Editorial Link Building
Outreach to journalists, bloggers and editors at sites your audience actually reads. Contextual in-content links from real coverage.
- → DR 40–90 placements
- → Manual outreach, no AI spam
- → UK & international media
Links Growth UK · Travel link building specialists
Editorial links that move rankings.
Links Growth UK earns placements on real UK and international publications — DR 40–90 sites your competitors can't get into. No PBNs. No link farms. Just editorial links Google respects, with a specialist focus on travel brands.
No long contracts
DR verified monthly
Based in London, United Kingdom
LIVE
This monthUpdated daily
847
+12% vs last month
Editorial links placed
DR 62
Average site authority
94%
Client retention
Travel & Hospitality38%
Beauty & Wellness29%
Lifestyle & Fitness21%
Trusted by ambitious UK teams
AirHelp
Local Rent
FreeTour
Klook
Saily
Travelkon
Holafly
Travelistia
Yesim
Omio
GigSky
GetTransfer
Redbus
FireBirdTours
HighSpeedTrains
AirHelp
Local Rent
FreeTour
Klook
Saily
Travelkon
Holafly
Travelistia
Yesim
Omio
GigSky
GetTransfer
Redbus
FireBirdTours
HighSpeedTrains
Our vetting process
At Links Growth UK, no site gets approved for your campaign without passing every filter below.
Before a site is approved to carry your link, it goes through our internal filter. If it fails even one check, we walk away, no exceptions.
The Volatile Traffic Trap
The trap They sell sites with artificial traffic spikes that crash after a few months.
Our filter We reject any site unless it shows a stable organic traffic graph for a minimum of 2 years, with at least 2,000+ monthly targeted visitors. No fake spikes, no rented traffic.
Niche Relevance Fraud
The trap Your premium travel brand gets linked on a generic site next to crypto and kitchen blogs.
Our filter We blacklist multi-niche blogs and "write for us" factories. We only source from sites with 1,000+ clean referring domains, our baseline for genuine link equity, not inflated metrics.
Fake Ghost Blogs
The trap Links get placed on dead platforms built solely to resell guest posts, with zero real readers.
Our filter We never buy from commercial networks. Our team manually pitches real people running personal travel blogs who write from genuine, first-hand experience, the exact E-E-A-T signal Google rewards.
The Link Network Recycling Trap
The trap The same handful of "guest post" sites get resold to hundreds of unrelated brands from a shared bulk-placement pool.
Our filter We track every site we've ever used and cap how often it's reused, so your link isn't sitting next to fifty competitors who bought the exact same placement.
The Black Box Reporting Problem
The trap You pay upfront and only find out which sites carried your links after the invoice, if you find out at all.
Our filter You see the target site before we pitch it, and get the live URL with full metrics the moment it publishes. Nothing goes live that we wouldn't show you by name.
Quality control
No reciprocal link exchanges or link swaps
Manual human outreach only, never automated blasts
Editorial approval required before content goes live
HTTPS, mobile-friendly, and free of intrusive ad clutter
No expired-domain 301 redirect schemes
Our site selection promise
Every site in our network has to earn its place — here's what we check before your link goes anywhere near it.
5,000+
Vetted travel-niche sites in our network, screened against every filter below.
- 2+ years of stable, verified organic traffic
- 1,000+ clean referring domains per site
- Zero "write for us" or PBN-style pages
- Real personal bloggers only, never networks or farms
- Full link transparency, before and after publish
Verified Process
Trusted by 500+ travel brands, businesses & agencies
Our standards
75%rejected
15,000+
Sites rejected outright
Out of 20,000+ travel and hospitality sites reviewed, only the strongest 5,000+ earned a place in our network.
Why sites get rejected
No real, sustained traffic45%
Fake or manipulated DA/DR30%
PBN or private network backlinks25%
5,000+
Vetted travel-niche sites in our network
Ready to build authority at scale?
Book a free strategy call and get a personalised link building plan for your site.
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Travel brands, businesses & agencies trust us
Services
Three ways we earn links
that actually compound.
MOST BOOKED
Travel SEO & Hotel Links
Specialised link acquisition for hotels, tour operators, DMCs and travel publishers. We've built links for over 60 UK travel brands.
- → Tourism board coverage
- → Travel publication features
- → Destination guides
Guest Posting Services
Hand-pitched guest posts on niche-relevant UK and US sites. Real traffic, real authority, real brand exposure — not just a backlink.
- → Niche-relevant sites only
- → Written by UK editors
- → 1,500+ word articles
How we work
A four-step system
built for UK & travel brands.
01
Discovery
We audit your backlink profile, top 3 competitors and the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
02
Strategy
A 90-day link plan: target pages, anchor strategy, target publications. No templates. Built for your niche.
