10 minutes of work. 30 publisher offers in 10 days.
A global software engineering company pasted its list into GEOboom, added its website address and pressed start. GEOboom read every page, found the right people and ran the link building and mention outreach. The client only says yes or no to the offers.
- 10 minof the client's time to set up and launch
- 30publisher offers in 10 days
- 14%reply rate: 30 of 215 publishers contacted
- ~2 ha month to approve offers from here on
- Client
- Global software engineering company, IT services: fintech, automotive, healthcare, retail tech. Name withheld at the client’s request.
- Goal
- Be named on the “best software development companies” lists and vendor directories that buyers and AI assistants consult.
- Input
- 825 URLs the client already had, plus its website address. No brief, no content, no agency.
- Timeline
- List pasted 14 Oct 2026. First offers the next day. 30 offers by day 10. Sending runs until about 11 Nov.
- Publishers
- 215 contacted, DR 21–89. Offers from free exchanges to $150 paid editorial updates.
- Cost
- About $210 for the first month at list price. Publisher fees paid directly to publishers.
URLs pasted in 825
free · AI read every page
Fit for the brand 360
free · off-topic and competitor pages dropped
Qualified domains 240
free · ranked, best value first
Contacted 215
paid · 215 × $0.50 = $108
Offers back 30
14% of the 215 contacted
Importing, reading and filtering are free: 610 of the 825 URLs never cost a cent.
Before and with GEOboom
Doing it by hand
- A specialist builds the list, checks each page, finds emails, writes pitches
- Weeks of work before the first reply
- Follow-ups and replies tracked in a spreadsheet
- Cold email goes out from the company’s own domain
- Or a marketplace sells you its catalogue of sites, picked before you arrived
Ten minutes, then approvals
- Paste your list, add your website address, press start
- First offers the next day, 30 offers in ten days
- Every offer in one inbox with DR, price, a drafted reply and a deal record
- Sent from GEOboom’s warmed-up mailboxes, never your domain
- Written only to pages where a mention of you belongs
Bring your list. Ten minutes to launch.
Your first emails go out the day your account opens; offers start coming the next day.
The client and the goal
The client is a global software engineering company in the IT services sector: custom development for fintech, automotive, healthcare and retail tech, thousands of engineers, competing with other large outsourcing vendors.
Its goal was to be named on the pages buyers and AI assistants consult when they shortlist a vendor: “best software development companies” lists, rankings and vendor directories, ideally in the top positions. Most of those pages belong to publishers, not to the company. Getting onto them is link building and mention outreach: find the right page, find the right person, ask, negotiate, keep track of what was agreed.
Done by hand, that is weeks of a specialist’s time per campaign. The client wanted it done without hiring anyone and without learning a new tool.
What the client put in
Three things, and about ten minutes of one person’s time.
- A list of 825 URLs. Pages that already rank the client’s competitors: listicles, “top 10” posts, vendor directories. The list came from the client’s own SEO tooling and was pasted into GEOboom on 14 October 2026. A spreadsheet, a backlink-tool export or any plain list works the same way.
- The company’s website address. Nothing else to write. GEOboom reads the site itself to understand what the company does and what it should be listed for, and builds the pitch from that.
- Ten minutes. Setup, the paste, pressing start. From that point the campaign ran on its own.
What the client did not do: write new content, hire an agency, brief a freelancer, buy from a link marketplace, or set up mailboxes.
How GEOboom ran it
Six steps. The client did the first and the last; GEOboom did everything in between.
- ClientPaste the list and press start10 min825 URLs and the website address.
- GEOboomRead every pageAll 825 pages read against the client's site: where a mention belongs, and where it does not. 17 pages behind logins or blocked crawlers were left out.
- GEOboomRank the publishers240 qualified domains, ordered by what a placement there is worth: best value first.
- GEOboomFind the personVerified editorial contacts at 215 of those domains. 25 domains had nobody reachable.
- GEOboomWrite, send, follow upA pitch adapted to each page, sent from GEOboom's warmed-up mailboxes, with follow-ups until the publisher replies or the sequence ends.
- ClientApprove the offers~2 h / monthEach reply lands in one inbox with the publisher's DR, the offer, a drafted answer and a running deal record. Approve or skip.
Why the offers are relevant
The offers came from pages where the client belongs, because the filtering happened before the first email went out, not after the replies came in.
Dropped · 465 URLs
- Off-topic pages
- Competitor sites and blogs
- Link farms, thin directories
- Pages that already mention the client
Read by AI against the client’s site. Nothing here gets an email or costs a credit.
Kept · 360 URLs on 240 domains
- Vendor rankings in the client’s verticals
- Automotive, healthcare, fintech, retail
- “Best … companies” lists, buyer guides
- Ranked by what a placement is worth
The pages a buyer or an AI answer consults before shortlisting a vendor.
