Backlink & authority building
Authority is the ceiling. Links are how it moves.
Backlink and authority building earns links from other websites to yours through outreach, digital PR and citations. Authority is the slowest lever in search and usually the one setting your ceiling: page-one national results commonly hold hundreds of referring domains. Included on the Premium plan at $1,500 a month excluding GST.
You can do every other thing correctly and still stop short, because the sites ranking above you are simply better known. Closing that gap is slow and there is no shortcut worth buying.
What it covers
The work, and why each part is there.
Where you actually stand
Referring domains against the businesses ranking above you. Page-one national results in competitive categories commonly hold hundreds.
Outreach and digital PR
Earned placements on real publications, industry bodies and local media. Slow, and it is the only kind that holds.
Citations
Directories and industry listings. Not glamorous, and they are the floor under local search.
Link networks
Paid networks and reciprocal schemes are detectable, and the penalty lands on you rather than on whoever sold them.
Own-network footers
Linking your site from a footer on our other clients’ sites inflates a count and passes no real authority. We removed exactly that footprint from our own site.
Proof
What that looked like for one client.
Identified by industry rather than by name. Every figure is from the client’s own Search Console or enquiry records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many backlinks do I need?
The wrong question. What matters is how many referring domains the businesses ranking above you have, and how real those are. We will show you both numbers before recommending anything.
Can I just buy links?
You can, and they are detectable, and the risk sits with your domain rather than with the seller. We do not buy links.
How long does authority take?
Longer than everything else on this site — think in quarters and years, not weeks. It is included on the Premium plan because it only makes sense alongside a program that is already working.
Everything else
The rest of what we do.
Start here
Start with a free search audit.
No obligation, and the audit is yours to keep either way.