Listicles —
Get Featured in the "Best Of" Lists Buyers and AI Trust
Listicles puts your brand inside freshly written "best of" articles on high quality, relevant publishers, built to rank in Google and to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. Fully managed, from publisher to live URL.
The lists buyers read are the lists AI cites
"Best of" and comparison articles are some of the most read content for anyone researching a purchase, and they are one of the formats AI tools lean on hardest when they recommend a product or service. Listicles gets your brand named inside one, on a publisher with real traffic in your category.
Land where buyers decide
Your brand appears in the roundups people read right before they choose.
Get cited by AI
"Best of" lists are one of the most cited formats in AI answers, and every entry is written to be easy to quote.
Real publishers only
High quality sites with real traffic in your category. No private blog networks, no throwaway domains.
Written as editorial
Original articles with a real methodology and fair treatment of alternatives, written to read like the publisher, not an ad.
Nothing to manage
We handle the publisher, the writing, the image, the placement, and the reporting. You get the live URL.
The Product —
What is listicle link building?
Most link building puts your link inside content that has nothing to do with a buying decision. A listicle placement does the opposite. It puts your brand in the exact format people read when they are choosing between options, and the exact format AI tools pull from when someone asks for a recommendation.
Every Listicles placement is an original article we produce with a high quality, relevant publisher. We do not insert your brand into existing content. The article covers the category fairly, names real alternatives, cites a real third party source, and features your brand prominently with a specific angle such as "best for [use case]." Your link is the only brand link in the piece, and it is dofollow.
The result is one asset doing two jobs: a credible brand mention where buyers are researching, and an authority link that feeds both Google rankings and AI citations.
Built for brands that need to be on the shortlist
Ecommerce and DTC
Get your products into the "best [category]" lists shoppers and AI tools reach for.
SaaS and tech
Land in the "best software for X" and comparison lists buyers use to build a shortlist.
Local and service businesses
Show up in the "best [service] in [city]" lists people check before they call.
B2B
Build category authority and get named where your buyers are doing their research.
Agencies and resellers
Add listicle placements to your client offering without building the publisher pipeline yourself.
From your URL to a live placement
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Step 1
Tell us about your brand
Point us to your site. Your homepage works for most customers. Let us know anything you want highlighted and any competitors you would rather we leave out.
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Step 2
We create your placement
We produce a freshly written "best of" article with a high quality, relevant publisher, and write your entry to editorial standard, optimized for both search and AI.
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Step 3
We publish and report
We place and publish the article, send you the live URL, and keep the link monitored. Links are guaranteed for one year.
Pricing & Plans —
Check out our best offers
Placements publish on a natural, spaced cadence across different publishers rather than all at once, which is how a link profile is supposed to grow.
Single Placement
$450
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One placement in a relevant "best of" article with a high quality publisher
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Written and optimized for Google and AI search
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Fully managed from publisher to live URL
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Link guaranteed for 1 year
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Turnaround 4 to 6 weeks
5-Pack
$2,250
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Five placements spread across relevant, high quality publishers
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Same writing, optimization, and management as the single
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Published on a natural cadence across different publishers
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Links guaranteed for 1 year
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Turnaround 4 to 6 weeks
How Listicles fits alongside our other placement products
Listicles, Exclusive Media Links, and Earned Media all put your brand on third party sites. They do different jobs, and most brands end up using more than one.
Listicles
What you get
A prominent entry in a freshly written "best of" or comparison article on a relevant publisher, with a dofollow link.
Reach for it when
You want to be on the shortlist buyers and AI tools pull from when they compare options in your category.
Exclusive Media Links
What you get
A dofollow link inside an evergreen editorial article on a vetted US news site. Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers by domain strength.
Reach for it when
You want news domain authority and coverage you can point a client or a board at.
Earned Media
What you get
A campaign that syndicates your story to a large network of publishers for citation density at scale.
Reach for it when
You want breadth of mentions across many domains rather than one targeted placement.
Testimonials
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FAQ's —
Everythign You Need To Know
Are these brand new articles, or are you adding me to an existing one?
Which page of my site do you link to? Can I choose?
Do my competitors get links too?
If competitors are not linked, does the list look engineered?
Where will my brand appear in the list? Can I be number one?
Can I tell you which competitors to leave out?
Do these placements help with AI tools like ChatGPT, or only Google?
How long are the articles, and do I need to supply an image?
Why are my placements spaced out instead of published all at once?
Can two of my brands appear in the same article?
Can you guarantee I rank number one, or that the article ranks on page one?
Ready to get featured in the lists that matter?
Get your brand into the "best of" content buyers read and AI tools cite.