The HOTH alternative
A HOTH alternative that sells the whole profile.
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.
- One buyer per package
- Live in about an hour
- From $79 a year
Head publisher
theverge.com
- No rate card
- Dofollow
- Placed 2012
- 1,756
- links in the package
- 82
- independent sites
The name is released to your account the moment the package is yours.
$1,299per year, one buyer
Read live before you pay
Publishers in the catalog tonight
The two models
What each of you is actually buying.
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 publisher before you buy. Not DA 50+, but the masthead, along with how many links the package carries and how old the oldest page is.
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. Ours were typed by editors years before you existed.
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.
The part that matters
Nobody was paid to place these links.
Every outreach product in this market works the same way underneath: money reaches a publisher, and in return a link appears on a page that did not have one. That transaction is the thing search engine policy describes. It does not happen here. The links were already on their pages, put there by people who were not paid and did not know anyone would ever sell anything.
- No publisher is contacted, paid or asked for anything.
- No page is written, edited or reopened to carry your link.
- The anchor text was typed by an editor years before you arrived, so none of it reads like a brief.
- One buyer per package, 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 judgement about their link quality.
| SeoBoosty | The HOTH | |
|---|---|---|
| What arrives | A whole profile: 1 to 2 links nobody else can sell you, and 250 to 1,500 behind them | One guest post or link insertion |
| Who links to you | Publishers with no rate card | 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, before you existed | 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, per package | From about $175 at DA20+, around $405 at DA50+, $375 for premium editorial |
| Exclusive to you | Yes, one buyer then delisted | 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 the link itself is the whole point, the model here is the different one.
Four packages, and what came with them.
The publisher at the head, then the size of the profile that came with it. Every row was in the catalog.
| Price | Head publisher | Links | Sites linking |
|---|---|---|---|
| $149 | massart.edu | 76 | 47 |
| $799 | technologyreview.com | 142 | 79 |
| $1,299 | theverge.com | 1,756 | 82 |
| $1,999 | microsoft.com | 385 | 169 |
Questions
What people ask when they are comparing.
- Is this cheaper than The HOTH?
- A package starts at $79 a year against roughly $175 for a single DA20+ placement, and the package carries 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; packages 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.