Link Building Services for Any Website

With our link building services, we build backlinks for websites of all sizes with cold email outreach. Nothing shady, no tricks, no PBNs. Just honest, white-hat link building.

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Our link building services are trusted by brands of all industries

Doug Walker

Founder & CEO at iOutrank, Inc.

“I’ve been link building since 2005 and there are VERY FEW companies on earth that have the skill to earn my trust as a strategic link-building partner. The team at Ranko Media is one of the few. They deeply understand white-hat link building that moves the needle and are 100% trustworthy and reliable. The value they bring is far beyond the cost. When our link building team needs additional support, Ranko Media is the ONLY team I trust as a partner.”

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How our link building services work

Andrea Zaharia

Head of Content & Community at Pentest-Tools.com

“We had very specific needs for our outreach project when we started. We initially looked for a freelancer who could use their SEO and link building know-how and experience to amplify our subject matter expertise – all while maintaining technical accuracy and focusing on our niche.

The team at Ranko Media delivers all this and more because they’re extremely thorough, methodic, and easy to work with. Our account strategist is a follow-up maven, always keeping us in the loop, supplying optimization ideas and adjustments that elevate our collaboration. Most of all, they run outreach campaigns that bring a steady stream of results, which is why we keep working together and see this as a long-term partnership.”

Why Us?

Link Building Outreach Pricing and Packages

Normal

$3,000

PER MONTH

  • 1 managed outreach campaign.
  • Up to 120 backlink outreach prospects (if we need to write off-site content, we substitute an off-site content asset for 20 prospects.)
  • Estimated 2-4 links/month (after 1 month ramp period).
  • End-of-month reports.
  • Natural blend of site types and SEO metrics.
  • Customized campaign builds.
  • Custom outreach email copywriting and revisions based on campaign performance.
  • Mailbox spam management.
  • Weekly campaign review and optimization.
  • Report link sellers to Google on your behalf.
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Heroic

$5,000

PER MONTH

  • Up to 2 managed outreach campaigns.
  • Up to 200 backlink outreach prospects (if we need to write off-site content, we substitute an off-site content asset for 20 prospects.)
  • Estimated 3-6 links/month (after 1 month ramp period).
  • End-of-month reports.
  • Natural blend of site types and SEO metrics.
  • Customized campaign builds.
  • Custom outreach email copywriting and revisions based on campaign performance.
  • Mailbox spam management.
  • Weekly campaign review and optimization.
  • Report link sellers to Google on your behalf.
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Legendary

$10,000

PER MONTH

  • Up to 4 managed outreach campaigns.
  • Up to 400 backlink outreach prospects (if we need to write off-site content, we substitute an off-site content asset for 20 prospects.)
  • Estimated 8-12 links/month (after 1 month ramp period).
  • End-of-month reports.
  • Natural blend of site types and SEO metrics.
  • Customized campaign builds.
  • Custom outreach email copywriting and revisions based on campaign performance.
  • Mailbox spam management.
  • Weekly campaign review and optimization.
  • Report link sellers to Google on your behalf.
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Linkable assets for content-focused link building

How content helps build backlinks

A linkable asset is something we build and publish on your website that we can then pitch to bloggers and journalists for backlinks to that web page.

Depending on your goals, a linkable asset might be necessary to run your campaign. Usually, a linkable asset is necessary to reach the higher end of our estimated ranges in the link building packages above.

In most industries, when we don’t have a linkable asset to work with, we’re limited to campaigns like:

  • Guest posting – Also called guest blogging, a campaign where we pitch article ideas and write the content for the websites with your link in it.
  • List outreach – A campaign where we pitch products or services to “top 10” type lists.
  • Unlinked brand mentions – In this campaign, we track brand mentions that don’t have links and ask writers to add one.

When we can build something to pitch, this opens up our options and allows us to run more types of campaigns, such as:

  • The Skyscraper Technique – With superior content, we can reach out to competing websites with inferior or low-quality content and steal their backlinks.
  • Resource page link building – A campaign where we reach out to link lists that some websites have published and ask them to add ours.
  • Topical interest tracking – If a writer tweets or previously writes about a topic, there’s a good chance they’d be interested in ours.

If the idea of a linkable asset sounds like it might fit your needs, check out the pricing below, but be sure to contact us and discuss your needs with an Account Strategist!

Spencer Smith

Founder & CEO at IRC Sales Solutions

“The linkable asset strategy these guys have is insane. Their content positioning and link building outreach helped us attract links from sites like HubSpot, Zendesk, Neil Patel’s blog, and other authoritative outlets in our niche. It definitely puts link building on overdrive.”

