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.

4.9
Avg. rating · 68+ reviews
32
Cities covered · UK · US · CA
£500
Risk-free audit · credited on retainer
24h
Response time · senior-led
7+
Years specialist SEO · since 2019
Technical SEO · Local SEO · Manual Backlinks · Digital PR · Web Design · AI Agents · Social Media
Serving Backlinks · bilingual EN/AR for Gulf · month-to-month

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
Request backlink scope →

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.

01

Brief & target research

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.

02

Pitch & editorial

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. Not a press-wire blast.

03

Placement & verification

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.

04

Ongoing monitoring

We keep placements indexed and monitor for changes for 90 days after delivery. If a publication deletes the post or the DR drops below the agreed band, we replace it at no extra cost.

Link tactics that will break your site.

Stuff we refuse to sell, and why, even when clients ask for it.

PBN links

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.

AI-generated host sites

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 you placements that will be devalued within a quarter. The unit economics are terrible even before you consider the penalty risk.

Fiverr & Upwork link packages

The £50 / 100 backlinks gig is automated tool output. You'll get a spreadsheet of links, most will be on scraper sites or comment spam, and the few that survive Google's spam filter will be on sites with no topical relevance. Net contribution to rankings: zero or negative.

Over-optimised anchor text

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've observed on audits.

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.

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M1M4M8M11
Food retail · E1

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
Multi-service · AI build

Programmatic SEO + AI dispatch

180-page city-service template that reads human, plus a WhatsApp agent handling 60% of intake.

qualified leads indexed

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

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
S

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

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
W

Web builds from scratch

Custom sites on WordPress, Next.js, or hand-written HTML. Fast, SEO-ready, Core Web Vitals green from day one.

  • WordPress · Next.js
  • Vercel · Cloudflare
  • Core Web Vitals
SVC.04
C

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
A

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
D

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
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M

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

Starter websites from £700.
Enterprise / E-commerce 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.

Starter

5 pages · 7 to 14 days
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
Request a quote →

Full Build

15+ pages · 4 to 8 weeks
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
Request a quote →

Enterprise / E-commerce

Catalogue / multi-locale · 8 to 12 weeks
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
Request a quote →
Not sure which fits? Book a free fit-check and we'll tell you honestly, in the first call, which tier matches your scope.

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.

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 shipped via GitHub PR
  • WordPress theme + plugin 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 14SSR / ISR · App Router · RSC
WordPressCustom themes · Gutenberg blocks · ACF
ShopifyLiquid · Hydrogen · Oxygen
TypeScriptStrict mode across all new work
Vercel · CloudflareEdge deploys · CDN image optimisation
Sanity · ContentfulHeadless CMS when it fits
N8N · OpenAI · ClaudeAI 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 →

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.

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.