Method summary
The Public Evidence Score rates each provider from observable public evidence gathered on stated access dates. Providers enter the ranked table once their evidence coverage reaches the seventy-point threshold mark. Category evidence looks for a dedicated page (C1) and a category price or scope (C2). It also checks category samples (C3) and category terms or publisher rules (C4), as specified at Methodology.
What healthcare services include
Healthcare link building means paid outreach that secures editorial-style placements on third-party sites for medical and wellness organisations. A guest posting unit typically pairs a medically reviewed article with one contextual link pointing at a clinic, condition or treatment page. Digital PR campaigns pitch data stories and expert commentary to newsrooms, which suits hospital networks chasing national coverage. Sellers frame the work as ongoing search retainers, campaign packages or discrete per-link placement products.
Reporter Outreach publishes a dedicated healthcare digital PR page beside a MEDvidi case study from its client work.4 5 Digital Third Coast maintains healthcare search pages and describes an Able Psychiatry recovery engagement on its site.6 PressHERO offers a healthcare solution page within a wider catalogue of industry solution and service pages.7 Stellar SEO publishes a healthcare link building page framed around authority and compliance for medical content.8 Link Building HQ lists healthcare among dedicated industry pages that package outreach placements for sector clients seeking coverage.9
A unit typically includes prospecting, outreach, content drafting, medical review, publication and a replacement term. Content length, authority floors and traffic floors vary by tier, while regulated topics add review steps before publication. Pre-approval routes let buyers review domains before publication, either as standard or on request. Retainer agencies frame the work as ongoing search campaigns, while placement sellers frame it instead as discrete outreach products.
Healthcare copy repeatedly stresses trust and compliance, reflecting the sensitivity of medical advice content.8 7 Sellers describe E-E-A-T framing, YMYL awareness and publisher editorial guidelines for health topics today. Local search and citations matter for practices with physical locations, while press coverage suits hospital brands. Buyers compare authority floors, traffic floors, content review, link attributes and replacement cover across offers. Undisclosed paid placement sits against search-engine guidance, so disclosure practice forms part of the category evidence.
Pricing across the category
Published prices span from five dollars per citation to fifteen thousand dollars monthly for enterprise retainers. Reporter Outreach lists three thousand dollars monthly for seven placements, falling to three hundred seventy-five dollars per placement at the Elite tier.32 PressHERO lists two hundred fifty dollars per link with a DR30-plus floor guaranteed in writing.52 SEO Discovery lists two hundred fifty dollars monthly for five DA30-plus posts per month.69 Larger packs rise to one thousand four hundred dollars for thirty-five DA50-plus posts in total.69 Stan Ventures lists thirty-seven dollars at DA or DR30-plus rising to two hundred forty-seven dollars at the higher tier.77 Stellar SEO lists two hundred ninety-seven dollars at DA30-plus and three hundred ninety-seven dollars at DA40-plus.78
Local citations are the cheapest units: Local Citation Services lists five dollars for fifteen citations and ten dollars for forty.40 EIN Presswire lists one hundred forty-nine dollars per release, falling to sixty-seven dollars per release in large bundles.27 MonkeyLinks lists three hundred fifty dollars for five links rising to one thousand eight hundred dollars for twenty-five.44 The HOTH lists one hundred seventy-five dollars at DA or DR20-plus rising to three hundred forty-five dollars at 40-plus.80 Retainers dominate agency selling: Searchbloom starts at three thousand dollars monthly, while Siege Media starts at eight thousand.66 73 What drives the spread is authority tier, traffic floors, content review, link attributes and replacement cover. The benchmark table above shows the cohort medians used by the price basket comparison.
How buyers evaluate healthcare providers
Pre-approval practice is the first comparison point, since medical publishers apply strict editorial standards. Standard pre-approval appears at MonkeyLinks, Outreach Empress, Outreach Monks, PressHERO, Stan Ventures, SEO.co and ZipSprout.44 47 50 53 11 10 28 Reporter Outreach runs approval through a pitch tracker, while SEO Discovery invites buyers to pick websites.32 69 The placement pre-approval article explains how approval routes differ across the sellers in practice.
Traffic floors come next: Outreach Empress, Stan Ventures, PressHERO and Click Intelligence state visitor minimums beside authority floors.47 77 52 13 Higher floors generally accompany higher prices, since busier pages command stronger publisher fees from buyers. Organic traffic floors describe how sellers measure and present these monthly visitor thresholds today. Authority floors use Domain Rating or Domain Authority interchangeably across the cohort, as explained in Domain Rating and Domain Authority.
Medical review separates health offers from general outreach, since publishers expect clinical accuracy on advice content. PressHERO states that it does not produce medical advice, while MonkeyLinks frames its offer around E-E-A-T.52 43 Link attributes deserve direct confirmation before ordering, because a nofollow or sponsored tag changes what a placement passes. Nofollow links and sponsored attributes set out the markup that buyers encounter on delivery. Replacement guarantees range from ninety days at Outreach Empress to twelve months at several sellers.48 The link replacement guarantees article compares how sellers frame duration and scope in practice today.
Samples and case studies separate proven sector delivery from general marketing claims about reach. Reporter Outreach names MEDvidi and Villa Oasis, while Rise at Seven reports forty Flo Health links.58 62 JBH names Delamere Health and Linkifi describes a Therapy Rooms directory engagement in detail.31 37 Most other members show only general samples or none at all in the evidence. Terms pages reveal refund posture: several sellers state that published links are non-refundable, so buyers weigh that stance against replacement cover. Anchor control varies: some sellers accept exact anchors while others reserve editorial discretion for the publisher. Review profiles and entity registers complete the picture, confirming that the seller trades as claimed and serves clients over time.
