SaaS Link Building
Practical guidance on earning editorial authority, strengthening commercial pages, and building trust beyond your website.
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Explore the serviceInsights on AI citations, recommendation visibility, and how SaaS brands show up in the new discovery surfaces buyers use.
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1,486 SaaS buying queries across 18 categories. Reddit appears in 81.6% of Google AI-enhanced SaaS SERPs, with the AI Overview directly citing Reddit in 12.1%.
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Follow-up study We have now merged this dataset with Blastra’s directory crawl to measure how directories and backlinks combine to produce AI citations. Read The Compounding Rule. Latest instalment The third instalment of this research series, The Reddit Citation Study, maps the community pillar. Reddit appears on 81.6% of B2B SaaS buying-query SERPs and Google’s...
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137 SaaS companies, 120 buying queries. The Compounding Rule for AI search: directories plus topical authority produce 5x more ChatGPT citations than authority alone.
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Every SaaS founder eventually thinks “we should build a free tool”. Most should not. Here is the honest decision filter, the patterns that still work, and the failure modes I have watched cost teams months of engineering for nothing. Free-to-paid conversion benchmarksMedian freemium visitor→paid12%Free account → paid (avg)9%Trial with PQL signals25%“Good” self-serve free→paid4%Why a free...
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An honest one, this. We don’t run podcast outreach for clients, and none have run it through us. But I have watched it work, and I think most people frame it completely wrong. 70%of US 12+ havelistened to a podcast~210MUS podcast consumers55%are monthly listeners53%view a brand morepositively after aWhy podcasts work as a SaaS channel...
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Every SaaS team has been told to “build linkable assets”. Almost nobody explains what one actually is, which patterns still work, and which had their moment and quietly died. Here is the honest map. $5Kâ$20Kmonthly organic value(HR Partner)200+DR60+ backlinks300%traffic growth25 mocompounding periodHR Partner: compounding organic value from editorial authority (EMGI Group). Here is the number...
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Most outreach advice optimises the wrong number. Here is the sequence we actually run, why I stopped caring about open rates years ago, and the honest version of what link outreach looks like inside a SaaS agency. 1,000â17,000monthly organicsessions (Prospeo)1,600%traffic growth100+DR60+ backlinks built$1.5MARR crossedProspeo: organic growth delivered through editorial link building (EMGI Group). Let me...
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1,486 SaaS buying queries across 18 categories. Reddit appears in 81.6% of Google AI-enhanced SaaS SERPs, with the AI Overview directly citing Reddit in 12.1%.
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137 SaaS companies, 120 buying queries. The Compounding Rule for AI search: directories plus topical authority produce 5x more ChatGPT citations than authority alone.
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Key Takeaways Topical authority for SaaS is the demonstration of your individual and company expertise in a specific subject matter. It is not the count...
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Digital PR and link building are different things. People sell link building as digital PR, and that is disingenuous. A guest post on a low-traffic blog...
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Key Takeaways Most SaaS content fails because it's briefed to rank, not briefed to earn. Different output, different mechanics. "SaaS content marketing is...
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By Matt Emgi, founder, EMGI Group (UK) Key Takeaways Most B2B SaaS SEO is sold as content + technical + links. The lever that actually moves rankings in...
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Video and creative SaaS earns its strongest citations from agency review hubs, creator-led communities, and category-relevant editorial. Wyzowl's 2026...
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Web scraping SaaS is one of the fastest-growing, least-discussed verticals I work in. The AI-driven web scraping market sits at $10.2B in 2026 and is...
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