We get links for clients on places like these:
Why us?
We don't buy backlinks. We earn them.
We don’t buy backlinks. This tactic of acquiring backlinks is against Google’s spam policies and the links likely won’t improve rankings. Instead, we earn links by creating legitimately helpful content and pitching it out to relevant websites with pitches that resonate with their needs.
Experts in your industry.
We have subject matter experts on our team in over 100 different industries, so we can execute link building campaigns effectively in any industry. Website owners often want to link out to authoritative sources, so having subject matter expertise on our team helps us get high-quality wins that might not be possible for our competitors.
Rankings, traffic, and sales.
We’ve been executing link building campaigns in various industries for over 10 years now and have mastered the craft of building high-quality backlinks that improve search engine rankings for important, competitive keywords. Everything we do is aligned with Google’s spam policies, so rather than getting some quick, unstable wins with paid links, our white-hat results stick with most search engines (including Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others.)
Interested in learning more? Check out some of our articles about link building!
How our link building services work
Step 1: Strategy
During your initial call with us, we go over potential link building campaign angles for you based on their initial analysis of your website.
The goal when building a link building campaign is not to get the cheapest links, but the ones that drive rankings and traffic to your website that result in sales. This is true for local businesses based in Hickory as well as national brands headquartered in Hickory.
Step 2: Outreach
Once we’ve aligned on a strategy, we collect a list of outreach targets, set up your campaign with custom-written email templates, and start pitching. When contacts respond, we handle communications to negotiate links, content placements, or interviews.
We’re constantly testing and refining our approach to winning backlinks, and we even use the same link building tactics on your business that we would on our website. A lot of the time, PR and other digital marketing opportunities from outlets like WHKY, LLC or Hickory Daily Record come from our work!
Step 3: Optimization
As we work through your link building campaign, we adjust our outreach strategy to improve results. Sometimes, a pivot is necessary to drive success. We communicate campaign changes and progress with you through super-detailed monthly reports.
Our link building services are designed to align with broader SEO (search engine optimization) and digital marketing objectives. We take a long-term approach to our work and aim to achieve stable rankings across all search engines that continue to drive traffic and sales and are immune to algorithm changes.
Frequent Questions About Our Hickory Link Building Services
When exploring pricing for link building services around the Hickory area, you’ll come across a variety of options.
Some providers sell per link, where you can buy backlinks for sometimes under $100.
Unfortunately, buying links like this is against Google’s link spam guidelines.
Instead, we approach link building in a way that aligns with Google’s idea of good link building. By earning them with good content and personalized outreach, sort of like PR.
For this, our local link building services are packaged to fit the needs of businesses looking for links in specific cities to help improve local SEO rankings.
Our more standard link building services are a better fit for businesses looking for links on websites with national or global reach to help with national or global search engine rankings.
Because of how we earn the links, Google will attribute these as authoritative votes for your website’s content, and your rankings will improve.
We build custom campaigns for every client. This is because we need to take many things into account that are unique to your business, such as:
Once these things are considered, we build a campaign that is custom-designed based on a client’s overall marketing strategy.
Usually, for a local business, a campaign falls into one of these local link building strategies, however these work on a national scale as well:
Yes, we do! We are a full-service SEO agency and offer Hickory SEO services, including local SEO, small business SEO, and enterprise SEO for Hickory businesses.
All of our SEO services include full SEO strategy, technical SEO, content development, and off-page SEO (link building).
Many of our services also fit within the broader world of marketing services, such as digital PR and content marketing.
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? 1-2 months. Sometimes more.
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.
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 we get backlinks and traffic to our website, and that’s how we’ll get this for yours.
Other cities we service in North Carolina
Our North Carolina link building services are available in all of these cities: