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Link Budget
Calculator

Estimate a realistic monthly link-building budget using the authority gap, competitor link velocity, market difficulty and the number of pages you want to grow.

Your SEO inputs

Use data from Ahrefs, Semrush or another SEO tool. If you do not know an exact value, use your best estimate.

0–100
Average of your main organic competitors
Average monthly link velocity
Commercial or SEO pages to support
Planning cost per acquired referring domain
FROM BUDGET TO OPPORTUNITIES

Budget planning does not tell you where competitors are earning links. Use Link Gap when you need concrete referring domains and source pages to review.

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Is the calculated budget a quote?

No. It is a planning estimate based on the inputs you provide, not a guaranteed placement cost.

Does the calculator find websites to buy links from?

No. It estimates budget. Link Gap is the separate tool for competitor backlink opportunity research.

Should link building start before technical SEO is fixed?

Usually the website foundation should be healthy enough that added authority can support indexable, useful target pages.