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 separate them: $300 per link for our work, and the publisher's fee, where one exists, passed through at exact cost. You approve both before we pitch.
$300 · Per link
Real-traffic publications, one rate for every qualifying site: not priced by traffic band, not by DR score. Verified traffic decides which sites qualify, never DR alone.
Publisher fees · At cost
Where a publication charges a fee to place editorial work, it passes through at exact cost as its own invoice line. Never marked up, never a surprise.
No surprise fees
You pre-approve every domain and every publisher fee before we pitch. 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, with publisher fees passed through at cost and approved by you first.
Two ways to buy
Editorial links
$300 per link. Publisher fees passed through at cost, pre-approved. 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 at $300. Where a publication charges a placement fee, it is passed through at exact cost, and you approve it before we commit; plenty of good sites charge nothing. 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. Where one exists, it is passed through at exact cost as its own line on your invoice, and you approve it before we pitch. Plenty of good sites charge nothing, and there is never a markup on a publisher's fee.
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