HARO Link Building Service
Pay Per Live Link.
We place your founders and marketers in HubSpot, Shopify, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Hootsuite, Fast Company, GoDaddy, Zapier, and Semrush. You pay only when a link is live on your site. No retainers. No guarantees you don’t need.
Trusted by Companies You Already Know
From Series A startups to category-defining AI brands, we’ve run HARO and editorial outreach for 60+ companies since 2017.
Where We've Placed Expert Quotes
98 unique publications. 267 earned HARO placements. Here’s a sample.
DR 96-91
You Pay Per Link.
After the Link Goes Live.
Most HARO agencies charge a flat retainer whether they place one link or ten. Some charge by the pitch – not the placement. Others lock you into 3-month contracts for work that may never materialize.
We don’t
Above Apex is one of the only HARO link building agencies that works on a true pay-per-link model – and charges you only after the link is live on the publisher’s site. Win three backlinks → pay for three. Win eight → pay for eight. Win zero → pay zero.
This forces us to place links. It aligns our incentives directly with your pipeline. And it removes the single biggest risk clients face when hiring a HARO agency: paying for effort that doesn’t produce anything.
Zero risk, zero retainer.
Invoices go out after the month closes, based on live, verified placements only.
Zero risk, zero retainer.
Invoices go out after the month closes, based on live, verified placements only.
Zero risk, zero retainer.
Invoices go out after the month closes, based on live, verified placements only.
Why Teams Choose Our HARO Link Building Service
We’re not a generalist agency that bolts HARO onto ten other services. HARO expert quote outreach has been a core strategy for every one of our clients since 2020.
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Specialising in HARO since 2020
60+ B2B engagements, including Synthesia, Photoroom, Action1, Improvado, and Neptune AI. Our editorial relationships, pitch angles, and journalist network are calibrated to the B2B ecosystem – not e-commerce, not local, not affiliate.
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Pay per live link
We’re one of the only HARO agencies on the market that charges per placement, after the link goes live. Your invoice reflects delivered results, not promises.
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DR 40–96 editorial placements
Real editorial backlinks from journalists writing for HubSpot, Shopify, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Fast Company, Zapier, and 90+ more publications. Not sponsored. Not PBNs. Not paid guest posts.
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250+ expert quotes already published
267+ HARO backlinks placed for clients in the past 24 months alone, including Synthesia, Photoroom, Action1, Improvado, Neptune AI, Ketch, Apicbase, emma, Brizy, and Funraise. More mentions = more AI citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
What Clients Say
★ 5.0 rating · 19 verified Clutch reviews · 40+ Senja testimonials
What HARO Link Building Actually Delivers
Two companies. Two different industries. Both built their authority – and their AI citation coverage – through sustained HARO outreach.
77K → 155K
Organic visits/mo
201
Google AI Overviews
+300
Gemini citations
+158
Perplexity citations
17K → 66.7K
Organic visits/mo
220
Earned links, avg DR 68
225 → 842
Google AI Overviews
4×
Organic traffic growth
What's Included in Every Engagement
We don’t just run one pitching script. Every HARO campaign runs multiple outreach angles in parallel across every journalist request platform worth monitoring.
Daily request monitoring
We monitor Featured, Qwoted, Help a B2B Writer, SourceBottle, Source of Sources, Twitter/X journalist requests, and every successor to the original HARO inbox. Nothing relevant gets missed.
Expert-angle pitch writing
Every pitch is custom-written to match your positioning, product, and point of view. We do not use templates. Editors spot templates. Editors ignore templates.
Quote-ready founder/SME support
Your founder or subject matter expert doesn’t need to write pitches. We draft, you approve. Many clients approve in under 60 seconds via Slack.
Live reporting + daily link monitoring
Every placement lands in a live Google Sheet report with publication, DR, traffic, anchor, and date. If a link goes down, our monitoring script flags it and we reinstate or replace it.
How We Run Your HARO Campaign
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15-minute onboarding
You tell us about your product, commercial pages, target keywords, and approved spokespeople. That’s it.
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Strategy setup (day 1)
Right after onboarding, we configure journalist request monitoring across every relevant platform, build your pitch angles, set up your dedicated Slack channel and live link report – so we’re ready to track requests on day 1.
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Daily pitching (day 2 onward)
We pitch every relevant HARO request, daily. First live links typically land in 20-30 days. HARO is a momentum game – volume compounds over months 2, 3, and beyond.
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Approval-first workflow
You can opt to approve pitches before they go out (or let us run autopilot after the first month). Your choice.
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Pay after placement
At month’s end, we invoice only for links that went live and verified. Three landed → pay for three. Eight landed → pay for eight.
Dedicated Slack channel · Permanent placements only · Daily link monitoring · Replacements guaranteed if a link drops
Pay-Per-Link Pricing - Based on DR
Transparent, predictable, and tied directly to the value of the link.
Editorial HARO placements on niche authority publications and trade press relevant to your category.
Most Popular
Expert quote placements on mainstream B2B and tech publications with significant organic traffic.
Tier-one placements on publications like HubSpot, Yahoo, Shopify, Fast Company, Nasdaq, Zapier, Hootsuite, and GoDaddy.
Monthly minimum of $1,500–2,000 applies. Month-to-month engagement. 20 working day notice to pause or end. White-label available for agencies on request.
Is Our HARO Link Building Service Right for You?
Good Fit
- B2B and B2B tech companies
- Founders/marketers with approved spokespeople who can contribute expert quotes
- Teams that want links tied to pipeline, not vanity DR
- Clients who value transparency and live reporting over "trust us" updates
- Agencies looking for a white-label HARO partner
Not a Good Fit
- Gambling, adult, or crypto-speculative niches (we decline these)
- Teams that want the cheapest possible link regardless of relevance
- Founders unwilling to contribute any expert input
- Anyone expecting guaranteed placement volumes - HARO is a momentum game, not on-demand
The Team Behind the Placements
We’re B2B-native marketers who have been running journalist outreach for B2B companies since 2020. Between us, we’ve written over 10,000 HARO pitches and placed links in every major B2B and tech publication in the English-speaking internet. We work in Slack, Loom, and live Google Sheets – no account manager theater
HARO Link Building FAQs
HARO originally stood for Help A Reporter Out – a platform that connected journalists with expert sources. The original Cision-owned HARO was sunset in 2024 and briefly replaced by Connectively, which itself was discontinued. Today, “HARO link building” refers to the broader category of journalist-request outreach. We monitor and pitch across every credible successor – Featured, Qwoted, Help a B2B Writer, SourceBottle, Source of Sources, Twitter/X journalist threads, and private journalist networks. The name stuck. The opportunity is bigger than ever.
Get Started
Ready to Build Links That Actually Move Pipeline?
Pay-per-link. Pay after the link is live. Zero retainer, zero long-term contract, zero wasted spend. Book a 20-minute call and we’ll walk you through our live link report, our pitch pipeline, and how we’d run HARO for your specific category.