Tier 2 Backlinks · Standalone Links
Ten link types, from one credit — because a profile made of one type looks bought.
Profiles, wikis, forums, article submissions, comments, shorteners and .EDU. Cheap, narrow, and pointed at your Tier 1 assets — never at your money site.
- One credit for four of them — Forum profiles, profile backlinks, social network profiles and URL shortener links.
- Contextual types at two and three — Article submissions, wiki article links, wiki backlinks, mixed platform, blog comments.
- .EDU at five, with its own caveat — High-trust space, flagged not recommended for heavy use. We kept the flag.
- Buy several, not one — The value here is the spread across types, which is why they're priced to spread.
- Aimed at Tier 1, never the money site — Your site and blog are excluded from the asset list by design.
- Anchors from your own data — Pooled from tracked rankings and Search Console, spread across the links.
The cheap layer,
doing the one job it's actually good at.
Nobody ranks on forum profiles. That was true a decade ago and it's true now.
What these do is different and smaller: they make the link profile behind your Tier 1 asset look like something that grew rather than something that was ordered. A profile that's 100% one link type is a profile that looks manufactured.
One credit each for most of them. That's the entire argument, and it doesn't need inflating.
No card. Verify your email and 30 credits land in your account — A whole diversity layer, free.
A whole diversity layer, free.
Verify your email and 30 credits land, no card. Everything on this page is between 1 and 5 credits, so the grant stretches a long way: six .EDU Authority orders at 5, ten Article Submission orders at 3, or thirty single-credit orders — or, more usefully, a mixed spread across several types pointed at the same Tier 1 asset.
Founding accounts lock $0.35 a credit on every plan and every top-up — the rate that otherwise needs a $1,750-a-month plan. A few founding spots are left.
No card. Nothing expires on a timer.
How to actually use these
Buy four types, not four hundred links of one.
These products get a bad reputation because people buy one of them, in bulk, aimed at the wrong thing. Used the way they're priced to be used, they do a real job.
- 01
Pick the Tier 1 asset first
Your published articles, press releases, guest posts and citations are already listed, because they were built here. Your client's site and blog are excluded by design. These are the lowest-trust products in the catalogue, so the target matters more here than anywhere else.
- 02
The product's own warning, verbatim
"Never point these links directly at your main or money website. Tier 2 links are powerful but lower-trust; aiming them at your homepage can look unnatural. Always send them to your Tier 1 backlinks instead." Read it twice on this page in particular.
- 03
Spread across types, not depth in one
Three or four different products against the same asset beats one product ordered four times. The point is the shape of the profile, and a profile of four hundred forum links has a shape you can spot from orbit.
- 04
Put the contextual types underneath the authority ones
Article submissions and wiki article links put your link inside a body of text. Comments, shorteners and profiles do not, and the product says so — they're a broad supporting layer rather than an authority push. Buy them as what they are.
- 05
Anchors come out of real data
Pooled from the client's tracked rankings and Search Console, spread across the links rather than paired one-to-one. Or type your own.
- 06
Add the indexer if you want them to count
A link that never gets crawled passes nothing at all, and that's most acute at this end of the catalogue, where the platforms are least likely to be crawled on their own. Three strength tiers sit on the order form.
- 07
The whole run comes back as one report
Order six different products against one asset and you still get a single branded report covering all of it.
What you end up holding
A footprint with more than one shape in it.
- Contextual placements
- Article submissions and wiki article links put your link inside the body of a published piece rather than in a profile field.
- Profile and community links
- Forum profiles, social network profiles and mixed profile backlinks — diversity, plainly labelled as diversity.
- Trust-signal types
- Wiki properties, which tend to be well-structured, and .EDU placements across a mix of .edu platforms — light trust signals, used lightly.
- Volume and indexation types
- Blog and image comments as a broad supporting layer, and URL shortener redirects that add indexation signals for the Tier 1 property.
- One branded report for the run
- Every order you placed in that run, grouped into a single client-ready report on the client record.
A whole diversity layer, free.
Verify your email and 30 credits land, no card. Everything on this page is between 1 and 5 credits, so the grant stretches a long way: six .EDU Authority orders at 5, ten Article Submission orders at 3, or thirty single-credit orders — or, more usefully, a mixed spread across several types pointed at the same Tier 1 asset.
Founding accounts lock $0.35 a credit on every plan and every top-up — the rate that otherwise needs a $1,750-a-month plan. A few founding spots are left.
No card. Nothing expires on a timer.
The countable facts
Ten products, with live credit costs.
- .EDU Authority
- 5 credits. Backlinks across a mix of .edu platforms. The product itself is flagged not recommended for heavy use — treat it as a light trust signal, and we're leaving that flag on the page.
