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Digital PRLive

Earned links from journalists who cover your sector.

You earn the reputation that keeps your rankings steady and makes AI trust you, from the publications your buyers already read, never bought from a dodgy link seller.

Pricing / Part of SEO XL, from £849 + VAT a month
What you get
Campaign angle and story plan
Original research or a reference piece
Targeted journalist outreach
Earned links and mentions
Measured on
Referring domains earnedCoverage qualityRanking gains from coverage
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5.0136 Google reviewsElite Business Top 100, 2025 finalistExperienced Bristol team since 2019Hundreds of UK businesses helped
The short answer

BrisTechTonic is a Bristol SEO agency offering digital pr that gets UK businesses found on Google, the local map pack and the AI assistants they now ask, like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Digital PR earns links and mentions from real publications by giving journalists something worth covering: original figures, a strong point of view, a genuine story. It is the reputation underneath SEO and AEO, the reason your rankings hold and AI treats you as a source. We do not buy links, and we do not pitch stories we cannot stand behind. In our SEO packages, this is the AI Authority Building layer within SEO XL.

AEO included as standardPart of SEO XL, from £849 + VAT a month3-month minimum, then 30-day rolling
What we do

How do we do Digital PR? Six things, in this order.

01

Find the angle

What you know, or can measure, that a journalist in your sector would actually want. No angle, no campaign.

02

Build the asset

Original figures, a survey or a reference piece strong enough to be quoted, not just linked to.

03

Map the journalists

The named writers and outlets who cover your category, and what they have recently run.

04

Pitch with restraint

Targeted, relevant outreach to people who might genuinely care. No spray-and-pray lists.

05

Earn the coverage

Links and mentions in the places your buyers and AI already trust.

06

Feed it back

Coverage fed back into the SEO and AEO work so the reputation builds up, instead of just sitting in a report.

What is live, and what is not
We label every discipline: live, emerging, or partner-delivered. The status on this page is the honest one. We will tell you exactly what we can measure and deliver for you before you buy it, and we will not claim guaranteed placement in an AI answer, because nobody can deliver that.
The maths of authority

Rankings hold when the rest of the web vouches for you.

92%
Of people trust earned, editorial media over advertising
Nielsen
3.8×
More backlinks the average number-one page has than positions two to ten
Backlinko
91%
Of pages get no Google traffic at all, most because nothing links to them
Ahrefs
57%
Of the B2B buying decision is made before a buyer ever contacts you
Gartner
10×
More visits to websites from AI assistants like ChatGPT than a year earlier
Adobe Analytics, 2025

These are industry figures, not our own results, and we do not invent numbers. They show why authority earned from real publications outlasts anything bought, and why being trusted early decides who makes the shortlist. No placement is ever guaranteed.

Proof

Digital PR, with the numbers.

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Go deeper

Digital PR specialisms.

Is it for you

Is Digital PR worth doing for you?

Do this if

You have data, expertise or a point of view worth publishing.Your rankings need lasting reputation behind them, not just more tweaks to the website.You want to be quoted by the sources AI already trusts.

Do not bother if

You want guaranteed link counts. Earned coverage is earned, and we will not promise a number we cannot control.You have nothing to say yet, and no appetite to create it.You expect cheap, low-quality links. That is the thing we are the alternative to.
What you get

What lands on your desk.

Campaign angle and story plan
Quarterly
Original research or a reference piece
Per campaign
Targeted journalist outreach
Ongoing
Earned links and mentions
Ongoing
Coverage fed into your SEO
Ongoing
A report on coverage and reputation earned
Monthly
See the pricingPart of SEO XL, from £849 + VAT a month

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How we measure it

How do we measure Digital PR? The same numbers, the same way, every month.

Fixed at the start of the engagement so the reporting cannot be reshaped later to flatter the result. Whether they moved or not, they are in the report.

