Link building for SaaS

The SaaS link building agency that puts you in control.

Every link goes into a shared sheet before it’s built. You see the site, the numbers, the plan, and nothing goes live without your yes. That’s how we’ve built links for 428+ SaaS and local brands.

  • ✓ Links aimed at your pricing & comparison pages, where signups happens
  • ✓ No PBNs, no marketplaces, no “DR 90” sites with zero traffic
  • ✓ Pay per approved link. Cancel anytime.
4.9/5 from 188+ reviews Trusted by 120+ SaaS brands

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See which links your competitors have that you don’t and what it takes to close the gap.

No spam, no sales chase. We reply within one business day.

Trusted by Top SaaS brands

Flipsnack Omnisend SEO Notebook CloudTalk Hostinger Depositphotos VistaCreate BWZ Rankability
Why ExceLinks?

You approve every link. Always.

Link building is the most important part of SEO, so we put all of it in your hands.

Your weekly approval queue 3 to review

Say yes or no to every link, before it’s built.

Every week, we send you a shortlist of sites with the numbers that matter. Approve the ones you like, reject the rest. Go ahead, try the buttons.

✓ You only pay for links you approve. No surprise invoices, ever.
Mo, Founder
Mo
Founder · on every campaign

“I review every client’s strategy myself. The plan you get is the same one I’d run on my own site, never passed down to a junior.”

Mo, Founder
Your point of contact
A dedicated manager
One person who knows your project from day one.
~2h
Avg reply time
1:1
Not a ticket queue
How it works

Four steps. You’re in control of all of them.

Click through each step, or just watch it play. Nothing happens without your sign-off.

Step 01

Find your key pages

We dig into your site or you just hand us the list and pin down the pages that bring in revenue. Every link we build points at those pages. No wasted links on pages that don’t sell.

Target pages · yourdomain.com
/pricingMoney page
/features/automationPriority
/integrationsPriority
/blog/link-building-guideSupporting
Step 02

Run custom outreach

We pitch real editors at real publications in your niche, one by one. No templates, no link networks, no marketplaces, every placement starts with a real conversation.

Outreach · this week
editor@saasweekly.ioReplied
team@growthdigest.coReplied
hello@industry-news.comPitched
editorial@b2bweekly.comPitched
Step 03 · your call

You review every opportunity

Each week you get a shortlist of confirmed opportunities. Approve the ones you want, reject the rest, you never pay for a link you didn’t say yes to. Try the toggles 👇

3 opportunities awaiting your review
DR 74saasweekly.io
DR 71growthdigest.co
DR 68industry-news.com
Step 04

We build & report

Your approved links get written, placed, indexed, and screenshot-verified. Then everything lands in one clean monthly report. Every link accounted for, no mystery, no filler.

Monthly report · March
Links live this month9 / 9
Average placement authorityDR 72
Indexed & verified100%
Referring domains added+9
Case study · Depositphotos

Keeping a giant strong while its whole industry slides.

Stock photography is under attack from AI image tools, traffic is falling across the entire industry. Our job: build editorial SaaS links every single month, so Depositphotos defends its authority while competitors bleed. Here’s what that looks like.

Depositphotos
DR 88 · 2.2M+ monthly organic visits
Data: Ahrefs (public) · Apr 2025
77
Editorial links in 8 months
DR 70+
Every placement, no exceptions
88
Client DR held steady all year
2.22M
Monthly organic visits (Apr 2025)
Campaign begins DR 88 steady 2.22M/mo · Apr 2025
Sep ’24Nov ’24Jan ’25Mar ’25May ’25Jul ’25
Avg Domain Rating (Ahrefs) Avg organic traffic (Ahrefs)

How to read this: the industry has been sliding since AI image tools took off. Through our campaign window, Depositphotos’ authority never moved DR 88, flat as a table and traffic climbed back to 2.22M monthly visits from its winter low. We don’t claim credit for every visit. We claim the boring thing that made it possible: 77 quality links, delivered every month, without a single gap.

The campaign log click any phase
Months 1–2Targets locked, first links live

We mapped the money pages with their team, built the anchor plan, and put the first placements live, all DR 70+, all approved by Depositphotos before a single pitch went out.

Months 3–4Full delivery rhythm

Steady flow: roughly 9–10 links going live per month on trusted SaaS publications, each one indexed and screenshot-verified in their shared sheet.

Months 5–6Doubling down on what held

Mid-campaign review against Ahrefs data: authority steady, key pages defended. We kept the same site standards while the industry around them kept sliding.

Months 7–877 links. Zero gaps. Zero penalties.

Campaign closed at 77 editorial links across 8 months, average placement DR 72, not one site below DR 70, every link live and verified.

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Testimonial pending approval

Depositphotos’ testimonial is on its way, a few words from their team on what steady, quality links did for them, month after month.

Anna Novak
Anna Novak
Depositphotos
Google + AI search

Links that rank you on Google, and get you named by AI.

