Link building vendor comparison: an evidence-led scorecard for agency, freelancer, marketplace, and in-house on quality, scale, reporting, risk, and total cost. Distinct from in-house-vs-outsource. English GP from $125. Get a Quote or Order from $125. English guest posts from $125 to $450. Dual path: get a quote or order a packaged DR band in the client portal.
What this vendor-comparison URL is allowed to score
This URL is the selection scorecard. In-house vs outsource is the ops fork: keep the desk or send it out. Freelancer vs agency is the staffing compare. Is hiring an agency worth it is the buy-versus-keep decision. How to choose an agency is the vendor checklist. Red flags is the reject list. Five titles: this one scores four buying models on quality controls, scalability, reporting, risk, and total cost — not a thin rewrite of the in-house fork.
The rows that matter: who refuses a bad host; whether traffic is checked before you are invoiced; whether reports are a live URL plus DR, traffic, and anchor; whether a dropped link is replaced; whether a marketplace cart can hide a leftover farm; and whether total cost is a public card or a salary-plus-tools stack. We will not invent a “typical agency win rate” or a marketplace average.
English guest posts stay $125 / $175 / $250 / $275 / $450 when the destination is ordinary. Dual path stays visible.
Who this vendor-comparison page is for
Procurement scoring more than two models
You need agency, freelancer, marketplace, and in-house on one sheet — not another in-house-versus-outsource essay.
In-house SEO comparing a cart to a desk
A marketplace SKU without a refusal rule is not the same unit as a traffic-checked live URL.
Agencies defending a public card against a farm quote
Same public USD card as white-label. Quality and replacement are the compare, not a secret discount.
How this brief actually runs
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Lock the destination and the constraint
URL, language, geo, and whether the page is ordinary English GP or a quoted vertical. We will not mix leftovers across geos.
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Shortlist hosts, then QC
Audience and archive first, then DataForSEO spam and toxic-domain checks. Marketplace sheets get rejected here.
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Pitch a person, write for that host
A human contacts the editor. The draft matches the publication — not a templated 10-tips blast.
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Live URL, index report, replace if it drops
You get DR, traffic, and anchor. Typical TAT about two weeks, 20-day maximum on standard DR work.
What you get
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English GP rates: $125 / $175 / $250 popular / $275 / $450
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100% manual outreach
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DataForSEO QC before a domain is approved
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Live URL + DR / traffic / anchor report
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Indexing submitted and reported
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Replacement if the live link drops
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Typical ~2 week TAT, 20-day maximum on standard DR
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No monthly minimum
Where in-house sits — without cloning the ops-fork page
In-house outreach keeps full control and the calendar. It wins when you already have editor relationships and a rejection rule you will actually use. Total cost is salary, tools, and time — not a line on this card. The long-form ops fork stays on in-house vs outsource. This URL only scores in-house so the four-way sheet is complete.
Marketplace carts and leftover farm quotes fail the quality and replacement rows even when the unit looks cheaper. Red flags is the reject list. Founder narrative stays on why us.