Pricing · Published in full

Every price is on this page. No call required to see a number.

Below: what every link costs, what every link includes, and exactly what happens if one ever drops.

$500–900+

what legitimate editorial links trade at elsewhere

Source: Reporter Outreach, link-building pricing

~$509

what a quality editorial link averages; marketplace junk pulls that average down. Our median is $495, with a verified-traffic floor and a 12-month replacement guarantee behind it.

Source: Reporter Outreach, State of Link Building 2026 (n=500)

$395–645

our published per-link rate card, in full, below

The rate card

Priced by verified traffic. Never DR alone.

Every site must clear a real organic-traffic floor before it reaches your shortlist, and you pre-approve every domain before we pitch.

Verified traffic band What that looks like Price per link
5,000+ verified monthly organic Niche publications with a proven readership $395
25,000+ verified monthly organic Established industry publications $495
High-authority Top-tier publications and major trade media $645
VOLUME PRICING · $460/LINK AT 6+ PER QUARTER · $435/LINK AT 12+ PER QUARTER

Starter Pack · one-time

Test us with 3 links. One-time, from $1,185 at rate-card pricing, every guarantee included.

Start with the free baseline

Every link, every band, includes

  • You pre-approve every domain before we pitch
  • Site verified by real organic traffic, never DR alone
  • Fresh prospecting for your niche: no inventory list, no recycled catalog
  • Daily link monitoring from the day it goes live
  • 12-month free replacement if the link drops
  • No lock-in

Three ways to buy

Pay per link. Convert your mentions. Or own the whole motion.

Editorial links

$395–645/link

Per-link pricing from the rate card above. Buy exactly what you need.

  • Guest posts, listicle inserts, link insertions on pages that already rank
  • You pre-approve every domain
  • $460/link at 6+ per quarter · $435 at 12+
  • Daily monitoring · 12-month free replacement
How the service works →

Mention conversion

$225/converted mention

Success-billed: you pay only when a mention becomes a live link.

  • We find sites already talking about you without linking
  • Typical first sweep: 8–15 conversions
  • Mentions correlate ~3× more with AI citations than backlinks
  • No conversion, no charge
How mention conversion works →

Also on the menu

Two more offers. Same quality bar.

Running an agency? Partner-slot details and availability →

Replacement guarantee · the terms

If a link drops, here is exactly what happens.

Plain terms: what triggers the guarantee, what you get, and what happens if we can't deliver.

Trigger
A link we placed goes down: removed, unlinked, or the page taken offline. Daily monitoring means we usually spot it before you do.
Window
12 months from the day the link goes live.
Remedy
A free replacement link on another domain you pre-approve.
If we can't replace it
You get that link's fee back.
INVOKED 2 TIMES TO DATE · REPLACED FREE 2 / 2

We never promise rankings. We guarantee the quality bar and report the movement.

Pricing questions

The four questions buyers ask before paying.

What counts as a placement?

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.

When do I pay?

Editorial links are billed per link at the published rate for that site's traffic band. Mention conversion is success-billed: $225 only when a mention becomes a live link, never before. The Citable Authority retainer bills monthly at $3,950, with a 90-day opt-out and no lock-in.

Why is the retainer more than 6 links cost a la carte?

Because the links are the floor of the stack, not the whole of it. Six links at the volume rate ($460 per link at 6+ a quarter) run $2,760 on their own. The retainer adds the monthly mention sweep: a typical sweep converts 8 to 15 mentions, which is $1,800 to $3,375 of work at the $225 success-billed rate. On top of that sit the quarterly AI-citation report against your baseline and a strategy call with the founder. Bought piece by piece, the links plus a typical sweep alone total $4,560 to $6,135. The retainer is $3,950.

What if a domain I pre-approved falls through?

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.

Know where you stand before you spend.

The free AI-citation baseline shows where ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite you today. Human-reviewed, two fields to request. If we're not a fit, keep it.

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