Authority links
£500
For 10 manually placed backlinks. DR 50+ verified at delivery via Ahrefs.
07 · Manual backlinks · seo-consultant.co
Human-earned backlinks.
No bots. No PBNs.
No penalty risk.
Every backlink we deliver is negotiated and placed by hand through a six-year network of UK and international editors. Real sites. Real editorial. Real Domain Rating verified against Ahrefs on the day of delivery.
Digital PR tier
DR70+
National UK / US / AU media. Full editorial pitch, not a press-wire blast.
Replacement guarantee
90d
If a placement drops below the DR band, we replace it at no extra cost.
The process
No tools. No bulk outreach. Each placement is a conversation between our team and a real editor.
Manual outreach · 6-year editor network · UK · USA · AU · CA · EU
Pricing
Two tiers. Clear pricing. No surprises.
Same manual process at both tiers, the difference is the Domain Rating band and the publications we target.
Authority links
DR 50+
10 manually placed
backlinks, £500
£500for 10 links
- DR 50+ verified at delivery via Ahrefs
- Contextual, dofollow, in-content
- Topically relevant to your niche
- Natural anchor-text mix (60 / 25 / 15)
- Full report with live URLs + anchors
- 4–6 week delivery
- 90-day replacement guarantee if a placement drops below the DR band
National press
Digital PR
DR 70+
10 national-media
placements, £4,000
£4,000for 10 placements
- DR 70+ national UK / US / AU media
- Full digital PR pitch, research and production
- Journalist relationships, no press-wire spam
- Dofollow where editorially possible
- Brand-mention amplification included
- 6–10 week campaign window
- Coverage report with published links + reach metrics
Process
How every link actually gets placed.
No tools. No bulk outreach. No “AI-assisted” anything. Each placement is a conversation between our team and a real editor.
No tools. No bulk outreach. No “AI-assisted” anything. Each placement is a conversation between our team and a real editor: researched, pitched, placed, and verified by hand.
Brief & target researcha.
Every target checked for topical relevance, Ahrefs DR, traffic, and editorial activity.
We take a short brief on your target pages, sector, and anchor preferences, then map the right publications within the agreed DR band. Every target is checked for topical relevance, Ahrefs DR, traffic, and editorial activity before a pitch is written.
Topical relevance · Ahrefs DR · traffic · editorial activity
For the DR 70+ tier this is full digital PR: a proper research angle with data, quotes, and assets worth covering.
: digital PR tier
Pitch & editorialb.
Individual pitches for each publication. Not a press-wire blast.
Our PR team writes individual pitches for each publication. For the DR 70+ tier this is full digital PR: a proper research angle with data, quotes, and assets worth covering. Each pitch is written for a specific journalist, not blasted to a list.
Journalist relationships · individual pitches · research-backed angles
Placement & monitoringc.
Live URL, anchor, dofollow status, and Ahrefs DR verified on every placement. 90-day monitoring.
Once the editor publishes, we verify the live URL, the anchor, the dofollow status, and the Ahrefs DR. Every placement is logged with screenshots and live links in your monthly report. We then keep placements monitored for 90 days. If a publication deletes the post or the DR drops below the agreed band, we replace it at no extra cost.
Live verification · screenshots · monthly report · 90-day replacement guarantee
What we don't do
Link tactics that will break your site.
Stuff we refuse to sell, and why, even when clients ask for it.
Stuff we refuse to sell, and why, even when clients ask for it. These tactics appear to work on paper, but carry algorithmic or penalty risk that undoes everything else you are building.
PBN linksa.
Most big PBN infrastructure has been deindexed. Links from deindexed hosts carry zero weight.
Private blog networks are the oldest link shortcut and still the easiest to detect. Google has systematically deindexed most of the big PBN infrastructure in the last three years. Links from deindexed hosts carry zero weight and the association alone can drag down trust signals.
Deindexed infrastructure · trust signal risk · zero link equity
Over-optimised anchor text is the single biggest predictor of algorithmic demotion we observe on audits.
: anchor distribution principle
AI-generated hosts · Fiverr packagesb.
Bulk link services sell placements that will be devalued within a quarter.
The last four core updates have progressively sharpened detection of AI-generated content. Bulk link services that place you on AI-spun host sites are selling placements that will be devalued within a quarter. The £50 / 100 backlinks gig is automated tool output: most links land on scraper sites or comment spam, and the few that survive are on sites with no topical relevance. Net contribution to rankings: zero or negative.
