A spreadsheet of “high-DR links” can look impressive—until the sites have no traffic, no topical connection, and no real readers. Our packages put the quality screen up front, so you can compare links before you fund the campaign.
“If the site has no real audience or topical fit, the DR number does not rescue it.”
“Google uses links as a signal when determining the relevancy of pages.”
Transparent packages
Every tier includes human prospecting, content coordination, placement checks, and a live-link report. Larger packages add deeper strategy and a broader acquisition mix.
Starter
Pricing shared on a free consultation
Authority
DR 30+
Traffic
1,000+/mo
Best for: Testing our quality on one priority page
Growth
Pricing shared on a free consultation
Authority
DR 35+
Traffic
2,000+/mo
Best for: Small sites and focused campaigns
Scale
Pricing shared on a free consultation
Authority
DR 40+
Traffic
3,000+/mo
Best for: Building authority across a content cluster
Authority
Pricing shared on a free consultation
Authority
DR 45+
Traffic
5,000+/mo
Best for: Competitive SaaS, ecommerce, and service niches
Market Leader
Pricing shared on a free consultation
Authority
DR 40+ floor
Traffic
5,000+ median
Best for: National and international authority campaigns
The qualification screen
Two domains can show the same DR while carrying radically different risk and value. That is why every prospect must clear a multi-signal review—not just a number in a marketplace filter.
Analyze your backlink profile freeThe site and linking page must make sense for your subject and audience.
We use Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Seranking and SEOtools.pro as authority signals—not as a substitute for judgment.
We verify estimated search traffic and investigate sudden or unnatural changes.
A meaningful share of traffic should come from the market you want to reach.
Stable or growing visibility is preferred over a one-month traffic spike.
The domain publishes pages that Google can discover and keep indexed.
Real authorship, readable content, and a defensible reason for your link.
We screen for link-selling patterns, casino/adult spillover, and excessive outbound links.
Acquisition mix
We do not force every campaign into guest posts. The best portfolio can blend outreach, editorial contributions, expert commentary, digital PR, and reclaiming mentions that already belong to your brand.
Small, researched prospect lists and personal pitches—not mass email blasts.
Useful editorial contributions or contextual additions on relevant pages.
Newsworthy research, data, expert opinions, and timely stories pitched to relevant journalists.
Selective responses to HARO, Featured, Connectively, Qwoted, SourceBottle, and journalist requests.
Original studies, tools, statistics, and resources worth citing.
Unlinked mentions, lost links, broken-link opportunities, and redirects.
Earned-media link building
Journalist-request platforms can create excellent editorial mentions, but they are not link vending machines. A reporter chooses the source, edits the quote, decides whether to link, and may publish nothing at all. The value comes from being genuinely useful under deadline.
Help a Reporter Out is again operated by Featured as a journalist-request service. We monitor relevant queries and respond only when your experience directly answers the brief.
These services surface publisher questions and broader earned-media opportunities. Strong answers use named experts, first-hand experience, and facts the publisher can verify.
Both connect journalists with potential sources. A complete expert profile and a fast, specific answer matter more than sending a high volume of generic pitches.
For original data, research, launches, or a defensible point of view, we build a targeted media list and pitch the story directly instead of waiting for a request.
A distribution service can make an announcement discoverable and create consistent citations across syndication partners. It does not guarantee that an independent journalist will cover the story, that readers will see it, or that syndicated links will pass ranking value. We use distribution for legitimate news and discovery—not as a substitute for reporting, targeted pitching, or editorial approval.
Google’s link-spam rules
Google defines link spam as creating links primarily to manipulate rankings. Its examples include buying or selling links for ranking purposes, exchanging goods or services for links, automated link creation, low-quality directories, and paid guest posts or press releases with optimized anchors that pass ranking credit.
Google also says advertising and sponsorship links are allowed when they are qualified with rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow" . That is the practical line: an agency can be paid for research, content, outreach, PR, and campaign management; payment should not secretly buy followed links or control an independent publisher’s editorial decision.
Read Google’s link-spam policyPrivate blog networks (PBNs), hacked links, automated profiles, hidden links, spun guest posts, and large paid footprints exist mainly to manufacture ranking signals. A PBN is a controlled group of sites presented as independent publishers even though its main purpose is passing authority.
The marketplace is not the core problem; the typical anonymous bulk-link product is. Buyers often cannot verify who owns the sites, whether the audience is real, how many other customers receive the same inventory, or whether the links will disappear after the guarantee window. Inflated DR, expired-domain networks, irrelevant pages, automated profiles, and exact-match anchors can make a cheap order expensive to audit and clean up.
Request the exact domain or a representative sample, traffic geography and trend, placement type, link attribute, and replacement terms.
Read the actual site. Check authors, recent posts, topical focus, indexation, outbound links, and whether real people appear to use it.
Record the live URL, anchor, target page, attribute, metrics, publication date, and status so the placement can be monitored.
We also avoid indiscriminate email spam. Outreach should be researched, relevant, easy to decline, and sent to a person who plausibly covers the subject.
Build with better evidence
Start with your current backlinks and competitors. Use the free seotools.pro tools for quick discovery, then validate traffic, keywords, trends, and gaps with a full SEO data platform.
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Compare providers
Page One Power is known for manual outreach, uSERP for authority placements, Siege Media for content-led acquisition, Editorial.Link for editorial links, and FATJOE for standardized reseller fulfillment. They can be sensible options depending on your workflow.
seotools.pro is built for buyers who want clear packages without losing strategic control: clear DR and traffic targets, relevance and spam checks, multiple acquisition methods, and reporting that shows what was actually delivered. Our larger tiers add campaign leadership and portfolio planning.
Explore our link building agencyHow to choose
Do not choose from a price sheet alone. Verify the people, process, proof, and reporting behind it before you trust an agency with your brand and backlink profile.
Search the agency name, reviews, interviews, complaints, and independent mentions. Look for a consistent history—not one polished landing page.
Active LinkedIn, YouTube, X, or other relevant channels show how the team thinks, communicates, and responds when challenged.
Read the founders’ and strategists’ profiles. Confirm their experience, visibility, and whether real experts will oversee your campaign.
Request live placements from your niche, market, or campaign type. Check relevance, traffic, authority, anchors, and editorial quality yourself.
Look beyond logos and vanity metrics. Strong portfolios connect the work to qualified traffic, rankings, brand mentions, or business outcomes.
The cheapest link can become the most expensive if it is irrelevant, ignored, removed, or risky. Compare screening, strategy, reporting, and ownership.
Choose this path for relevant editorial backlinks, manual outreach, transparent quality checks, and measurable SEO growth.
See our link building process Earn brand coverageChoose this path for newsworthy campaigns, journalist outreach, expert commentary, and authoritative media mentions.
See our digital PR processContinue your research
Use our free tools to understand the links you already have, identify gaps, and find practical starting points for outreach.
Review your backlink profile and identify the gaps worth fixing first.
Analyze your backlink profileGenerate practical starting points for your next outreach campaign.
Find backlink opportunitiesCase studies
Sites we built and scaled for SaaS, finance and travel brands, with the numbers.
Questions before buying
Tell us the pages, market, and competitors you care about. We will recommend the package and acquisition mix that fits the opportunity—and explain when a link should not be bought.