Local SEO · Local PBN Links
The map pack doesn't rank your homepage. It ranks your Business Profile.
Almost every local link points at a website. These point at the Google Business Profile — the thing the map results actually rank.
- The map pack reads your Profile. — That's the target these links are aimed at.
- The CID URL is a required field. — Ask the last link vendor you paid whether they ever wanted it.
- Local relevance, not volume filler. — Placements are picked for metrics and subject match.
- Priced per link, on the order screen. — You pick how many. The button prints the total before it spends.
- What comes back is a photograph. — A screenshot per placement, and the next section explains why.
- Optional article from the company brief. — Written from the client's own site, so nothing gets invented for them.
- Indexing says unavailable. — There's no URL to submit, so we label it instead of hiding it.
- Local clients only. — Without a Business Profile there's nothing here to point at.
Point links at the Business Profile,
the thing the map pack actually ranks.
Your client ranks fine in the normal search results.
The map pack still won't show them.
Those are two rankings, decided by two different things.
Normal results lean on the website. The map pack leans on the Business Profile.
So links pointed at the homepage were never going to move the map.
These point at the Profile, from sites in the same subject and area.
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Why most local link spend does nothing
Most local link spend lands on the surface that wasn't the problem.
Blog posts. Homepage links. Another retainer month.
The organic rankings look fine. The map pack still doesn't move.
That's because the pack is decided largely by the Business Profile, and almost nothing you bought pointed at it.
It isn't a conspiracy. Homepage is the easy field on every order form. Nobody asks for the CID URL.
Now the part that would annoy you later if we didn't say it now. The deliverable is a screenshot, not a link. We do that deliberately, to avoid spam footprints and keep the network's domain metrics clean and authoritative.
A network anyone can list is a network that gets found and deindexed. Then everybody's links stop working at once, including last year's.
You can have checkable URLs or a network that keeps working. If checkable URLs are non-negotiable, buy the citation pack instead.
Find out whether the Profile is the problem first.
Run the grid from a free account. If the pack is already green across every block that matters, don't buy this.
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How an order runs
One required field makes this a different product.
Most of this looks like any link order. One field makes it a different product, and it's the one nobody else asks for.
- 01
Pick a local client
Local only, because the thing it points at only exists for local businesses. Every order files against the client, so the report lives somewhere permanent.
- 02
Give it the Business Profile CID URL
Required. That's the target — the Profile, not the site. If no link product has ever asked you for this, that's the point being made.
- 03
Set the keyword and anchor per link
One keyword-and-target pair per placement. Import them from Campaign Builder, the rank tracker or Search Console instead of retyping.
- 04
Optionally, have the article written
Written from the client's company brief, crawled from their own site, with a topics-to-avoid list. It will not invent a service, award, licence or coverage area.
- 05
Placements get built on relevant properties
High-metric and matched to the subject. Charged on acceptance and refunded if the order can't be placed. The total prints on the order screen first.
- 06
Screenshots come back in a branded report
Inline, with your logo, PDF and Drive export. Screenshots rather than URLs, for the reason above — not as a surprise after payment.
What you end up holding
Screenshots. On purpose. Here's why.
Picture the next report you send. Your logo at the top, the placement pictured where a URL would normally sit.
- A screenshot per placement
- In the product's own words: "The deliverable is a screenshot, not a link. We do that deliberately, to avoid spam footprints and keep the network's domain metrics clean and authoritative."
- A branded report with the images inline
- Your logo, the keyword and target for each unit, PDF download and Google Drive export.
- A status you can read
- Submitted, in progress, completed — or failed and cancelled, with the charge returned.
- An honest note about indexing
- Labelled unavailable, because a screenshot can't be indexed. No greyed-out button pretending otherwise.
- A permanent record against the client
- Filed under Local SEO reports, so a year later you can still show what shipped and when.
The screenshot is the receipt. The price is on the button.
Charged when the order is accepted, and refunded automatically if it can't be placed. Nothing recurring.
