The HOTH alternative
A HOTH alternative that sells the whole profile.
youtube.com$3,198
microsoft.comfrom$1,599
nytimes.comfrom$799
arstechnica.comfrom$499
mit.edufrom$79
The HOTH is the broadest productised SEO shop in the market: guest posts by DA tier, link insertions, content, managed plans, all under one login. If you want one vendor for everything, that is a real advantage. If what you actually need is authority, you are buying it a placement at a time.
Covered for 12 months: if a package fails, we replace it with a comparable one. see the terms
- 12-month replacement guarantee
- Live in about an hour
- From $79 a year
Publishers in the catalog now
The two models
What you are buying from each.
Both are paid. What differs is what gets paid for, and what a search engine can see afterwards.
The HOTH sells a tier
You pick a DA band, supply anchor text and a target URL, and their team finds a site inside that band and publishes. The band is a promise about a metric, not about a name.
We sell a name
You see the actual publisher before you buy, not a DA band, along with the link count and the age of the oldest page.
Anchor text is the tell
Their process asks you for the anchor. Anchor text you chose is the loudest single signal that a link was bought. Editors wrote ours years ago.
Weeks against an hour
Their premium editorial tier publishes a turnaround around thirty-five days. Ours is about an hour, because nothing has to be pitched, written or approved.
Head publisher
theverge.com
- Does not sell links
- Dofollow
- Placed 2012
- 1,756
- backlinks in total
- 82
- independent sites
The domain name appears in your account as soon as you buy.
$1,299per year
Checked live before you pay
The part that matters
Nobody was paid to place these links.
Every outreach product works the same way: a publisher gets paid and a link appears on a page that did not have one. That is the transaction search engine policy describes. It does not happen here. These links were already on their pages, placed by editors who were never paid.
- No publisher is contacted, paid or asked for anything.
- No page is written, edited or reopened to carry your link.
- An editor wrote the anchor text years ago, so none of it looks like a buyer chose it.
- No one else gets the same backlinks, so the same profile is never pointed at two customers.
Side by side
The HOTH and SeoBoosty, line by line.
Their column reflects what The HOTH publishes about its guest post and outreach products. Nothing here is a judgment about their link quality.
| SeoBoosty | The HOTH | |
|---|---|---|
| What arrives | A full profile: 1 to 2 links no one else can sell you, plus 250 to 1,500 more | One guest post or link insertion |
| Who links to you | Websites that do not sell links | A site inside the DA band you selected |
| The page it sits on | An article an editor wrote years ago | A new article, or an existing page reopened to insert the link |
| Anchor text | Written by that editor, years ago | Supplied by you, with the order |
| Time to live | About an hour | Weeks, and around thirty-five days on the premium tier |
| Published price | From $79 a year, one flat price | From about $175 at DA20+, around $405 at DA50+, $375 for premium editorial |
| Exclusive to you | Yes, delisted at checkout | The site can carry placements for other customers too |
If you want one vendor covering content, technical work and links together, they have the wider shop. If you only need links, this is the different model.
Four real examples and what was in them.
Head publisher, then the number of links that came with it. Every row was a real listing.
- $149
massart.edu
76 backlinks in total · 47 independent sites
- $799
technologyreview.com
142 backlinks in total · 79 independent sites
- $1,299
theverge.com
1,756 backlinks in total · 82 independent sites
- $1,999
microsoft.com
385 backlinks in total · 169 independent sites
Questions
What people ask when they are comparing.
- Is this cheaper than The HOTH?
- Backlinks here start at $79 a year against roughly $175 for a single DA20+ placement, and you get hundreds of links rather than one. Per link the two are not close.
- Can I pick the anchor text?
- No, and that is the design. The anchor is the part a buyer most wants to control and the part that most reliably marks a link as bought. These were written by editors long before anyone was selling.
- Do you offer managed SEO like they do?
- No. This is one product. If you need content, technical work and reporting bundled with links, a full-service shop is the right shape and we are not it.
- Which is faster?
- About an hour against weeks. There is no editor to persuade, no article to write and no queue.
- Which is safer?
- Different exposure. Paying for a placement is the transaction search engine policy describes. Nothing here involves paying a publisher. Neither of us can promise you a ranking.
- Can I use both?
- Yes, and it is a sensible pairing. Their products build a visible presence on named sites; aged backlinks add depth and age quickly.
Put it next to one real listing.
Open the catalog, pick a publisher and see the count, the age and the price before you spend anything.
Covered for 12 months: if a package fails, we replace it with a comparable one.see the terms