Senior-led, every accountReviews published with real names
5.0
from 60 published client reviews
Senior pod, no juniors
on every account
Brands across the industries we serve
What is Foundation & Entity Links?
Open source, communities, profiles, bookmarks, documents and podcasts — the layer that makes your entity resolvable.
Discipline: Link Building
Typical outcome: Four gates every prospect passes them, most do not
Engagement: monthly retainer or one-time audit
Seniority: lead strategist on every weekly call
About This Service
How We Deliver Foundation & Entity Links
Forums, Q&A sites, developer communities, open-source repositories, cloud marketplace listings, social and professional profiles, published documents and podcast appearances. Most of these links are nofollow and none of them will outrank a competitor by itself. Their job is different and, in an AI-answer world, increasingly load-bearing: a model that cannot work out which company you are will not risk naming you. This layer makes the entity unambiguous and consistently described everywhere it appears — which is the precondition for everything else.
The patterns we see across new audits — and the fixes baked into every engagement.
Nothing outside your own site says what you do
Every claim about the company lives on the domain making the claim. There is no second source for a machine to check it against.
Profiles created once and abandoned
A half-finished account from three years ago, an old logo, a URL that redirects twice. Stale profiles are worse than none — they contradict the current ones.
Posts written for the link get deleted
Drive-by community answers are removed by moderators, and often the account with them. What survives moderation is participation that was useful first.
The entity says three different things
Different descriptions, different categories, different founding dates across the platforms that get scraped. The graph inherits every inconsistency.
Community, forum and Q&A participation that is actually useful
Open-source and developer-platform presence
Consistent profiles across the platforms that get scraped
Additional Value:
Documents and podcast appearances that stay citable
Feeds the entity work behind knowledge panels and AI citation
What makes this work hold up
No retainers without a measurable outcome attached. Every sprint is anchored to a KPI we agreed on in week one — with weekly Loom updates, a shared dashboard, and a senior strategist on every call.
Senior strategist on every account — no juniors learning on your dime
Weekly Loom updates plus a shared Looker dashboard
Your stack, your CMS, your CMS workflow — we adapt to you
Outcome-tied pricing — KPI ranges baked into the contract
Our Process
How we ship Foundation & Entity Links
A proven 4-step framework that compresses time to results without cutting corners.
01
Link Gap and Authority Audit
A senior analyst benchmarks your backlink profile against the three competitors who outrank you and flags any toxic links dragging you down. You leave knowing exactly how many quality links you need to close the gap.
02
Prospecting and Story Angles
We build a vetted target list of relevant publications and craft data-led story angles your vertical actually cares about. Every prospect is scored on real traffic and topical relevance, never on inflated domain metrics alone.
03
Outreach and Placement
Our team runs personalized outreach, HARO responses, and digital PR pitches, then secures placements on editorially reviewed sites. We never buy links from networks or use private blog farms.
04
Verify and Report
Every live link is screenshotted, verified for follow status, and logged on your dashboard with its referring traffic and authority. A weekly Loom shows new placements and the ranking movement they drive.
01
Where a machine looks
The surfaces that get scraped, and what belongs on each
Developer communities, Q&A sites, open-source repositories, professional and social profiles, published documents, slide decks and podcast appearances — these are the sources that get crawled, aggregated and fed into the datasets behind knowledge panels and model training.
We work out which of them are plausible for your business rather than submitting to all of them, because a profile on a platform your industry has never used corroborates nothing.
Open-source, forum and Q&A presence where it is credible
Professional and social profiles brought up to date
Published documents and decks that stay citable
Podcast and interview appearances captured properly
02
Participation that survives
A useful answer keeps its link; a drive-by loses the account
Community platforms are moderated by people who have seen every version of this. An answer that is genuinely the best one in the thread keeps its link for years; a paragraph wrapped around a URL is removed, and repeat offenders lose the profile.
So the work is answering things your team actually knows, in the places your buyers already read, at a pace a real person would. That is slower than a submission run and it is the only version of this that lasts.
