Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend a tool in your category. Or run the same question through Google and read the AI Overview.

You get a handful of names.

Those names come from pages written by other people. Not from your website.

Here’s the uncomfortable part. You can publish the best page on the internet about your product and still never appear in the answer, because the model is reading third-party pages when it builds a shortlist.

The 10 services below exist to get your brand onto those pages.

What you need to know up front

• AI answers are assembled largely from third-party sources. Where your brand is mentioned elsewhere matters as much as what you publish.
• Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands and found branded web mentions correlated with AI Overview visibility at 0.664. Referring domains: 0.218.
• Ranked lists, comparisons and reviews are easy for a model to lift from. Several providers now sell those formats specifically.
• Pay-per-placement is easier to budget than a monthly retainer when you’re testing the channel.
• Judge a publisher by real organic traffic. Domain rating on its own tells you very little.

Why AI systems cite some brands and not others

There are exactly two ways a model can know about your brand.

It either absorbed information during training. Or it pulls pages at query time and summarizes what it finds.

You can’t influence the first one after the fact. That ship sailed.

The second is where these services operate. Retrieval happens against live pages, and a brand named in a well-structured comparison piece is easy for a model to lift into an answer.

Written pages aren’t the only input, either. In a follow-up Ahrefs study of 75,000 brands, YouTube mentions showed the strongest correlation with AI visibility of any factor, at roughly 0.737.

If video production feels out of reach, photo-to-video tools can turn existing product images into short clips you can publish alongside your written placements.

Service	How you pay	Best for
Respona	Per placement, fixed by tier	Guaranteed placements in chosen formats
uSERP	Per link plus monthly program	B2B SaaS with real budget
Siege Media	Content retainer	Earning links through original research
Page One Power	Custom campaign	Enterprise sites with approval layers
FATJOE	Per order, by DR tier	Agencies buying at volume
Stellar SEO	Custom, entity-led	Legal, finance and health
Rhino Rank	Per link, by DA tier	Steady low-cost monthly volume
Authority Builders	Catalog purchase	Picking the exact publisher
Outreach Monks	Per link, manual outreach	Mid-market volume
Loganix	Approval-based	Buyers who want veto rights

The 10 services

1. Respona

Best for: Teams that want the whole process handled, in a format they choose
Pricing: From $100 on DR 20+ up to $500 on DR 60+, content, outreach and publishing included

You supply the landing pages, the anchors and the publisher tier. Respona handles finding the publisher, writing the piece and getting it live.

Pricing is per result rather than monthly. You can also specify the format, asking for a listicle, comparison or review instead of a generic mention. Standard delivery is 28 days, or 14 on express, and every placement you order is guaranteed to go live within the agreed timeframe. Volume discounts start from $1,500 a month.

2. uSERP

Best for: B2B SaaS and enterprise brands with a real budget line
Pricing: $600 to $900 for DR 60+, $250 to $375 for DR 20 to 59

uSERP publishes its rates, which is rare at this end of the market.

Engagements open with a three-month commitment before moving to a rolling monthly arrangement. That rules it out for anyone running a small test.

3. Siege Media

Best for: Earning links through original research
Pricing: Content retainer

Siege works from the content side, producing original research, data studies and visual assets that other publications choose to reference. The links are earned rather than negotiated.

The upside is a content library you own alongside the coverage. The downside is speed and cost, because it’s slower than anything priced per placement.

4. Page One Power

Best for: Large organizations with brand approval chains and legal review
Pricing: Custom campaign

Operating since 2010, Page One Power scopes every campaign individually around competitive research and resource-style link acquisition. Nothing comes off a fixed menu.

Onboarding takes noticeably longer than any off-the-shelf service here. That’s the trade-off for the customization.

5. FATJOE

Best for: Agencies buying at volume
Pricing: Per order, by Domain Rating tier

FATJOE has sold white-label outreach from the UK since 2012, ordered through a self-serve dashboard built for agencies.

Its managed packages now include brand listicle and brand review placements aimed specifically at AI mentions, which is a useful signal of where the market is heading. You choose a DR tier, not a named publication, so site-level control is limited.

6. Stellar SEO

Best for: Legal, finance and healthcare
Pricing: Custom, entity-led campaigns

Stellar has been running outreach since 2012 and appeared on the Inc. 5000 in both 2024 and 2025.

It uses an entity-driven methodology that applies generative engine optimization thinking to publisher targeting. Campaigns are custom-scoped, so it’s not the place for a quick one-off order.

7. Rhino Rank

Best for: Predictable monthly volume
Pricing: Per link, by DA tier

Rhino Rank keeps the offer simple: curated link insertions and guest posts, secured through manual outreach rather than networks.

Placements come with a replacement guarantee if a link drops off, which makes monthly planning predictable. The authority ceiling sits lower than the enterprise agencies above, so treat it as a volume play, not a flagship placement.

8. Authority Builders

Best for: Inspecting the exact publisher before you spend
Pricing: Catalog purchase

Every publisher in the catalog is screened for genuine organic traffic, and you see the site before spending anything.

Plenty of providers reveal the site only once the link is live. That alone makes this worth a look. Popular listings do get used heavily, so check existing outbound links before you commit.

9. Outreach Monks

Best for: Mid-market volume
Pricing: From $99 for DR 20, scaling by DR, traffic and niche restriction

All outreach is manual with no private blog networks. Bulk and white-label rates are available for recurring orders.

The company also sells brand mention placements aimed at AI answer engines alongside its standard guest posts.

10. Loganix

Best for: Buyers who want veto rights
Pricing: Approval-based, you pay only for what you approve

Browse the publisher database yourself or hand selection to the team. Nothing gets charged until you sign off.

There’s also a journalist-sourced service with guaranteed DR 50+ placements. Those take around two months, because the editorial timeline belongs to the publication, not the vendor.

What to ask before you pay anyone

Which format will you publish in? A mention buried in a how-to guide behaves very differently from a named entry in a ranked list. Not every provider lets you choose.

Do I keep control of the anchor text and destination page?

How are publishers vetted? A high domain rating on a site nobody reads is a number, not an audience.

Then set a baseline. Run 30 to 50 prompts your buyers would actually type, record where you appear, and repeat monthly.

It also helps to understand what foundation models are doing underneath, because retrieval and training influence your brand in completely different ways.

FAQ

Which link building service is best for getting cited by AI?

Respona fits best if you want guaranteed placements in AI-friendly formats at a fixed price per result. Larger budgets built around original content are better served by uSERP or Siege Media.

Do backlinks still matter for AI search?

Yes, though indirectly. The link passes authority to your site. The brand mention around it feeds the third-party pages models summarize.

How much does a placement cost?

Roughly $100 to $500 for most mid-tier publishers, rising to $900 or more at the high-authority end. Rates vary by domain rating, traffic and niche competitiveness.

How long until AI answers start naming my brand?

Allow around 90 days. Pages need to be indexed and re-crawled before they can influence what a model retrieves at query time.

Can I get cited by optimizing my own site instead?

Only partly. Your own pages help with informational questions. Recommendation prompts get answered almost entirely from third-party sources.