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Cadence Analytics
ANALYTICS
9 mo
Recovered from a toxic profile, then took the category term.
+41DR
+313%traffic
68links
Link building for B2B software only
Scale your SaaS organic growth with data-driven backlinks
We earn editorial links from the publications your buyers actually read, route that authority into the pages that convert, and show you the maths every month. No PBNs. No marketplace lists. No black box.
DR 60+ typical placement
Every domain pre-approved by you
Links stay if you leave
Authority graph — live
acquiring
1,247Links placed in 2025
+218%Median organic lift
0PBNs or link farms
0
Editorial links placed in 2025
0
Median organic lift at month 9
0
Client retention past 12 months
0
Average Domain Rating gained
Trusted by growth teams at software companies from seed to Series C
FFlowdesk
CCadence
NNorthbeam
SStackly
PPerch HQ
LLatchpoint
OOrbitly
RRunbook
FFlowdesk
CCadence
NNorthbeam
SStackly
PPerch HQ
LLatchpoint
OOrbitly
RRunbook
Why software is different
Most link building fails SaaS for the same three reasons
Software buyers research in places general link builders never look, the money pages are rarely the ones that attract links, and the sales cycle is too long for vanity metrics to mean anything. We built the whole operation around those three facts.
Software buyers, not generic traffic
A DR 78 lifestyle blog does nothing for a devtools company. We source domains your ICP already reads, then check audience overlap before we pitch.
Nothing you'd hide from an auditor
No PBNs, no link farms, no rented networks. Every placement is a permanent editorial link you could show a Google reviewer or a due-diligence team.
Forecast, then variance
You get a target link count and a projected traffic curve at kickoff, then a monthly note explaining exactly where reality diverged and why.
Authority routed on purpose
Links are only half of it. We plan where earned authority flows internally so it lands on pricing, comparison, and integration pages.
The process
How a link gets from a SERP to your pricing page
Five stages, run the same way on every account. You can see exactly where each placement sits at any point.
01
Audit
We pull your full referring-domain profile, flag toxic patterns, and map which pages currently hold your authority.
02
Target
We pick the pages that convert, not the ones that are easiest to rank, and set an anchor plan for each.
03
Prospect
Manual sourcing from live SERPs and citation trails. Nine-point vetting rejects roughly six in ten domains.
04
Earn
Personalised pitches from named humans. Content written by specialists who understand your category.
05
Report
A live link log you can filter, a monthly variance note, and traffic modelled against pipeline.
Pricing calculator
See a real number before you talk to anyone
Move the sliders. The estimate updates live, including a modelled authority and traffic outcome for the term you pick.
Build your retainer
8
224
Established industry media · from $520 per placement
Your estimate
$6,400/mo
Modelled outcome at month
6
Domain Rating
Added monthly sessions
Modelled from median results across comparable SaaS accounts. Your starting authority, site health, and competition will move these numbers. We confirm a real forecast after the audit.
Client reviews
What growth leads say after nine months
Each of these accounts started with an audit and a smaller link target than they asked for.
We'd burned two agencies that sold us DR without traffic. The Rank Achievers audited our old profile first, told us which 40 links to disavow, and only then started building. Nine months in, our comparison pages own page one for terms our sales team actually asks for.
+41DR+312%organic68links
Marissa Feld
VP Growth, Cadence Analytics
The prospecting is the part nobody else gets right. Every placement lands on a page a real buyer reads — infrastructure blogs, engineering newsletters, procurement roundups. Not one PBN, not one paid-links footprint. Our legal team reviewed the whole link log and signed off.
+29DR+186%signups94links
Devin Okoro
Head of SEO, Northbeam Cloud
Seed-stage, no brand equity, competing with companies twenty times our size. They built us a digital PR angle out of our own product data and got it picked up by four industry publications in one quarter. That single campaign still sends us demos.
+34DR+240%traffic51links
Priya Raghunathan
Founder & CEO, Stackly
Weekly Loom walkthroughs, a shared link log we can filter, and a Slack channel where someone answers within the hour. I've never had to chase a report. When a placement slipped a month, they told me before I noticed.
+22DR+119%MQLs43links
Tomas Lindqvist
Demand Gen Lead, Perch HQ
What sold me was the refusal. I asked for volume and they talked me down to half the links at twice the quality, then showed me the projection maths for both. Nine months later the smaller number outperformed what I'd originally asked for.
+37DR+274%organic59links
Anaïs Berger
CMO, Latchpoint
They treat link building like a channel with a forecast, not a craft project. We get a target link count, a projected traffic curve, and a monthly variance note explaining where reality diverged. My CFO finally stopped calling SEO a black box.
+31DR+205%traffic77links
Jordan Whitfield
Director of Growth, Runbook.io
FFlowdesk
CCadence
NNorthbeam
SStackly
PPerch HQ
LLatchpoint
OOrbitly
RRunbook
FFlowdesk
CCadence
NNorthbeam
SStackly
PPerch HQ
LLatchpoint
OOrbitly
RRunbook
Results
Before and after, with the timeline attached
Every number below is measured against the month the retainer started.
N
Northbeam Cloud
DEVTOOLS
12 mo
Engineering-led content earned links the sales team could quote.
+29DR
+186%traffic
94links
S
Stackly
PRODUCTIVITY
8 mo
Seed-stage brand, zero equity, four tier-one pickups in one quarter.
+34DR
+2350%traffic
51links
Free backlink audit
Two working days, no call required
Tell us the domain and we'll send back what we find: toxic patterns, anchor imbalance, the pages leaking authority, and the three placements we'd chase first.
Full referring-domain teardownEvery link classified by relevance, health, and whether it's doing anything.
Competitor gap analysisThe domains linking to your three closest rivals but not to you.
A first-90-days planWhat we'd build, in what order, and what it would cost.
Prefer to talk first?
30 minutes, strategy only, no deck
Audit requested
We'll pull apart and send findings to within two working days. If we don't think we can help, we'll say that instead.
Questions
The things people ask before signing
First placements land in weeks three to five while prospecting matures. Meaningful ranking movement usually shows between months three and six, depending on how competitive your terms are and how healthy your existing profile is. Anyone promising faster is either buying links or guessing.
No. Software is the only vertical we run, and that focus is the product. Our prospect database, publisher relationships, and vetting criteria are all built around B2B software buyers — which makes us worse than useless for a local plumber and considerably better than a generalist for you.
They stay. Every placement is a permanent editorial link on a page we don't control and don't rent. There's no subscription holding your authority hostage — if you leave, you keep everything you earned.
Yes, and most clients do for the first quarter. You get a shared link log with the domain, its metrics, the target page, and the planned anchor. Reject anything you don't like; we'll replace it at no extra cost.
By the number and grade of placements you need each month, plus any campaign work on top. There's a calculator on this page and a full breakdown on the pricing page — no discovery call required to see numbers.
Find out what your backlink profile is actually worth
Free audit, two working days, and an honest answer about whether we're the right fit.
No pitch deck. A 30-minute look at your current profile and what we'd do differently.