Off-page SEO services

Varn’s off-page SEO and digital PR services drive organic growth by creating brand awareness and building high-quality external backlink profiles. The expert Varn team executes bespoke strategies centred on digital PR, AI citation optimisation, and strategic link placements to boost website authority and visibility in both search.

What is off-page SEO?

Working with a bespoke off-page SEO agency is about building your digital footprint through a tactical approach that improves your ability to rank in search engines. This requires a strategy to build quality links to your website and optimise search rankings for your business. Off-page SEO covers links, brand mentions, and content, and Varn is an agency with extensive experience in off-page SEO and digital PR.

If technical SEO is the engine, then the off-page SEO is the fuel to get you ahead of the competition. One of the core elements of off-page SEO is links to your website. This is where another website has linked to your website. Google uses these links as indicators of votes, which represent the quality of a website and this makes links one of the core ranking factors in the Google algorithm and with the rise of LLMs we are seeing examples of how tailored campaigns can have big impacts in AI.

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How can Varn help with your off-page SEO?

Building up a solid external profile of good quality links referencing your site is beneficial in improving your organic search rankings. Our off-page SEO team will create and optimise brand-building awareness & activity on external sites that contain references to your site. This consists of looking at backlink activity on external sites, such as links to your publications, press releases or research. Ideally these will have links directly to your site, with relevant anchor text. All this will help you appear in both traditional search engines and AI. Our enterprise link building services support a range of clients and niches.

Digital PR is also a core tactic we will use to drive awareness and links for your campaigns. We will work alongside you to optimise and promote your current content, exploring opportunities with relevant publications and new touchpoints, to engage potential audiences with your brand messaging. This often involves unique and creative ways of getting high quality links back to your website.

Varn provides an expert off-page SEO team who will explore and uncover opportunities which will have the biggest impact for your business, providing support in obtaining further high quality backlinks, AI citations and PR coverage.

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Off-page SEO and AI

How and where your brand is mentioned online plays a crucial role in its appearance in AI. If you want to know how your website is currently being cited across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemni, and AI Overviews, our AI visibility framework can provide you with off-page SEO and AI insights and recommendations about how to increase appearance.

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Some of our Off-page SEO tactics

Our expert team specialises in delivering a range of off-page SEO services designed to boost your website’s authority and visibility. From strategic product outreach and creating linkable content to securing guest article placements, we craft bespoke strategies that drive high-quality backlinks and amplify your online presence for long-term search success.

"It’s great working with the Varn team on creative campaigns that get results for Paper Bag Co. We increased our link coverage and rankings consistently over the long term."

Jon Marling

Paper Bag Co Founder

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Our Off-page SEO Results for BullionVault

Gold Investing Platform BullionVault works with Varn across SEO with consistent off-page SEO activity. Having now driven over 100 quality links for the client, we have seen a staggering increase in visibility for their target link-worthy content, with impressions for the circulated pages rising from just under 250,000 impressions in September 2024 to over 3,000,000 impressions in September 2025. Our off-page SEO work has contributed to mentions in the likes of Finbold, Financial News and Jewellery Monthly, all highly relevant publications supporting this client’s core visibility and acquisition goals.

Our work with Woolacombe Bay Holiday Parks

We have been working with Woolacombe Bay Holiday Parks for over 4 years to improve their organic positioning with a blended technical and off-page SEO strategy. This has evolved into a holistic AI-first SEO approach. 

We use a combination of off-page SEO techniques to consistently land coverage with Woolacombe Bay Holiday Parks. This coverages creative digital PR campaigns all the way through to AI link optimisation and more traditional link earning tactics. We landed national coverage on the Sun with our campaign on Devon’s best beaches and achieved strong regional coverage with our campaign looking at which county has the best campsites.  To date this combined strategy has driven a 150% increase in page 1 coverage on Google. 

After the curation of the data and the outreach, we were able to attain coverage in Devon Live, Birmingham Live and the Sun in addition to numerous mentions in local blogs and smaller regional publications. Their ranking for the term ‘caravan parks’ went from 45th to 8th (on the first page of Google) and has had a very positive effect on their organic traffic with the target landing page seeing a 308% rise in ranking keywords prior to and after the campaign.

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Off-page SEO is important because search engines consider factors beyond your website’s content and structure when ranking it. Links are one of the key factors in Google and other search engines’ algorithms and can enhance your website’s credibility, increase its visibility in search results and ultimately drive more organic traffic.

Yes, guest blogging can still be effective if done right. Focus on providing high-quality, informative content to relevant websites in your industry. Guest blogging should not be solely for link building; it should also aim to establish your expertise and build relationships.

Track metrics like organic search traffic, the number of quality backlinks earned, social media engagement, and improvements in search engine rankings for targeted keywords. Tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console and third-party SEO tools can help with measurement.

There are various tools out there that can support this but software like Majestic SEO and SEMrush can help you monitor backlinks and brand mention coverage and offer insight into areas like domain authority.

Yes, the number of links can matter in SEO, but it’s important to emphasise that quality and relevance are far more crucial than sheer quantity. In the past, the number of backlinks was considered a significant factor in determining a website’s authority and ranking potential. However, as algorithms have gotten more sophisticated, a focus on quality over quantity has come in for SEO agencies.

Link building in off-page SEO is the process of acquiring high-quality backlinks from external websites to boost a site’s authority, improve search engine rankings, and drive relevant referral traffic. Digital PR for example, focuses more on the coverage, whereas a link-placement or broken link campaign would have the backlink as opposed to just brand appearance as the KPI.

AI is changing the game for off-page SEO and you can no longer rely solely on a high number of backlinks. Engaging in wider off-page SEO activities and driving coverage in listicles, earning mentions through digital PR and engaging with your community is becoming paramount to appearing in all of the major AI models.

Whilst impact can vary from industry to industry, typically links can start to be shown to have a measurable impact from months 6 onwards with initial improvements possible in month 3 onwards. Longer-term results that cover wider SEO results are more aligned with how long wider SEO takes.

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