Link Building training

Link building training for regulated in-house teams

A working day on earning authority in sectors where most of the usual tactics are either ineffective, against the rules, or both. Your team leaves able to tell a good opportunity from an expensive mistake.

The syllabus

What the day covers

The spine of the session. The examples and the live accounts we work in are yours.

What a link is worth

Assessing relevance, authority and risk, and why the headline metric is the least useful part.

Spotting a bad vendor

The patterns that indicate a link seller will eventually cause a problem, and the questions that expose them.

Earning links in a hostile sector

The approaches that still work when most publishers will not touch your category.

Digital PR as the engine

Why the most durable links come from work that was not primarily about links.

Internal links

The authority you already have and are not distributing properly.

Auditing and disavowing

Reviewing an existing profile, and the much narrower set of cases where a disavow is right.

Why it is different here

Most link building advice is unusable in your sector

Taught with your market’s constraints built in.

Search for link building guidance and you will mostly find tactics that assume anyone will link to you. In gambling, finance and adult, a large share of the open web will not, the vendors who promise otherwise are usually selling something that will hurt you, and your own compliance team will veto half of what remains. Training is as much about recognising what to refuse as about what to pursue.

Adm insights
Taught by the agency, not a training company

The people in the room are the ones doing the work

Our trainers are the specialists who run client campaigns in regulated markets the rest of the week. That is the whole proposition: when somebody asks what happens in an awkward edge case, the answer comes from having been in one rather than from the next slide.

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FAQs

Link Building training, answered

Who is this training for?

In-house marketing teams, and the people around them who need to brief or review the work. We run sessions for complete beginners, for experienced marketers moving into a regulated sector for the first time, and for senior teams who want a second opinion on their approach. The scoping call sets the level.

Is the training specific to regulated industries?

Yes. That is the reason to come to us rather than a general training provider. Every module is taught with the constraints of your market built in, because the tactics that work in an unregulated sector are often the ones that get a regulated brand into trouble.

Where does the training take place?

At your offices, at ours in London or Essex, or remotely. Hands-on work needs your team in their own accounts, which works equally well in a room or on a call, though a full day in person tends to hold attention better than a full day on video.

How long is a session?

Most are a single day, or two half-days if taking a whole team off the floor at once is difficult. Shorter formats work for a single module, and longer programmes work when a team is being brought up from a standing start.

How many people can attend?

Up to about twelve. Beyond that the hands-on half stops working, because there is not enough time to get round everyone’s screen. Larger teams are usually better split across two sessions by level.

Do you certify attendees?

No. We are not an accreditation body and a certificate from an agency means very little. What attendees leave with is the deck, their own worked files and a written summary of what we found in their accounts.

What does it cost?

It depends on the format, the number of attendees and how much of the syllabus you need, so the scoping call comes before the quote. We would rather size it honestly than publish a price that turns out to be wrong for your team.

Can you train our team and run our campaigns?

Yes, and a fair number of clients do both. Training a team to brief and review well tends to make the agency relationship better, not redundant. It also works the other way round: some clients train up in order to bring work in-house, and that is a legitimate reason to book.

Independently judged

A multi-award-winning agency

European Agency AwardsIntegrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026European Search AwardsBest Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026UK Digital Excellence AwardsStandout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026UK Paid Media AwardsBest Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026UK Agency AwardsBest New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025UK Search AwardsBest Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024European Agency AwardsIntegrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026European Search AwardsBest Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026UK Digital Excellence AwardsStandout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026UK Paid Media AwardsBest Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026UK Agency AwardsBest New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025UK Search AwardsBest Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024
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