AI content detection · core update exposure · scraper sites · no topical relevance
Over-optimised anchorsc.
Natural anchor distribution: 60% branded, 25% generic, 15% keyword.
Every link we place uses a natural anchor distribution: roughly 60% branded and URL, 25% generic, 15% target-keyword. Hitting a keyword-anchor target at the expense of natural distribution is the single biggest predictor of algorithmic demotion we have observed on audits. We will not do it even when clients ask us to.
60 / 25 / 15 distribution · algorithmic demotion risk · natural mix
03 · Selected work
Real sites.
Real SERPs.
Receipts available on request, happy to show live Search Console on a call.
Featured · Vehicle recovery · London
From obscure to the Map Pack in 11 months.
Built 40+ postcode-level landing pages, cleaned up a messy schema stack, deployed a WhatsApp AI dispatch agent, earned local press across east London recovery services.
M1M4M8M11
Local discovery for a legacy sweet shop
Rebuilt an ageing site, added product & review schema, rewrote category pages in plain English.
#1
primary category + city
Programmatic SEO + AI dispatch
180-page city-service template that reads human, plus a WhatsApp agent handling 60% of intake.
4×
qualified leads indexed
04 · Reviews
What founders & operators
actually say about the work.
Four verified reviews from active engagements. Every review ships as schema.org Review markup alongside the visible quote, same claim on screen and in the structured data.
★★★★★
Three years in and still the best SEO money I have ever spent. Map Pack visibility across 40+ London postcodes, zero nonsense in the reporting, and I can text Syed directly when something breaks.
Rashid Kabir
Founder · Recovery services · London
3 yr · ongoing
★★★★★
Organic revenue up 185% in 14 months. Product schema rebuild alone lifted rich-result capture by ~40%. No 12-month lock-in, month-to-month, which meant I could judge the work on results rather than on contract friction.
Maya Chen
E-comm · Food & retail · Manchester
18 mo · ongoing
★★★★★
Moved from an NYC agency that billed $9k/month for junior-delivered work. Two years later, 23 practice-area terms on page one and qualified demos up 180%. Senior time, in USD, month-to-month, what US SaaS SEO should be.
Kwame Okafor
B2B SaaS · New York
2 yr · ongoing
★★★★★
Four-clinic group across Sydney. GBP work, postcode landing pages, review pipeline that actually complies with Google's rules. Patient bookings from organic up 3x in the first year. Remote but genuinely responsive.
Aisha Rahman
Clinic group · Sydney
14 mo · ongoing
01 · What I do
One studio.
Seven services done properly.
SEO is the foundation. AI and custom web builds are how I ship outcomes in 2026, all connected, all from the same hand.
SVC.01, flagship
Technical & Local SEO
Crawl audits, schema that validates, internal linking, postcode-level landing pages, GBP, Map Pack, the foundation that makes everything compound.
SITE HEALTH · 90dLIVE
IMPRESSIONS
1.2M
POSITION
3.2
📄
🔗
📊
⚙️
+
- Schema architecture
- Map Pack visibility
- Location pages at scale
SVC.02, new for 2026
AI agents for business
Custom WhatsApp and web agents handling enquiries, quoting, booking, and dispatch. N8N, OpenAI, Gemini.
- WhatsApp dispatch bots
- Quote & booking agents
- N8N automation
SVC.03
Web builds from scratch
Custom sites hand-coded on Next.js + React (Vercel default), Shopify for DTC commerce, WordPress on request. Fast, SEO-ready, Core Web Vitals green from day one.
- Next.js · React · Vercel
- Shopify · Hydrogen
- Core Web Vitals
SVC.04
Content & authority
Topical maps that close ranking gaps. Editorial briefs your writers can follow. Digital PR that survives core updates.
- Topical authority
- Editorial briefs
- Digital PR outreach
SVC.05
Workflow automation
Reporting, lead routing, content pipelines. If a task is repetitive and mechanical, I'll automate it with N8N.
- N8N pipelines
- Lead routing
- Auto-reporting
SVC.06
One-off audits
Written SEO diagnostic with a ranked fix list. Two-week turnaround. Often the right starting point.
- Two-week turnaround
- Written report
- Ranked fix list
SVC.07
Migration SEO
Replatforms, redesigns, rebrands. I protect rankings through the change, the riskiest work in SEO, done right.
- URL mapping
- 301 strategy
- Post-launch watch
03 · Custom websites
Starter websites from £490 (was £700).
