Editorial backlinks. Zero link exchanges.
Our team hand-places your article on an established publication from a catalogue we curate and audit ourselves — sites with real editors, real readers and real organic Google traffic.
No reciprocal linking. No automation footprint. One article, one placement, one live URL as proof — paid with the AI credits already in your plan.
🎁 Limited-time offer: the free 3-day trial includes one Starter placement on us — a completely free backlink, no commitment required.
The tier ladder
Elite
2 backlinks included
250 credits
Premium
2 backlinks included
150 credits
Growth
2 backlinks included
100 credits
Standard
1 backlink included
75 credits
StarterFree in trial
1 backlink included
50 credits
Refunded in full if your article can't be placed.
Why we built this
Your own blog can't vouch for you. Third parties can.
Search is moving into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude — and AI engines don't rank pages, they weigh evidence. What independent sites publish about your brand counts for more than anything you publish about yourself.
A claim vs. corroboration
On your own blog, “we're great at X” is a claim. When an independent publication mentions your brand and links to your site, it's corroboration — and weighing corroboration over self-promotion is precisely what AI engines are built to do.
How AI learns who you are
AI assistants form their picture of your brand from the open web — the sites they crawl, retrieve and cite. Every third-party mention is another independent source telling them you exist, you're real, and you belong in your topic.
Mentions become answers
Ask an assistant for recommendations in any niche and it names the brands with an independent footprint. Brands that only ever talk about themselves stay invisible — no matter how good their own blog is.
That's why Article Syndication exists
It's the fastest legitimate way to put your brand into the third-party record: real mentions of your name and your site, on real publications, in the corpus AI engines actually read. Your blog builds your case — independent mentions get it believed.
First, our stance
We don't do link exchanges. We never will.
Some SEO tools quietly wire their customers' blogs into a reciprocal linking network. It looks like free backlinks — until Google spots the pattern, and it does. When a shared network gets flagged, every site in it takes the hit.
Automated, at scale
Hundreds of links placed with no editorial judgment — the exact behavior Google's link spam policies call out by name.
A shared footprint
Every participating site runs on the same platform. Google only has to recognize the pattern once to flag the whole network — and a bakery linking to a fintech SaaS is not a subtle pattern.
Your risk, their gamble
A manual action can erase a site's organic traffic overnight — and you can't clean up links on sites you don't control.
What we do instead
True editorial placements, the old-fashioned way
Article Syndication is built on the only kind of link Google has ever wanted to count: a real article, accepted by a real publication, placed by people who answer for the quality of both.
Nothing is reciprocal
Link exchanges work by wiring customers' blogs together — you link to strangers so strangers link to you. Syndication is one-way: an article of yours is placed on an independent publication. Your site never links out to anyone in return, so there's no network footprint to detect.
Editors who say no
The publications in our catalogue don't just publish anything. Placements are capped at one or two links, and link-stuffed content gets rejected — the same editorial restraint that keeps those sites in good standing is what makes a link from them worth having.
Audited before they earn a spot
Every site is checked before it's listed: domain authority, real organic Google traffic — the proof it's indexed and in good standing — where its audience actually is, and what that traffic is worth. Sites that raise warning flags don't get discounted — they're out. Every tier meets the same bar; a cheaper tier just means a smaller audience.
Relationships, not a marketplace
Placements are made by our team through established publisher relationships — a person places your article, not a bot. That's also why we don't publish the site list: public placement lists attract spam and burn the very sites on them.
How it works
From your dashboard to a live placement
Order in a minute from any article's publish menu. A human does the rest.
Pick an article
Choose an unpublished article — or have SEOZilla write a companion piece made for syndication, which takes a fresh angle and links back to a post already live on your blog.
Choose a quality tier
You buy a tier, never a specific site. In the app you see each tier's site count, authority range and category mix — our team then picks the best editorial fit for your niche.
Lock your backlinks
Confirm the one or two links your article carries. They're locked into the order and the placement must include them exactly as written — the links are the product.
Get the live URL
Our team hand-places the article, typically within a few days. The live URL appears on your article page as proof of delivery. If we can't place it, every credit is refunded.
Under the hood
Fully automatic to you. Human at the finish.