- Article Submissions
- 3 credits. Contextual links inside article-directory submissions, so the link sits in the body of a published piece.
- Blog Comment Links
- 3 credits. Blog and image comment links. A broad supporting layer for footprint diversity, not a primary authority push.
- Wiki Backlinks and Wiki Article Links
- 2 credits each. A mix of wiki profiles and articles, and contextual links placed inside wiki article bodies.
- Mixed Platform
- 2 credits. A high-volume blend of many different platform types in one order, for the most varied footprint.
- Forum Profile Links, Profile Backlinks, Social Network Profiles, URL Shortener Links
- 1 credit each. Profile and redirect types — diversity and indexation signals rather than authority.
- Where they point
- Your Tier 1 assets — published articles, press releases, guest posts and citations. Your site and blog are excluded from the asset list by design.
- Anchor text
- Pooled from tracked rankings and Search Console, or typed by you. Spread across the links, not paired one-to-one.
- Order extras
- Indexer tiers one, two and three. Captcha backup — a second solving pass, roughly 130% more placements completing. Article batches. Social signals.
- Reporting
- One branded report per publish run, however many orders it contains.
Placement figures are "up to" ceilings, not guarantees, and at this price point some placements will fail — that's what captcha backup reduces. Tier 2 prices derive from the fulfilment provider's own cost, so a provider catalogue change moves them. That's exactly why the credit cost is printed on the button at order time rather than quoted from a marketing page. No turnaround is published, here or anywhere else we sell.
What it costs to find out
A whole diversity layer, free. No card.
Verify your email and 30 credits land, no card. Everything on this page is between 1 and 5 credits, so the grant stretches a long way: six .EDU Authority orders at 5, ten Article Submission orders at 3, or thirty single-credit orders — or, more usefully, a mixed spread across several types pointed at the same Tier 1 asset.
Verify your email and 30 credits land in the account. Not a trial that takes your card "for verification". No card at all.
And nothing expires on a timer. Credits sit in the account until you spend them.
The prerequisite is a Tier 1 asset to point them at. If you haven't got one yet, write an article free with Pro Writer and publish it or place it as a guest post first — boosting nothing achieves nothing. And be clear-eyed about what these are: a diversity layer beneath your stronger links, not a substitute for them.
Launch — founding accounts
$0.35 a credit, locked for good.
Credits normally run $0.50 at the smallest amount and slide down to $0.35 only at 5,000 a month — a $1,750-a-month plan.
Founding accounts get that bottom rate on every plan, every top-up and every pay-as-you-go purchase, starting at a $35 top-up. Same rate. One fiftieth of the commitment.
It's written onto your account, not onto a coupon you have to remember, and it applies for as long as you have the account.
A few founding spots are left. When they're gone, so is the rate.
| Credits | Standard | Founding | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $50 | $35 | $15 |
| 500 | $225 | $175 | $50 |
| 1,000 | $400 | $350 | $50 |
| 5,000 | $1,750 | $1,750 | — |
The last row is the point: at 5,000 credits the two prices meet, because $0.35 is the volume rate. Founding accounts get it without the volume.
30 credits on email verification, no card, and the locked rate is applied to the account itself. Every deliverable's cost in credits is printed on the button that spends them.
Before you ask
The questions we'd ask.
- Do one-credit forum profile links do anything?
- On their own, essentially nothing, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What they do is contribute a different shape to the link profile sitting behind your Tier 1 asset. If your booster layer is four hundred links of a single type, it looks exactly like what it is. That's the job these do, it's a small job, and it's priced like one.
- Why is .EDU flagged not recommended?
- Because the product carries that flag and we're not going to quietly delete it to sell more of them. The .edu space is high-trust, which makes it worth a light touch pointed at a Tier 1 property — and makes heavy repeated use exactly the sort of pattern that gets a footprint noticed. Buy it as a signal, not as a strategy.
- Should I buy these instead of the authority bands?
- No. Buy them underneath the authority bands. A DA30 Authority order at 25 credits does the load-bearing work; these make the layer around it look natural. Anyone selling you a thousand cheap links as a ranking plan is selling you the thing that gave this whole category its reputation.
- Can I point these at my client's site if I'm careful?
- You can't, and that's deliberate — the client's site and blog are excluded from the asset list, so the form won't offer them. These are the lowest-trust products we sell. Aimed at a Tier 1 property that already earns trust, they charge it up. Aimed at a homepage, they're the footprint you spend the next two years explaining.
The cheap layer,
doing the one job it's actually good at.
Thirty credits. A mixed spread across several types. No card.
Point four different products at one Tier 1 asset and look at the report. That's a better education in what these do than any page can give you — including this one.
Then put the authority band underneath it, where the real work happens.
30 credits on email verification. No card. A few founding spots are left.
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