Enterprise / E-commerce from £2,800 (was from £4,000).
Four tiers. Every tier is hand-coded, no Wix, no Elementor, no copy-paste from a template marketplace. Schema, sitemap, Search Console and Analytics configured on every project. 90+ Lighthouse speed target where technically possible. Express turnaround on sites up to 10 pages: 2 to 3 working days for an extra £500, or same-day launch for £1,000, subject to all content and brand assets supplied on day one. Lower than traditional UK agencies, because we don't carry London agency overhead.
−30% · limited time
Starter
From £490
Was From £700
Hand-coded 5-page site for founders validating a new business or single-service local operators.
- 5 hand-coded pages, SEO-ready on launch
- Core Web Vitals green on mobile and desktop
- Schema, sitemap, Open Graph, robots
- Analytics, contact form, WhatsApp button
- 90+ Lighthouse mobile speed target
Most popular
−30% · limited time
Custom Business
From £1,050
Was From £1,500
⚡ Express: 2 to 3 days for +£500 · Same-day launch for +£1,000
Most common tier for growing SMEs. Full sitemap, services, about, blog shell, custom UI/UX designed directly in code.
- Home, About, Services, Contact, FAQ, Privacy, Terms, Blog
- Up to 2,500 to 3,000 words per key page
- Custom UI / UX in Figma + full design system
- Technical SEO, schema, Search Console, GA4
- Conversion sections and tracked WhatsApp button
−30% · limited time
Full Build
From £1,960 – £2,450
Was From £2,800 – £3,500
Full UI/UX system plus hand-coded Next.js or WordPress build for businesses with multiple service lines.
- 15+ pages with template variants
- Full Figma design system and tokens
- Everything in Custom Business
- Core Web Vitals tuning + speed budget
- Editor / admin training + 30 days post-launch support
−30% · limited time
Enterprise / E-commerce
From £2,800
Was From £4,000
Shopify / Saleor headless, multi-language hreflang, CRM / CMS / ERP API integrations.
- Headless e-commerce (Shopify, Saleor) integration
- Multi-language + hreflang matrix
- CRM / CMS / ERP API integrations
- Advanced schema, product feeds, category SEO
- 60 days post-launch support
Not sure which fits? Book a free fit-check and we'll tell you honestly, in the first call, which tier matches your scope.
06 · Why choose us
Agency scale-bloat vs.
a senior-led specialist team.
The difference between a pitch deck and the people shipping your work is the difference between “scalable” and delivered.
The agency experience
- Sold by a senior, delivered by a junior you never meet
- Reporting dashboards designed to justify the retainer
- Template audits that barely reference your actual site
- 12-month contracts with a 90-day notice clause
- New account manager every six months
- AI-generated content and bot links that risk penalties
- Web work outsourced to a third agency you can't reach
Working with our team
- Syed leads every engagement end-to-end, no junior hand-off
- Expert developers on the same team for fast, careful builds
- Manual link earning from a real UK + international network
- Plain-English monthly notes. What moved. What didn't. Why.
- Audits written for your site, your CMS, your market
- Month-to-month. Direct WhatsApp. Leave any time.
- SEO, AI, web & links under one roof, joined-up thinking
08 · Let’s talk
Ready to start? Book a backlinks call.
A short introduction, your site URL, and what you’re trying to achieve. If it’s a fit, we’ll book a 30-minute call.
Free £500 SEO audit included with any web dev or SEO package · no card required
02 · The differentiator
90% of SEO agencies don't write a line of code.
We do, and that's why the rankings actually ship.
Most agency SEO deliverables end at a recommendations document the client's developer never gets around to implementing. We write the schema, ship the SSR refactor, and merge the internal-link rebuild ourselves. The SEO work that needs code ships in the same sprint the audit flagged it.
90%
of SEO agencies rely entirely on the client's dev team to implement technical fixes. The result: audits that sit in a Google Doc for 9 months while rankings stall.
What they ship
A 40-page PDF of “recommendations”
- Technical SEO audit handed to your developer
- Content briefs handed to your content writer
- Schema markup handed to “someone in engineering”
- Migration plan handed to a third-party agency
OutcomeRankings stall, nobody owns the build.
What we ship
Code that runs, merged on the same sprint
- Schema written by our engineers, validated against Google's content rules
- SSR / ISR refactors on Next.js + React shipped via GitHub PR
- Shopify / Hydrogen storefront work merged to staging by week 2
- Core Web Vitals fixes deployed, not diagnosed
- Migrations executed, 301 mapping, DNS, post-launch monitoring
OutcomeRankings move because the fixes actually go live.
