The agency alternative
Most SaaS teams searching for a link building agency do not want an agency. They want links that index and move keywords, without a multi-month contract and without ever seeing the sites. Saaslinks is the buyer-side alternative: the same kind of real-traffic publishers, on a public catalog, priced per link.
A SaaS link building agency sells you a managed program: strategy, outreach, content, reporting, wrapped in a monthly retainer. That can be the right call for a funded team with no internal SEO. But for most SaaS teams it bundles three pains you never actually asked for.
Agencies bill $3,000 to $10,000 a month and rarely show you the site list. Many quietly source from the same publishers a marketplace lists, then mark them up. You approve a curated report, not the real catalog.
Onboarding calls, a strategy deck, and approval cycles push your first placement out weeks while the retainer clock keeps running.
The agency picks; you veto from a shortlist. If you already know the pages you want to rank, that is friction, not service.
Same publishers, very different visibility. An agency hands you a curated report; a marketplace shows you the live listing.
A curated deck. The real site list and the true per-link cost stay hidden behind “trust the strategy.”
The full domain, real organic traffic, country split, spam score, and price. You pick it before you pay.
The alternative is to buy the links directly. On Saaslinks you see the catalog the way an agency sees it: full metrics, real organic traffic, and the price per link, then you order exactly what you want. You keep strategy (or bring your own SEO), and you skip the retainer entirely. If you genuinely want a team to own the whole program, read how to choose a link building agency before you sign. If you want the links without the lock-in, keep reading.
Same goal, very different experience. Here is the honest side by side for a SaaS team.
| Criteria | Saaslinks (marketplace) | Managed agency | Freelancer | Fiverr seller |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay per link from a wallet, price shown before you buy | Monthly retainer, $3,000 to $10,000+ | Per-link or hourly, varies | Flat gig price, quality varies wildly |
| See the exact site before you buy | Sometimes | |||
| Vetting you can verify on the listing | Real traffic plus four gates, source-dated | Promised in a deck | Depends on the person | None |
| Speed to first live link | Days | Weeks | Weeks | Days, but risky |
| 30-day indexation guarantee | Rarely | |||
| Retainer or lock-in | None | Multi-month contract | Varies | None |
| Who owns strategy | You, or your SEO | The agency | Shared | You |
| Best for | Teams who want quality links fast at a known cost | Funded teams wanting a full managed program | One-off, specialized needs | Cheap volume, high risk |
And where we will tell you an agency is the better call.
Every site shows DR with its source, real organic traffic by country, spam score, and a traffic-per-dollar value score. No black box, no markup buried in a retainer.
No onboarding calls or strategy decks before a single link goes live. Fund a wallet and order today. Links start landing while an agency is still scoping.
One wallet top-up, a clear price on every listing, and no multi-month contract. Buy one link or fifty, scale up or stop whenever you want.
Roughly one in eight sites clears four vetting gates before listing, and every order carries a 30-day indexation guarantee. When you want someone to own full strategy, that is when an agency earns its retainer.
Browse vetted, real-traffic sites, see every metric and price up front, and track each order to indexed. No onboarding calls, no contract, no markup hidden in a retainer.