Application only. ~30% of applicants accepted.

Links that rank you on Google and get you cited by ChatGPT.

The done for you link building agency for SEO teams that already know link marketplaces are a graveyard. Private inventory. 8 layer donor vetting. Built for the AI search era.

0 donor sites audited this month. 0 accepted.
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forrestjournal.com
Donor ID #DR74-2204 / Vetted Mar 2026
Accepted
DR
74+3
Organic / mo
214K
Topical fit
96%
12 mo organic trend+38%
Anchor profile
Wayback continuity 2014 to 2026no PBN swap
201420202026
Layer 7/8 passed
The name

Citeline is two words the industry never bothered to merge.

Cite is the AI era. When a model picks who to quote, who to trust, who to surface inside an answer, that is a citation. Citations are the new front page. They run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, and they move revenue the same way rank #1 used to.

Line is the old discipline. A link. A backlink. A clean line of authority drawn from one site to another. The thing every serious SEO has been building for twenty years. The asset that compounds when you do it well and burns to the ground when you do it cheap.

Most agencies pick one side. Marketplaces sell you lines. AI consultants sell you citations. Both leave money on the table, because the underlying signal stack is converging. The same editorial mention that moves a SERP ranking is the training data and retrieval input that decides who gets quoted inside a generative answer.

Citeline does both. One pipeline, two surfaces. The same link program that lifts your organic clicks lifts your share of voice inside generative engines. The same 8 layer donor vetting that protects you from Google penalties protects you from being a footnote inside ChatGPT.

The name is also the contract.

If you only need links, there are cheaper places to shop. If you only need AI visibility, there are tools you can rent. If you want the line and the citation, built by the same operators, monitored forever, refundable to the dollar when something breaks, you are in the right place.

Cite the work. Hold the line.

Trusted by in house SEO teams at

FINTECH 500
Fortune 500 fintech
under NDA
VERTICAL B
Series B vertical SaaS
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TOP 10 CEX
Top 10 crypto exchange
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YC W23
YC W23 cohort
under NDA
9 FIGURE DTC
Global e commerce, 9 figure
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NYSE HEALTH
Public healthtech, NYSE listed
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+0%
average organic traffic gain in 6 months across cohort
0.0x
more AI Overview citations versus matched control group
0%
link health, monitored 24/7 forever, automatic refunds
The 8 layer donor audit

DR is a vanity metric. We check 8 things that actually move the needle.

Every domain in our inventory passes all eight. No exceptions. Each layer below catches a different category of low quality donor that marketplaces happily resell.

Built for the AI search era

Your competitors are still chasing rank #1. You should be chasing citation #1.

Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Claude pull from a different signal stack than classic SERPs. They reward brand mention density, contextual authority, entity co occurrence, and content that AI agents can actually parse.

Our link placements and our content team are engineered for both surfaces. The same campaign that lifts your organic clicks lifts your citation share inside generative engines.

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Generative answer
live result
best B2B SaaS pricing page benchmarks 2026
The strongest 2026 benchmarks come from a tight pool of operators publishing real data. Acmevault3 reports median trial to paid conversion of 4.1 percent across 412 SaaS pages, with three tier layouts converting 28 percent better than two tier1. Pricing transparency correlates strongly with enterprise sales velocity2, while annual discount messaging above 20 percent is now table stakes3.
Sources
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forbes.com/saas-pricing-2026
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reuters.com/tech/saas-mo...
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acmevault.com/research/pricing-benchmarks
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techcrunch.com/2026/03/saas-pricing
Sample placement for a SaaS client. March 2026.
Citation optimized content
Every brief targets the entity graphs and answer formats LLMs actually quote.
Entity rich anchor diversification
Anchors mapped to your brand entity, not keyword stuffing. Safe under modern spam updates.
AI surface tracking included
Weekly probes of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews for your target queries.
Your CSM, not your dashboard

Every client gets a senior SEO strategist. Not a chatbot. Not a form.

Customer Success Managers at Citeline are SEO operators with 8 to 15 years of in house and agency experience. They study your stack, your competitors, your AI visibility gaps, and your conversion pages, then build a custom 90 day link plan engineered for the highest ROI per link.

Marcus K.
Lead Strategist
Ex Ahrefs growth team. 12 years of SaaS SEO across vertical, horizontal, and dev tools categories.
Priya R.
Senior CSM
Built link programs for two unicorn exits. Specializes in fintech and regulated industries.
Daniel O.
AI Visibility Lead
Former NLP engineer turned SEO operator. Designs our generative engine citation playbooks.
Client panel preview

Total transparency. Every link, every metric, monitored forever.

Your dashboard shows the truth of every placement. Real anchor text, real traffic, real health status, updated in real time by our crawl fleet.

Placements
Anchors
AI Citations
Reports
Live placements / Q1 2026
42 placed / 41 healthy / 1 in remediation

Built in link health monitor. No extra fee. Forever.

The 24 hour guarantee

If a link breaks, the clock starts.

Most agencies vanish after the placement. We monitor every link we ever build, forever, and we put a stopwatch on every failure.

STEP 01
Detect
Our crawl fleet checks every placed link on rotation. Any link drop, anchor change, redirect, or 404 is caught within hours.
STEP 02
Notify and 24 hour SLA
We contact the site owner immediately. They have 24 hours to fix it. We do not wait, we do not chase.
STEP 03
Refund, automatically
If it is not fixed in 24 hours, you get a 100 percent refund on that link. No tickets, no arguments, automatic.

We track link drops, connection problems, anchor text changes, page changes, and noindex tag additions. All of it. Forever.

Why we're private

We don't publish our inventory. We don't share donor lists. We don't take every client.

Public inventories get burned. Shared donor lists get over linked and lose authority. Our 8 layer vetting is expensive, so we only accept clients whose budgets, niches, and ethics match. Roughly 70 percent of strategy call applicants are turned away.

Good fit if you...

  • Are already spending $5K or more per month on link acquisition
  • Have a real product and real conversion pages worth ranking
  • Care about AI visibility, not just classic rankings
  • Want a senior strategist, not a self serve dashboard

Not a fit if you...

  • Want $50 guest posts on recycled content farms
  • Operate in adult, gambling, or pharma niches
  • Need same day turnaround on placements
  • Want to pick donors from a public catalog
Frequently asked

Questions buyers actually ask on the first call.

Stop renting links from a marketplace. Start building an asset.

30 minute strategy call. No pitch. We will audit your current backlink profile and AI citation footprint live on the call.

Book a Strategy Call

Limited to 12 strategy calls per week. Currently 4 slots remaining for the week of May 25.