Risks and search-engine policy
Google's spam policies treat manipulative link building as a violation, including large-scale article campaigns and undisclosed paid placements.94 Links intended to manipulate rankings breach those policies regardless of niche or sector, and health content receives no exemption.94 Google's guidance on qualifying outbound links asks that paid or sponsored placements carry rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" markup.95 Sellers that default to dofollow on paid units without disclosure sit against that guidance.95
Disclosure practice matters because health placements are usually paid engagements dressed as earned editorial content. Undisclosed paid placement counts as an adverse finding under claim-integrity grading. Category-specific risks add a further layer beyond search policy for buyers to weigh very carefully indeed. Medical advice content faces advertiser restrictions, publisher medical-review gates and jurisdictional limits on health claims. Health pages frame their offers around E-E-A-T and YMYL expectations, reflecting publisher caution on medical advice. Advertiser rules for medical content shift over time, so dated evidence carries the weight here. Searchbloom refuses prescription-selling sites, while PressHERO declines to produce medical advice itself for clients.68 52 Buyers therefore confirm publisher acceptance, markup practice and review responsibility before committing funds to campaigns.
Why some providers are listed but not ranked
A provider appears in the ranked table only when its evidence coverage reaches seventy points across observed criteria. Coverage sums the weights of criteria with checkable public evidence, so thin files fall below the line. In this scoring round, the two criteria most often unobserved are reputation and value for money. Reputation needs at least five rated public reviews, while value needs a published unit price with an authority floor. A provider missing both criteria loses thirty-eight points of weight before band grading begins. Quote-only sellers without unit prices and young brands without review profiles therefore appear under "Listed, not ranked" with the missing criteria named. Publishing the missing evidence is the route into the ranked table in later rounds.
Method note
Evidence for this category centres on dedicated industry pages that name health clients and describe sector scope. Case studies carry weight when they name the client and show live coverage online. Dedicated pages score above passing mentions, so thin industry name-drops on general service pages contribute little to category evidence.
Limitations
Public pages seldom show placement domains, agreed anchors or the share of links that remain live. Review profiles rarely separate healthcare campaigns from general agency work, so sector-level satisfaction stays largely unproven. As of September 2026, unpublished pricing and private reporting leave value and durability outside public view. Prospective readers therefore see what providers publish, not how individual campaigns perform over time.
Frequently asked questions
What does healthcare link building cost?
Per-link prices run from thirty-seven dollars at low authority floors to over four hundred dollars at higher tiers. Retainers start near one thousand dollars monthly and rise past fifteen thousand at enterprise scope. The benchmark table above shows the cohort medians used by the price basket comparison.
Which providers publish dedicated healthcare pages?
Digital Third Coast, JBH, Link Building HQ, MonkeyLinks and PressHERO publish dedicated healthcare pages. ProStar SEO, Reboot Online, Reporter Outreach, SEO Discovery, Stellar SEO and Rhino Rank do the same. The complete details of each member offer appear in the provider subsections directly above.
How are providers scored?
Each provider carries a Public Evidence Score built from eight weighted criteria, from corporate identity to value for money. The observed weight across the eight weighted criteria forms the published evidence coverage figure. Category evidence adds a dedicated page, stated scope, published samples and written terms together.
What does listed, not ranked mean?
Listed, not ranked means coverage fell below the seventy-point threshold for the public table. The missing criteria are always named beside each entry in the published results table. Fewer than five public reviews or no published unit price are the usual causes. Publishing the missing evidence is the route into the ranked table in later rounds.
Do healthcare placements default to dofollow links?
Product pages generally describe dofollow placements, but the buyer confirms the attribute per order. Nofollow or sponsored markup changes what a link passes to the target page in practice. Replacement terms sometimes trigger when a placement turns nofollow within the cover window period. The written order confirmation remains the reliable record of the agreed link attribute overall.
What does placement pre-approval mean?
Pre-approval lets the buyer review and accept target domains before anything is published live. Some sellers include it as standard, others offer it on request or as a priced tier. Quote-only sellers pass only when a client approval step is described publicly on their sites. The methodology page sets out the complete pre-approval rule with its detailed worked examples.
How often does the ranking update?
Scoring runs in rounds, with each round carrying an identifier recording the month and sequence. A rescore is always published as a completely new round rather than an edit. Machine history entries record every changed band, penalty, score or rank automatically on rebuild.
What replacement cover applies to healthcare links?
Terms range from ninety days at Outreach Empress to twelve months at several sellers in this cohort. Cover usually means restoration of the lost link or provision of a comparable substitute placement. The exact duration and all qualifying conditions sit in each provider's published terms today.
Are health links safe under Google policies?
Google treats manipulative links and undisclosed paid placements as spam regardless of niche or sector. Google's published guidance asks that paid placements carry nofollow or sponsored outbound link markup. The published spam policies grant health content no exemption from any of those rules. The risks section above cites the full governing search-engine documentation for general reader reference.
How is a correction requested?
Corrections go through the published contact route, with a link to the evidence supporting the change. All new public pages, prices or terms are checked against the stated access-date rule. Accepted changes appear in the next published scoring round once all verification checks complete. The editorial policy page describes the entire correction process in complete published detail online.
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