Link building services exist because links from other websites are still one of the main ways search engines judge whether a page deserves to rank. They are also the part of SEO with the most bad actors. Much of what is sold as a backlink building service is guest posts on sites that exist only to sell guest posts, or links from networks of expired domains. Those links can work for a while, then vanish or trigger a manual action from Google.
We run white-hat outreach only, as part of our wider SEO services or as a standalone link building outreach service. The test we apply to every placement is simple: would you want this link if Google did not exist? If it would send relevant visitors or put your brand in front of the right readers, it is worth having.
Our Link Building and Off Page SEO Services
- Manual outreach. Individual pitches to editors and site owners in your niche, offering content, data or expertise their readers will use. Placements on real blogs and publications run through our blogger outreach services.
- Digital PR. Newsworthy angles, original data and expert commentary pitched to journalists and trade publications, delivered by our digital PR agency team.
- Guest posting. Useful articles written for relevant publications that accept contributors and hold editorial standards, through our guest posting services.
- Resource page links. Getting your guides and tools listed on curated resource pages in your industry, covered by our resource page link building service.
- Link gap analysis. Finding the sites that link to several competitors but not to you, which become the first outreach targets. See our link gap analysis service.
- Local citations. Accurate business listings on the directories that matter in your country and industry, through our local citation building service.
- Linkable assets. Calculators, guides and data pages built to attract citations. Our own ROAS calculator is an example of a tool made to be referenced.
- Unlinked brand mentions and lost links. Finding articles that mention your brand without linking, and redirecting your old URLs that still have backlinks. This is our link reclamation service.
- Broken link building. Offering your working page to sites that link to dead resources on other domains, through our broken link building service.
- Supplier and partner links. Manufacturer stockist pages, partner listings and industry associations you already qualify for but have never claimed.
- Off page SEO beyond links. Brand mentions, reviews and citations. For location-based businesses this overlaps with our local SEO services.
Link Building Tactics We Will Not Use
Google's spam policies describe link schemes in detail, and we stay out of all of them:
- No private blog networks (PBNs), and no links from expired domains rebuilt to pass authority.
- No paid links disguised as editorial. If a publisher charges for a placement, the link carries rel="sponsored".
- No large-scale link exchanges, link wheels or reciprocal link pages.
- No comment, forum or profile spam.
- No link insertions into old articles on sites that sell them to anyone who asks.
This makes white-hat link building slower and harder than buying a package of guest posts. It also means your rankings are not built on links that can be devalued overnight.
What Makes a Link Worth Having
| Signal | Good sign | Red flag |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance | The site covers your industry or your customers' interests. | It publishes on casinos, crypto and home loans in the same week. |
| Traffic | Steady organic traffic in Ahrefs or Semrush. | High domain rating with almost no traffic. |
| Editorial standards | Content is edited, and links are given, not sold. | A public price list for "dofollow posts". |
| Placement | A link in the body of a relevant article. | Footer, sidebar or author bio only. |
| Anchor text | Your brand name or natural descriptive wording. | An exact-match commercial phrase every time. |
How We Deliver Link Building Services
- Backlink and competitor review (weeks 1 to 2). We review your current links and those of competitors ranking above you in Ahrefs, looking for the kinds of sites that link in your industry and the gaps you can realistically close.
- Choose target pages (week 2). We decide which pages links should support, usually key category or service pages plus assets built to earn links. Internal links then pass that authority to pages that are harder to link to directly.
- Prospect by hand (weeks 2 to 4, then every month). We build a prospect list and check each site for real organic traffic, topical relevance and editorial standards. Sites that openly sell posts and have no real readers are removed.
- Outreach (from week 3 or 4, ongoing). Pitches are written individually and sent from a named person, with follow-ups tracked in our outreach tool. Each pitch offers something useful: a data point, an expert quote, a resource or a fix for a broken link.
- Report every link (every month). Each live link is logged with its URL, date, referring domain metrics, target page and anchor text, so you can check every one yourself.
Editorial outreach is slower to start than buying placements. Replies, edits and publishing schedules mean the first live links usually appear in the second month, and volume becomes steadier from the third month as relationships and follow-ups build up.
Link Building Deliverables and What Success Looks Like
- Link log. Every live link with its URL, publish date, referring domain, organic traffic estimate, target page, anchor text and rel attribute, in a sheet you keep.
- Prospect and outreach report. Sites contacted, replies, rejections and placements in progress, so you can see the work behind each link.
- Target page plan. The pages links are pointed at, agreed with you and tied to your keyword map.
- Anchor text summary. The mix of brand, URL and descriptive anchors across new links, kept natural.
- Monthly review. Referring domains gained to target pages, links lost or changed, and the plan for next month.
Success is a growing number of relevant referring domains pointing at the pages that matter, from sites with real readers, and those pages gaining impressions and positions for their target queries in Search Console. Some links also send referral traffic you can see in GA4. Rankings depend on content quality and competition as well as links, so we report the inputs honestly and do not promise positions.