Content Creation Pricing

Normal

$2,000

MONTH

  • 1-2 content pieces per month as determined by your account strategist.
  • Custom-built content team.
  • In-depth keyword research, search intent, audience, and link intent mapping for maximum ROI.
  • Written by a subject matter expert (not a “writer”).
  • Screened by SEO and content marketing professionals pre-publish for quality and performance standards.
  • Uploaded to your CMS and formatted for readability and UX.
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Heroic

$5,000

MONTH

  • 2-5 content pieces per month as determined by your account strategist.
  • Custom-built content team.
  • In-depth keyword research, search intent, audience, and link intent mapping for maximum ROI.
  • Written by a subject matter expert (not a “writer”).
  • Screened by SEO and content marketing professionals pre-publish for quality and performance standards.
  • Uploaded to your CMS and formatted for readability and UX.
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Legendary

$10,000

MONTH

  • 5-10 content pieces per month as determined by your account strategist.
  • Custom-built content team.
  • In-depth keyword research, search intent, audience, and link intent mapping for maximum ROI.
  • Written by a subject matter expert (not a “writer”).
  • Screened by SEO and content marketing professionals pre-publish for quality and performance standards.
  • Uploaded to your CMS and formatted for readability and UX.
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Link building FAQ

What is a link building agency?

A link building agency is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a company that specializes in getting links from reputable websites back to your website, usually with cold email outreach. Backlink building can be done for promotional reasons, but it’s often done to improve SEO (Search Engine Optimization) performance.

What does "depending on engagement level" mean?

When we do pitching, we engage prospects at different levels before emails are sent out.
Sometimes, we don’t do any personalization, while other times, we follow them on Twitter, share an article, then email them!

It all depends on what we’re able to find. This can be time-consuming, so keep it measurable for both of us and so you can see where your money is going, we use retainer-based pricing and deduct the following amount for the engagement type:

  • Shotgun – $15/prospect – 4 automated emails: These prospects get no personalization and are put into an automated sequence that we build in MailShake, the outreach software we use. This is usually because we can’t find enough information on them, but they’re still worth pitching for the goals of the campaign. These prospects will take up to 5 weeks to make it through the whole sequence before negotiations start.
  • Cold – $35/prospect – 4 personalized emails: When we have a prospect’s name and email address, we put heavier personalization into our emails. These prospects will take up to 5 weeks to make it through the whole sequence before negotiations start.
  • Warm – $50/prospect – 2 social media touches, 3 personalized emails: When we have a prospect’s name, email address, and social media account, we work in some social touches before and during outreach to improve success rates. These prospects will take up to 6 weeks to make it through the sequence before negotiations start.
  • Hot – $80/prospect – 6 social touches, 4 personalized emails, 1 social DM: If we really want a prospect, we go all out and leverage social touches, email, and even a social media DM in an attempt to win the placement. This is if we have everything on the client and if they have 500k+ in traffic. These prospects will take up to 10 weeks to make it through the sequence before negotiations start.

These amounts are deducted each time a prospect is added to your campaign. Prospects are added weekly, and your retainer is used up after 4 weeks. From there, our team works the prospect all the way through the sequence. Even if you end your engagement with us.

This is why it may take 90 days or more to see placements after you’ve started paying for our work.

How are you different from your competitors?

We have a very powerful team. The three factors that impact SEO the most are the build of your domain, the quality and effectiveness of your content at delivering on search intent, and your ability to get backlinks from PR-style outreach. VERY few companies are good at all of these things, but we excel at all of them. This means we have a top-notch team that can execute SEO campaigns in the most competitive markets, which we’ve done before.

We focus everything on the user. Google wants good experiences for their users, and their algorithm is designed to measure user experience signals. It used to be the case that they just read what’s on the page and sort it, but now they use advanced AI algorithms to measure user behavior signals at a massive scale. With computing power becoming more advanced, the computing power of these algorithms will accelerate and the ability for Google to understand their users will only become better, making our type of work much more important in the future even than today. This is true with backlinks, too, and is why buying them won’t work anymore.

How many links can you build per month?

It depends. Keep in mind that you aren’t paying for links, you’re paying for the pitching, which will be reported to you monthly. Other link building companies or SEO services charge per link, but they also buy them. This is spammy, and we don’t do that. We conduct manual outreach to influencers, bloggers, and journalists in your niche with campaigns designed to attract high-quality links naturally. These are the types of links that get your website in the SERPs. Even if you’re a startup.

How long does it take to start seeing results?

That depends on what you mean by “results.”

Does “results” mean we get some opportunities and conversations going? About 3 weeks.

Does “results” mean we’ve landed a few links? 3-4 months.

Looking to see ranking improvements? Well, this depends on how many links your competitors have for a specific keyword or set of keywords, and how many of them Google is even counting toward ranking improvements, which we can’t know. However, this usually happens during month 6.

In fact, Google says that the number of links doesn’t actually matter when attributing links to rankings and that it’s more about quality placements.

We also can’t know what link building strategies or SEO plans your competitors have in the coming months.

We also don’t know how they’ll react to our effort. They can see it through their SEO tools, after all.

