Toxic links dragging your rankings. Anchor text over-optimized. Zero verified authority sources. Meanwhile your competitors are quietly building domain trust that compounds for years. We find every gap, fix what's broken, and build the authority you're missing.
Includes technical audit + BL profile analysis + competitor gap report.
No pitch deck. No sales call. Just data.
Most agencies send a PDF with green checkmarks. We send a breakdown of every problem we found — and exactly what it's costing you.
Full crawl of your site's technical health. We find what's blocking Google before it finds you.
A full breakdown of who's linking to you, what it's worth, and what's actively hurting your rankings.
We map your top 3 competitors' link profiles against yours. Every domain linking to them but not you is an opportunity.
For multi-location businesses — we check every signal Google uses to rank your offices in their local markets.
Every service below is built in-house. No white-label link farms, no offshore content mills, no subcontracted builds. You work with the people who built the tools.
Handcoded in Astro, Next.js, or SvelteKit — never WordPress. We build on Cloudflare's global edge network: 300+ data centers, sub-0.3s load times, 99.9% uptime SLA, zero plugin vulnerabilities. Every build includes full structured data, canonical setup, crawl optimization, and schema markup. 95–100 PageSpeed guaranteed, or we rebuild it.
Three-layer authority building: aged domain placements from our proprietary network (pre-existing university, news, and government authority), niche edits on established pages with real traffic, and editorial guest posts for topical authority. Every campaign includes anchor text strategy, velocity control, and footprint monitoring. No PBN patterns, no sitewide links, no exact-match over-optimization.
Years of accumulated link history often includes toxic placements from previous agencies, negative SEO attacks, or low-quality directories. We identify every problematic link, build a clean disavow file, submit it correctly through Google Search Console, and monitor the recovery timeline. We also normalize anchor text distribution — most penalized sites have 40%+ exact-match anchors when branded should be above 60%.
We maintain a proprietary database of 280M+ domains with pre-computed authority signals across 4 years of web crawl data. We identify aged domains with verified backlinks from universities, government sites, and major publications — before they appear on public drop lists. Your site launches with years of built trust instead of zero. Same technology we use for our own portfolio of 13k+ monthly organic visitors.
Each office location is a separate ranking opportunity — most firms leave 80% of it on the table with a single-page "locations" list. We build individual location pages with proper URL structure, LocalBusiness schema, city-specific content, and unique GMB profiles. Citation building covers 50+ directories per location with consistent NAP data. Every location gets its own ranking strategy based on local competition.
Interactive tools built into your site that qualify, educate, and capture leads before they call. For law firms: case viability screeners (3 questions → "your case may be worth pursuing" → call scheduled). For multi-location: location-specific cost estimators, consultation schedulers, intake pre-qualifiers. Every tool is custom-built for your practice area — not a generic chatbot widget.
A slow site can't rank regardless of how many links you build. A platform you don't own is a liability. Code you can't export is a subscription, not an asset. The platform decision is an SEO decision — and most firms made it for the wrong reasons ten years ago.
Everything we write is original. No themes. No page builders. No licensing dependencies that require us to stay involved. On delivery you receive the complete repository — take it to any developer, any host, any framework. No strings.
Your current WordPress theme is probably licensed, not owned. Your Webflow site is definitely not owned — it's hosted by Webflow. We build what you actually own permanently.
Scope is locked in a signed agreement before any work starts. Then:
Your previous agency sent monthly reports: new links added, DR rising. Rankings stayed flat. This is the most common pattern in enterprise SEO — and it happens for three predictable reasons.
Google doesn't use Ahrefs DR. A DR 55 blog with no real editorial traffic and links that exist only to be sold transfers zero authority — it transfers risk. Most agency networks are built to game the DR metric, not to build trust with Google's systems. The number goes up. The rankings don't.
If your profile shows 25%+ exact-match keyword anchors — "personal injury lawyer dallas," "divorce attorney chicago" — that's a Penguin targeting pattern. Most agencies build links without tracking cumulative anchor distribution. You only discover the problem when rankings drop. We audit your full distribution before placing a single new link.
Content built to hold links gets removed. Sites built for link selling get deindexed. Google crawls continuously — a link that appears in one crawl and disappears in the next is weighted near zero. We track persistence across multiple crawl windows. If a placement disappears, we know and replace it.
