White-Hat Local SEO Link Builder / Citation Specialist Portfolio of US Service Businesses (ongoing)

OVERVIEW I run a portfolio of ~16 local service businesses (luxury transportation / black-car, home services, pet care) in San Diego and the US–Mexico border region. I need a white-hat link builder and local-SEO specialist to earn relevant, real backlinks and build accurate local citations across the portfolio. Ongoing work for the right person. SCOPE - Build and verify local citations with consistent NAP (name, address, phone): Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yelp, BBB, chambers of commerce, and industry-specific directories. - Earn niche-relevant backlinks through manual outreach: travel/tourism blogs, local news, event and wedding vendors, hotels, and partner businesses. - Digital PR / HARO-style placements where relevant. - Deliver a report with a LIVE URL for every link and citation, the page it sits on, and one line on why it's relevant. HARD RULES — READ BEFORE APPLYING - NO PBNs, link farms, blog-comment spam, directory-blast tools, or "X backlinks for $Y" packages. Links from auto-generated or topically irrelevant domains will be rejected and unpaid. - White-hat only. Every link must be a real, indexable page relevant to a local service business. - No link schemes that violate Google's guidelines. Quality over quantity — I would rather have 10 relevant links than 500 junk ones. TO APPLY (I ignore generic/templated proposals) 1. Do NOT tell me how many links you can build per month. Tell me your PROCESS. 2. Name 3 directories or sites you'd target for a luxury airport car-service business in San Diego, plus 1 for a cross-border travel service. 3. In one sentence: what's the difference between a citation and a backlink? TERMS Paid trial first: 10 verified citations/links on ONE site. If the quality holds, scale to all 16. Budget: This is a paid trial — 10 verified citations on one site.