Freelance link building specialist helping agencies, SaaS companies and businesses earn quality backlinks through ethical outreach and relationship-driven campaigns.
250+ Links Built
Links Built
95% Average Reply Rate
Average Reply Rate
A selection of the SaaS products, agencies and businesses I've run link building and off-page SEO campaigns for — each with a full case study.
Less volume theater, more durable authority — here's what that actually looks like in practice.
No PBNs, no link farms, no automated spam. Every placement is manually earned on a real, editorially-run site — links that hold up under any algorithm update or manual review.
0
Risky links, ever
You work with me directly — the person actually doing the outreach, writing the pitches and building the relationships. No layers, no hand-offs, no diluted context.
1:1
Direct communication
Every placement is logged with domain rating, anchor text, target URL and live status. You always know exactly what was built and why it was chosen.
100%
Placement visibility
Off-page SEO compounds. Campaigns are built around sustainable, relationship-driven outreach designed to keep paying off long after the engagement ends.
95%
Average reply rate
From guest posting to full digital PR campaigns, every service is designed to earn authority backlinks the right way — manually, ethically, and built to last.
I write and place original guest content on genuinely relevant, editorially-run websites so every backlink sits inside content readers actually want. Each placement is vetted for real traffic, topical relevance, and editorial standards — no PBNs, no link farms.
Also known as curated links, niche edits place your link inside an existing, indexed article that already has authority and rankings — often the fastest way to move the needle on a target keyword without waiting on new content to be indexed.
SaaS link building requires a different playbook — product mentions, comparison roundups, integration partners, and founder-led PR. I build campaigns tailored to SaaS sales cycles, targeting the review sites, listicles, and industry blogs your buyers already trust.
Every email is personalized and every relationship is built by hand. I follow Google's link spam guidelines strictly, focusing on genuine relevance and mutual value so the links I secure hold up long after the campaign ends.
Using Ahrefs and Semrush, I map your top competitors' backlink profiles to uncover linkable gaps: sites that link to them but not you. This turns outreach into a targeted, data-backed campaign instead of guesswork.
Before any email goes out, I build a qualified prospect list filtered by domain rating, organic traffic, topical relevance, and spam signals — so outreach effort goes only toward sites worth earning a link from.
Send over your website and I'll put together a free, no-obligation review of your current backlink profile against your top competitors — no strings attached.
Request My Free AuditCurrent backlink profile review
Competitor gap analysis
Prioritized opportunity list
Every campaign follows the same disciplined process — research, outreach, and reporting — refined across hundreds of successful placements.
Step 1
I analyze your top-ranking competitors' backlink profiles to understand where their authority comes from and where the real opportunities are.
Step 2
Using Ahrefs, Semrush and manual link prospecting, I build a curated list of relevant, high-authority sites worth targeting.
Step 3
Every prospect gets a personalized email — no automation, no spam. I build genuine relationships with editors, bloggers and journalists.
Step 4
I write guest posts, pitch resource additions, or collaborate with site owners to create content worth linking to.
Step 5
Links go live on real, editorially-reviewed pages with genuine traffic — placed naturally within relevant content.
Step 6
You receive a transparent monthly report covering every placement, domain metric, and the ranking impact of the campaign.
Every niche has its own publications, journalists and resource pages — I've built the relationships across a wide range of them.
250+ Links Built
Links Built
95% Average Reply Rate
Average Reply Rate
40+ Industries Worked With
Industries Worked With
15+ Countries Served
Countries Served
Every case study is one campaign. Together, they show a consistent pattern — aggregated straight from the case study data, not cherry-picked one-offs.
Average Domain Rating, before campaign start vs. current
Across every campaign that tracked Domain Rating, sites gained an average of +17 DR — a 52% lift, driven entirely by manually earned editorial links.
Referring Domains
GoogleRankCheckOrganic Traffic (monthly)
Donorbox'Business plan consultant' Ranking
GrowthinkNo inflated vanity metrics — just a track record of consistent, ethical placements.
Manually secured across hundreds of individual outreach relationships.
Every case study campaign shows measurable domain rating and organic traffic gains.
Recurring engagements with product-led SaaS teams and white-label agency partners.
A strict white hat process across every campaign, with no link-scheme flags to date.
Outreach experience spanning North America, Europe, APAC and beyond.
Personalized, low-volume outreach consistently outperforms templated campaigns.
A look at how manual outreach and white hat link building translate into measurable ranking and traffic gains.
Answer a few quick questions about your site, goals and budget, and get a tailored campaign recommendation — no sales call required to get started.
Feedback from agencies, SaaS teams and business owners who've run link building campaigns with a manual, relationship-first approach.
“Waseem's outreach felt nothing like the spammy link building we'd tried before. Every placement was on a site we'd genuinely want to be featured on, and our organic traffic has grown every single month since we started.”
Sarah Chen
Head of Growth, Northlane Software
“We white-label Waseem's link building for our own clients now. The reporting is transparent, the placements are always relevant, and honestly the reply rates on the outreach are better than what our in-house team was getting.”
Marcus Webb
Founder, Webb Digital Agency
“What stood out was the strategy behind every link — nothing felt random. Within four months our DR jumped double digits and two competitor keywords finally moved to page one.”
Priya Nair
Marketing Director, Bloom Health Co.
“Manual, relationship-driven outreach is rare to find at this quality. Waseem kept us updated weekly and never once cut corners with PBNs or shortcuts, even when we asked about faster options.”
Daniel Ortiz
SEO Lead, Vantage Analytics
Every campaign is powered by the same research, outreach and reporting tools used by top link building teams.
Ahrefs
Backlink Analysis
Semrush
SEO Research
Hunter.io
Email Prospecting
BuzzStream
Outreach CRM
Pitchbox
Outreach Automation
Google Sheets
Reporting
Search Console
Performance Tracking
Screaming Frog
Technical Audits
No-fluff writeups on outreach, guest posting, niche edits and digital PR — written from real campaign experience.
Answers to the questions I get asked most about link building, outreach and off-page SEO campaigns.
Let's talk about your goals, current backlink profile, and how a manual outreach campaign can move your rankings.
