Work
The full record — placements, publisher sites, and what the measurement actually showed on both sides of the ledger.
Placements, counted
Every number here is one I can show you the working for. A supplier who reports only totals is reporting the easy half; the interesting figure is how many publishers get reused, because recycling the same twenty sites across every client is how a footprint gets built.
759 used once only 355 used more than once
One square per publisher. Running every client through the same handful of sites makes the work look manufactured, so most of these were used once and then left alone.
Both halves of the data
Across the 19 client sites where before-and-after measurement was possible. Referring domains and Domain Rating moved reliably. Estimated organic traffic did not — it rose on some and fell on others, and both are shown here at the same size.
Read this before you read the numbers. Mean Domain Rating gain across the sites that moved was 14.2 points. Domain Rating is a third-party score, not a ranking. Traffic figures are Ahrefs estimates, and a placement campaign is never the only thing changing on a site — so none of this establishes cause. It is a record of what happened alongside the work, published in full rather than filtered down to the wins.
Where the account is public
Standing on the marketplaces I actually trade through. These pages are maintained by the platforms, not by me, which is exactly why they are worth more than a testimonial on my own site.
What I will not promise
These are said up front rather than discovered later. If a supplier will not put this list in writing, that tells you something.
No guaranteed rankings, no guaranteed indexing
Nobody can promise those. Search engines decide what they index and how they rank it.
Publisher terms are disclosed before you approve a site
How the publisher labels and marks the piece is stated plainly, before anything is ordered.
A placement can be removed months later
Editors change, sites get sold, articles get pruned. If it happens I tell you and replace it.
No private networks and no .edu schemes
I do not sell them.
- Gambling and casino
- Adult
- CBD
- Vaping
- Unlicensed pharma
- Crypto promotion
- Insurance
Those need a different publisher pool and a different appetite for risk. Pretending otherwise wastes your money and my time.
Send a brief
Target pages, preferred wording (or none — happy to propose it), sector, exclusions, volume per month, and when you want to start. I will come back with a shortlist of real publications and a full price.
- SaaS and technology
- Ecommerce
- Healthcare and medical
- Home services and contractors
- Automotive
- Real estate
- Industrial and manufacturing
- Logistics and supply chain
- Fintech and payments