03
Outreach
UK-based editors pitch, negotiate and place. You approve every site before we go live. Full transparency.
04
Reporting
Live dashboard, monthly PDF, traffic & ranking impact from every single placement. No vanity metrics.
Proof, not promises
Results from real
UK campaigns.
Every campaign below ran for 6+ months. No link deletions. No inflated DR. Just placements we still see live today.
Edinburgh hotel
+412%
organic sessions
34 editorial links · 6 months
Bristol SaaS
DR 18→62
domain rating in 9 months
58 placements · all live
Cardiff legal
#1 → #3
for 4 commercial terms
22 digital PR placements
Case studies
Real campaigns. Real timelines. Real metrics.
The starting point, the work shipped, and the numbers behind every campaign.
Motivational & religious content blog
Link building campaign - 21 links built
From 5,000 to 18,000 monthly visitors on a faith and motivation blog
Domain Rating
0 to 11
Organic traffic / mo
5k to 18k
GA page views / mo
10k to 47k
Active users (GA)
0 to 25k
Shipped: PDF submissions, profile links and UGC forum placements across 21 referring domains (DR 20-90)
Read the full case study
Airline & travel information blog
6-month campaign - 3 months topical authority & on-page, 3 months link building
From 0 to 33,900 monthly visitors on an airline travel blog
Organic traffic / mo
0 to 33.9k
Organic keywords
0 to 376
Referring domains
0 to 75
Niche backlinks
111
Shipped: Three months of topical authority content structuring and on-page SEO, followed by 111 niche-relevant backlinks across 75 referring domains in the airline and travel space.
Read the full case study
Medical & beauty products e-commerce site
Ongoing campaign - 70 to 80 backlinks built to date, link building continues monthly
From 2,400 to 10,500 monthly visitors on a medical & beauty products site
Organic traffic / mo
2.4k to 10.5k
Backlinks built by us
70 to 80
Authority Score
30 (Good)
Referring domains
1.2K
Shipped: 70 to 80 quality, niche-relevant backlinks in the medical and beauty space, with monthly link building ongoing.
Read the full case study
Medical brand — face beauty & health wellness products
Ongoing campaign - started October 2025, still active
From 565 to 1,700 referring domains for a medical beauty & wellness brand
Referring domains
565 to 1.7k
Domain Rating
40
Backlinks
9.2K
Organic traffic
Stable
Shipped: Ongoing monthly link building, growing referring domains from 565 to 1,700 so far.
Read the full case study
What our clients say
The kind of feedback that keeps us growing.
We've placed over 1,200 editorial links for UK B2B and travel brands. Here's what marketing leads actually say once the results land.
“We tried two agencies before Links Growth and watched our DR flatline. Six months in we're up 22 points, ranking for terms we couldn't crack in two years, and the placements are on sites we actually want to be associated with.”
Sarah Chen
Head of SEO · Northpath Legal
DR 48 → 70 in 6 months
“What I appreciate most is the transparency. Every placement comes with the live URL, traffic it sent, and the domain metrics. Our last agency sent a PDF once a quarter and prayed we didn't ask questions.”
Daniel Marsh
Founder · Bridgepoint SaaS
+340% organic signups
“The travel SEO work was genuinely impressive. They got us into major national travel press and a handful of niche travel publications I didn't even know existed. Bookings attributable to organic traffic nearly tripled in a year.”
Amara Okonkwo
Marketing Director · Voyageur Travel Co.
2.8× direct bookings
“Realistic promises, ruthless execution. They told us we'd gain 12-15 DR points in the first year and we gained 14. No fluff, no chasing, no surprise invoices. Rare in this space.”
James Thornton
CMO · Halestone Finance
DR 38 → 52, on target
“As a hospitality brand we get pitched by every 'SEO expert' with a spreadsheet. Links Growth is the only one who actually understood the travel press landscape. The coverage reads like a recommendation, not an ad.”
Priya Anand
Marketing Manager · Thistle & Co.
+58% organic bookings
“We'd been burned by cheap link packages before, so we were sceptical. Every single placement they've delivered has been on a site I'd genuinely recommend to a guest. That's never happened with an agency before.”
Owen Bradley
Founder · Lakeside Stays
DR 19 → 44 in 9 months
“The reporting alone is worth it. I can see exactly which link drove which spike in demo signups. Our board stopped asking what SEO spend actually does once we started sharing these dashboards.”
Freya Campbell
Head of Growth · Meridian SaaS
3.1× demo signups
“Logistics is a boring niche to sell coverage in, or so I thought. They found angles — sustainability data, regional hiring stories — that got us into press we'd never have landed cold. Genuinely creative outreach.”
