Editorial Backlinks: Get Your Clients Featured in AI-Cited Articles

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Get Your Clients Featured in AI-Cited Articles: Choose from City Best Of, Local Listicles, or Top 3 Comparisons

Your client, recommended by name in the editorial content AI actually reads.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI for the best provider in a city, the answer gets built from third-party articles — not from your client’s own website. Editorial Placements put your client at the top of those articles, written by an independent editor, structured to be cited.

  • ✅ Named as the #1 pick — not buried at position 8
  • ✅ Published by a third party — reads as a real recommendation, not an ad
  • ✅ Written for AI citation — the way answers actually get sourced now
  • ✅ Live in 3 weeks, guaranteed live for 12 months
  • ✅ White-label ready — track every order in your dashboard, report an indexed live link

Start with one city. Scale to a whole service area. No retainer, no minimum.

🕒 Live in 3 weeks · 🛡️ 12-month live guarantee · 📊 Indexed link, reported in your dashboard · ✅ We vet every order

 

Include an Authority News Release: USA Today & AP News + Local Outlets

We will write and publish a Press Release about your Guest Post. We can include 1 additional anchor text backlinks and an iframed embed (GBP Map or YouTube Video), in addition to the link to your Guest Post.

We syndicate through USA Today and AP News to over 350 media outlets (Google News guaranteed) to amplify your news feature and your news placement will receive powerful news-relevant backlinks powering up the SEO impact of each News Article.

Scalable Enterprise Pricing

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Description

Placement Network — Explore the Sites Your Article Could Appear On
Recent Article Placements

Explore the sites your article could appear on.

Every placement below is a real, vetted publication in our outreach database. We keep the mastheads private to protect availability — but the authority, traffic, and reach are exactly what you'd get. Filter by niche, sort by what matters to you. This is just a small sample of our publication partners.

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Metrics sourced from third-party SEO data (DataForSEO). Domain authority shown on a 0–100 scale. Publication identities disclosed after placement is booked.

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The shift

Rankings Don't Equal Recommendations Anymore

More searches every month get answered inside AI — and AI doesn't read your client's website to decide who's best. It reads what other people have published about them.

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overview for the best provider in a city, the model assembles its answer from a pool of third-party sources: comparison articles, local roundups, "best of" lists. Your client can have a flawless website, clean citations, and strong rankings — and still be completely absent from that pool, because none of the pages the model reads mention them by name.

That's the gap Editorial Placements close: they put your client inside the content the recommendation is built from.

Ask an AI assistant for the best local provider in any category and look at what it cites: a large share of its sources are third-party editorial articles — not the businesses' own websites.
What you get

Three Formats, One Price Each

Every format includes the article, guaranteed top-of-list positioning, a 12-month live guarantee, and an indexed link reported in your dashboard. No retainer.

City Best-Of

$97 / placement

Best for: Multi-location clients & testing the format on one city.

  • "Best [Service] in [City]" roundup of 5–8 local businesses
  • Your client holds the #1 spot with an expanded write-up
  • Matches how people ask AI about local services
  • Cheapest way to cover many cities for one client
Choose City Best-Of
Most popular

Local Listicle

$149 / placement

Best for: Established brands needing category authority.

  • Themed regional listicle — "Top [Service] in [Region]"
  • Full client profile: differentiators, context, credentials
  • Comparison tables & criteria built for AI extraction
  • Broader scope than a single-city roundup
Choose Local Listicle

Top 3 Comparison

$247 / placement

Best for: Competitive markets & high-ticket clients.

  • Genuine three-way comparison of the market leaders
  • Your client leads with the most substantial coverage
  • Highest-value format for "which is best" AI queries
  • Structured comparison tables & criteria breakdowns
Choose Top 3 Comparison
The difference

Why It's Not a Guest Post — and Why That Matters

A guest post is your client's voice on someone else's site. An editorial placement is someone else recommending your client. For AI citation, that distinction is the whole game.

  Editorial Placement Outreach Service Guest Post
Acceptance Guaranteed — we own the publishers Publisher decides; often disclaimed Usually accepted
Position in article Top of list, guaranteed Wherever the editor puts you N/A
Whose voice An editor recommends the client Independent editor The client's own byline
AI citation value High — third-party comparison content Varies with position Lower — reads as self-promotion
Timeline 3 weeks, fixed Depends on publisher response Varies
How it works

From Order to Live in Three Weeks

Four steps, one dashboard, no email threads to chase.

