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Do You Use Any Kind of Black Hat Tactics?

Absolutely not! We only stick to good old manual outreach, on real sites. We know how worrying it can be having to trust your site to another company, and we want to ensure you that you are in good hands. In fact, the work that we will be doing for your site, is the same type of marketing work we do on our own sites. We focus on doing long term proven strategies that search engines love.

Is Buying Your Service The Same As Buying Links? If So, Isn’t That Against Google’s Policy?

When you pay for our service, you are not buying links. What you are buying are blocks of time that are spent on manual outreach. We know how long it takes it on average to land a mention and we price our packages accordingly. We will keep working until we can fulfill your order. In the rare case that we can’t fill your whole order, we will issue a refund for any undelivered mentions.

Google does not promote link building, but they do promote that you build awesome content and share it with other sites. When done correctly, content promotion is not against the policy of any search engine, in fact, they promote it. We don’t take part in any kind of spammy practices because doing so can hurt your rankings. So in short, we do not violate any search engine guidelines, we do what the search engines recommend and in the process, naturally build links.

How Long Does It Take For My Order To Be Delivered?

Real outreach takes time and it can easily take 30+ days for your campaign to be fully built out and gaining traction. We recommend clients set realistic timelines and we usually start to see responses from our outreach around the three month mark, but it can happen a lot sooner. We are dealing with real sites and real people, so it’s hard to predict but around three months is where we really start to gain a lot of traction.

Do You Have A List Of Sites That You Can Share With Me So I Can Pick My Placements?

Absolutely not! In fact, any company that has, keeps and shares a list, is either doing mass outreach or following some deceptive practices. Real outreach requires that you reach out to niche sites from scratch, otherwise, you are trying to get mentions from pre-outreached sites. The problem with that, is that the types of sites that end up on a mass outreached list usually link out to almost anyone, they are typically low quality sites and not very niche relevant. There are many lists and vendors out there that share site lists for you to choose from. Our advice is to stay away from any kind of services that offers a list, because it most likely has spammy sites that can easily get you penalized if you pay for those types of links for your business.

We don’t have any list, so there is no list to share. We create a fresh campaign for each client based on their companies needs and do real manual outreach from scratch.

Why Are Your Prices So Expensive Compared To Other Outreach Companies?

Many of the companies that claim to be doing outreach are just doing mass outreach and then selling links from any sites that respond. A lot of them run or work with PBN’s (private blog networks) which can harm your site or even worse, they building links from hacked sites. Some even pass off community post (post that anyone can build for free) as outreach mentions. How do we know this? Because we spent thousands of dollars over many years testing different services before building out our own service.

Like many business owner, we made the same mistakes of trusting vendors to deliver real outreach, only to find out that they were using deceptive practices to build links. The links that they were building were not from real sites or mentions, rather untrustworthy spam networks. That is the reason we built Real Mentions, out of the need to build high quality links for our own sites. But real outreach takes time, creativity and effort, so it cost more.

We won’t mention any of the companies doing deceptive practices, but we can tell you that we tried many of the highly recognized companies and 95% or more where using deceptive practices. We won’t call out any companies, but there are a few good apples out there that we found which we will happily mention. Rather than calling out bad competitors, below are some of the few companies that are doing good quality work:

PageOnePower: They are a legit company that is growing and constantly hiring new people to do manual outreach and even offer training on how to do link building. While they are great, they do come at a price, with campaigns starting on average at $3500 per month for six months with a target of 30 link / 5 per month, for a total of $700 per mention.

BiBiBuzz: She runs an awesome team that is highly skilled at doing amazing outreach. Her packages start at 6K upfront payment for 10 mentions, making it $600 a mention and well worth it because she delivers great results.

NeoMan Studios: Similar to PageOnePower, they have a great team and are highly skilled at what they do. But like PageOnePower, they come at a price, starting at 10K per month for a campaign.

As you can see, the companies doing good quality work, are not cheap by any means. We don’t consider the low quality vendors that are claiming to do real outreach and instead selling fake mentions as competitors, instead, the only companies we consider competitors are the companies doing manual work, just like the companies listed above. The difference between us and the awesome companies listed above is that we have no monthly commitments, as well as lower prices per month and per mention.

Can I Choose My Anchor Text?

Sorry, we can’t do that. Neither can any company that is doing real link building. If you are currently working with a company that can provide the anchor text you want, then it’s probably because they are not doing real manual outreach.

Real websites are ran by real people, and ultimately, the site owners and editors get to decide what is posted on their sites, not us. We can only make suggestions. Trying to over control your anchor text is not a good SEO practice anyways. We follow the same strategies that large Fortune 500 companies follow. We try to go for branded and contextual anchor text. These type of mentions are natural and safe for your site.

That being said, you can suggest your preferred anchor text, but we make no guarantees that the sites that mention you will agree to use them. Writers are experts at content creation, so it’s better to leave it to them to use the anchor text they deem best to land your company real mentions.

Can I Choose The Content That You Will Promote?

That depends. If you have awesome content already that we can promote, then you are welcome to share it. If the content fits our promotion standards then we can use that content to promote your site, otherwise, we can create custom written content just for your business, to share with other sites. Most of the mentions we build are going to be coming from guest posting, in which case, we provide the content but depending on the site and it’s existing content, we might consider other strategies.

Aside from guest posting, other promotion strategies that we may use include content promotion of your current content (just let us know if you prefer that), skyscraper link building, info-graphic promotion and resource page link building to name a few. If we choose to go a different route than guest posting, we will contact you first to let you know which strategy is best for approval.

Will All The Links Be DoFollow?

No, because our link building is natural and real. Let’s say we land a mention on Forbes, Huffington Post or Medium.com, many of those sites and editors no-follow their links. This does not mean that they are not powerful or valuable. We try to promote content to high quality sites and some of them are no-follow. Even though will still be billed for those mentions, we do make an effort to reach out to sites that use dofollow links.

That being said, we don’t even recommend that you only reach out to 100% dofollow sites. Not only is it not a good and holistic marketing practice, it also not natural for SEO and can even raise red flags, even worse, it limits the type of mentions that you can get. While most mentions will be dofollow, some will not be, and you should be happy about that, because it’s safe, natural and real!

Can I Approve The Sites Before You Get A Mention

Due to time constraints, we typically do not provide client approval of the sites. This is due to fact that we are dealing with real people and based on our stats, the longer we take to respond, the lower the chances are that they will follow through with getting a mention for your site. Speed is important when doing manual outreach and for that reason we typically do not provide pre-approval. We want to keep the conversations flowing with site owners and editors as quickly as possible to increase our changes of getting you mentions.

That being said, we can provide pre-approval upon a client request, but it would an additional cost of $100 per mention. This is to make up for any opportunities that we may lose due to the extra time delays in getting back to the site owners/writers/editors. We can share a live spreadsheet with you with the sites that are responding to outreach and you will have three days to approve or deny sites, after the three days, we will approve/deny sites at our discretion.

Why Are The Trial Links More Expensive

When you purchase a trial link, we still have to build a fully custom campaign just for your company. This process is time consuming and takes a lot of effort. Because we don’t require contracts or a minimum size order, we have to make sure that our cost are covered with the initial mention that we do for your company. You are welcome to keep purchasing just one mention at a time. The good news is that if you buy larger packages, our cost, and therefore, your cost will lower significantly. This is because we can keep your campaign running and the efficiency of your campaign increases, lowering the overall cost for us and we pass the savings on to you.

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