Authority Link Building: Entity-Aligned Links and Third-Party Citations

Authority Link Building from Digital Vikingz is a monthly service that earns links and third-party citations from pages that share the client's topic. The topical map governs every anchor, and each placement is reported with the reason it qualified.

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What five gates does Authority Link Building check before a placement?

Authority Link Building places a link only when all five gates pass. The report shows the pass record for each.

Topical alignment

Passes
The linking page covers or ranks for a query in the client's query network.
Fails
A page that neither covers nor ranks for a query in the client's query network, such as a general marketing blog.
Checked by
Query overlap check against the topical map.

Page test

Passes
The linking page passes the page test on its own: search demand, original content and one intent.
Fails
A page that exists to hold links.
Checked by
Manual read plus live results check.

Anchor governance

Passes
The anchor is the canonical phrase for the target URL, or its dual-entity form.
Fails
Exact-match anchors repeated across placements, or brand-only anchors on service pages.
Checked by
Anchor register per target.

Source trust

Passes
The source has an identity block, named authors and no link-selling footprint.
Fails
A page whose main function is 'write for us'.
Checked by
Domain identity audit.

Co-occurrence

Passes
The client entity and its attribute appear in the same sentence as the link.
Fails
A bare link with no sentence stating the relationship.
Checked by
Sentence check on the live placement.
Sample Authority Link Building deliverable, shown as an excerpt table

How does Authority Link Building work?

Authority Link Building places links only where the linking page covers the client's topic in the same words.

A link is a co-occurrence first and a vote second. Google's pending generative search filing names inbound links as one of three trust inputs, alongside author and domain. Every placement passes the same page test the client's own pages pass.

Five gates a prospect page passes before a placement is made: topical alignment, page test, anchor governance, source trust, co-occurrence

How does the Authority Link Building monthly cycle run?

The monthly cycle runs in five steps.

  1. ProspectingCandidate pages come from the query network, not a domain list, and each is tagged with the query it shares.
  2. ApprovalThe prospect list and its gate record go out for approval before outreach.
  3. PlacementGuest articles, expert contributions, resource mentions and data citations. Sponsored placements are labelled as sponsored.
  4. VerificationEach live placement is checked for the anchor, the sentence and indexation.
  5. ReportA placements table with URL, topic, anchor, target, date and gate record, plus a retained-and-lost check on prior placements.

Which Google documents does Authority Link Building build on?

Authority Link Building builds on a pending Google patent application and Google's spam policies. Patent filings describe systems Google has invented, not confirmed ranking factors.

Who is Authority Link Building for?

Authority Link Building fits sites with live core pages.

Sites with the core pages live

Links point at pages, so the core section goes live first.

Brands entering a market where the competitors are older

Topically aligned links are the authority a newer site can earn.

Sites whose link profile is off-topic

Anchors are cleaned up and the profile is rebuilt around the central entity.

Not the right fit

A site without a topical map. The first gate needs a canonical anchor per URL and a query network to match against.

How is Authority Link Building priced and delivered?

Authority Link Building is a monthly cycle, priced by capacity block and delivered as a monthly placements table.

Shape
Monthly cycle
Pricing basis
Capacity block per month. Placement count follows qualifying prospects.
What you receive
Monthly placements table with the gate record

Scope is quoted in writing after the strategy call. See how semantic SEO is priced.

A client property from the results page

Google Search Console performance panel, Legal · 16 months: 66.7K clicks, 3.49M impressions, 1.9% CTR, average position 14
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Which industries and terms connect to Authority Link Building?

Authority Link Building serves these industries and applies these knowledge entries.

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Questions about Authority Link Building

Are any placements paid?
Only where the publisher labels them as sponsored. Paid placements are never presented as editorial, and private blog networks are never used.
What about links we already have?
The first month audits their anchors, topics and sources. Off-topic anchors get a change request, and toxic sources get a disavow recommendation, never an automatic disavow.
Why do you call this Authority Link Building and not link building?
Because the service builds authority from more than links: it also earns citations, which are named mentions with an attribute, in a sentence, on a page about the same entity.
Do you write the guest articles?
Yes, to the same content brief format as your own pages. Each article passes the page test on the host site before submission.
Who is named as the author of guest articles?
A named person from your team, who approves each article. Anonymous or invented bylines fail the source trust gate.
What access does Authority Link Building need?
Read access to Google Search Console and one named contact who approves prospects and bylines. Edit access to your site is not needed.
Does Authority Link Building run without Semantic Content Writing?
Yes. The service needs live core pages and a topical map, not our writing. Placements point at whatever your team publishes.
Do you place links in other languages?
Yes, in the languages the site publishes in, each matched against its own query network.
What if we object to a prospect?
Strike it, and the prospect is not contacted. The gate record shows why it qualified.
How are anchor phrases chosen for placements?
Each target page has one canonical anchor phrase in the source term vector. Placements use that phrase or the brand name.
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