Backlink services that start from the pages AI cites.

AirOps backlink and mention services find the pages AI engines cite for your category and earn your brand a place on them, with lift measured by prompt.

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Backlink services built for visibility in AI search

Backlink services from AirOps start with the third-party pages AI engines already cite for your category. Across more than 21,000 brand mentions analyzed, 85% of AI search mentions came from third-party sources. One platform and one team run the outreach, then measure what these backlink services change by prompt.

AirOps Offsite citations grouped by domain, showing each third-party source with its domain type, citation share and citation count.

How backlink services run on intelligence, action, and measurement

Intelligence

Intelligence shows which pages AI engines cite for your buyer prompts and where competitors get mentioned without you.

Action

Action earns your brand placements and mentions on those pages through outreach that people review before anything goes live.

Measurement

Measurement ties every placement from our backlink services to AI visibility changes by prompt and topic.

Intelligence

Action

Measurement

Where AI engines find your next backlink

Every target starts from AI citation data. You see which domains and pages AI cites for buyer prompts, which ones mention competitors but skip you, and which to pursue first.
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An SEO backlinking service built on that data pursues listicles, buying guides, comparison pages, and niche publications. Existing ranking articles open the door to link insertion.
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Across AI answers, 80-90% of citation share sits with many low-share domains, and most top domains hold only 2-5%. Your backlink services need to cover the long tail.

AirOps Domain Type Breakdown showing the domain types cited in AI answers, led by products at 65% and social at 8%.

Why citation data picks better backlink targets

Targets for backlink SEO services come from what AI engines cite

A high domain score says nothing about whether AI cites a site for your prompts. A low-authority site can drive more mention rate impact than a high-authority one. Our backlink services rank targets by citation frequency, relevance, and authority.

47M observed actions

reveal what worked to drive buyer action, and where.

6B citations

show which pages and publishers answer engines trust.

10M AI search journeys

show how people move from answers to downstream engagement.

70M high value prompts

give concrete insight on how people actually make decisions

A leading corporate card provider wanted to grow their share of voice with enterprise buyers. While prompt tracking said they had already won, AirOps opportunity data showed the true gap.

55%

Overall Share of Voice

Share of Voice with Target Customer

What our mention & backlink services include

You get one program run end to end: targets, outreach, placements, community intelligence, and delivery. Nothing goes live until people have reviewed it. Your link building packages are scoped around the pages AI cites for your category, and our backlink services run them end to end.

AirOps citations table filtered to competitor-only pages, with three URLs selected and the menu open to create a new grid.

Build a target list from your citation gaps

Filter every cited page to the ones where Brand Referenced is No and a competitor is referenced. Those pages become your target list for backlink services, and you send them to a Grid to plan backlink outreach by priority.

Reach the editors and site owners behind each page

Contact enrichment finds the editors, bloggers, site owners, and list authors behind each target page. Each contact gets outreach copy written for that page, so our backlink services work like an outreach SEO service with a reason to reply.

AirOps Placements table filtered to Needs approval, with six proposed placements, each with approve and decline buttons.

Get placements reviewed by people before they go live

Your team and ours review every brief, draft, and placement detail before publication. Assets include guest articles, product mentions in listicles, expert quotes, and updated resources through manual link insertion outreach. That review standard defines a high quality backlinking service.

AirOps chart of Reddit citation share by subreddit, led by r/seogrowth at 6.8% and r/AI_SearchOptimization at 5.8%.

See the communities and videos AI cites

Community and social data show the Reddit threads and YouTube channels that AI answers cite for your prompts. You also see which brands they mention, and you use that intelligence to plan where your brand needs presence.

AirOps campaign with 16 new Reddit opportunities, each showing subreddit, subscribers, target prompts and citation share.

Choose how your offsite program runs

Run Offsite workflows with your own team, or let the AirOps team run outreach, placements, and reporting as a fully managed service. Compare link building pricing by measured lift. A fair backlink price comparison weighs what link building services cost against citations earned.

How we measure backlink services

Every placement is logged and attributed to changes in AI visibility and pipeline. You judge backlink services by citations, mentions, share of voice, and revenue, with rankings still tracked. That is the fair way to judge the cost of link building.

AirOps Mention Rate by week with a Placement live marker, rising from 5.8% to 8.4% the following week.

Log every placement on your visibility timeline

Each listicle placement or buying guide mention is tracked as an event on your Insights charts. You correlate every event with changes in citations and clicks. Each SEO backlink service engagement gets the same event log, so you see what every placement did.