Answers written by someone who knows the subject
Platform rules read before anything is posted
A human cadence, not a submission run
Nothing posted that we would not post under our own name
03
Consistency is the deliverable
One description, one name, one URL — everywhere
The value here is not the individual link, it is agreement between sources. Same legal and trading name, same one-sentence description, same canonical URL, same category language, on every surface that carries them.
We audit what already exists before adding anything, because the old profile contradicting the new one is the problem we were hired to remove.
Audit of every existing profile before new ones are made
One canonical description reused verbatim
Contradictory and abandoned profiles corrected or closed
A record of every surface, handed over at the end
How this runs
What the engagement commits to
Not averages, and not a result we are promising in advance — the terms every placement on this service has to clear, and what we do when one goes bad.
Named senior specialists on every engagement
Reported via live Looker Studio dashboards
Tied to revenue KPIs, not vanity metrics
Four gates
Every prospect passes them, most do not
Refused
Networks, exchanges and paid placements
Same day
Placements logged with a screenshot
100%
Links verified live and follow-checked
FAQs
Questions buyers ask before signing
Quick answers to the things buyers always check first.
Is this not just directory spam under a new name?
It would be if it were a submission run. The difference is selection and conduct: platforms your industry actually uses, profiles completed properly, and participation that a moderator would keep. If a surface only exists to host links, we do not use it.
Most of these links are nofollow. Why pay for them?
Because their job is corroboration rather than authority. A model or a crawler trying to establish which company you are needs sources that agree with each other, and that agreement is what makes a knowledge panel or an AI citation possible at all.
How is this different from local citations?
Citations are about a physical address and the map pack — name, address, phone, identical everywhere. Foundation work is about the entity itself: what the company is, what it makes, who runs it, and whether the sources agree. A business with no service area needs the second and not the first.
What does this look like month to month?
An audit and a cleanup first, then a steady, unhurried cadence of new surfaces and real participation. It is the least dramatic thing we sell and it is the one that quietly decides whether anything else about you is verifiable.
No account-manager buffer and no juniors learning on your budget — you work directly with the people who do the work.
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Head of Content & Brand
Research-led content · technical writing
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Saleha Jabeen
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See your link profile the way a competitor sees it.
Drop your domain and we will pull the profile. You get the gap between you and the sites above you — and a straight answer on whether links are genuinely what is holding you back.
What clients say about our Foundation & Entity Links
Reviews from our Upwork, Fiverr and direct client engagements. Each card shows where the review was left.
5 avg. client review · 60+ engagements
Slide 1 of 8
A very strategic approach to link building — quality placements, transparent progress, and a level of consistency that made a noticeable difference.
Kerry-Ann Davies
Marketing director
Slide 2 of 8
Delivered everything within a few days without compromising quality. Fast, professional, and consistently reliable across every campaign.
Kit Cresswell
Agency owner
Slide 3 of 8
Numerous campaigns completed, and the results have consistently met expectations. Their focus on quality placements makes them a trusted partner.
Mason Carter
Home-services owner
Slide 4 of 8
A proactive approach to finding the right opportunities and a dependable hand keeping the project moving in the right direction. Exactly what we needed.
Matt Casady
iGaming acquisition lead
Slide 5 of 8
They clearly understand modern SEO and approach every project with confidence and precision. Reassuring to work with someone who genuinely knows the field.
Russell Jamieson
Law-firm marketing lead
Slide 6 of 8
Reliable, responsive, and consistently delivering quality placements. In a competitive vertical, that consistency is exactly what moves the needle.
Stanislav Farkas
iGaming acquisition lead
Slide 7 of 8
We've partnered on multiple projects and the quality stays consistently impressive. Always proactive about valuable opportunities and a pleasure to work with.
Toby Ireson
Agency owner
Slide 8 of 8
Consistent, quality link campaigns with real attention to detail. They're proactive about finding worthwhile opportunities and always follow through on what they commit to.
Blake McCulloch
Startup founder
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