The HOTH

Published 2026-09-07 · Updated 2026-09-09

Contents

Background
Services
Pricing
Terms and buyer protection
Reputation
Delivery evidence
Operational footprint
Value for money
Penalties
Category evidence
Frequently asked questions
History
See also

The HOTH is a search-engine optimisation provider selling outreach placements, press distribution and managed SEO services. The company gives a Saint Petersburg, Florida address and trades as Next Net Media LLC.²¹ Its current Public Evidence Score appears in the infobox for round 2026-09-pes1, dated 7 September 2026.

Background

The company states that the HOTH brand began in 2010, and LinkedIn records the same year.³ ⁴ Florida records list Next Net Media LLC as active under L16000076454 at the same address.¹ The Better Business Bureau profile dates incorporation to April 2016, naming Marc Hardgrove and David Martin.⁵ An Inc.com profile instead gives 2013, while archived captures begin in September 2010 with the link-building blog.⁷⁶ The contact page lists the Saint Petersburg suite and phone, while Dun and Bradstreet ties the domain to that company.²⁸

Services

As of September 2026, Link Outreach guest posts span four tiers from DA or DR 20+ to 50+.⁹ Link Insertions add links to published articles at DR 20+, 45+ and 60+, with English anchors only.¹⁰ Platinum links target DR 50+ placements, while Exclusive Media links cover United States news sites.¹²¹¹ Press releases, content syndication and Digital PR bundles sit beside earned-media and managed SEO programmes.¹⁶¹⁵¹⁴¹³ Local SEO, citation cleanup and reputation management appear for location-based businesses as of September 2026.¹⁸¹⁷ A reseller programme offers unbranded reports for agencies selling the catalogue under their own names.¹⁹

Pricing

As of September 2026, Link Outreach lists $175, $225, $345 and $405 per link across its four authority tiers.⁹ Link Insertions list $200, $250 and $450 per link for DR 20+, 45+ and 60+ tiers respectively as of September 2026.¹⁰ Platinum lists $375 per link while Platinum Plus lists $1,000 for a homepage mention in September 2026.¹² Exclusive Media Silver lists $300 and Gold lists $450, with lower unit prices at higher volumes.¹¹ Press tiers list $150, $500 and $1,000 per campaign, while syndication lists $99 per campaign as of late September 2026.¹⁶¹⁵ Digital PR bundles list $1,500, $2,750 and $3,995 monthly with a three-month minimum commitment as of September 2026.¹⁴ Managed SEO starts at $1,000 monthly, AI Discover spans $1,500 to $5,000 and citation cleanup lists $399 as of September 2026.¹³¹⁷ The link-building hub instead shows $405 for Platinum DR 50+, against $375 on the product page.²⁰¹²

Terms and buyer protection

Public terms state that purchases are final, then offer a 30-day satisfaction route through a support ticket.²¹ Link Outreach and Insertions carry six-month replacement cover, rising to twelve months on discount or subscription tiers.⁹¹⁰ Listed turnarounds run about 30 days for outreach and insertions, 35 days for Platinum and two to three weeks for press.⁹¹⁰¹²¹⁶ Subscriptions renew monthly with a 15-day cancellation notice, while Digital PR bundles require a three-month minimum.²¹¹³¹⁴ The terms send disputes to arbitration in Saint Petersburg under Florida law within one year.²¹

Reputation

As of September 2026, Trustpilot records 4.5 from 272 reviews, with 9 left in the previous twelve months.²² G2 records 4.3 from 46 reviews, while the Clutch profile shows 2.0 from a single review as of September 2026.²⁴²³ A Maps pin for the office address shows 4.7, with no review count displayed.²⁵ No consumer alert or incentivised-review flag was found on any of the review profiles.²²²⁴²³

Delivery evidence

The company states that outreach is manual and that placements run on genuine third-party sites.⁹²⁰ Three case studies describe traffic gains for a car dealer, an agency and a perfume retailer without naming domains.²⁸²⁷²⁶ The link-building hub adds result statistics for two named businesses without linking full studies.²⁰ No live third-party placement link was available to check, since sample answers carried no addresses.⁹

Operational footprint

LinkedIn reports 51 to 200 people tied to the Saint Petersburg organisation in its company-size range.⁴ Contact routes comprise phone, email, support ticket and booking pages beside the physical office.² No named people appear on the careers page and no live-chat route is published.²⁹² Published turnarounds run near 30 days for outreach products, and terms call estimates non-binding.⁹²¹ The Bureau profile adds a second Saint Pete Beach address alongside the main office.⁵

Value for money

As of September 2026, the 30-floor outreach tier lists $225 per link and the 50-floor tier $405.⁹ Both tiers include provider-written content with six-month replacement cover plus a written niche-match promise.⁹ The five-link Digital PR bundle lists $1,500 monthly with about 60 percent do-follow on the product page.¹⁴ No insertion tier sits at the 30 floor, so that slot carries no published price.¹⁰ The methodology page describes how the published price basket compares these priced units across providers.

