Respona moved toward a done-for-you placement service. LinqDesk is software your team runs, at a flat monthly price.
Try LinqDesk free| Respona | LinqDesk | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Managed placements, priced per link | Software you run |
| Typical cost | From $100 per placement | Free, then $49 to $199 per month |
| Who does outreach | Their team | Your team and your agents, from your mailboxes |
| Control over targets | Approval based | Complete, with your own quality floors |
| Client-level budgets | Not applicable | Built in with rollover |
| Margin for an agency | Thin, you resell their links | Yours, you own the process |
| Publisher relationships | Theirs | Yours, kept in the publisher library |
| Best fit | Teams with budget and no bandwidth | Agencies building a link operation |
You have client budget but no team capacity at all, and would rather buy guaranteed placements than build an outreach process, accepting that the sites and the margin are theirs.
You want to own the process, keep the margin, control exactly which sites represent your clients, build a publisher library that compounds, and scale without paying per link.
Respona's answer to "we have no time to do outreach" is to do it for you and sell you the result. LinqDesk's answer is agents inside your own workspace: a replies agent that answers interested prospects and agrees prices, an orders agent that writes the article and chases the published link, a pipeline agent that keeps each client's month supplied, and a browser agent that fills forms on sites that never publish an email. The bandwidth problem goes away without the margin going with it.
Every placement bought through a service builds that service's list. Every placement won through LinqDesk lands in your publisher library with the price and the contact, and is offered to the next client in one click. After a year the library is the most valuable list your agency owns.
Zero setup and a guaranteed result for a team with budget and no capacity. If you need ten links next week and nobody to pitch, a managed service delivers.
Client environments. Pick a client and the whole tool scopes to them: pipeline, prospects, replies, budget, won links, NAP profile and the report. Nothing mixes.
Discovery with real vetting. Google footprints, competitor backlinks, the publisher library and pasted vendor sheets. Every site gets authority, spam score, US traffic, tier-1 share, top keywords and topic fit, a Pass, Maybe or Reject against your own floors, and its way in researched.
A contact path for every prospect. Email goes to the pipeline. A form, an application or a claimed listing goes to Manual tasks, where the browser agent fills it from the client's NAP profile.
Sending from your mailboxes. A daily quota per mailbox spread across your window, follow-ups before new first emails, a stop the moment anyone replies, bounce recovery, and a workspace do-not-contact list.
Four agents. Replies, pipeline, orders and browser, each Off, Ask me first or Automatic, each with a daily cap, every action on the Agents page and the prospect's timeline.
Orders and money. Asking prices read out of replies, a max cost per link per client, order stages from agreed to paid, and a budget table with rollover.
Monitoring and proof. Every won link re-checked weekly as a real browser, losses and nofollows emailed to you, and a one-click white-label PDF.
Export your prospects to CSV or xlsx and drop them into LinqDesk's bulk import, which maps columns automatically. Add each client as its own environment with a budget and a target. Paste the client's NAP tab so the profile fills itself. Connect the mailboxes you already send from, or run in manual mode and keep sending from your mail app while LinqDesk records every send and reply. The agents start in Ask me first mode, so nothing goes out that you did not approve until you switch them to Automatic.
Bought placements vary in quality. Whichever route you take, judge the site on real traffic, topical relevance and whether the content reads naturally. LinqDesk measures every site the same way before it becomes a prospect.
Many agencies run their own outreach for most links and buy a few placements for hard niches. Bought links can be logged in LinqDesk with their cost so client budgets stay accurate, and a pasted vendor sheet is measured before you buy.
The agents do the routine work: answering replies, negotiating inside the client's limit, writing and sending the article, chasing the editor, filling forms. You approve, or switch them to Automatic. The publisher relationships stay yours.
Create your workspace, connect a mailbox, add your first client. Five minutes.
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