Pricing · Published in full
Every editorial link carries two costs: our work, and whatever the publication charges to run it. Most agencies bury both in one padded, unpredictable number. We publish two: $300 for standard publications, $500 for the premium ones that charge a steeper fee. Either way, that is the whole price.
$300 · Standard
Real-traffic publications, the publisher's fee included. One flat number for every qualifying site: not priced by traffic band, not by DR score. Verified traffic decides which sites qualify, never DR alone.
$500 · Premium
A handful of top publications charge a steeper fee to place editorial work. Those links are $500, the fee still included. One clean number, never a variable add-on.
No surprise fees
You pre-approve every domain before we pitch, and you see whether it is a $300 or a $500 site first. Nothing reaches your invoice you did not approve.
The quality bar
Both prices are flat, but the standard is not. Every publication clears a real organic-traffic floor and a relevance check before it reaches your shortlist, and you pre-approve every domain before we pitch. Verified traffic, never DR alone.
Starter Pack · one-time
Test us with 3 links. One-time, $900, every guarantee included.
Every link includes
How do we know what a link really costs? We opened our own invoices: the real cost of an editorial link in 2026 →
For context: quality editorial links trade at $500 to $900+ elsewhere (Reporter Outreach, State of Link Building 2026, n=500). We publish $300, or $500 on premium sites, the fee included in both.
Two ways to buy
Editorial links
$300 for standard sites, $500 for premium. Fee included either way, no minimum.
Citable Authority · Capped at 10 seats
The full motion for Google and AI answers. Waitlist when the 10 seats are full.
Also on the menu
An original data study built for your niche and pitched to journalists. Minimum 8 editorial pickups per campaign, or outreach continues free until you have them. Maximum 2 campaigns per quarter. How data-study PR works →
Our pipeline under your agency's brand: $300 per link at 10+ links a month. Maximum two agency partners at a time, with no-cross-client-overlap written into the contract. White-label details →
Running an agency? Partner-slot details and availability →
Replacement guarantee · the terms
Plain terms: what triggers the guarantee, what you get, and what happens if we can't deliver.
We never promise rankings. We guarantee the quality bar and report the movement.
Pricing questions
A live link on a domain you pre-approved, on a site that cleared our verified organic-traffic bar. You see the full URL the day it goes live, and it stays on daily monitoring from then on. Guest posts, listicle inserts and link insertions all count the same way: live, visible, on a page a real reader can find.
Editorial links are billed per link: $300 on a standard publication, $500 on a premium one that charges a steeper placement fee. The publisher's fee is included in both, so the price you see is the whole price, never a variable add-on. You pre-approve every domain and know whether it is a $300 or a $500 site first. The Citable Authority retainer bills monthly at $3,950, with a 90-day opt-out and no lock-in.
Many quality publications charge a fee to place editorial work. We include it in the price rather than adding it to your invoice. On standard publications that keeps the link at $300. On premium publications that charge a steeper fee, that is what makes the link $500 instead. Either way it is one number, you always see whether a site is $300 or $500 before we pitch, and there is never a fee added after the fact.
Because the links are the floor of the stack, not the whole of it. Six links at $300 run $1,800 on their own. The retainer wraps them in a managed program: monthly brand-mention tracking so you see where you are cited and where you are not, the quarterly AI-citation report against your baseline, and a strategy call with the founder. It also absorbs the publishers' fees along the way. Priced as a program rather than a link count, the retainer is $3,950 a month.
It happens: editors decline, sites change direction. We go back to prospecting and bring you fresh domains to approve. You're never charged for a placement that didn't happen, and pre-approval means you're never surprised by where a link lands.
The free AI-citation baseline shows where ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews cite you today. Quality-checked, two fields to request. If we're not a fit, keep it.
No call required · usually ready in minutes · yours either way