More SaaS buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews “what’s the best tool for X” and those answers are pulled from the same places we build your links: trusted niche sites and “best software” roundups that already rank.

So every campaign we run works twice. The links lift your rankings on Google, and the mentions teach AI tools that your brand belongs in the answer. Most agencies still build for Google alone, that authority stays invisible to AI.

Explore our link building for LLMs & AI search →
Where AI finds your brand
“Best [your category] software” roundupsListicles
Editorial mentions on trusted SaaS sitesLinks
Comparison & alternatives pagesCitations
The same placements feed Google rankings and AI answers, one campaign, two channels.
The SaaS difference

Why link building for SaaS is a different game.

Here’s something most SaaS founders learn the expensive way: the link building that works for an online shop or a local business does almost nothing for a software company. Not because the links are bad, because they’re pointed at the wrong pages, placed in the wrong rooms, and built for the wrong buyer.

Your buyer doesn’t shop. They research.

Nobody impulse-buys a CRM. A SaaS buyer reads comparison posts, checks “best tools” lists, asks ChatGPT for recommendations, and comes back three weeks later to read more. That means your links can’t just push one page up for one keyword, they have to make your brand show up, again and again, everywhere that research happens. One strong link on a roundup your buyer actually reads is worth twenty links they’ll never see.

The money pages are the hardest pages to build links to.

Blog posts attract links naturally, that’s why most agencies stop there. But your revenue doesn’t live on the blog. It lives on /pricing, on your comparison pages, on the features page for the thing you do better than anyone. Getting editorial links to those pages takes real outreach and real conversations with editors, which is exactly why most agencies quietly skip them. A SaaS link building agency that avoids your money pages is doing the easy 20% of the job and charging you for all of it.

You’re not competing with your competitors. You’re competing with their budgets.

In SaaS, page one is full of companies spending serious money on SEO, some of them venture-funded, all of them building links right now. You don’t beat that with volume; you’d lose that race and go broke trying. You beat it with placement: fewer links, on stronger and more relevant sites, aimed precisely at the pages that convert. That’s a strategy game, not a numbers game.

And now there’s a second search engine to win.

When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for “the best tool for X,” the answer comes from the sites your links live on the roundups, the trusted niche publications, the comparison pages. The same placements that lift your Google rankings now decide whether AI mentions your name or your competitor’s. SaaS is the first industry where this is already changing who wins. Build for both, or watch half your future buyers get a recommendation that isn’t you.

This is why we built ExceLinks the way we did: links aimed at money pages, placed on sites your buyers genuinely read, every one approved by you first. It’s slower than spraying links at blog posts. It’s also the only version of link building that actually works for SaaS.

Quality control

Every site passes our 10-point check. Or it’s out.

Before we pitch a single site, it has to survive all ten of these. Most don’t and that’s the point.

01

Real organic traffic

2,000+ monthly organic visitors, minimum. No exceptions, even in the cheapest DR range.

02

No artificial boosts

We check traffic history for sudden spikes, bought traffic, and expired-domain tricks. If the traffic isn’t earned, we walk away.

03

Right traffic countries

Visitors from the countries your business actually sells to, not traffic padded from markets you’ll never serve.

04

Healthy link ratio

Incoming vs outgoing links must be in balance. Sites that link out to everyone are selling, not publishing.

05

Clean link profile

We check who links to the site. If its backlinks come from spam networks, its authority is fake and it can pass that risk to you.

06

Topical relevance

The site must make sense next to your brand. A SaaS product doesn’t belong on a recipe blog, whatever the DR says.

07

Real editorial standards

An actual editor reviews and publishes content. No auto-publish farms, no “submit and pay” portals.

08

Rankings that hold

The site ranks for real keywords in its niche and has held those rankings through Google updates not a traffic graph shaped like a mountain.

09

No networks, ever

Not part of a PBN, a link marketplace, or a “guest post service” catalog. If a site is for sale in bulk, it fails.

10

The boss test

Simple final filter: would you be proud to show this placement to your boss or your investors? If we hesitate, it’s out.

Fewer than 1 in 5 sites we review pass all ten. Those are the only ones that reach your approval sheet.

Pricing

Simple pricing, by DR.

Pick the DR range that fits your budget. Every link is approved by you before it’s built and you only pay for what you approve.

DR 40–59
$150/link

Solid, relevant sites, a smart way to build steady momentum on a lean budget.

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DR 60–74
$200/link

Established sites with real traffic the workhorse range for most SaaS campaigns.

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DR 90+
$400/link

The strongest links money can buy, top-tier publications for your most important pages.

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Every site, in every range, must pass our checks:
✓ 2,000+ monthly organic visitors, minimum
✓ Traffic from countries that matter to your business
✓ Healthy incoming vs outgoing links ratio

Minimum order $1,000 · No contracts, no lock-in · One-year link replacement guarantee