Honest answers to what serious buyers ask before engaging a link building and SEO agency. If your question is not here, email us — we respond the same day.
Link building effect on rankings typically becomes visible 60–90 days after links are placed. Significant ranking movements on competitive terms: 4–7 months. We document this timeline clearly at project start.
We place links only on real editorial sites with real organic traffic. Every link comes with a live URL. We operate a proprietary contact network rather than a private blog network. You can verify every placement independently.
No. Google's algorithm is outside our control. We guarantee the quality and quantity of work delivered each month, and report results honestly regardless of outcome. Our 96% retention rate reflects that the work produces results — we just cannot pre-commit to positions Google decides.
Authority and Dominance retainers have a 3-month minimum. SEO needs time to compound — shorter commitments give the work no runway. After the minimum: 30 days written notice.
Both. The team is bilingual. We run campaigns targeting the Italian market, English-language European markets, or both simultaneously.
Via Stripe. Discovery (one-time): 50% at commencement, 50% on delivery. Retainers: monthly on the same calendar date. Italian businesses with P.IVA should contact us before purchase for correct IVA invoicing documentation.
Yes — this is a common arrangement. Internal teams handle on-page and technical; we provide the link acquisition they cannot execute in-house. Scope integrates around what you already have.
Minimum: read access to Google Search Console and GA4. For retainer clients: access to your Ahrefs subscription or we include it in our setup. CMS access needed for on-page implementation work.
Yes. E-commerce link building has specific considerations around category pages and product authority. We have experience with both Shopify and WooCommerce sites and structure link campaigns around commercial page targets rather than just domain-level authority.
We monitor all placed links. If a link is removed within 12 months of placement, we replace it at no charge on a comparable-or-better publication. Permanent monitoring is included for retainer clients.
No. Every link we place is on a genuine editorial site with real organic traffic and editorial standards. PBNs are explicitly against Google's guidelines and the links they pass are either low-value or harmful. We have never used them and will not.
Yes. Penalty recovery is part of our link acquisition work. The first step is a full link audit to identify which links caused the issue. We then build a disavow file and submit it to Google, document the cleanup, and rebuild authority with genuine editorial links. Timeline for recovery: typically 3–6 months after disavow submission.
Monthly written reports delivered on the 5th of each month. Not a dashboard. A document — ranking changes, links acquired (with live URLs), traffic movement, and the plan for the coming month. Retainer clients also receive a quarterly strategy review.
Both. New domains benefit most from link acquisition — the authority gap between zero and DR 30 is the hardest to bridge and the period where external links have the most relative impact. Established sites with existing authority benefit most from targeted campaigns around specific commercial keyword clusters.