Our production stack
Next.js 14 · ReactDefault stack · SSR / ISR · App Router · RSC
Vercel · CloudflareDefault host · edge deploys · CDN image optimisation
Shopify · HydrogenDTC e-commerce when catalogue requires it
TypeScriptStrict mode across all new work
WordPressAvailable on request · Bedrock · ACF
Sanity · ContentfulHeadless CMS when it fits
N8N · OpenAI GPT-5.5 · Claude 4.7AI agent orchestration
GA4 · GSC · LookerAnalytics & reporting pipeline
SEO + build from one team. Stop handing audit docs to developers who never read them.
See the services →02 · How it works
A four-step engagement.
No fog. No surprises.
Every client gets the same senior operator from first call to monthly review. Continuity is the product.
01
Diagnostic audit
Two weeks. Crawl, keyword gap, backlink profile, on-page health. Written report, ranked fix list.
02
Build & foundation
Schema, technical debt, site build or repair, internal linking. The work that makes everything compound.
03
Content, links & AI
Close topical gaps. Earn links honestly. Deploy AI agents where they save real hours, not just look clever.
04
Review & compound
Monthly call. Plain-English report. What moved, what didn't, what's next. Leave any time.
05 · Philosophy
A small team, a senior lead,
and an honest answer
about what actually moves rankings.
Syed leads the strategy and writes the monthly notes. Behind him is a tight network of expert developers and manual link-earning partners built over six years. Everything ships fast, nothing is outsourced to an AI bot that will earn your domain a penalty in the next core update.
Syed & teamSenior SEO lead · expert developers · manual link network
Why do manual backlinks cost more than bulk packages?
Because they take weeks of outreach, editorial negotiation, and writing to place. A DR 50+ link placed through a real editorial relationship costs meaningfully more than a PBN link from a private blog network, but it survives every Google core update. Cheaper services use automation and AI-generated host sites, those are being detected and demoted faster every year.
Are the links dofollow?
Most are, yes. Every link in our standard DR 50+ tier is contextual and dofollow by default. On national digital PR placements we prefer dofollow but will not kill a Times or BBC-tier placement if the editor insists on nofollow, a nofollow link from a top-five UK newspaper still carries meaningful brand-authority signal and often drives referral traffic that pure ranking metrics miss.
How do you verify Domain Rating?
We check every placement against Ahrefs Domain Rating at the time of delivery and include the live URL in our monthly report. If a placement drops below the agreed DR band within 90 days, we replace it.
What anchors do you use?
A natural anchor mix, roughly 60% branded / URL anchors, 25% generic ("learn more", "this article"), and 15% target-keyword anchors. Over-optimised anchor profiles are one of the most common triggers for algorithmic devaluation, and we have zero interest in burning your domain to hit a keyword target.
How long does delivery take?
DR 50+ campaigns run 4–6 weeks from kick-off. Digital PR campaigns (DR 70+ national media) run 6–10 weeks because genuine pitching takes time. We will not compress the timeline, rushed outreach reads as rushed outreach, and editors ignore it.
Can you guarantee specific websites will link?
No honest operator can. We can commit to the DR band, the topical relevance, and the link type. The specific publications are dependent on editorial availability at the time of the campaign. Anyone guaranteeing a specific DR 80 site is either already paying the editor directly (which is against the guidelines of every major publication) or lying.
Do you work outside the UK?
Yes. Our editor network covers UK, US, Canadian, Australian, and most Western European national and trade press. We will scope the right mix for your target market before we start.
What is the difference between this and Fiverr / Upwork link services?
Three things: provenance, survivability, and reporting. Fiverr gigs typically use automated tools, recycled content, and PBN networks. Those links appear, count for a few weeks, then get algorithmically devalued or the host site gets penalised. Our placements come from editorial relationships, are published with real author bylines on sites with genuine traffic, and survive core updates. They also cost more.
Brief us · Backlinks
Tell us your DR target. One-day reply, written by Syed.
DR 50+ manual placements or DR 70+ digital PR. We send sample sites and editor relationships before any commitment.
08 · Let’s talk
Ready for links that survive every core update?
Tell us your target pages, Ahrefs profile, and budget. We'll reply within a day with a scoped campaign proposal, no sales deck.
Free £500 SEO audit included with any web dev or SEO package · no card required