Link Building Tactics Compared: Which Fits Your Site?
| Tactic | Best for | Effort and pace |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial and blogger outreach | Steady links from niche blogs and publications to service and category pages. | Moderate effort per link, steady monthly volume once running. |
| Digital PR | Brands with data, opinions or stories that journalists can use. | High effort per campaign, links arrive in bursts, often from high-authority news sites. |
| Guest posting | Building topical relevance through articles on related sites. | Needs a strong writer and careful site vetting to avoid paid-post networks. |
| Broken link building and resource pages | Sites with solid guides, tools or references to offer. | Lower response rates, but links tend to sit on long-lived pages. |
| Link reclamation | Established brands with press coverage or old URLs that still have links. | Quick wins, limited by how many mentions and lost links exist. |
Most campaigns combine two or three of these. A newer site usually starts with reclamation, outreach and resource pages, while a brand with data or a strong point of view gets more from digital PR.
Link Building Mistakes That Waste Budget
- Buying links by domain rating. Domain rating is easy to inflate. A high number with no organic traffic usually means a site built to sell links.
- Pointing every link at the homepage. Your category and service pages need authority too, and internal links alone cannot always carry it.
- Exact-match anchors on every placement. A pattern of commercial anchors is easy for Google to spot and can be treated as a link scheme.
- Building links to thin pages. If the target page is weak, links rarely move it. Improve the page first.
- Stopping and starting. Short bursts followed by months of nothing make it hard to build editor relationships or see a trend.
- Ignoring links you lose. Pages get deleted and sites redesign. Without monitoring, lost links go unnoticed, so we check the link log every month and ask for fixes where a placement disappears.
- Not linking internally to the target page. A page that earns links but sits five clicks deep, with few internal links, passes little of that value on to the pages around it.
Link Building Tools We Use
| Category | Tools |
|---|---|
| Backlink research | Ahrefs, Semrush |
| Prospecting and outreach | BuzzStream, Pitchbox, Hunter.io |
| Journalist requests | Qwoted and similar expert-source platforms |
| Link monitoring | Ahrefs alerts, Google Search Console links report |
| Linkable assets | Our in-house developers for calculators and tools, Looker Studio for data visuals |
How to Choose a Link Building Agency
The fastest way to judge a link building agency is to ask for a sample report from a current campaign, with live URLs. If they cannot show you real placements, or the sites all share the same design and price list, walk away.
- Methods in writing. A link building company should say which tactics it uses (outreach, digital PR, broken link reclamation, partner links) and which it refuses.
- Traffic, not only metrics. Domain rating is easy to inflate. Ask how they check that a linking site has real organic traffic and relevant readers.
- Target pages agreed with you. Links should support pages in your keyword map, not only your homepage.
- Anchor text policy. Mostly brand and natural wording. A plan built on exact-match commercial anchors is a risk.
- Ownership of the link log. You should keep a full record of every placement if you stop working together.
Should you outsource at all? If you have a PR person and time for relationships with editors, in-house outreach can work well. Most teams outsource because consistent prospecting and pitching takes more hours each week than they can spare.
Why Choose 95 Solutions for Link Building
- White-hat only, with full transparency. Every link comes with its URL. There are no secret networks behind our reports.
- We build assets in-house. Our software development team builds calculators and tools that give publishers a reason to link, which is harder for a pure outreach shop to offer.
- Links tied to revenue pages. Links are planned around the pages in your keyword map, supported by our content marketing team where an asset needs writing.
- Senior-led, simple terms. Mustafa sets the link strategy. The minimum term is three months, contracts are in USD from our US LLC, and the links stay yours whether or not you continue with us.
Who Our Link Building Services Are For
A good fit
- Sites with solid pages that lack the authority to compete.
- Online stores that need links to category pages, alongside our ecommerce SEO services.
- Service businesses in competitive markets in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
- Agencies that need white-hat links delivered under their brand through our white-label SEO service.
Probably not a fit
- You want backlink services that promise a fixed number of high-authority links every month at a bargain price.
- Your pages are thin. Fix them first with on-page SEO, or links will not help much.
- You need ranking changes within weeks.
Unsure whether links are your real bottleneck? An SEO audit compares your link profile with competitors and tells you, or you can start with a free marketing audit.
Link Building Pricing
Link building is sold as monthly link building packages or as a digital PR campaign, with a three-month minimum term. Packages are sized by outreach volume, and the monthly placement target is agreed in writing before work starts. Cost is driven by how competitive your niche is (more pitches per placement), the quality bar for linking sites, whether we need to create a linkable asset such as a tool or data study, and how many markets or languages the outreach covers.
Outreach 5
$850 /month
Billed monthly
- 5 editorial links a month from real sites (DR 30+)
- Relevance check on every site
- Content written by our team
- Anchor text plan
- Monthly link report
- Minimum term
- Month to month
Outreach 10
$1,600 /month
Billed monthly
- 10 editorial links a month (DR 30+, mix up to DR 60)
- Everything in Outreach 5
- Link gap analysis against 3 competitors
- Quarterly backlink health review
- Minimum term
- Month to month
Digital PR
$3,000 /month
Billed monthly
- 1 data-led PR campaign a quarter
- Journalist and blogger outreach
- Target: 10+ links a month on average
- Unlinked brand mention recovery
- Minimum term
- 3 months
All prices in USD. Need something different? Ask for a custom quote.
For a campaign built around a product launch or a data study, ask us for a custom quote.
Next step. Share your site and two or three competitors through the free audit request. We reply within one business day, compare your link profile with theirs before a short call, and then send a written plan with target pages, tactics and the package that fits.