Unlinked Mention Reclamation and Citation Repair

Paid link insertions into old articles are the least defensible product in this field. You are buying a sentence in a page nobody reads, from an owner who will sell the adjacent paragraph to somebody else next month, and a meaningful share of those links quietly disappear once the invoice clears. I do not sell them. What I do sell is the editorial version of the same motion, which converts about a third of the time and stays, because an editor made the change themselves. The two motions that work: First, unlinked mention reclamation. Games, esports and sports media name companies constantly without linking them, usually because the writer was on deadline and did not have the URL to hand. Every mention of your studio, team, product or named people from the last eighteen months is found, verified by reading the sentence it sits in, and worked. Second, citation repair. Editorial pages in this sector rot fast. An article cites a player count from a source that now 404s, quotes a prize pool from 2022, or links a patch note page that has moved. Where you hold the current version of that fact on your own domain, the editor gets an email offering the replacement. This is the only situation in which asking for a link inside an existing article is a favour to the reader rather than to you, which is exactly why it works. How the email is written: Three things, under 120 words. The sentence, quoted exactly, with the paragraph around it so the editor does not have to search their own page. The URL, with a note on what a reader gets by following it. And the reason, phrased as an accuracy fix rather than a request. Almost nothing converts when the email asks an editor to add a link; a good share converts when it points at a specific line that is wrong or incomplete. Emails go to a named person: the author if they still work there, the section editor if they do not, the corrections address only as a last resort. No shared webmaster inboxes and no contact forms. Refused outright: Payment to any site owner for an insertion. Vendor inventory lists, wherever they arrive from, including the sellers who run this trade through Telegram groups in India. Insertions into roundup and best-of listicles, which exist to be sold and are treated accordingly. Anchor text you specify, since the editor writes the sentence and a supplied phrase is what makes them refuse. Any site whose only contact is anonymous. Not included: No new articles are written here. No guest placements, which is separate work. No outreach to sites that have never mentioned you, because this service works from mentions and broken citations that already exist. If the search turns up too few mentions to justify the engagement, I will say so at the end of the first week and return the balance rather than pad the list with weak targets. Who this is not for: Brands with no press history, since there is nothing to reclaim. Anyone needing a link count by a fixed date. iGaming, which I decline. What gets reported: Every mention found and its status: emailed, replied, edited, declined or ignored. Editor responses quoted in full, refusals included, since those frequently explain something useful about house policy that changes how the next outlet is approached. A survival check at 120 days on every link secured, because an edit reverted in the next CMS migration should show up in your numbers rather than stay counted forever.