Penalties

Buyers get no public route to approve the placement domain before publication for outreach and insertion products.¹²⁹¹⁰²¹ The Platinum page answers the approval question with no, while a blog describes approval before publication.¹²³⁰ Two blog lines describe client approval of links before publication, against the product-page answers.³⁰³¹ Press offers writer-side article approval before distribution, which covers copy rather than placement domains.¹⁶ No public copy guarantees ranking, traffic or authority-metric increases, with terms disclaiming such guarantees.⁹¹⁵²¹³² Headline promises of anytime cancellation and guaranteed results contrast with notice rules and as-is terms wording.³²²¹⁹ The company states that it uses no private networks, placing articles through manual contact with genuine sites.⁹²⁰¹¹ No contrary registrant, hosting or template evidence was found for this article.⁹ No consumer alert or platform sanction was found on the Trustpilot, G2 or Clutch profiles.²²²⁴²³ Exclusive Media states dofollow placements with no sponsored tags, while Digital PR discloses about 60 percent do-follow.¹¹¹⁴ Guest-post and insertion pages leave the link attribute unstated, with no live samples showing a silent default.⁹¹⁰

Category evidence

A dedicated link-building hub prices eight catalogue products and states manual outreach without private networks.²⁰⁹ Guest-posting and insertion pages carry their own prices, scopes and replacement terms for each tier.⁹¹⁰ Platinum and Exclusive Media pages price high-floor links, with the latter stating dofollow and no sponsored tags.¹²¹¹ Digital PR, press and syndication pages list bundles, outlet counts and distribution windows for earned media.¹⁴¹⁶¹⁵ Local, citation and reseller pages cover map, cleanup and unbranded programmes, with two anonymised case studies behind them.¹⁸¹⁷¹⁹²⁸²⁷ No dedicated industry offer pages were found beyond managed-service mentions of legal, health, SaaS and ecommerce verticals.¹³ Insertions accept casino work while outreach refuses it, and car-dealer and travel mentions lack dedicated pages.¹⁰⁹²⁸³²³³

Frequently asked questions

What does The HOTH sell, and where is it based?

The HOTH is a search-engine optimisation provider selling outreach placements, press distribution and managed SEO services.³² The company gives a Saint Petersburg, Florida address and trades as Next Net Media LLC.²¹ Florida records list Next Net Media LLC as active under L16000076454 at the same address.¹

What does a HOTH guest post cost, and what is included?

As of September 2026, Link Outreach lists $175, $225, $345 and $405 per link across four tiers.⁹ Link Insertions list $200, $250 and $450 per link for DR 20+, 45+ and 60+ tiers.¹⁰ Both product lines include provider-written content with six-month replacement cover and a niche-match promise.⁹

Are HOTH links dofollow, and can buyers approve sites first?

No public route approves the placement domain before publication for outreach and insertion products.⁹ Exclusive Media states dofollow placements with no sponsored tags, unlike the unstated guest-post default.¹¹ Guest-post and insertion pages leave the link attribute unstated, with no live samples shown.⁹

What replacement or refund terms apply?

Public terms state that purchases are final, then offer a 30-day satisfaction route through a ticket.²¹ Link Outreach and Insertions carry six-month replacement cover, rising to twelve months on subscriptions.⁹ Subscriptions renew monthly with a 15-day cancellation notice, while Digital PR needs three months.²¹¹⁴

How is The HOTH scored?

The current Public Evidence Score for the provider appears in the infobox beside the article lead. The methodology page describes how published evidence across the stated criteria forms the single published figure shown beside the lead. Readers comparing providers find the same published method behind each provider figure displayed here.

History

This article was created from the evidence gathered for scoring round 2026-09-pes1 during September 2026. The revision log beside the article records later changes with their editors and reasons.