Audit
- Full profile read
- Competitor gap list
- Anchor distribution map
- Written recommendations
- No placement commitment
Slow, checked, permanent placements — the opposite of a bulk link package.
A backlink is a recommendation from one site to another. Treat it as anything less and you end up with a profile full of references nobody made on purpose. Our whole approach starts from taking that sentence literally, which turns out to rule out most of what gets sold as link building.
Coverage grew out of the work rather than a plan. These are the areas where we have publishers we trust and editors who take our calls.
This began as an internal tool for a small group of site owners who were tired of buying links and then auditing them afterwards. Most of the rules on this page exist because at some point we broke one of them and had to clean up after ourselves.
We have been doing this long enough to have made most of the available mistakes at our own expense. The process on this page is largely a list of things we now refuse to repeat.
The team is distributed across Europe, which is mostly why the outreach in Polish, Ukrainian, German and Spanish is done by people who actually speak those languages.
Placement and indexation are different problems. A link can be live and correct for weeks before a crawler gets to that page, particularly on smaller publishers. We report the live URL on the day it publishes so you are never waiting on a tool to tell you the work happened.
Often, yes. It usually starts with an audit and an unhappy conversation, and the first phase is subtraction rather than addition.
By default yes, and the report states the attribute for every placement. A natural profile contains a mix, so we do not treat a nofollow from a strong publisher as a failure.
We find out on the next scheduled check, tell you, and go back to the publisher. If it cannot be restored we replace it or credit it. This is written into how we work rather than offered case by case.
Yes. Reports can go out unbranded or under your own, and we are used to being the party that never speaks to the end client.
For anyone who wants the reasoning rather than the pitch, most of it has been written up over at:
The first step is always the audit, and it stands on its own — plenty of people take the audit, act on it themselves, and we never hear from them again. That is a perfectly good outcome.