There is no simple answer to this question. Many SEO experts will tell you not to pay anything for a backlink. The reason being, if your SEO partner can guarantee you a link on another website for a set fee it’s likely to be a spam scam. Sometimes SEO providers will buy lots of low-quality domains and create low-quality blog posts just to include their clients’ links on them. Search engine algorithms will not reward a domain for links from low-quality websites. Instead, you should seek to pay an SEO agency for its ongoing backlink work via a monthly retainer, for instance. Agencies with integrity will use white hat SEO to secure backlinks to your domain gradually over time. Since this work is based on negotiation and relationship building, no SEO agency worth its salt will promise a concrete number of backlinks in exchange for a set fee.
It’s normal to pay between $5,000 to $20,000 per month for a top-tier corporate SEO agency to build backlinks for your business. It is possible to pay closer to the $2,000 per month mark with less expensive agencies, such as Straight North or Boostability. If you let us know what you need, we can ask SEO firms to get in touch with you directly to provide a quote.