Proxy infrastructure×9.2 traffic
From 2,400 to 22,000 visits in two years, on links
IndustryProxy infrastructure
MarketsUS and EU
StartedMay 2024
Duration24 months
×9.2organic traffic
1,400referring domains
486AI mentions
In a narrow tech niche there are perhaps twenty publications your buyers read. Consumer link building runs on volume; here it runs on getting into those twenty. Our proxy case went from 2,400 to 22,000 visits on 1,400 domains, and the curve was flat for twenty months before it moved.
Tick what you recognise – the estimate updates as you go.
A rough gauge from our audits. The exact figure comes from a link gap analysis against your competitors.
Each of these cost us a project before we understood the pattern.
Consumer link building works on volume of publishers. In SaaS, infrastructure or developer tooling the list of publications a real buyer opens is short, and a link from any of them outweighs two hundred from sites nobody in the category reads. We start by listing those twenty and working out what each of them would actually publish.
Every technical product sits on data: usage patterns, benchmark results, aggregate numbers from the platform. Turned into a short original study, it earns links from industry press and analysts that no outreach email could. Most companies never publish it because nobody on the marketing side knows it exists.
In our proxy-provider engagement traffic sat flat for twenty months while the domain count climbed, then tripled in a quarter. A linear curve from links in a technical niche is not what we have seen on our own projects. We say this before the contract so month eight is not a surprise.
Summary across our engagements. The last two rows are why some agencies are cheaper.
Marketplace and PBN links are cheaper per unit and cost the domain later. We do not use them under any brief, including white label.
Month one produces the map; months two onward produce the domains. The rate is set by what the niche can absorb, not by a quota.
We compare your referring domains with three to five competitors, split the gap by page type, and list the publications that link to them but not to you. Then we identify the product data worth turning into a study.
Personal outreach to editors and practitioners, no templates. First placements land in month two; most of the work is relationship building that pays out later. Integration partners get contacted in parallel.
The study is published and pitched to industry press. Outreach runs at the rate the niche can absorb. Every placement appears in the fortnightly report with its URL and what it cost.
In our proxy engagement traffic sat flat for twenty months while the domain count climbed, then tripled in a quarter. We say this before the contract, not in month eight. Linear growth from links in a technical niche is not something we have seen, and anyone promising it is describing a different market.
Alexei Rozenplenter · Founder and CEO · About the author · LinkedIn
These are our own direct projects. White label work is never published – that is the point.
Alex will look at your client's site and come back with a scope and forecast in your template, the document you quote from. Free.
The site address is enough. Your client will not know we looked.