[METHOD] Agency model - How to sell backlinks without selling backlinks

I'm sure some of you are doing this. I never thought of it but working agency style (in contact with people) makes me miserable so I'm sharing it here.

How I came to this: I run one site gets reached out a lot for paid posts. Tons of people will really want to get a free link or a super cheap link. I had some of these who offered the triangular exchange (I link back to some other site). IME these people were often webmasters who had a bunch of sites.

But this guy sent link alternatives in a neat spreadsheet-like table (lol). The domain he was emailing from was a generic sales page that could describe almost any kind of agency activity. So, our editor used their contact form to suss out what they actually do.

It's genius:

0. Have a "marketing agency"
1. Contact example(.)com for posts or link insertion.
2. Tell them price is too high for your budget but you can get them a triangular exchange from a DR > X
3. Get the backlink from example(.)com
4. Bill your client 300-450 USD for link from example(.)com and keep 100% of it
5. Bill another client for content management (AKA blog posting on their own site)
6. Link from that client's website to example(.)com to close the deal

None of the money gets to the webmaster.



(FYI the domains had Ahrefs DR between 16-65 and mostly fairly low traffic.)

The old arbitrage technique always works wonders

LuckyGamble said:

The old arbitrage technique always works wonders

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I'll never do a triangular exchange again tho

sci0n said:

I'll never do a triangular exchange again tho

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why not? It seems profitable

LuckyGamble said:

why not? It seems profitable

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I meant I'll never accept to link for link.
But yeah, sure is profitable. For my taste it's too much talking before you get to the money.

Does anybody know if this still works?

Seems too awesome to still be a moneymaker.

Still, for anybody with the right amount of time to put into the outreach needed to make this happen, it seems like a solid idea.

Regardless, thanks for sharing this idea.

It definitely looks quite interesting.

The problem here. You need to find a good enough backlink provider, otherwise you will spend a lot of time resolving complaints

Too complicated and yield almost no results as you need to message a lot and communicate/negotiate a lot.

The easier way:

DM any link seller here and ask for prices until they send their entire sheet out - Then just open a sales thread here for $30 and use the same sheet.. The sellers are always asking 2-3 x more on their sheets than the actual webmasters so you have a sheet with niches and the site's data the only thing left to do is to contact the webmasters and ask the actual price.

And you don't need to email anyone, BHW just delivers customers organically.

INCC said:

you need to message a lot and communicate/negotiate a lot.

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Exactly the thing I hated about it too, that's why I shared it lol.

The person in the screenshot is making a killing on it but it seems she's well connected (like with the white hat seo "gurus") so I'm sure that plays a part.

Maybe I'm missing something, but to make this work you need access to a high authority site as in step 5. Or not?

sci0n said:

Exactly the thing I hated about it too, that's why I shared it lol.

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Where one can gets client as i have a supplier that sell good backlinks with really cheap, and i want to monetize it

Robzkie said:

Maybe I'm missing something, but to make this work you need access to a high authority site as in step 5. Or not?

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yeah all sites involved need to be relatively high authority, but from my experience that means DR > 40 which is not that difficult

the way she's doing it is she manages website content for small / medium businesses. like random blog content you see on any service provider website nowadays (hosting sites, web development, IT agencies...). these sites tend to have ok DR unless they are new in business.

sci0n said:

yeah all sites involved need to be relatively high authority, but from my experience that means DR > 40 which is not that difficult

the way she's doing it is she manages website content for small / medium businesses. like random blog content you see on any service provider website nowadays (hosting sites, web development, IT agencies...). these sites tend to have ok DR unless they are new in business.

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I Imagined that. We do the basically the same, we just own the sites instead of buying from them

The problem is that you can't gurantee anything. The webmaster may remove the link or the content of the guest post may be spun or even worse. You can only make money if everything goes according to the plan.

INCC said:

Too complicated and yield almost no results as you need to message a lot and communicate/negotiate a lot.

The easier way:

DM any link seller here and ask for prices until they send their entire sheet out - Then just open a sales thread here for $30 and use the same sheet.. The sellers are always asking 2-3 x more on their sheets than the actual webmasters so you have a sheet with niches and the site's data the only thing left to do is to contact the webmasters and ask the actual price.

And you don't need to email anyone, BHW just delivers customers organically.

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if the seller give you their entire sheet, why should they give you the actual price?

guntur9090 said:

if the seller give you their entire sheet, why should they give you the actual price?

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lol