What is Manual Link Building?
Manual link building focuses entirely on email outreach and contributing content on other relevant websites. Instead of using easily detectable approaches like PBNs, content creators and SEOs working on the manual link acquisition process carefully consider the method and system used to get the website backlinks.
While most SEOs focus on quick wins and shortcuts to game the system and Google’s algorithms. The reality is that getting your hands dirty in reaching out to publishers, building authentic relationships, and providing immense value matters more and has a long-term impact on your website’s backlink profile.
If you’re hiring a link building agency to ease out the burden of manually sending emails for link requests and content collaboration, SharpRocket is your go-to resource for any need for manually-built backlinks.
Boost Your Brand’s Organic Traffic with Quality Link Building
For the past decade, many SEO consultants and agencies have started offering bespoke link building services to clients. With the rise of demand for this specific service, any region and country has a long list of link building service providers.
Now, that is a good indication of the importance of link building for anyone’s website and even for brick-and-mortar businesses wanting to leverage search as a robust lead generation channel.
That said, you can’t ignore doing your due diligence in researching for the best. There is a chance you might end up with illegitimate link building agencies whose only care is to get a buck from your pockets.
One of the best ways to secure reliable partnerships with a link building agency is to understand their exact link acquisition process. One wrong backlink can damage the website’s reputation (from an off-page perspective), while one high-quality backlink can elevate the site’s ability to dominate search engine rankings in the industry.
Link building can make or break an entire business. It could break through barriers and help establish a strong brand authority in the space if done right.
Any link building campaign’s goal must drive search traffic via ranking for its relevant keywords and integrate well with the site’s branding. Backlinks will help associate your brand with other relevant entities. Thus making it easier for Google and other search engines to recognize your site’s target keywords and their relevance in your respective industry.
We’ve seen enterprise companies (half of our clients are this type of project) heavily invested in link building. With a minimum of $10K spent purely on backlinks, they firmly believe in the power of links in improving a specific page’s rankings on Google’s SERPs.
You need an experienced team that can draw traffic organically without penalizing your website stemming from aggressive automated link building approaches.
Enter SharpRocket. We are a team of seasoned link building experts who helped enterprise brands and startups build quality ROI-driven backlinks. Our manual link building service involves strategy and relentless execution to improve your site’s branding and search visibility.
The Truth Behind Automated Link Building
Automated link building is better than many SEOs preach on their SEO blogs and social media accounts.
The only reason why automated link building isn’t going mainstream is its primary objective of trying to manipulate everything, from using highly AI-generated tools to scrape and publish no-value content to aggressively spamming people with generic, only link-request email pitches. All these contribute to automated link building not being a worthwhile pursuit of investment.
However, automated link building could be a by-product of a robust, holistic link acquisition process.
For instance, after producing a series of linkable assets that target research informational keywords. It attracts natural links from publishers and content creators in their research phase, looking for additional references they can link to from their new blog posts.
At SharpRocket, we heavily publish content assets that drive natural links. Examples include statistics, tools, calculators, internal data, and surveys that are inherently suitable for citations and references on publications and niche blogs.
Automated link building kicks in, as the linkable assets rank for their target keywords, being pushed from artificial links (manual link building). This shows how manual link building and automated link building make every link building campaign a strong SEO force to bring constant links and skyrocket search traffic for the website.
The good thing with automated link building via ranking informational content is that it serves like a flywheel effect. In the first few months, you’ll have to push rankings of this content to the first page of Google’s search engine results pages. Using artificial links from guest posts and link edits, those pages improve their rankings and can now earn organic links.
Fully Managed Link Building Service From SharpRocket
SharpRocket’s decade of manual link building service has been sought-after by local and Western startups trying to grow their search traffic from zero baseline. They get incredible results by targeting a particular area in the space by building topical authority and doing aggressive link acquisition.
The search marketing team of SharpRocket also enables enterprise brands (with 1 to 10M+ organic traffic) to maintain their rankings and widen their marketing scope by targeting other competitive head terms. SharpRocket’s ability to consistently deliver links (ranging from 25 to 75+ links per month) has allowed many of these product or service pages to keep #1 on Google’s SERPs.
We manage all your link building projects from the ground up to actual deliverables. We ask for simple requirements and campaign details, and then you can take your hands off your link building campaign to focus on growing your business or digital marketing agency.
