61.7%
of AI citations never named the cited brand
Unlinked mentions · quoted
Brand mention reclamation on pages that already named you
Reclaim unlinked name-checks and turn them into cited URLs — quoted, not a DR cart.
Brand mention work here is finding pages that already name you and asking for a citation — or pitching a newsroom so the name-check exists in the first place. It is quoted under digital PR. There is no public Worldwide Backlinks dollar figure and no portal SKU. If you need a new contributed article, use guest posts from $125.
Enquire Now — quoted to the brief. No public DR grid.
By the numbers
10,000+
backlinks placed since the Richmond desk opened
15+
languages for native-language publisher outreach
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
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
04
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
- 01
A shortlist of live pages that actually name you
- 02
QC so comment spam and scrape hosts never hit the report
- 03
Manual outreach to the editor or author
- 04
A live-URL report: page, mention, link or no link, anchor
- 05
Indexing submitted when there is a URL to index
- 06
Replacement or re-ask if a citation we placed is pulled
- 07
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.
Quoted — no public mention SKU
Brand-mention reclamation is Enquire Now. There is no DR20 $125 mention row and no portal checkout. Guest posts stay on the published English table if you actually need a new article. Full editorial rates live on pricing.
Wikipedia, adult, CBD, crypto, directories, custom
Quoted to the brief. Same white-hat QC. White-label uses the published rates plus branded reports — no extra SKU.
Reclaimed mentions vs a new guest post
Both can produce a hyperlink. Only one starts from a sentence a stranger already wrote. Use the table when a vendor tries to sell you both as the same cart.
Swipe to compare every column →
| Criteria | Brand mentions (quoted) | New guest post |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | A live page that already names you | A blank brief and a pitch |
| Editor’s job | Add a citation to an existing line | Accept a whole article |
| Price model | Enquire Now | $125–$450 English DR bands |
| TAT | Editor’s calendar — not a 20-day SLA | ~2 weeks typical on DR work |
| If it drops | Re-ask or replace on comparable terms | Replacement on a comparable host |
| When we say no | Spam host, stale scrape, or no real mention | Host fails QC or refuses the URL |
What we will not sell on this URL
A guaranteed number of reclaimed links. Editors ignore mail. Some pages are nofollowed on purpose. Some authors have left. We will quote effort and report outcomes — not a conversion percentage we invented.
English guest-post SKUs attached to a mention line item. DR40+ at $250 (QJE1WN) is a contributed article. If you need that, order it on guest posts. If you need a newsroom story, stay on digital PR.
Common questions
Do you sell a brand-mention package with a public price?
No. This desk is quoted under digital PR. There is no Worldwide Backlinks mention SKU and no clients.worldwidebacklinks.com checkout for name-checks.
Is this the same as digital PR?
It sits under digital PR. PR can create a new mention. This page is mostly reclaiming ones that already exist. Same quote form, service Digital PR.
Will every unlinked mention become a dofollow link?
No. Many editors will not add a URL. Some pages are nofollow on purpose. We report what ran.
Do you invent mentions to reclaim?
No. If the crawl is thin, we will say so and point you at guest posts or a PR angle.
How is this different from link reclamation?
Reclamation of a dropped backlink is a different brief — see link reclamation. This page is name-checks that never had a link, or lost only the href.
Can agencies white-label mention work?
Yes. Same quoted process, branded PDF on request, we do not contact your client. No extra SKU.
Does this help AI Overviews?
Named-entity consistency can help a model know who you are. We will not sell an Overview citation as a deliverable. The commercial AI desk is AI backlinks.
Related landings
Send the brand strings and the URLs you already know about
We will say if the crawl is worth a quote or if you actually need guest posts. support@worldwidebacklinks.com · 1 800 751 994 · Richmond VIC 3121.