What does LinkGecko do?

It finds the sites AI answers cite when buyers ask about your category, shows which of them mention your competitors and not you, and drafts the outreach to get you listed.

Where do the link targets come from?

Most come from the answers themselves: review sites, best-of lists and threads that an AI answer cited for a real buyer question. Journalist and podcast requests that fit your product make up the rest.

Does LinkGecko use link directories?

Not spam directories, link farms or paid link networks. A listing on a respected review site still counts, and the plan includes one when AI answers cite it.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. LinkGecko starts with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime.

Link Building for Agencies: Get Clients Cited in AI Answers

THE PROBLEM

How AI answers pick brands

A link report full of domain ratings cannot explain why an AI answer names the client's competitor. The answer cites specific pages, and the client's placements may sit nowhere near them. An agency that can show those pages leads the strategy conversation.

WHAT YOUR BUYERS ASK

best seo agency for b2b saas

link building agency for ai search

how to get my brand mentioned in ai answers

Each answer leans on pages you can pitch

WHAT IT COSTS

What missing a cited page costs

When a client screenshots an answer naming a rival, a backlink count reads as busywork. The retainer comes under review. A rival agency arriving with a citation report can then take the account.

WHO THE ANSWERS RECOMMEND TODAY

The usual winner

The runner-up

You, before outreach

Who gets named, and how often

THE FIX

How LinkGecko finds link targets

LinkGecko runs across your whole book with unlimited brands on one plan. Each client gets the cited pages that name its rivals, an outreach email for each, and a shareable report. The Auto-agent re-checks every client weekly.

Target lists built from evidence

Sources builds each client's list from the pages its answers cite, flagged where a rival appears. Your outreach team starts from proof instead of a metrics export.

Drafts your writers can send

Every target arrives with an outreach email, every cited thread with a reply, and every matched journalist request with a pitch. Writers edit and sign each one.

Reports clients can read

Each analysis has a shareable link with answer share, competitors, cited pages and the full transcript. Clients see the answer that named their rival, then the plan to change it.

Many clients, one credit pool

Brands are unlimited, each with its own history. The 50 monthly credits come from one pool, and you decide which clients get a run.

Each capability has its own section on the features page.

WHAT MAKES AGENCY DIFFERENT

Where AI answers find their sources

Agency link work is judged by what the client can see. An answer naming the client is visible in seconds, while a domain rating change needs explaining. Across many brands you also learn which kinds of sites get cited in each vertical.

STEP BY STEP

Steps from first run to placement

1

Run your first analysis

You enter your domain or a buyer question like “best seo agency for b2b saas”. The agent maps your competitors, drafts the questions buyers ask, and puts each one to live AI answer engines.

2

See which pages decide

Each answer is kept in full with the pages it cited. Sources flags every cited page that names a competitor and leaves you out.

3

Send the outreach

The plan drafts an email for each cited site worth pitching and a reply for each quoted thread. Journalist and podcast requests come from a separate feed, matched to your brand with a pitch attached.

4

Track what lands

The Auto-agent re-runs every week and emails what changed. Answer share across runs shows whether new mentions moved the answers.

ANSWER SHARE, RUN OVER RUN

TERMS, PLAINLY

AEO, GEO and link building, defined

Answer engine optimization (AEO) gets your brand named when an AI assistant answers a question like “link building agency for ai search”. Generative engine optimization (GEO) pursues the same goal under another name.

Both depend on third-party pages. AI answers often cite reviews, lists and threads ahead of vendor sites, so link building here means earning mentions on the pages answers read. SEO still ranks your own pages in a list of links.

THE PLAYBOOK

How agencies use LinkGecko

01

Open a pitch with the prospect's cited pages

Running the prospect's domain before the call surfaces the roundups and threads behind their competitor's mentions. That list makes scope and price easy to set.

02

Sell a citation audit as the first project

One analysis plus a walkthrough call makes a fixed-price first engagement. The target list it produces becomes the brief for a link retainer.

03

Tie each placement to an answer

Monthly reports can pair every new placement with the answers that cite that page. Clients then judge links by recommendations won rather than by a domain score.

04

Keep client link work clean

LinkGecko does not suggest private blog networks, link farms or spam directories. A listing on a respected review site still makes the plan when answers cite it for the client's category.

QUESTIONS

What agencies ask us

How many clients fit on one plan?

Brands are unlimited, and the plan includes 50 credits a month across all of them. You choose which clients get a run and when.

Can I share reports with clients?

Yes. Every analysis has a report link with the answers, competitors, cited pages and plan. A Markdown export also fits your own report templates.

Do my clients need their own accounts?

No. You run every brand from your workspace and share results through report links.

Can our internal tools pull the data?

Yes. MCP and a REST API expose each client's cited pages, link opportunities and answer share to your own tooling.

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