DR40+ (QJE1WN) — the row most commercial sites repeat. $275 buys one DR50+ (PNKO6R). $450 buys one DR70+ (EN1PXR). Two DR40+ articles are $500. Those are invoices you can raise without inventing a package name.

A month at $250 is one mid-card placement, not a campaign. A month at $500 is two DR40+ posts if that is all you bought. A month at $750 is three DR40+ posts, or a DR70+ plus a DR40+, or another mix you actually scoped. Do not translate those dollars into “X links of mixed quality.” The unit is the live article on a host that passed QC.

If the month is quiet, buy nothing. There is no monthly minimum on the per-link table. You are not punished for skipping a cycle. A vendor who needs a year of prepaid links before they will show you a host is financing the farm. Budget the band you can defend, then stop. Link building ROI is how you judge the URL after it is live — not a reason to invent a bigger retainer.

SKU 2R60XR is the Basic Backlink Package: $1,500 a month for a scoped fulfilment desk. You send destinations, exclusions, and the DR mix. We run outreach, QC, placement, and a live-URL report. Replacements stay on us. It lives on Home and pricing only. It never sits on a single-link card.

It is not fifty guest posts. It is not a secret cheaper DR40. Six DR40+ articles at $250 also equal $1,500 if that is all you bought — and that is still six checkouts, not this SKU. Real months mix bands, languages, and refusals. The package is capacity you retain, not a dump you count.

If you only need one or two English articles, order those SKUs. If you need a desk that already knows the exclusions and the report format, order 2R60XR or quote the shape. Unused scope is a conversation, not a farm dump on the 29th. We will not invent links to hit a quota we refused to sell.

Quote when the month is not one English band. Several destinations across DR20 and DR50, a language that is not English, niche edits next to guest posts — that is a brief, not three portal clicks with the labels swapped. International lines use the international table from $175 ($245 / $290 popular / $385 / $495). They are not free extras inside an English checkout.

Quote iGaming from $180 when the URL is casino or sportsbook. Quote niche edits from $99 when the page already exists and you want an insert. Enquire Now for Wikipedia, digital PR, directories, adult, CBD, and crypto. Do not hide those inside a $125 lifestyle post to “save budget.” That saving is how you burn the publisher and the profile.

Agencies that resell still quote the mix and still pay the public card. There is no budget SKU for calling it strategy. White-label reports can omit our brand at the same rates. You keep 100% of what you charge. In-house teams quote the same way. The buyer changes. The card does not.

A ranking insurance line. We do not sell page-one. We sell a placement you can open. Anyone who budgets “guaranteed movement” is budgeting theatre. Our 20-day TAT is go-live, not return. Judge the host and the destination after the report lands.

A 50-link quota at $1,500. That math is someone else’s farm. A DR10 row. A same-day DR70. A secret dofollow toggle. An AI Overview citation package. Those are not on this card. Budgeting them is how you buy a cleanup.

A third-party digital PR retainer copied from another firm’s slide. Other shops often sell PR months in the multi-thousand range. That is not our price. Digital PR on this desk stays quoted with no public Worldwide Backlinks dollar figure. If you need volume, stay on guest posts. If you have a story, enquire. Do not park a newsroom line inside the English GP budget so the spreadsheet looks full.

Agencies should budget the public cost plus their own strategy time. Itemising our fee on the client bill trains them to shop vendors. Bundling DR40+ at $250 inside an “authority” line is usually cleaner. We do not police retail. We do not take a cut. We do not appear on invoices you send.

In-house teams should budget overflow they will actually brief. A $1,500 desk you starve of URLs is wasted capacity. A pile of unused POs is not a programme. Start with one or two packaged bands, open the live URLs, then decide whether the month needs a retained desk. Founded 2022. We reply to quotes within 24 hours.

Both buyers still exclude hard niches from the English column. Casino is iGaming. Adult, CBD, and crypto are Enquire Now. Finance and law often need the upper bands and a quote first. International still starts at $175. If those constraints wreck the spreadsheet, the spreadsheet was a quota in costume.

Do not put a multiple on “average revenue per DR40.” That number is how vendors invent proof. Judge the live URL, the host class, and whether the destination can convert. Then give the placement time that is not the invoice week. The measurement essay is link building ROI. This page is only what the dollars buy.

A $125 DR20+ post can be the right spend on a young, trafficked, on-topic host. A $450 DR70+ post can be wasted on a leftover magazine with no readers. Price is the band. Traffic and outbound hygiene are the vet. DataForSEO still has to like the host. SpamBrain still devalues slot farms at every badge.

Compare the line against the alternative use of the money. If $250 is a week of on-page work the URL still needs, do the on-page work. If $250 is one relevant publisher in a SERP you already deserve, the guest post is the cheaper experiment. Dual path: order DR20+ at $125 or DR40+ at $250, or quote a mix on the form.

Order GR4D2J when you want one entry English article at $125. Order QJE1WN when you want the common $250 row. Order 2R60XR when the month is already a scoped desk. Create an account at clients.worldwidebacklinks.com. Enquiry and purchase both stay visible on guest posts.

Quote when the brief is mixed, international, niche-edit, iGaming, or gold. Quote when you are an agency packaging a retainer and you need the month in writing. Dual path stays open. We will not invent a retainer SKU to look like a strategy firm. We will map your dollars to the public card or say the URL does not belong on it.

Phone 1 800 751 994. Richmond VIC. Teams in Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines. About 500 owned sites exist; they are not a hidden budget network. Third-party editorial is the default. The table below is the spend map. Use it. Do not invent a fifty-link month and call it planning.