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56% -- percentage of seos outsourcing link building for SEOs (2025)
56% of SEOs outsource at least part of their link-building activities according to an Editorial.Link survey of 518 SEO professionals.
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56%
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Data Vintage
2025
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518
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95
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Editorial.Link
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https://arvow.com/blog/seo-agency-statistics-2026 ↗
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SEOs: 56% percentage of seos outsourcing link building. Source: Editorial.Link (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/link-building-outsource
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