Manual local link building - 50 verified placements x 3 local service sites - paid per approved link

Hello, We run a small group of local home-services websites in California and Texas. One of our newest sites ranked well out of the gate, then Google's recent update cut its impressions hard. Its referring-domain count is close to zero, and that is the problem we are hiring someone to fix. This is not a bulk backlinks job. We are buying 150 real placements (50 per site, 3 sites), and every single one is machine-checked by our own crawler before payment releases. If your plan involves shortcuts, the audit finds them. Please skip this job rather than fight the audit. WHAT AN ACCEPTED PLACEMENT LOOKS LIKE Every link we pay for must pass ALL of these: 1. Page loads in a plain browser without a login, is indexable, and is not hidden behind bot protection we cannot see through. 2. It carries a working clickable link to the exact URL we assign you (we choose deep pages deliberately). 3. Our business name appears spelled exactly as provided. Citation-type placements also show phone number and city. 4. The host is a real, established site with existing traffic - not a page built for listings, not a fresh subdomain you created yourself. 5. Mix per site: about 10 major platforms (Yelp, BBB, Bing Places, Apple Maps, Foursquare, MapQuest, YellowPages, Manta, Hotfrog, ChamberofCommerce.com), about 25 established local or niche-relevant directories, about 10 authority profiles (Gravatar, About.me, Pinterest, Vimeo, Behance, Crunchbase), and 5 genuine content placements on sites that already publish about our industry. 6. Maximum one link per domain per site. Anchors are branded or naked URL; exact-match anchors are never accepted. AUTOMATIC REJECTIONS - Clone directory networks. We keep a blocklist of 50+ domains run by a handful of operators (samples: announceamerica.com, bizmakersamerica.com, localzz360.com, trueen.com). Full list shared at hire; we add to it as we find new ones. - Profiles on irrelevant communities: gaming forums, anime databases, AI roleplay sites, file-sharing hosts, image-comment spam. - Self-created pages (your own WordPress, Notion, Gumroad, PDF-host subdomains). - Article-directory blasts, spun content, blog-comment links, reciprocal swaps. - Anything whose only qualification is a tool-reported domain-authority number. DA of the parent domain means nothing on a fresh profile page; we grade the page, not the domain. HOW WE WORK - Paid 5-link pilot on one site before scale-up. We audit within 48 hours. Pass, you get the full order. Fail, we part ways and you keep the pilot fee. Either way the pilot is paid. - After the pilot, batches of 25, each with its own funded milestone. We audit every link within 3 days. Approved links release payment. Rejected links get one redo. A batch that still fails after the redo closes unpaid and gets reassigned - stated here so nobody is surprised later. - All accounts register on email addresses WE supply. Credentials sheet updated as you go. An account we cannot log into does not count as a deliverable. - Any paid link that dies within 90 days gets replaced free. - Weekly report format: business name, platform, live URL, login email, date placed, anchor used, screenshot. ANSWER THESE FOUR IN YOUR PROPOSAL. PROPOSALS THAT SKIP THEM ARE DECLINED. 1. Take plumbing in Fresno, a business with no storefront. Name 10 specific real directories you would place it on. Generic answers score zero. 2. Your all-in price per APPROVED link for the mix above. We pay per approved link, not per reported link. 3. Have you ever had a service-area business (no storefront) verified on Google Business Profile, Yelp, or BBB? Walk through one concrete case. We know GBP rejects many of these; we are testing whether you tell us the truth about hard things. 4. Two links to placements you built for other clients that are still live today.