Proof · what came back
- Top automotive V2X companies · DR 89
- Best AI healthcare developers · DR 70
- Best AI-augmented testing companies · DR 54
- Leading data engineering firms · DR 21
Every offer is on a page where the client fits.
Marketplaces and done-for-you services sell you their catalogue of sites, assembled before you arrived. GEOboom starts from your market: it reads every page against your own site and writes only where a mention of you makes sense. A 14% reply rate here is not 30 random replies; it is 30 publishers in the client’s industry, each already looking at a specific page.
What publishers actually offered
The inbox on day ten, filtered to threads in negotiation. Each row is a publisher who replied, with its domain rating and the offer on the table: free exchanges, link insertions from $75, listings from $100, one sponsored package. Typical paid offers sit between $40 and $200.
Three of those threads, word for word.
An enterprise AI site offers a mention in its implementation roadmap post in return for a dofollow link from the client's site. No money changes hands.
A U.S. technology publication sends its price list: brand mention $40, link placement $90, contributed article $100. Dofollow, editorial review.
A market research publisher offers a paid editorial update at $150 on its “Top automotive V2X companies” article, subject to editorial review.
None of these threads needed a person to find the page, find the contact or write the opening email. The client’s part starts at the reply: read the DR and the offer, approve or skip, and GEOboom’s drafted answer goes out.
What the client does now, and what comes next
The client’s work from here is about two hours a month: opening the inbox, reading each offer next to the publisher’s domain rating and price, and approving or skipping. GEOboom drafts every answer and keeps the deal record.
No placement has gone live yet at the time of writing. The 30 offers are in negotiation and the campaign is still sending: the queue runs until about 11 November, with more replies expected each week. Once a placement is agreed, GEOboom monitors the page and flags it if the mention, link or anchor changes.
We will update this page when the first placements are live.
What a campaign like this costs
At list price, this campaign’s first month comes to about $210: the $150 plan plus 58 extra credits.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Plan | $150 a month: 50 credits, 3 warmed-up mailboxes, unlimited users and projects, SEO data and placement monitoring included |
| Each publisher GEOboom writes to | 0.5 credit ($0.50), with every contact at that domain and all follow-ups included |
| Extra credits | $1 each |
| This campaign: 215 publishers | 108 credits: 50 included in the plan, 58 extra. About $210 for the first month |
| Publisher fees | Paid by the client to the publisher directly, not included above. Here they ranged from free exchanges to $150 |
The same 215 publishers through other routes: a link-building VA costs $900 to $1,400 a month plus 15 to 30 hours of managing them; an outreach tool plus your own team starts at $250 to $660 a month on a 12-month contract plus 40 to 70 hours of work; reseller links run around $350 each, on sites the reseller picks. Figures from the GEOboom pricing page, October 2026.
What to apply, whether or not you use GEOboom
A backlink-gap or listicle export is a better prospect list than any purchased database: the page exists, it ranks, and the editor already covers your category.
Dropping 56% of the list before the first email is what made the 14% reply rate useful. Every reply was on a page where the client belongs.
Send from separate warmed-up mailboxes. Deliverability problems should never touch the domain your customers email.
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Questions, answered
Something missing? .
Did any placements go live?
Not at the time of writing. The 30 offers are in negotiation and the campaign is still sending. We will update the page when placements are live.
Why count the reply rate against 215 and not 825?
Because 825 is the client's raw list. GEOboom read and filtered it for free and wrote to 215 publishers; 30 of those replied with an offer, which is the 14%.
Did the client write a brief?
No. The client gave its list and its website address. GEOboom read the site and built the pitch from it.
Whose mailboxes send the emails?
GEOboom's. Each account gets its own warmed-up mailboxes; the client's domain is not used for cold outreach.
Can I bring a list from Ahrefs, Semrush or SE Ranking?
Yes. Any list of URLs works: a spreadsheet, a backlink-gap export, or a list of pages that rank your competitors.
What does the client pay for?
The $150 monthly plan and 0.5 credit for each publisher GEOboom actually writes to. Reading and filtering the list is free. Publisher fees are paid to publishers directly.
How this case study was prepared
The campaign described here runs in a live GEOboom account. All numbers are taken from the account's campaign dashboard and inbox on 24 October 2026, ten days after the list was imported. Screenshots are cropped to the relevant part of the screen; the client's name and GEOboom's sending addresses are blurred, publisher names are shown as they appear. The client reviewed the article and asked not to be named. Prices are GEOboom's public list prices in October 2026 and may change.
Oleksii Andrusenkoco-founder of GEOboom, CEO of GrowPad. Updated October 27, 2026.