VERIFIED BY AHREFSDR 59, with a real audience
156 organic visits a month to the page my link sits on.
$110$400–500
what I paid$290–390 stayed with me
FatJoe quotes $400–500 for this tier
What nobody tells you
You're paying middlemen
to send an email.
Managed link building service, per link$400–500
Marketplace listing$250
What the site owner actually gets$75–110
The owner was always willing to take $75 to $110. Everything above that is the cost of not emailing them yourself.
Why nobody does this by hand
Every link used to take six jobs.
Five now run themselves.
DONE FOR YOU
Prospecting
Finds the pages already linking to sites like yours, straight from competitor backlink profiles.
DONE FOR YOU
Vetting
Checks each site is real: traffic, authority, and a screenshot of the actual page.
DONE FOR YOU
Contact discovery
Digs up the owner's address and verifies it, so you are not emailing a dead inbox.
DONE FOR YOU
Personalized drafts
Writes a separate email for every page, referencing the actual post. No template blast.
DONE FOR YOU
Sends and follow-ups
Paces the sending to protect your inbox and chases every prospect until they reply.
STILL YOU
The judgment call
You read the drafts, approve the sends, and talk price with the owner. Five minutes of taste, not five hours of grind.
The part that stays yours is judgment. That is why the price comes out right, and it is the part you would never hand to a robot anyway.
August 2026 · verified by Ahrefs
Three links in one week for $270. The market wanted ~$1,000.
Frey Chu · founder. I run HeyLinks on my own sites: about 300 emails sent, three links live in my first week. These are my links, my prices, and the actual Ahrefs panels.
About 70% less than a managed service$270 paid · $925–1,125 market
Screenshots are the actual Ahrefs panels for the linking pages, unedited. Going rates are FatJoe's published tiers for comparable placements.
Written by the tool, word for word
The anatomy of an email
that gets a yes.
This is a real draft HeyLinks wrote for a real prospect. Every line has a job. SEO is a high-ticket niche, so I set this project's budget at $250; you set your own numbers and the emails are written around them.
- 1
The owner's real first name, found and verified. Not “Hi there”.
- 2
Names the actual post. The tool read the page, not just the domain.
- 3
A detail from inside the article: proof a human-sounding read happened, and the natural spot for the link.
- 4
The offer, with a number, in one sentence. No dancing.
- 5
Who you are and why you are credible, in the owner's language: money.
- 6
Kills the friction. The owner's only job is saying yes.
- 7
Soft close. Easy to answer, easy to counter.
The founder's own campaigns · August 2026
13% wrote back.
A quarter of them offered a link.
13%
wrote back
45 of 344 emails
1 in 4
of replies offered a link
12 of 45 replies
2 of 3
owners took less than their first ask
$150 → $110 · $125 → $85
12 offered a link31 questions and negotiating2 no
344 emails across two of my own sites. Reply rates ranged from 5% to over 50% depending on the niche, so anyone quoting you one guaranteed number is guessing.
The price
Simple pricing. Everything included.
$99/month
First 14 days free. Cancel in two clicks.
- ✓200 qualifications a month
- ✓200 DataForSEO research credits
- ✓2 sending mailboxes, warmup ramp included
- ✓1 project, every feature: Autopilot included
Running more sites? Larger plans exist too.
The vetting is done for you
Every prospect arrives with a live screenshot, an AI quality score, and a verified owner email.
The data comes included
Backlink and authority research runs on DataForSEO credits in the box. No Ahrefs subscription needed.
Autopilot runs the pipeline
One click discovers, vets, and drafts while you watch. It stops at drafts; the send is always yours.
Everything is yours to tune
Sending windows, follow-up schedules, prospect filters, templates: all of it is adjustable per project.