LinkBuilder.com — AI SEO / GEO
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M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%
Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall diverges, with an important name-collision catch: ChatGPT classed it '(a) present' (Reuters-distributed PR, founder Roman Malyshev quoted externally, LinkedIn + Chrome Web Store) — but this appears to conflate the target with the well-known linkbuilder.IO. Claude rigorously disambiguated: 'the independent reputation belongs to linkbuilder.io (UK white-hat agency since 2016, Clutch 13 reviews, clients Udemy/SoFi/TripAdvisor — that would be (a)); the entry's linkbuilder.COM is a separate paid-link/guest-post marketplace with NO independent reviews/press — entirely self-sourced' (b). Scored to the listed .com domain: self-sourced-thin. · provisional
M2 · Method transparency 4 · 16%
Publishes a 7-step workflow — "Request → Customized GEO Strategy → Full Site Audit → Capturing User Intents → On-Page Optimization → Off-Page Optimization → KPI Tracking → Reporting" — with dashboard KPI tracking, though the GEO-specific mechanism stays high-level. source ↗
M3 · Evidence verifiability 3 · 23%
14 linkable case studies with specific bounded metrics (e.g. flight-compensation: "1811% increase in organic traffic, from 84 to 1605 monthly users", top-3 keywords "from 13 to 220") plus Ahrefs screenshots — but clients are anonymised ("a Spanish startup"), so none can be spot-verified, and the cases are traditional-SEO traffic wins, not AI-citation evidence. source ↗
M4 · Pricing openness 4 · 12%
Published priced tiers with Buy Now / order paths — Small Business $833/mo (annual), Medium $2,500/mo, GEO "from $2,000/mo", Enterprise "from $10,000/mo" — plus exact à-la-carte link prices; the GEO tiers are quoted as "from $X" rather than one clean list. source ↗
M5 · AI reachability 4 · 10%
robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (5982 words to a non-JS reader); no llms.txt. source ↗
E1 · Segment fit 2 · 12%
editorial — Scales to Enterprise at $10,000/mo and targets businesses of all sizes plus agencies/SEO resellers; a Small Business plan exists, but the agency is not primarily built for the small-business buyer. source ↗
E2 · Promise cleanliness 3 · 18%
editorial — Some overclaim about certainty in uncontrollable systems ("When AI consistently cites your content", "consistent relevance growth") and a "30-day money-back guarantee" (a refund, not a ranking guarantee — does not trip the cap); no guaranteed rankings, fake reviews, or manipulation claims. source ↗
◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: present-and-accurate — PR/LinkedIn/Chrome Web Store (but likely conflates .com with the reputable linkbuilder.io) · Claude: self-sourced-thin — the listed .com is a separate paid-link marketplace with no independent evidence; reputation belongs to linkbuilder.io · recorded, not averaged
Genuinely transparent — a published 7-step process, linkable case studies with hard numbers, and buyable pricing — but two things pull it down: the case studies are anonymised SEO-traffic wins rather than named AI-citation proof, and the agency skews up-market with SMB as the exception, not the centre. A capable, buyable shop whose centre of gravity is larger than the register's segment. Own-visibility (M1) pending the probe.
Focus: generalist combine · -0.50 applied to composite
SMB-primary: pass
Self-serve offer: pass
GEO substance: pass
Live business: pass
What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.
Data as of 2026-06-30