Sample report · Real engagement
Real numbers from a real engagement, anonymized as “a high-risk payments company” until the client approves naming. The delivery numbers and placement ledger are real, rendered live on this page. The only sample data is the quarterly AI-citation section near the end, labeled where it appears.
The math, reconciled: 12 links purchased for $5,463.99 total is $455 per link. 11 of the 12 are delivered and live (re-verified July 2026), 1 is still in production, and 2 of the 11 live links are free replacements for placements that dropped, honored under the 12-month guarantee.
| Placement | Link type | DR | Verified traffic /mo | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial-safety trade publication | Guest post | 51 | 8,400 | Live |
| E-commerce operations magazine | Guest post | 73 | 42,800 | Live |
| SaaS product-review listicle | Listicle insert | 78 | 81,600 | Live |
| Payments-industry education hub | Link insertion | 66 | 11,700 | Live · dropped once, replaced free |
DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating, a 0–100 site-authority score. Verified traffic is each publisher’s own monthly organic visits, confirmed in analytics before we pitch, never a number the publisher self-reports.
The guarantee record
Every link is monitored daily, so a drop is caught within a day, not discovered months later. Over this engagement’s ~12 months, two links dropped; both were replaced at no charge under the 12-month replacement guarantee. One of them is the payments-industry education hub in the ledger above.
Full disclosure, for clients
The public version blurs publishers so we don’t expose a client’s link profile. Your copy of this report shows everything:
The quarterly addition
Each quarter, the report gains a before/after section built on your baseline: the fixed prompt set for your category, re-run against ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews, with model versions logged on every run.
Illustrative sample of the report format only. After your first quarterly cycles, these rows carry your real citation data.
Citation presence per prompt, per engine. Measured against your baseline run, next to the dates placements went live.
Every run records the model version and timestamp, so you can separate movement from model updates.
We show the movement and the work side by side and let the correlation speak. Flat results are reported as flat.
The free AI-citation baseline is the AI-citation section above, run once against your category: the same fixed prompt set, the same engines, model versions logged. Two fields, quality-checked, and it’s yours whether or not we ever work together.
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