Tom Whitfield
Operations Director · Bristol Bay Logistics
19 new referring domains
“I've worked with three link building agencies and Links Growth is the first one where I never had to chase a report. It just lands, on time, every month, with the numbers we actually asked for.”
Nadia Farouk
Head of Marketing · Coastline Retreats
+41% organic bookings
“What sold me was their refusal to touch PBNs even when I asked about faster options. Six months later our rankings are still climbing instead of the cliff-edge drop I'd seen with a previous provider.”
Marcus Webb
Founder · Northgate Outdoor
DR 24 → 45, no penalties
“The travel press relationships genuinely exist — I've had two journalists mention Links Growth by name when they reached out to us directly for a follow-up story. That doesn't happen with a mass-outreach agency.”
Elena Vasquez
PR Lead · Alto Mountain Resorts
14 unprompted press mentions
“We tried two agencies before Links Growth and watched our DR flatline. Six months in we're up 22 points, ranking for terms we couldn't crack in two years, and the placements are on sites we actually want to be associated with.”
Sarah Chen
Head of SEO · Northpath Legal
DR 48 → 70 in 6 months
“What I appreciate most is the transparency. Every placement comes with the live URL, traffic it sent, and the domain metrics. Our last agency sent a PDF once a quarter and prayed we didn't ask questions.”
Daniel Marsh
Founder · Bridgepoint SaaS
+340% organic signups
“The travel SEO work was genuinely impressive. They got us into major national travel press and a handful of niche travel publications I didn't even know existed. Bookings attributable to organic traffic nearly tripled in a year.”
Amara Okonkwo
Marketing Director · Voyageur Travel Co.
2.8× direct bookings
“Realistic promises, ruthless execution. They told us we'd gain 12-15 DR points in the first year and we gained 14. No fluff, no chasing, no surprise invoices. Rare in this space.”
James Thornton
CMO · Halestone Finance
DR 38 → 52, on target
“As a hospitality brand we get pitched by every 'SEO expert' with a spreadsheet. Links Growth is the only one who actually understood the travel press landscape. The coverage reads like a recommendation, not an ad.”
Priya Anand
Marketing Manager · Thistle & Co.
+58% organic bookings
“We'd been burned by cheap link packages before, so we were sceptical. Every single placement they've delivered has been on a site I'd genuinely recommend to a guest. That's never happened with an agency before.”
Owen Bradley
Founder · Lakeside Stays
DR 19 → 44 in 9 months
“The reporting alone is worth it. I can see exactly which link drove which spike in demo signups. Our board stopped asking what SEO spend actually does once we started sharing these dashboards.”
Freya Campbell
Head of Growth · Meridian SaaS
3.1× demo signups
“Logistics is a boring niche to sell coverage in, or so I thought. They found angles — sustainability data, regional hiring stories — that got us into press we'd never have landed cold. Genuinely creative outreach.”
Tom Whitfield
Operations Director · Bristol Bay Logistics
19 new referring domains
“I've worked with three link building agencies and Links Growth is the first one where I never had to chase a report. It just lands, on time, every month, with the numbers we actually asked for.”
Nadia Farouk
Head of Marketing · Coastline Retreats
+41% organic bookings
“What sold me was their refusal to touch PBNs even when I asked about faster options. Six months later our rankings are still climbing instead of the cliff-edge drop I'd seen with a previous provider.”
Marcus Webb
Founder · Northgate Outdoor
DR 24 → 45, no penalties
“The travel press relationships genuinely exist — I've had two journalists mention Links Growth by name when they reached out to us directly for a follow-up story. That doesn't happen with a mass-outreach agency.”
Elena Vasquez
PR Lead · Alto Mountain Resorts
14 unprompted press mentions
Transparent packages
Pick a package. Cancel any month.
No long contracts. Every plan is month-to-month with a 14-day money-back guarantee. Bigger briefs get custom pricing.
Starter
£890/ month
For new sites building their first editorial foundation. UK-relevant links only.
Get started- ✓ 4 editorial links / month
- ✓ DR 20–40 referring domains
- ✓ 100% UK placements
- ✓ Anchor text review
- ✓ Monthly report
Most popular
Growth
£1,890/ month
For SMEs serious about ranking. The blend most clients stay on for 12+ months.
Get started- ✓ 8 editorial links / month
- ✓ DR 40–60 referring domains
- ✓ UK + US placements
- ✓ 2,000+ word articles included
- ✓ Dedicated strategist
Authority
£3,490/ month
For brands and competitive niches (finance, legal, travel). International reach.
Get started- ✓ 15 editorial links / month
- ✓ DR 50–70 referring domains
- ✓ UK, EU + US placements
- ✓ Full editorial content built
- ✓ Senior strategist + editor
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