Measure 01

Referring domains earned

New, relevant publications linking to you, the lasting signal underneath your rankings.

Measure 02

Coverage quality

How relevant and respected the places you get featured are, judged honestly rather than by sheer numbers.

Measure 03

Ranking gains from coverage

How the reputation you earn lifts the pages and search terms that actually matter to your business.

Measure 04

Mentions AI picks up

Mentions in the sources AI draws on when it describes your industry.

Two BrisTechTonic team members working through an SEO plan
The team behind the work

Real people doing the work, and putting their name to it.

You deal with our small, experienced Bristol team directly, from the first call to every monthly report.

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Thinking of switching from another agency?

Moving your Digital PR to us is more straightforward than staying somewhere that is not working. You keep everything you already own, we pick up without a gap, and we can run the whole thing for you or work alongside your team and your developers, whatever suits.

01

A free look first

We review what your current agency has done, tell you straight what is worth keeping and where the quick wins are. No obligation to move.

02

You keep what's yours

Your site, content, Google Business Profile and analytics stay in your name. We work with what you already have; nothing is held hostage.

03

A clean handover

We map the work across, set a plain-English baseline in the first few weeks, and carry on from there. No starting from zero, no quiet ranking gap.

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Three-month minimum, then rolling monthly on 30 days’ notice. No long lock-in, no exit fees.

Discipline questions

What do clients ask us about Digital PR?

Do you buy links?

No. Bought links are a risk we will not put on your website. Everything is earned from real coverage.

How many links will we get?

We will not quote a number we cannot control. We commit to the campaigns, the angles and the outreach, and report exactly what landed.

What if we have no data to share?

Then the first job is creating something worth covering, a survey or an original analysis. We will tell you honestly if there is no story yet.

How does PR help our SEO?

The reputation you earn is what keeps rankings steady and makes AI trust you. We feed every piece of coverage back into the work.

What is digital PR?

Digital PR is the work of earning links, mentions and coverage from real publications by giving journalists something worth covering: original figures, a clear point of view or a genuine story. It is the reputation that keeps SEO rankings steady and makes AI treat you as a source.

How is digital PR different from traditional PR?

Traditional PR chases brand coverage; digital PR is measured on the links and mentions that lift your visibility in search and AI. We handle the strategy, the targeting and the analysis of who links to you, and the outreach is done through a specialist partner we manage. We do not buy links.

In their words

What clients say about working with us.

5.0 average · 109 reviews

“The guys at BrisTechTonic are great - friendly and always helpful. I would highly recommend!”

Allanah Fenwick

“I've had the pleasure of working with Chris on several SEO projects for my websites in the health field. He was definitely been able to demystify things so that I felt able to make decisions with him and feel confident they were the right ones. For a non-techie, that is worth gold! I look forward to working with Chris again and warmly recommend him to anyone who - like me - is unsure about all things SEO.”

Biliana Avramova

“I was recommended by my branding partner to use Chris and his team last year. I can’t recommend them highly enough. They are very responsive , easy to communicate with and great at translating techy stuff when needed. They are now an essential part of my business model”

Sandra Webber
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The team

Real people on your account, not a faceless agency.

You work directly with the senior people who do the work, a small Bristol team you will actually get to know, not a call centre or an account manager relaying messages.

Meet the team →
Chris McDowell, Founder & CEO at BrisTechTonicDominique, Fractional COO at BrisTechTonicHayley, Senior SEO Strategist at BrisTechTonicGenevieve, Client Services Manager at BrisTechTonicHannah Gooding, Senior Marketing Executive/Copywriter at BrisTechTonicOlivia, Senior Marketing Executive/Designer at BrisTechTonicAmelia Cheek, Marketing Executive at BrisTechTonic
Chris, Dominique, Hayley, Genevieve and the rest of the team
EXPERIENCED, ACCOUNTABLE

Digital PR, run by the people who do the work.

Give journalists a reason, and earn the authority.

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