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B2B CAREER DEVELOPMENT BRAND
MONTHS
12
BACKLINKS
144
AVG. LINK DA
56.4
ORGANIC TRAFFIC
↑ 257%
AI CITATION RATE
88%
CONVERSIONS
↑ 174%
This client is a mid-sized, B2B provider of career development and career-transition programmes for Fortune 1000 and large public-sector employers across North America.
Each engagement is sold as a bespoke package that averages €10 K.
Prior to this campaign the client relied almost entirely on referral partners and PPC, leaving significant organic growth untapped.
With organic growth flat for six months and no visibility in AI search engines, we provisioned a 12-month “authority lift” plan that would:
Embedding expert quotes and timely statistics yields a 37% uplift in AI-search visibility on Perplexity.ai.
Analysis of 1 million US-keyword SERPs shows referring-domain count still correlates strongly with Google rankings (ρ ≈ 0.255), reaffirming backlinks’ critical role.
Top-ranked pages acquire 5-14% more followed backlinks per month compared to lower-ranked pages – demonstrating a clear link between ongoing link acquisition velocity and high SERP placement.
Producing citation-rich Digital PR articles and earning a consistent cadence of high-DA backlinks directly addresses all three findings – boosting AI visibility, improving organic rankings, and sustaining long-term growth.
Strategic Foundation
Rank Engine’s Project Builder turns monthly campaign planning into one, 10-minute setup.
Precise audience filters, content exclusions, and Smart Select criteria fed our AI agents the exact same blueprint – so every article and site-selection stayed perfectly aligned with the client’s message.
Key setup benefits
Digital PR was selected as the campaign type, which integrates the brand as a real-world example within editorial and thought-leadership articles.
Delivery time was set to a 30-day drip-feed. You can also choose 1- or 2-week schedules when speed is the priority.
Smart Select was chosen – balancing the best outcomes for relevance, traffic, and authority. DA40 / DA50 / DA60+ options remain available when DA is the primary goal.
Global TLD targeting balances authoritative prospects with geographic relevance. This allowed for a mix of authoritative .coms as well as niche .us placements.
The target URL and anchor text were entered here. Clicking ‘Add’ opens another placement slot, so you can set up additional articles/backlinks.
Clients who prefer oversight can tick either box to review article drafts or site choices before anything goes live. Left unchecked allows for fully managed publishing
The platform refines and expands any client-submitted topics, layering in deep research from the brief, industry news, and expert commentary.
If no topics are provided, the system analyses the client brief, scans current industry news, and reviews fresh expert commentary to surface the most relevant angles.
The platform generates an editorial-quality draft for each theme, integrating case studies, data points, expert quotes, and the client’s core expertise.
We embed contextual backlinks to the client’s pages, add relevant images, and include external citations, ensuring each article is rich, credible and visually engaging.
Our team then verifies all facts, polishes tone, and ensures brand mentions read as genuine insight, not promotional content.
Strategic Blog Selection
We targeted sites where career transition and leadership content naturally belonged, ensuring editorial placements felt authentic to readers.
BACKLINK DISTRIBUTION
Branded anchor links to the homepage establish natural link patterns and strengthen overall domain authority. While not the primary traffic goal, these links support the entire site’s search performance and avoid over-optimisation flags.
The client allocated more links to their primary service page based on higher keyword competition, with other target pages receiving proportional distribution.
The sites named in the diagram are examples.
7,000 /pm
0%
68 /pm
25,000 /pm
88%
186 /pm
↑ 257%
↑ 88 points
↑ 174%
Strategic, relevance-led link building delivered a 257% traffic increase and secured Top 3 rankings for key product pages, demonstrating the compounding returns of steady, high-authority placements.
Initially absent from AI-generated results, the brand gained citations across platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity in 88% of tracked queries – driven by improved rankings and location-targeted content that fed directly into AI summaries and recommendations.
Conversions grew from 68 to 186 per month, confirming that this wasn’t just vanity traffic – these were engaged prospects aligned with high-intent search queries.
If you’re not satisfied, we’ll refund in full and remove any live links.
Nothing goes live without your sign-off - free approvals on your first order.
While rare, if any backlinks go offline, we’ll restore or replace them for free.
Cancel at any time, order whenever you need.
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A Digital PR campaign incorporates your brand (or your client’s) directly into the content, positioning it as a real-world example alongside relevant but non-competing brands.
You can also customise the campaign with article topics, quotes, and more.
An SEO campaign focuses on natural backlinking without directly mentioning your brand in the content. Instead, links are placed contextually within relevant content using your target keywords.
This format is ideal for SEO-driven campaigns that benefit from subtle, contextually relevant links.
Standard delivery time is up to 1 week.
If you enable Content Approvals or Placement Approvals, this extends the estimated delivery time up to 2 weeks.
You can also choose to have your campaigns run on a 30-day drip-feed. This means that we will publish your placements throughout the 30-day period.
Specifying a regional focus ensures that the topic discussed in your articles is set within it.
If left blank, topics discussed will be location-neutral and globally focused.
For Digital PR:
If no regional focus is specified but location details (e.g., your country of operations) are provided in your Background Information, we will create a mix of region-specific and globally-oriented content.
You can specify any topics, themes, or references that should be avoided in your articles. This helps ensure your brand isn’t associated with content that conflicts with your values, positioning, or commercial strategy.
Common exclusions include:
Exclusions are applied during content planning and writing to keep your placements aligned with your brand narrative.
Choose either DA40+, DA50+, DA60+ or Smart Select.
For a detailed comparison, please read: Backlink Targeting.
We'll include global TLDs in our prospecting alongside ccTLDs that match your target Audience.
For example, if your Audience is the UK, .uk TLD sites would be considered as prospects. Furthermore, if we found a suitable .com site, this would also be considered as a prospect.
We will look for sites with ccTLDs that match your Audience.
For example, if your Audience is the UK, we would only consider websites with .uk TLDs as prospects.
This is the URL you are promoting.
This is the text that will link to your URL.
You can choose whether you want to review and approve content and/or placements before we commit to publishing.
If you enabled Content Approval, you'll have full access to Google Docs where you and your team can review the content, make edits or leave comments to guide our revisions. You must provide your approval for us to move forward pitching and publishing the article.
Before committing to live placements, you can opt to review the sites first. Only after your approval of the publisher sites will we move forward to publish the content.