So, again…it depends.🤷🏻‍♂️

The best we can do is continue to invest in intelligent ways to chase backlinks. That’s how any good link builder would handle link building internally at a business, and that’s how we do it for you.

What industries do you work in?

Every link building agency says they can work in any industry, and many do it just fine. But we do it extremely well by mapping subject matter experts into our process.

For example, when we run a guest posting campaign, we have actual experts write the articles, and we edit them. This way, the editors at big sites actually want to publish the content instead of it just being a way to get a backlink.

This is how you earn guest posts that eventually earn backlinks themselves, increasing the value of the placement.

From an outreach perspective, we write email templates that standardize the pitch but allow the outreach team to creatively personalize the emails in ways that make sense to your audience.

The language and terminology that your target audience understands is built into the initial template to position our outreach professionals as industry pros.

What kind of reporting do you do?

For link building, you’ll get the following:

  • ClickUp Access so you can check in on progress, earned links, and new prospects in real time.
  • Initial Onboarding Emails – During the first few weeks, we’ll send you updates about our prospecting, social media warm-up, personalization, and outreach strategy for your outreach. These reports will be sent when the tasks for each type of work are completed and will include educational blog content about why we do things a certain way so you can see how our work maps to link placements. Additionally, at the end of our first week working together, you’ll get a time entry report with details on how we plan to reallocate your time week-to-week for your specific project.
  • Monthly Campaign Status Updates – This will be a monthly email from your Account Strategist that will go over any strategic changes. You’ll also get a snapshot of where we are with new opportunities and earned links over the past 30 days.
Do you do white label link building?

Yes! If you’re a digital marketing agency or are offering marketing services, we can help!

While other providers buy backlinks, we pride ourselves on offering some of the best link building services available with our PR-style outreach. If this is the type of work you want to deliver to your clients, we can help!

White-label work is usually done via guest posting services that are designed to get links for multiple clients at a time. This scales outreach in a way that lowers the link cost to you per client. Contact us to discuss your needs, or explore details on our white label link building services page.

Our team is stacked with link building experts that are specifically trained to execute SEO link building campaigns in any industry. We know how to speak to bloggers and journalists, and how to make them want to link to something.

What types of link building campaigns do you run?

Based on the needs of your website and the availability of or willingness to invest in content, we run one or multiple of the following link building campaigns for you:

  • Guest posting.
  • Infographic promotion.
  • Mention tracking and outreach.
  • Roundup/list outreach.
  • Competitor-based outreach.
  • Resource page link building.
  • Broken link building.
  • Content promotion.

We also offer digital PR, but that’s a different type of service than link building and is a bit more involved.

We don’t do any black hat link placements. In fact, we report link sellers.

Is your team outsourced or offshored?

Some of us, yes. It depends on the job. If we need to do outreach in Germany for an international client, we’ll need to hire someone in Germany and train them on the practices of our outreach service. This enables us to hire the best people for the spot, regardless of their geography.

Our team is remote, which means we have people all over the world who work for us. This includes writers because sometimes a writer who knows the subject matter isn’t readily available domestically. However, the content is always edited in-house by a local editor who specializes in that language. Regardless of the build of your team, we always make sure we hit certain KPIs that drive success for our clients. Whatever the case, you have an SEO expert on your project at all times.

Can I choose the anchor text of my links?

We’re an SEO agency, so we understand why you’d want to choose your anchor text. When it comes to backlinks, it’s one of the biggest Google ranking factors.

Unfortunately, while we understand that this is an important part of an SEO strategy, we can’t guarantee any specific anchor text placement. High-quality websites won’t allow us to make specific demands. They are, after all, allowing us to reach their audience in a way that, from their perspective, drives brand awareness for you.

So if we ask too much of them, they’ll end up rejecting the content because we’ll come off as selfish. This doesn’t look good for you, and can hurt our relationships with webmasters.

Do your links drive referral traffic?

They can, yes! Many people think that quality link building means domain authority, but for some campaigns, referral traffic is the goal. If you’re an eCommerce brand and we can get you on a product list with 4,000 monthly readers, that’s something we’ll aim to chase when we build a campaign for you! Our link building techniques are often leveraged for SEO, but they can be aimed at traffic acquisition as well!

What's your domain authority range?

We usually aim for 20 or higher as a baseline goal, and we use Ahrefs’ metric of domain rating because that’s where we do a lot of our prospecting. We can aim for higher, but often it drives up the cost per link because it takes us more time to find prospects. More on that here.

Do you do local link building?

Yes we do! We usually do local guest posting or localized digital PR, or reach out to lists online to feature your business. You can read about how we do these in our local SEO guide.

Local SEO clients usually don’t need a very large budget. The smallest plan is good for most, unless you’re in a very competitive niche like legal where the cost per click is high and everyone else is also doing a lot of link building.