Submit in your dashboard

Add the client's details, target city or category, and destination URL. Every order lives in one place.

We match the publisher

We select a partner publication with the right topical and geographic fit, then confirm the angle.

Our editor writes & publishes

Written to AI-citation standards and published under the publisher's own editorial byline — never your client's.

You get the indexed link

Your dashboard shows the live URL once it's indexed in Google — ready for your client report.

For agencies

Made for SEOs and Agencies

Order under your own brand, track everything in one dashboard, and report a link your client can actually click and verify.

Everything in one dashboard

Every order, every client, every live URL in a single place. Submit and track without emailing anyone.

Reporting clients can verify

We report the live link once it's indexed in Google — so your client can search it, click it, and see it.

No retainer, no minimum

Pay per placement. Test one on a single client, or run volume across your whole book of business.

Editorial standards

We Turn Down Business That Doesn't Qualify

We won't place a business into a category or city it doesn't legitimately serve — and we don't touch risqué niches. That's what keeps these placements safe for your client.

  • Every partner publisher is vetted for real organic traffic, topical relevance, and editorial independence.
  • Articles cover multiple genuine options — never a single-subject advertorial dressed up as a comparison.
  • We won't place a business into a category it doesn't operate in, or a city it doesn't serve.
  • No adult, gambling, CBD/cannabis, or payday-lending niches, and no clients who can't substantiate their claims.
  • Claims are grounded in what the business can back up. We don't invent awards, statistics, or credentials.
Why this protects your client. The paid-placement market is expanding fast, and a lot of it operates in a grey zone that will eventually get corrected the same way self-promotional listicles were. Real editorial standards are what survive that. That's the version we're building — and it's why we say no to orders other providers would take.
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a link building service?
No — links are a byproduct, not the product. What you're buying is your client being named and recommended inside the editorial content AI systems and searchers read when comparing options. A contextual link is included, but the citation and the top-of-list positioning are the point.
How long until the placement is live?
Three weeks from order to live, for every format. You track progress in your dashboard, and we report the link once it's indexed in Google.
What if the placement gets removed?
Every placement is guaranteed live for 12 months. If it comes down inside that window, we replace it at no cost.
Can I white-label this for my clients?
Yes. You order and track everything in your own dashboard, and what you report is a live, indexed URL on a third-party publication. Your client never sees our name.
How is this different from a press release?
A press release is news that fades once the cycle moves on. Editorial placements live in evergreen comparison and roundup content that keeps ranking and keeps getting cited for months or years.
Do you guarantee my client will appear in AI answers?
No, and be skeptical of anyone who does. AI citation depends on the whole picture — the publisher's authority, how often models already pull from it, your client's footprint, and the query. What we guarantee is the placement, the top-of-list position, publisher quality, and the 12-month live window.
Which format should I buy?
City Best-Of for covering multiple cities or testing the product. Local Listicle for category authority in a region. Top 3 Comparison for competitive markets and high-ticket clients who need to win the head-to-head query. When in doubt, start with one City Best-Of and see the format for yourself.
Do you work in every niche?
Most, but not all. We don't accept adult, gambling, CBD/cannabis, or payday-lending niches, and we decline any business that isn't genuinely qualified for the category and city it wants to be featured in.
Where this fits

Start Small. Scale Across a Whole Service Area.

Editorial Placements are the entry point to a full local visibility program — the fastest way to put a third-party recommendation in front of both searchers and AI.

Start

One placement on one client, to see the format and publisher quality yourself.

Scale

A City Best-Of in every market a client serves — one intake, a footprint across the whole service area.

Systematize

Monthly placements that compound, so the client's name keeps showing up in new comparison content.

Full program

Pair placements with the on-site and GBP work that turns a citation into a booked job. See local SEO campaigns →

Get Your First Placement Live

City Best-Of $97 · Local Listicle $149 · Top 3 Comparison $247. Live in three weeks, guaranteed for twelve months, tracked in your dashboard.

Choose a format & order

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