A brand mention is a page that names you. Sometimes it already has a hyperlink. Often it does not. Worldwide Backlinks treats unlinked-mention reclamation as a digital PR job: we find the live URL, confirm the name-check is actually about you, and ask the editor for a citation when that request is honest. This page is not a guest-post leftover list with the headline swapped to “mentions.” It is not English guest post DR20+ at $125. Enquire Now. If the only asset is “please write about our tool,” start on guest posts.
Brand mentions vs backlinks — when a name-check is not a link →
What brand-mention reclamation is on this desk
Reclamation means a stranger already wrote your name. The work is to turn that name into a cited URL when the editor will still take the edit, or to report that they will not. We do not invent mentions. We do not scrape a mention tool and blast “kindly add our homepage” to every blog that used the string once in 2019. We open the live page, check the sentence, and decide whether a human editor would find the request reasonable.
That is a different object from digital PR that creates a new story. Mentions can sit inside a PR brief when the angle is a journalist query or a newsroom follow-up. They can also sit next to unlinked mentions as the educational version of this page. The money URL is this one. The parent desk is digital PR. Both stay quoted.
Ahrefs and Semrush can list referring pages and unlinked brand strings. They cannot tell you whether the page is a comment spam farm, a scraped bio, or a real article. DataForSEO still runs before we treat a yes as a win. If the host is a slot shop, we will say so instead of padding a report with junk citations.
Worldwide Backlinks was founded in 2022 in Richmond, Victoria. 10,000+ placements, 15+ languages, 40+ countries. Those facts describe outreach muscle. They are not a case-study percentage about mention lift. We will not invent a conversion rate for turning name-checks into links.
Who should brief brand mentions instead of a guest post
Brands that already get written about
Press, reviews, and roundups already use your name. You want the citation added where the editor still owns the CMS — not a second article about the same fact.
Teams building an entity graph
Unlinked name-checks still help brand SERPs. Linked ones help the URL. Say which outcome you care about so we do not pitch the wrong desk.
In-house SEO that refuses mention spam
You have seen vendors sell “500 unlinked mentions reclaimed.” That product is a mail-merge. This page will not sell it.
From crawl to a cited sentence — or an honest no
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Inventory live name-checks
You send known URLs and the exact brand strings. We add a crawl of obvious public mentions. Comment spam and scrape sites come off the list before anyone is emailed.
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Qualify the page
Is the mention about you. Is the page indexed. Would a reader believe a link belongs in that sentence. If not, we skip it.
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Ask like a source, not a link vendor
A short, specific request to the editor or author. No blast sequence. No “SEO package” language in the email.
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Report what actually changed
Live URL, whether a link was added, the anchor if there is one. If a citation we placed is later stripped, we replace or re-ask on comparable terms. We cannot force a CMS we do not run.
What a brand-mention quote typically includes
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A shortlist of live pages that actually name you
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QC so comment spam and scrape hosts never hit the report
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Manual outreach to the editor or author
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A live-URL report: page, mention, link or no link, anchor
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Indexing submitted when there is a URL to index
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Replacement or re-ask if a citation we placed is pulled
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Quoted fee — Enquire Now, not a DR band
Mentions are not listicles, directories, or leftover guest posts
A listicle is a new or existing roundup that includes you among peers. That is a placement format and it is also quoted. A directory submission is a listing you apply for. A guest post is a new article you supply. Brand-mention reclamation starts from a sentence that already exists. Do not flatten all four into “links.”
Journalist queries (HARO, now Connectively) can create mentions. That work lives on HARO / Connectively under the same digital PR desk. We do not sell a mention quota as a Connectively package.