Key Components of Our Manual Link Building Service
So, what’s included in your service? It's a good thing you ask. Our manual link building services include the following:
Customized Link Building Strategy
We customize every link building campaign to suit your business needs and achieve objectives. While other SEOs have generic link building packages, we’re more attuned to ensuring you get the most value from our services. After all, Google’s algorithms change rapidly, either from their core or minor updates. Though links remain one of the top ranking factors, we first check every space to determine its level of competition and what your brand is up against.
Link Gap Analysis
We first send a link gap analysis report to your website. After our initial meeting, we analyzed your website against its competitors based on your target keywords. We determine the number of quality links your website has to catch up to gain its market share desired for commercial keywords. We use tools like Ahrefs and SEMRush to spot link and keyword opportunities your competition may still need to look into that you can use to gain early initial traction from search.
Strategic Content Creation
Your content assets must serve you well. That means you aren’t just publishing content; it primarily aims to integrate with your branding core. Your published landing pages must target their respective keywords, and informational content must gain traction from search. All these are included in our strategic content creation. With Google’s EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness), creating content that matters to users and is optimized for search engines is essential.
Targeted Outreach
Our team of link builders meticulously sources relevant, trusted publications and platforms to ensure every inbound link will positively contribute to your site’s search engine rankings. We increase our link placement and conversion rates from every email outreach campaign by doing a highly targeted outreach process. With every email, we answer the question, “What’s in it for them?”. Answering this enables us to provide as much value in the initial pitch, which has a higher likelihood of success.
Regular Updates and Reporting
Our manual link building service is set apart because the founders will provide you with regular updates and reporting. Unlike other link building agencies, you’ll only come across account managers as your only contact person/s for reporting. During meetings, we strategically suggest and recommend topic ideas to help you earn natural links for your site. All these with the end in mind of collaborating with your team so you’ll keep your hands off and focus on growing your business.
Continuous Links Management and Content Optimization
Link acquisition is a continuous SEO activity that requires constant monitoring of links, publishing more linkable assets that automate link building (via ranking and earning natural links), and increasing organic traffic through internal linking. Some niche site owners consider link building a one-time project. It isn’t. It requires constant acquisition of links to targeted pages so you can maintain rankings and even dominate your space and widen the scope of your business.
SharpRocket’s Manual Link Building Packages
Flexible options to get you started and scale your link building campaigns without breaking the bank. No twelve-month contract to hold you.
Startup
- 7-9 Editorial Links
- DR 35+ Minimum
- Bi-Weekly Strategy Calls
- Dedicated SEO Specialists
- Custom Tracking Reports
Growth
- 21-25 Editorial Links
- DR 40+ Minimum
- Weekly Strategy Calls
- Dedicated SEO Specialists
- Custom Tracking Reports
- Keyword and Backlink Gap Analysis
- On-Page Optimization Recommendations
Authority
- 34-40 Editorial Links
- DR 45+ Minimum
- Weekly Strategy Calls
- Dedicated SEO Specialists
- Custom Tracking Reports
- Keyword and Backlink Gap Analysis
- On-Page Optimization Recommendations
Learn More About The Work We’ve Done
ECOMMERCE
310% increase in organic traffic for a music store
We helped Fiddlershop increase ecommerce traffic and sales.
B2B SAAS
$223,000/mo Increase in Traffic Value
We helped ZenBusiness drive new customers from search.
FINTECH
371% increase in traffic value
We helped Spenmo increase its search traffic and revenue.
Manual Link Building Services
From managed link building services to long-term sustainable link building plans, SharpRocket has got you covered:
Full Link Building Services
SharpRocket’s flagship service is an all-in-one link building service. Take your hands off from link building as we serve you from strategy to execution. From getting our hands dirty sourcing the most relevant link opportunities to following up with email prospects to give you the best links from authoritative websites. See our complete link building services.
White Label Link Building
Do you want to scale your SEO or digital marketing agency but don’t have time to build links for clients? You know how important backlinks are. Enter SharpRocket. We sign non-disclosure agreements with our SEO agency partners as we take on their clients for link building projects. Depending on the backlink demand, we distribute bulk orders to three or more clients. Learn more about our white label link building services.
Enterprise Link Building
SharpRocket partners with strong, reliable in-house SEO teams of enterprise brands to deliver sustainable, guaranteed links monthly. We understand the pressure of trying to build consistent high-quality backlinks to your website to maintain high-search volume keyword rankings and dominate your industry. We collaborate with any enterprise SEO teams to achieve their BHAG goals. Check out our enterprise link building services.