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The countable part
What it costs and what it does.
- Cost
- Priced per link at order time. The total prints on the order screen before you confirm — it depends on the property you pick.
- Quantity
- 1 to 100 links per order.
- Target
- The client's Google Business Profile, supplied as a CID URL. Required.
- Client type
- Local clients only. Without a Business Profile there's nothing to point at.
- Placements
- High-metric private-network properties, matched to the client's subject.
- Article
- Optional, written from the client's company brief and its exclusion list. Priced separately and shown on the button.
- Deliverable
- A screenshot per placement, shown inline in a branded report. Not a live URL.
- Indexing
- Unavailable, and labelled that way. A screenshot deliverable cannot be indexed.
- Reporting
- Under Local SEO reports. Branded HTML, PDF, Google Drive export, kept against the client.
- Refunds
- Charged on acceptance, refunded automatically if the order can't be placed.
- Delivery date
- We don't publish one, here or anywhere else. There's no delivery data we'd stand behind, and a made-up estimate costs more trust than saying nothing.
The button in the app always prints what it is about to spend. This product is fulfilled through an outside network, so a catalogue change can move the per-link figure.
What it costs to find out
Add the Profile CID. Read the per-link price before you order.
Making an account and adding the client's Business Profile needs no card. The Order button prints the price before it spends — set by the property you pick.
Creating the account is free. Not a trial that takes your card "for verification" — no card at all, and no call with anyone.
And nothing expires on a timer. Credits sit in the account until you spend them.
When you're ready to spend
$0.35–$0.50
per credit, improving with the volume you commit to
See the full pricing page →What you are not signing
No contract, no minimum, no quote and no call. Buy credits monthly if the volume suits you, or buy a block once and owe nothing after it.
Every deliverable in the platform prints its credit cost on the button that spends it, so you always price the work before you run it.
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Before you ask
The questions we'd ask before pointing this at a client.
- What do these links actually do for SEO?
- They point at the Google Business Profile instead of the website, and they carry local relevance while they do it. The map pack is decided substantially by the Profile, which is why the order requires its CID URL as the target.
- Why aim at the Business Profile instead of the website?
- Because they rank different things. Your site's authority feeds the normal local search results. The three results on the map are decided largely by the Profile, so a homepage link was never aimed at the thing that wasn't working.
- Will this put my client in the map pack?
- We won't promise that, and nobody honestly can. What we can tell you is which surface the links point at and what came back for each one. Scan the grid first, then again later, and judge it on the before-and-after.
- Why a screenshot instead of a live URL?
- What you're buying is the placement, not the picture of it. The picture exists so the network stays unlisted, and an unlisted network is one that still has metrics worth buying next year.
- Is this safe? Private networks have a reputation.
- The reputation comes from footprints — same template, same interlinking, placements anyone can list, content nobody would read. That's exactly what the screenshot policy and the subject matching exist to avoid.
- Do I have to use your writing?
- No. The article is optional and you can supply your own. Ours is written from the client's company brief and its exclusion list, so it won't invent a service or a coverage area they don't have.
- What does one actually cost?
- The price is per link and prints on the order screen before you confirm. It depends on the property you pick. Charged on acceptance and refunded automatically if it can't be placed.
Point links at the Business Profile,
the thing the map pack actually ranks.
Here's the part that has nothing to do with us. Every month of homepage-only link spend is another month the Profile sits outside the pack. Those calls land two towns over.
So picture two versions six months out. In the first, more homepage links and a renewal conversation about "local SEO" that never once named the Profile. In the second, a branded report of placements aimed at the CID, next to a grid showing whether the grey pulled back.
Scan first. If the Profile already holds the top across every block that matters, don't buy this.
P.S. — I know why you're hesitating, and it isn't the price on the button. It's the screenshot. So read the trade once more: no URL means nobody can list the network, and that's why these domains still have metrics worth buying. Make the account, add the CID, and look at the number on the button.
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