Here's what real authority building looks like.
We source aged domains with verified persistent backlinks — not DR scores, but actual links from academic institutions, government bodies, and major publications that have been recrawled consistently for years. These are placed into contextually relevant sites. The authority existed before we touched it. It can't be faked because it wasn't built to be sold.
Average domain age: 8–14 years · Verified sources: universities, government agencies, major news publications · Anchor: branded or natural phrase only · Velocity: 2–4 placements per month max
We identify pages that already rank for your target keywords and have verified organic traffic. A contextual link inside content Google is already crawling carries more weight than 20 links on ghost blogs. We negotiate editorial placements — genuine additions to existing content on pages with real readership, not advertorials on sites built to hold links.
Target: pages with 3+ months indexation and confirmed organic traffic · Placement: contextual within body copy · Anchor: partial match or branded · ~70% of candidate sites fail our traffic verification
For law firms and professional services, Google's quality rater guidelines are explicit: YMYL pages — legal, financial, medical — are held to higher E-E-A-T standards. Being cited as an expert source in the publications your clients actually read changes how Google classifies your entity. We place content that serves both functions: a backlink and a trust signal your competitors can't replicate with volume alone.
Target: DR 40+ publications with real readership in your practice area · Content: original, written for the host's audience · Anchor: 1 link per piece, branded preferred · Secondary benefit: direct referral traffic from qualified readers
At the start of every engagement we agree on a written strategy document: target keywords, anchor text distribution plan, quality criteria, monthly placement velocity. That's what you sign off on — not individual links. We execute within the approved strategy autonomously and report results monthly.
Billing is 50/50: half at the start of each month, half after we deliver the monthly report with verified placements and ranking movement. We invoice the second half when the work is done — not before.
90-day minimum engagement, then month-to-month. We ask for 90 days not to lock you in but because links that show results in 30 days are links that get you penalized in 60. After 90 days: cancel anytime, no notice required.
Building links on top of a toxic profile is like renovating a house with a broken foundation. Before we add a single new link, we audit every referring domain in your existing profile and remove what's dragging you down.
Not every low-DR link is toxic — but specific patterns indicate negative SEO risk or algorithmic penalties. We flag: links from sites with spam scores above 60%, links in irrelevant foreign-language directories with no real traffic, sitewide footer links with commercial anchor text, links from known link farms and PBN networks we've identified across 280M domains, and any link pattern that suggests a previous agency's work.
We build a clean disavow file in Google's required format — domain-level disavows for pattern offenders, URL-level for isolated cases. We submit through Google Search Console and monitor Search Console's coverage reports for the following 60–90 days. We don't disavow aggressively — every flagged domain is reviewed manually before it makes the file. Over-disavowing good links is as damaging as keeping toxic ones.
Most penalized profiles have the same pattern: too much exact-match, not enough branded. Google's Penguin algorithm targets unnatural anchor ratios. Here's what a healthy distribution looks like — and what we build toward:
Most domain drops are noise. We built the signal engine to find the ones that aren't.
A domain's value is not its age or its DR score — it's the quality and persistence of the links pointing to it. We compute authority using verified sources only: domains with inbound links from at least 50 unique referring domains, persistence scores above 6.0 across 15 crawl windows, spam below 20, and outbound link ratios that indicate real editorial behavior.
Public drop lists show 200k+ domains per day — mostly noise. Our proactive mining queries the full 280M domain database by keyword, niche, and authority signal before a domain appears on any list. We identify drops days or weeks early. By the time it's on DropCatch, we already know if it's worth the backorder.
Most competitors are buying links from the same recycled lists of "high DR" blogs. We identify authority before the market does — and we can verify whether a domain's links are real persistent authority or manufactured metrics. That gap is the advantage.
Enterprise client work is under NDA. These are properties we own and operate — same stack, same approach, same results. References provided after initial conversation.
No lengthy RFP process. No 6-week discovery phase. We move fast because we already did the research before reaching out.
We send the full audit report within 24 hours of your domain submission — technical findings, backlink profile breakdown, competitor gap analysis, and a prioritized list of what to fix first. No call required to receive it. You review it on your own time.
