Editorial backlinks

The page has a title, a short summary, and a body a person can read. The product is named. The page is filed under one or more categories. The dofollow link uses a phrase that already appears in the body, and it is the only URL in that body. After publish, that URL is the record. View the source and the anchor is there.

Both plans include that page and that link. The difference is the badge, the optimization pass, and the pin. The comparison is on pricing.

A directory listing stores a logo, a name, and a link. The page exists to hold the link. A reader who lands there has nothing to follow, and an answer engine has no sentence to quote. The link is a row in a catalog.

Lede Press does not publish that kind of page. The link earns its place because the sentence around it is about the product. Search crawlers and answer engines both read sentences. A page that explains the product gives them something a logo grid does not.

On the $29 plan the article is edited twice, for two kinds of reader that are not people. SEO is for search crawlers: a title that names the product, a summary that says what it does, headings that mark the sections, and the dofollow link in a sentence about the product. GEO, generative engine optimization, is for answer engines. The opening states what the product is, who it is for, and where to go, in lines that can be quoted without the system having to invent the answer.

The free page does not get that pass. It is still a readable article with a guaranteed dofollow link. The extra editing is what the $29 pays for, along with the pin.

The $29 article is also pinned. Lede Press publishes one Pinterest pin that names the product, describes the page, and links to the article URL. The pin sends a person to the article. The dofollow backlink stays the anchor inside the article. The free plan does not include a pin.

SEO agencies commonly charge $500 to $1,000 for a single editorial backlink. Outreach, writing, and the site the page lives on are bundled into that quote. You often cannot see the page until someone sends a screenshot, and you do not control whether it stays up.

Lede Press is the site. The page is published here, in public, the day it is accepted. The price is $29 for the optimized article and the pin, or nothing when your own site displays a Lede Press badge that links back here.

A published link does not promise a Google ranking, a citation from an answer engine, a traffic number, or a movement in domain rating. Those systems make that decision. The thing you can verify is the page: the words, the dofollow anchor, and, on the $29 plan, the pin that points at the page. The disclaimer is the full version of that limit.