We placed articles by hand for years before we built any of this. That experience is now baked into automation that handles the significant steps in between — which is why an order takes days, not weeks.
What it looks like from your side
SEOZilla drafts your article
You approve the idea; the AI agents research and write it.
A few days pass
Nothing for you to do — the order moves on its own.
It's published
The live URL lands on your article page, with an email to match.
Two moments of your attention. Zero busywork.
What's actually happening in between
Proven automation does the heavy lifting. Preparing the piece, matching it to the right publication in your tier, moving the order through fulfillment — steps we used to grind through manually now run automatically, because we did them by hand long enough to know exactly what works.
The last step is never a script. A real person posts your article on the publication, every single time. No bot ever touches the sites in our catalogue — that's precisely what keeps them worth being on.
Automation for speed. People for judgment. That's the whole trick.
Tier pricing
Five tiers, priced in AI credits
You choose the quality tier; our team chooses the best-fit publication for your niche. Placements come out of the same credit pool that writes your articles — no separate invoice, no retainer.
Elite · 2 backlinks included
Our most powerful placements — major news and authority publications with six-figure monthly readerships.
250 credits
Premium · 2 backlinks included
Established publications with large, engaged audiences in top English-speaking markets.
150 credits
Growth · 2 backlinks included
Strong editorial sites plus some of the biggest publishing platforms on the web.
100 credits
Standard · 1 backlink included
Respected niche publications and well-known platforms — reliable authority at a great price.
75 credits
Starter · 1 backlink includedFree in trial
Real, Google-indexed sites at our most accessible price — perfect for building a natural, diverse backlink profile.
50 credits
Charged when you order — a human team fulfills every placement.
Rejected or cancelled orders are refunded in full, automatically.
Your backlinks are locked at order time and placed exactly as written.
Limited-time trial offer
Your free trial includes one Starter placement — on us
Start the free 3-day trial, generate an article, and syndicate it on the Starter tier without spending a credit. A completely free backlink with no commitment — if you cancel or decide not to renew, we fulfill the placement anyway.
One per account. Fulfillment typically takes a week or so, so the live URL usually lands after your trial has ended — it arrives on your article page and by email either way.
A word on eligibility: this offer is for sites we could genuinely see becoming customers, and it's granted at our discretion. We don't place content for adult, gambling, pharmaceutical, payday-loan, get-rich-quick or similar categories Google frowns upon — and if an order looks like backlink farming rather than a real business trying SEOZilla, we'll decline it rather than spend our publications' trust on it.
Paid plans include 100–1,800 monthly AI credits.
The quality bar
What it takes for a site to be in our catalogue — and stay in
We audit every publication ourselves before a single article goes near it. The names stay private — the standards don't.
Real organic Google traffic
The one signal that can't be faked: a site receiving steady organic traffic is indexed, ranking and in good standing with Google. Penalized or deindexed sites don't get traffic — and don't get into the catalogue.
Authority and audience, weighted
We look at domain rating, how large the readership is, and where it lives — an audience in the markets your customers are in counts for more than raw pageviews from nowhere.
Traffic that's worth something
A site can rank for junk terms nobody would pay to reach. We check what a site's organic traffic would cost to buy — thin-value sites are kept out.
Continuously re-audited
The catalogue isn't set-and-forget. A site that starts showing spam-network footprints or fading quality is removed — we'd rather shrink the catalogue than sell a bad placement.
One article, one home
A syndicated article lives only on the placement site — SEOZilla never republishes it to your blog or serves it through your content API, so it can't compete with your own pages. Pair it with a companion piece that links back to a post already ranking on your blog, and the placement pushes authority exactly where you want it.
FAQ
Syndication questions, answered straight
No — it's the opposite in every way that matters to Google. A link exchange wires participants' sites into a reciprocal network: you host strangers' links so strangers host yours, at scale, with a shared platform footprint. A syndicated placement is one-way and editorial: one article of yours, hand-placed on one independent publication, carrying one or two links you chose. Your site links to nobody in return and joins no network.
Build authority you'd defend in a Google audit
Articles that rank, citations from AI engines, and hand-placed editorial backlinks — no schemes, no shortcuts, nothing to disavow later.