One focused conversation to align on priorities — which problems to tackle first, what timeline makes sense, what success looks like for your firm specifically. We send a written proposal with fixed scope, fixed pricing, and a clear deliverables list. No ambiguity about what's included.
10% upfront locks your project slot and starts the build. We deploy a live staging URL — every page, every interaction, every schema implementation visible before any further payment. Request changes; we adjust. When you're satisfied and approve, you pay the remaining 90%. We don't invoice the balance until you say it's ready. For SEO retainers: first month deliverables are sent before the invoice is issued.
Launch with full technical handoff — DNS configuration, GSC setup, sitemap submission, indexation monitoring. Monthly reports include ranking movement, link acquisition log with every new domain's authority profile, traffic changes attributed by channel, and next month's priority actions. You always know exactly what was done and why.
If you've worked with SEO agencies before and got burned, these are the questions you should have asked upfront.
It means you're renting traffic that you could own. A page that ranks organically at position #1 captures 10x the clicks of a paid ad in the same position — at zero marginal cost per click after the initial investment. The firms spending the most on Google Ads in competitive markets almost always have the weakest organic foundations. That's not coincidence. It's what happens when you solve a technical problem with a budget instead of fixing it.
We don't recommend cutting ad spend — ads keep leads coming while organic builds. But 12 months from now, you want to own the rankings your competitors are buying around.
It can. We don't hide that. A major rebuild is a site migration and Google takes time to re-evaluate. For sites with strong existing organic rankings, a full rebuild carries real risk — and we'll say that plainly in the audit instead of promising otherwise.
Our rebuild service is designed for firms with a broken technical foundation and weak organic visibility. If you're on page 5 for your money keywords, the rebuild is pure upside. If you're already ranking well, we'll recommend targeted technical fixes rather than a full overhaul.
When we do rebuild: every existing URL is preserved exactly — no structure changes, no redirect chains. Old site stays on standby for 60 days. GSC monitored daily for the first month. URL preservation eliminates 90% of migration risk. The remaining 10% is algorithm movement, not our work.
The most common failure pattern: agency charges a monthly retainer, sends reports with link counts and rising DR scores, rankings don't move. The cause is almost always one of three things — links built on networks with no real authority, anchor text over-optimized on the wrong keywords, or a technical site foundation too broken for any link to matter.
We start with the audit because we want to identify which of those three problems exists before proposing anything. If the audit doesn't reveal a clear path to improvement, we'll tell you that and walk away. We have no interest in a retainer that doesn't produce results — the case study matters more than the monthly invoice.
Technical improvements — PageSpeed, schema markup, crawl optimization — reflect in Google Search Console within 2–4 weeks of launch. Ranking improvements from the technical foundation take 6–10 weeks to materialize. Link building compounds over 3–12 months depending on your market and competition level.
There's no honest answer that says "you'll rank #1 in 90 days." Anyone who says that is selling a guarantee they can't keep. What we commit to: monthly reports documenting every action taken, every link acquired with its full authority profile, and ranking movement tracked weekly. You always know exactly what was done and what changed.
You own the code outright upon final payment. No proprietary dependencies, no platform subscriptions, no licensing that requires our involvement. Take the repository to any developer. Host it anywhere. The Cloudflare configuration is yours. We don't build sites that need us to survive.
For SEO retainers: all work product — link acquisition records, anchor text logs, disavow files, GSC configurations — is yours. We hand off a full documentation package on exit. Nothing leaves with us.
No catch. We run a full technical crawl of your site, pull your backlink profile through our proprietary database, map your top 3 competitors' link profiles against yours, and check local SEO signals if you have multiple locations. Four reports, delivered within 24 hours, no call required to receive them.
The honest reason we offer it: the audit is our proposal. If we find real problems with clear solutions, we propose a scope. If we don't find a path to improvement, we tell you that and move on. We only take engagements we're confident we can deliver on — the audit is how we verify that before either of us commits.
Drop your domain. We'll send four reports — technical, backlink profile, competitor gap, and local SEO signals. No commitment, no sales call, no pitch deck.
We respond within 24 hours. Enterprise engagements are handled under NDA from the first conversation.