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How it works

How it works: from your brief to links in live articles, every month

Most backlink services hide how it works so you cannot see the shortcuts. Ours is simple enough to publish: you brief us once, we pitch stories and expert input to real journalists in the US and UK, publications place your links inside real articles across the month, and you get every URL. Here is how it works in full, including what happens when a month runs short.

Brief us once, by emailPitching runs all monthLinks land across the monthEvery URL sent to you

Step 1: You send the brief (once)

Email info@backlink.services with three things: your website, the plan you want, and the pages you want links to point at. Anchor text preferences are welcome but optional, and it helps to say which market matters most to you, the US, the UK, or both. You get a reply within one business day confirming the scope and carrying the first invoice. There is no discovery call, no proposal deck, and no contract beyond the monthly plan itself. Payment clears, and the first month starts.

Step 2: We build story angles and pitch journalists

Before any pitch goes out, we work out what your business can credibly say to the press: data you hold, expert comment your team can give, angles on stories journalists are already covering. Then we build a media list specific to your campaign: journalists and editors at real US and UK publications and news sites whose beats overlap with your pages, sitting in the DA/DR 40 to 95 authority range, with genuine search traffic and indexed pages. The publisher pool includes names like Business Insider, Metro, and Yahoo Finance, alongside hundreds of niche and regional titles. Sites built to sell links, lower-tier blogs, and marketplace inventory never make the list, at any price. What we accept and reject is documented on the link quality page.

Then the pitching begins: individual emails to each journalist, framed around why your story or comment makes their next article better. That framing is the difference between PR and spam, and it is why the links that come back are worth having. In month two and beyond, angles refresh from what worked, what the press is covering, and anything new your business can say.

Step 3: Journalists pick stories up, links go live across the month

Responses arrive on the journalist's schedule, not ours. Some pick a story up in a day, some take three weeks, and some pass. As each yes turns into a published article, your link goes into real page content where the publisher decides it fits. The publisher also controls final wording and link attributes, which is the honest version of how this industry works. We explain what that means for dofollow status on the dofollow backlinks page.

This is why delivery spreads across the month rather than arriving as a single dump on day one. A month of links that lands overnight was not earned from a newsroom. It was pulled off a shelf.

Step 4: You get every URL, and the month settles against the minimum

Each placement is reported to you with its exact URL as it goes live. Open it, read the article, check the link, log it in your own tracker. At the end of the month, the count settles against your plan's guaranteed minimum. Months regularly finish above it, because one strong story can be picked up several times. If a month finishes below it, the shortfall carries forward and is delivered the following month on top of that month's count, at no extra charge. Every delivered link then carries 90 days of replacement cover from its delivery date, detailed on the guarantees page.

What we need from you: almost nothing

After the brief, your involvement is optional. You do not approve media lists, join status calls, or chase anyone. Some clients want to review angles or anchors before pitching starts, and we accommodate that on request. Everyone else just watches the URLs arrive. That is the point of done-for-you: you brief, we pitch.

Two things help. If someone on your team can give a quote as a named expert, tell us, because expert input opens doors that cold pitches cannot. And keep your target pages live. If you restructure your site mid-campaign, tell us so links point at the right URLs.

Questions
Why do links spread across the month instead of arriving at once?

Because real journalists answer email on their own schedule, and articles go live when their editors publish them. The pacing is the proof of method: inventory can ship overnight, a picked-up story cannot.

What happens if a journalist passes?

We pitch the next suitable journalist. The media list is always deeper than the monthly minimum, so a pass costs time, not quality. You are never handed a weaker publication because a better one said no.

Can I see which publications you are pitching before links go live?

We do not share the pitch list mid-campaign, partly to protect journalist relationships and partly because the list shifts as responses come in. What you get is better: the final URL of every placement, which you can judge on its merits.

Looking for the commercial overview? Compare our monthly backlink services, plan minimums and digital PR approach on the homepage.

Start your first month

Email info@backlink.services with your site and plan choice. Pitching starts within days of payment.

Email info@backlink.services