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An agency that publishes on its own sites

Publisher, agency and writers are the same team. You deal with whoever controls the editorial side, the server, and the link permanence. Audit, plan, execution, reporting, all under one roof.

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✓ Owned network✓ Audit included✓ Monthly reporting
Choosing your agency

Five questions to ask before signing

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Where the proposed links come from

An agency that owns its sites can stand behind the editorial, the audience, the permanence. An agency brokering third-party publishers can only watch. Ask the question: "Who runs your sites?" The answer changes everything about the real quality of placements.

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Transparency on prices and margin

Serious agencies show a public grid or explain their pricing model on the first call. The ones that send a "custom quote after diagnosis" negotiate case by case, creating significant gaps between buyers for the same service. Transparency saves time on both sides.

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Editorial quality of the content produced

Ask to see articles already published on the network sites. The tone, length, originality say everything about the writing. If the samples look like generated content, padded product sheets, or repeated templates, long-term SEO will fall behind. A real editorial line shows up in five minutes of reading.

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How the campaign gets calibrated

An agency that pitches ten links per month without looking at your existing profile, your target pages, your direct competitors, is applying a template rather than a strategy. Ask what guides the anchor mix, time spread, site selection. If the answer fits in two vague sentences, that's a bad sign.

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Tracking and measurement

Monthly reporting on positions, traffic, link indexing. Without that regular touchpoint, the agency delivers links and you find out the results three months later, too late to fix. Reporting belongs in the service, not in an add-on.

The managed service

What the managed service includes

A standard agency brokers links through third-party publishers. Between you and the site that publishes, there is at least one layer of intermediation. When the agency isn't the publisher, it can neither guarantee editorial quality nor control the permanence of the site hosting your link.

Our model is different: strategic steering, writing and publication all happen under one roof. No relays, no stacked margins. We can stand behind quality and permanence because we control every link in the chain. The engagement is scoped with a quote, based on your target pages and your competition.

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Existing link profile audit

Volume, variety, anchors, any visible footprint. The starting point that calibrates everything else.

Campaign plan signed off together

Target pages, anchor mix, publication schedule, budget. Written down before the first order.

Writing and publishing on the owned network

Site selection, briefs, drafts you sign off, publications spread out. No middleman between the plan and the result.

Monthly reporting included

Positions, organic traffic, link indexing, adjustments to plan. At no extra cost.

White-label for SEO agencies

Direct delivery to your clients without Nautilinks branding, multi-client dashboard, volume-based pricing.

Portability of the delivered work

Links live on our sites as long as they exist. You keep the article URLs and the anchor details in your dashboard.

Four agency models

Ways to delegate your netlinking

Owned netlinking agency

The agency runs its own editorial media and publishes there for its clients. No middleman, full control over site quality, article angle, and link permanence.

This is what Nautilinks does. Publisher, agency and writers are the same team.

Pure broker agency

The agency owns no sites but selects and negotiates for you with third-party publishers or marketplaces. The agency margin stacks on top of the link cost. Quality varies with the partner network.

Buyers without time but who accept an extra middle layer.

Self-serve platform

Not strictly an agency, you decide on each placement yourself from the catalogue. More granular control, but the strategic steering stays on you.

Self-driven SEO teams that don't need outside expertise.

Hybrid agency + platform

You access a self-serve catalogue but the agency stays available to run a complex campaign or a cluster. Best of both worlds, on the condition that the same team wears both hats.

Buyers who mix unit purchases and topical-silo strategies.
From audit to reporting

Our method, under one roof

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Existing link profile audit

Before suggesting anything, we look at what's already there: volume, variety, anchors, any visible footprint. The audit reveals what's missing and what to avoid. One hour of work that calibrates everything else.

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Campaign plan signed off together

Target pages, goals, anchor mix, publication schedule, budget. Everything written down before the first order. You sign off before we execute.

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Execution on our owned network

Site selection matched to each target page, briefs sent to writers, drafts signed off, publications spread out. No middleman between the plan and the result.

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Monthly reporting and adjustment

Each month, a check on positions, traffic, links delivered. If a page isn't moving, we identify why and adapt. The plan evolves with real data.

The recurring flaws, and how we avoid them

Delegate without penalizing yourself

⚠ Risk
Links from opaque third-party publishers

Many agencies broker independent publishers without controlling editorial quality or site permanence. You end up with links that can disappear in six months.

✓ Owned network

All our sites are operated in-house. No ghost publishers, no sites that change hands, no links that vanish. Permanence is built into the model, not a sales promise.

⚠ Risk
Template-based campaign method

Without an audit or a tailored plan, the agency applies a standard format to every client. Direct competitors get nearly identical campaigns, which kills the differentiation effect.

✓ Individual calibration

Every campaign starts with an audit of the existing profile. The plan accounts for your direct competition, your priority pages, your sales cycle. No plan recycled from one client to another.

⚠ Risk
Late or non-existent reporting

Without regular visibility on results, you find out three months later that the campaign isn't producing the expected effect. Zero room to fix.

✓ Monthly reporting included

Monthly check on positions, organic traffic, link indexing, adjustments to plan. Included in packs at no extra cost.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between a netlinking agency and a platform?

A self-serve platform lets you decide on each placement from a catalogue. An agency adds the strategic pilot: audit, plan, selection, execution, reporting. You pay for expertise and delegation on top of the link cost. At Nautilinks, you can use both: the self-serve catalogue, or a managed agency engagement depending on what you need.

How much does a netlinking agency cost on average?

Tiers start at a few hundred euros monthly for low-volume packs. Significant budgets begin around 1,500 to 3,000 euros per month depending on ambition. Beyond that, you're talking about campaigns on sites in highly competitive spaces. The public grid lets you size things up, and the managed engagement is scoped with a quote.

Are your links dofollow?

By default, editorial links carry rel=sponsored in line with Google's guidance. For use cases that warrant a justified dofollow (customer case, op-ed, study), we evaluate case by case based on the article's tone. Transparency on this point avoids unpleasant surprises in Search Console.

How long before seeing results?

Plan four to twelve weeks to observe meaningful position movement on targeted queries. On a complete topical cluster, the topical effect kicks in faster, sometimes within four to six weeks for long-tail. No serious campaign promises results in two weeks.

Do you work white-label for SEO agencies?

Yes, that's a frequent use case. Volume-based pricing, direct delivery to your clients without Nautilinks branding, agency dashboard for tracking multi-client orders. Useful for expanding your offering without building an internal network.

What happens if I want to switch agencies mid-way?

Published links live on our sites, they stay in place as long as the site exists. No technical dependency on our continued involvement. You take the URLs of published articles and the anchor details from your dashboard. Portability of the work is part of the model.

One team, every lever

Our sites, our writers, our strategy. No middleman, no hidden margin, no surprises. We shape the engagement together.

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