See which placements moved AI visibility

Lift is reported by prompt and topic for each placement from our backlink services. Co-mention rate for a cited page can jump after the brand is added to that article.

AirOps Themes table of top sentiment drivers, led by workflow automation at 15% volume with a 99.9 sentiment score.

Track share of voice and sentiment in AI answers

Mention rate, citation share, and sentiment are tracked against competitors by topic and platform. Coverage includes AI answers that cite Reddit threads and YouTube videos.

AirOps Reddit campaign chart showing a 14.0 percentage point increase in cumulative mention rate by Day 9 across 2 engaged threads.

Connect offsite work to pipeline and revenue

Campaigns capture a baseline before action and measure a post-action window, so results tie to pipeline and revenue. A where did you hear about us form at sign-up captures 5-10x more AI-sourced traffic than analytics alone.

Start your backlink services with a citation audit

Begin your audit for the pages that AI cites in your category and see where backlink services start for you.

Pricing Plans

Solo

For individuals building content for one brand or project.

ChatGPT Insights Only
35,000 Tasks for Content Production
1 Brand Kit, 3 Knowledge Bases
Basic CMS & SEO Integrations
Community & Live Chat Support
Single-User Access

Pro

For small teams building content for one brand or project.

Insights Across 7+ Answer Engines
100,000 Tasks for Content Production
1 Brand Kit, 5 Knowledge Bases
CMS, SEO, AEO, Social & Project Integrations
Community & Live Chat Support
Unlimited Seats for Your Team

Enterprise

For organizations building enterprise-grade content and tailored solutions.

Custom Prompts & Pages Limits
Multiple Regions, Personas & Languages Tracked
Custom Agent Builds
Custom Task Limits
Unlimited Knowledge Bases & Brand Kits
Dedicated Account Manager & Training
1:1 Expert Onboarding
Unlimited Seats & Collaboration Functionality

"We were able to focus our energy on the highest-value initiatives for the business in a matter of weeks."

Nick Fairbairn
SVP of Growth, Chime

“We set out to change the narrative around Sanity in AI search, not just show up more often. Staying the brand the models name most, and climbing in the categories that matter, is exactly the signal we were after, and we can see it happening week to week.”

Richard Lawrence
Principal, Agentic Operations & Growth Marketing, Sanity

“If we wanted to 10x the growth we were starting to see, we needed a system that handled SEO, AEO, content production, all of it. AirOps was the first to actually deliver results.”

Shani Mithani
Head of Growth, Venn

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does link building cost with backlink services?

Backlink services set link building prices by scope, and how much backlinks cost depends on publisher authority, traffic, and niche competitiveness. Link building cost per link rises with content writing and digital PR, while a monthly backlink building service bills link volume as a retainer. AirOps offers two models: Offsite workflows on the platform, or a fully managed service. Book a call to set your scope.

What is included in a backlink package from backlink services?

Backlink services bundle research, outreach, content, and placements into backlink packages. An AirOps engagement covers citation-gap targets, contact enrichment, personalized outreach, reviewed content, and reporting on AI visibility lift. When you compare link building services packages, check what each one measures. A backlink building package earns its backlink packages price through citations and mentions by prompt.

Is it worth paying for backlinks?

Paying for links is worth it when AI engines cite the pages you land on. The key question for any link-building provider is whether its links are cited by the models. A cheap backlink service lowers your SEO link building cost and wastes it when no model uses the page. Dofollow links pricing and backlink cost say little on their own. A high quality backlink service proves lift in citations.

Is buying a backlink illegal, and are backlink services safe?

Backlink services are legal, and the main risk with buying a backlink is a search penalty. Google treats links bought to pass ranking credit as link spam, so a paid backlink service or cheap backlinks put your rankings at risk. Before you buy a backlink service, ask how it earns placements. AirOps does not sell links and earns every placement through outreach that people review.

What is the difference between natural and paid backlink placements?

A natural backlink service earns links because editors find your brand useful to readers. Paid link building services pay publishers for placement, and Google treats links bought to pass ranking credit as link spam. Teams that buy outreach backlinks or buy link building services for ranking credit carry that risk. Mentions correlate 3x more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks, across more than 21,000 brand mentions analyzed. AirOps does not sell links.

How do you outsource link building to backlink services?

Backlink services take on targeting, outreach, and reporting when you outsource. Backlink outsourcing to AirOps starts with a scope call, then our team runs backlink outreach services on the platform or as a fully managed service. Your team keeps reviews and judgment calls. Before you hire any outreach SEO agency or back link building services, compare link building platform pricing against proven lift.