Link Building Guides

These guides explain specific, working ways to get backlinks. Each covers one channel, the tools you need, and what to expect.

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Mentionry's link building guides provide practical, step-by-step instructions for specific channels where you can earn backlinks, such as resource pages, press mentions, and podcast appearances, focusing on actionable methods that avoid common pitfalls like paid placements and unverified directories, ensuring you pursue genuine opportunities that align with ethical SEO practices and can realistically benefit your site's visibility.

On this page4 sections
  1. 01What these guides contain
  2. 02How to choose a guide
  3. 03What you will not find here
  4. 04The role of tools and automation

B2B Link Building

A step-by-step guide to earning B2B backlinks. Learn how to find relevant opportunities, craft effective outreach, and measure what works without buying links.

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Link Building for Startups

A step-by-step guide to link building for early-stage startups. Learn what to search for, what to send, and how to get your first backlinks without a budget.

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SaaS Link Building: A Practical Guide

A step-by-step guide to building relevant, high-quality backlinks for SaaS companies. Covers competitor analysis, outreach, and realistic expectations.

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How to be a podcast guest

A practical guide to finding podcasts that book guests, pitching yourself, and getting booked. No fluff, just the process.

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How to Find Speaking Opportunities

A step-by-step guide to finding and applying for conference speaking opportunities, call for papers, and speaker applications. No fluff, just procedure.

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How to get cited in AI Overviews

Learn how to get cited in AI Overviews by finding the pages Google's AI reads and pitching your business through legitimate outreach.

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SEO, GEO, and AEO: A Working Guide

A guide to SEO, GEO, and AEO. Learn what each one is, how they differ, and the steps to optimize for search, generative and answer engines.

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AI Visibility Tools: A Practical Guide

Learn how AI visibility tools track your brand in AI-generated answers like Google AI Overviews. Discover how to measure and improve your AI presence.

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A Guide to Generative Engine Optimization Tools

Learn how to find the best GEO tools for automating outreach and tracking brand mentions in AI answers. A practical guide to generative engine optimization.

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How to pitch journalists

A step-by-step guide to finding journalists, writing a pitch they will read, and getting a response. No fluff, just the procedure that works.

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Digital PR, and what it is actually for

A guide to digital PR. Learn what it is, what it is not, and the step-by-step process of earning links from journalists and podcasts.

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Why we do not sell links

Buying backlinks violates Google's policy and risks your site. Learn what the market sells, why it's risky, and a realistic process for earning links.

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Media Pitch Examples and How to Write Them

See specific media pitch examples and learn how to write them. This guide covers what to search for, what to send, and what a realistic response rate is.

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What Are Backlinks?

A clear explanation of what backlinks are, why they matter for search rankings, and how to get them without buying links or breaking Google's rules.

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How to Get Backlinks

A step-by-step guide on how to get backlinks. Learn what to search for, how to judge a target, what to send, and what realistic outcomes look like.

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High Quality Backlinks

A practical guide to high quality backlinks. Learn what makes a backlink authoritative, where to find them, and how to earn them without buying placements.

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What these guides contain

Each guide isolates one way to get a link. It describes the channel, like a journalist asking for sources or a website listing useful tools. The guide then walks through the steps to find those opportunities yourself.

You will see what tools are required, which are free, and where a paid tool saves time. Every guide states the limitations of the method upfront. Some channels yield a few high quality links per year. Others can be worked consistently.

How to choose a guide

Start with the method that matches your available resources. If you have deep expertise but little time, look at guides for contributing articles or speaking at conferences. These require significant work per opportunity but can result in authoritative links.

If you need to build a foundation of links steadily, look at guides for resource pages or unlinked mentions. These often involve smaller, quicker outreach tasks. Choose based on what you can honestly offer and sustain.

What you will not find here

These guides do not cover buying links, broken link building, or mass directory submissions. Buying links that pass ranking signals violates Google's policy and risks a penalty. Broken link building requires a different set of tools for finding and checking pages.

You will also not find generic advice about creating 'linkable assets' without a target. Each guide starts with finding a specific place that could link to you, then works backward to what to send.

The role of tools and automation

Manual work is the core of any link building. Tools handle the repetitive searching and filtering. A guide might show how to use a search operator, a feed reader, or a specialized platform like Mentionry.

Mentionry is an AI marketing platform that records what answer engines say about your brand and finds where it could be cited next. It surfaces specific opportunities and drafts the pitch; you send it from your own mailbox after approval. The guides explain the principles behind this, so you know what the platform automates and what judgment you must still apply.

Questions people actually ask

No guide can guarantee a link. These guides explain honest methods for finding real opportunities, like a podcast booking guests or a publication accepting contributed articles. Your success depends on the relevance of your site and the quality of your pitch. Nothing here is promised.

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