How many links per month should I expect?
6–10 placements per month is the steady-state target after the first 60 days. That sounds low compared to a HARO-style agency promising 50/month, but the citation weight per placement is meaningfully higher and the placements compound. We’d rather ship 8 placements that AI re-cites than 50 that nobody reads.
What kinds of outlets do you actually land?
Depends on category. For B2B SaaS that’s usually one or two trade publications per quarter, a major business outlet quote a couple of times a year, niche newsletters with 5–30k engaged subscribers, and 1–2 podcast guest spots a quarter. For consumer brands it’s lifestyle press, category review sites, and creator partnerships. We share the actual target list before kickoff.
Do you do guest posts?
Sometimes, when the publication has real editorial standards and a real audience. Not when it’s a guest-post mill. A useful rule: if they reply within 6 hours and quote a price, we pass. If they reply slowly, push back on the angle, and ask for a real draft, that’s the kind of placement that moves the needle.
How does this differ from off-site content?
Different scopes that overlap. Link Building is the editorial-and-authority side: pitching publications, earning placements, building digital PR campaigns. Off-site Content is the broader content-distribution program: Reddit, FB groups, communities, paid editorials too. Most clients run both; some only need one. The two share infrastructure where it makes sense.
Do you guarantee a specific number of links?
No. Anyone who guarantees a fixed number of editorial placements is either lying or buying them. We commit to the inputs (target list, asset built, pitches sent, follow-ups run) and report the outputs (placements landed, citation weight, branded-search lift, AI re-citations). The first 60 days are typically slower; placements compound from month three.
What about toxic links our previous agency built? Can you clean those up?
Yes, included on most engagements. We pull the backlink profile, identify and document the toxic patterns, and ship a disavow file plus a remediation note for Google. We don’t expect the disavow to be a magic-bullet ranking event, but it removes a downside that keeps showing up in your audit.