Link Building Consulting
Do you need an outside SEO consultant to look at your link profile and spot backlink opportunities you couldn’t easily find in the market? Our CEO, Venchito Tampon, gives you a one-hour session discussing link opportunities, strategies, and specific, actionable tips you and your team can immediately implement to acquire the links you deserve for your website. Seek SEO advice with our link building consultant.
FAQs About SharpRocket’s Services
How do you ensure the quality of the backlinks you build? Are they from reputable and relevant websites?
We consider three major things: relevance, trust, and authoritativeness. As for relevance, we have degrees of relevance where we sit down and brainstorm what niches we can penetrate to acquire links for your site.
For example, if you’re selling coffee machines, the first degree of relevance would be “coffee blogs”. The second degree is food & beverage. The third degree would be home and lifestyle. Our objective is to acquire links from the first degree of relevant blogs to maximize the link investment through the link juice you’ll get from every contextual link.
We can measure trust by checking the site’s backlink profile, anchor text ratio, and organic traffic graph. We avoid blogs and publications massively hit by core algorithmic updates and haven’t recovered yet. We only seek websites with a 1,000 minimum organic traffic.
Authority is quantifiable through the use of SEO tools like Ahrefs and SEMRush. Ahrefs’ Domain Rating is a calculated metric from 0 to 100 based on the quality of links a site gains. We only get link placements from websites with at least DR25+.
All these three – relevance, trust, and authoritativeness combined are good metrics to assess a website’s link value.
How do you tailor your link building strategies to fit each client's unique needs and goals?
We speak to clients about their needs, challenges, and goals – meetings conducted online for accessibility and convenience.
From there, we initially assess the website’s backlink profile, link gap from its ranking competitors, and existing resources and competition in the industry.
Our proposal includes a link gap analysis approach, which identifies the quality gap number of links between the client’s site and its competitors. Through this method, we know what types of pages to target for links and provide a specific timeline where the client can expect guaranteed results with managed expectations for the link building campaign.
In our meetings, we also ask internal resources – SEO specialists, content designers, and writers who would help us craft and publish linkable assets we can use as leverage for email link acquisition.
Every client is different based on its type, industry, and competition, and we dare to give you a customized link building strategy to help you achieve your SEO goals. Your success is the success of our agency.
Can you guarantee that all link-building techniques are "white hat" and comply with Google's guidelines?
We use ethical white hat link building strategies for all our link building campaigns. It is risking our client’s business if we utilize any PBNs, content farms, and other black hat link building strategies that will harm the client’s site performance.
How often will I receive reports on the progress of the link building campaign?
We give monthly reports to all our clients. Plus, weekly Zoom calls to walk you through the campaign’s progress and brainstorm for specific ideas our link building team can execute to see results further.
Will these reports include metrics like Domain Authority, anchor text used, and the referring page's relevance?
Yes. Our dashboard (spreadsheets) includes a list of live URLs, Ahrefs’ Domain Rating, anchor text used, and destination pages of acquired links.
What happens if a link you've built for me gets removed or broken? Do you offer any maintenance or guarantees for the longevity of the links?
We do offer replacements for any link removed intentionally by the webmaster. We guarantee at least six months of link replacements.
Do you also provide content creation services for guest posting or other content-driven link building strategies? If so, how do you ensure the content is high-quality and relevant to my industry?
All our link-building strategies are content-driven, meaning that for every link you pay, we cover the cost of creating the content to be published on your blog section or other relevant sites (i.e., guest posts).
We have in-house writers who have worked with us for years and deliver high-caliber content even for the most crucial industries like YMYL (Your Money Your Life).
What tools or technologies do you use to identify link opportunities, track progress, and monitor backlink health?
We use a variety of tools for every phase of link building. For link prospecting, we use Google and other search engines to find the most relevant target sites. On top of it, we have Ahrefs and SEMRush to source new websites likely to boost our client’s site’s link authority and spot content opportunities we can leverage for linkable asset creation.
We use Hunter to find the email addresses of journalists, content creators, and bloggers for email outreach. And we’ve got a couple of Gmail extensions to speed up pitching customized emails to backlink prospects.
How do you structure your pricing for link building services? Are different packages available based on the number of links, types of links, or specific strategies used?
The table above shows our package. You can also check out it here.
Can you provide case studies or references from past clients where you've achieved significant link building success?
See our proof of work. We’ve got excellent testimonials and case studies from top global brands. You can also contact us if you want more relevant case studies.
