DIGITAL PR AGENCY GERMANY

Where your brand is talked about,people trust it.

Real authority is not bought. It is earned. Through our own publishing network with 100,000+ press contacts we place your brand in real leading media. Trust that convinces customers and that AI models rate as an authority signal.

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4.9·300+ business owners trust us

WHAT WE DO

Four building blocks that turn visibility into credibility.

PR is more than a few backlinks. It is editorial presence, our own publishing network, tellable stories and a backlink profile that carries trust.Four building blocks that interlock instead of sitting side by side.

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Editorial placements

In real leading media. Not in link farms.

A mention in the FAZ works differently than a link out of nowhere, for customers as for Google. We place your brand editorially where your audience reads and authority is built. Real reach, real trust signals.

  • Editorial placements in leading media
  • Guest articles & expert commentary
  • Industry & trade press
  • Regional & local media
  • Print, online & podcast
  • Monthly placement reporting
500+editorial placements per year for our clients
02 / 04
Our own publishing network

Reach we control ourselves.

We run our own media portals and a publishing network with more than 100,000 press contacts in DE, AT and CH. That means predictable placements, reliable reach and backlinks from domains with real authority. And on request we build you your own media portal that belongs to you: a controlled ad space and traffic machine.

  • Our own media portals & topic hubs
  • Your own media portal, as a controlled ad space
  • 100,000+ press contacts (DE, AT, CH)
  • Press-text conception & distribution
  • Distribution list & topic matching
  • Multilingual distribution
  • Reach & impact tracking
100,000+press contacts in our own publishing network (DE, AT, CH)
03 / 04
Topic PR & story pitching

Your expertise becomes a story.

Journalists don’t want advertising. They want relevant stories. We find the angle that makes your brand tellable and pitch it to the right newsrooms. The result is coverage that nobody reads as an ad.

  • Topic finding & story angles
  • Press text & pitch creation
  • Journalist & newsroom outreach
  • Data & study PR
  • Expert positioning
  • Crisis & reactive PR
38%pickup rate of our pitches, far above the industry average
04 / 04
Backlinks & domain authority

A profile that Google takes seriously.

Every editorial placement becomes a backlink from a domain with real authority. We build your link profile strategically, clean up legacy issues and lift your domain rating for good: the foundation for top rankings and AI visibility.

  • Backlink profile audit & disavow
  • Strategic link building
  • Systematic domain-rating build-up
  • Anchor-text & topic relevance
  • Competitor & gap analysis
  • Reputation & Wikipedia curation
DR 67average domain rating after 12 months of working together

Our process

From the first pitch to media presence.

Media authority is no accident. It is the result of a clearly structured process. Four phases that build on each other. Results you can measure.

01Week 1–2

Audit & diagnosis

We dissect your visibility on every level: technical, content, competitive.

  • Backlink profile audit
  • Reputation check
  • Competitor analysis
  • Keyword & intent map
02Week 3–4

Strategy & plan

The diagnosis becomes a 12-month plan with quarterly milestones per discipline.

  • Strategy brief
  • Roadmap with KPIs
  • Budget allocation
  • Reporting setup
03Week 5–12

Execution

Parallel sprints across all four blocks, with weekly reviews and a fixed point of contact.

  • Topic finding
  • Press texts
  • Outreach
  • Placements
04From month 4

Scaling

What works gets doubled. What doesn’t gets stopped. Recalibrated every quarter.

  • Performance reviews
  • Budget scaling
  • Content scaling
  • Roadmap update
Strategy meeting at the Trustfactory office
Strategy meeting
Collaboration at the Trustfactory office
Team sparring
Consulting session at Trustfactory
Advice at eye level

Your team in Mannheim

The team behind your digital PR.

Strategy, SEO, ads and design under one roof in Mannheim, Germany, since 2018. A tight-knit team with every lever in-house. You get dedicated points of contact who truly know your project, from kickoff to quarterly review.

  • Cornelius Berentzen

    Cornelius Berentzen

    Founder & CEO Holding

  • Alex Schindler

    Alex Schindler

    Founder & CPO

  • Max Bogdan

    Max Bogdan

    Co-Founder & CMO

  • Nikita Yatsun

    Nikita Yatsun

    Co-Founder & CEO

  • Philip Mettmann

    Philip Mettmann

    Head of Customer Success

  • Gökhan Gül

    Gökhan Gül

    VP of Service

  • Andreas Malkow

    Andreas Malkow

    Senior SEO Manager

  • Ines Neufeld

    Ines Neufeld

    SEO Manager

  • Jonas Klör

    Jonas Klör

    Senior SEO Manager

  • Annabel Hauguth

    Annabel Hauguth

    Head of Content

  • Since 2018in the market, no newcomer
  • Mannheimoffice & team under one roof
  • 300+managing directors trust us
  • 30+specialists on the team

And that's just the start: more than 30 specialists work at Trustfactory. Meet the whole team

Before we start

We’d rather say an honest no.

Exclusive per industry means: if we work with you, we don’t work with your competitor. For that to add up, we have to be a good fit for each other.

You’re in the right place if …

If all four points are true, the conversation is worth it.

  • You are the market leader, or want to become it.We build visibility systems for the number 1 in your industry, not for number 8.
  • You think in years, not months.Real authority needs 6 to 12 months to compound. From then on it works for you.
  • You measure marketing by revenue, not by activity.Reports show revenue and ROAS, not “touchpoints” and “engagement rates”.
  • Your market is still open, and you want to secure it.We work exclusively per industry and region. If nobody is here before you, the position is yours.

You’re not in the right place if …

Sometimes no is the right answer.

  • You are looking for the cheapest agency.We are not cheap. Premium visibility costs, and it pays off too. Whoever wants the cheapest agency finds it elsewhere.
  • You want top 1 in 30 days.Visibility that lasts takes months. Whoever promises you miracles either doesn’t know better, or wants your contract, not your growth.
  • You want activity reports, not revenue accountability.We report what drives revenue, not what looks busy. If clicks and impressions are enough of a result for you, there are better-suited providers.
  • Your competitor is already our client.Exclusivity is non-negotiable, that is part of our promise to your competitor. It stays fair.

Real results

Visibility that pays off.

A few examples of what media authority achieves over the long term.

More than 40 documented success stories.

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Original reviews

Real words, unedited.

Original reviews from Google, Reviews.io and ProvenExpert. Taken word for word, nothing sugar-coated.

Reviews.io
„Die Jungs von Trustfactory sind wahre Experten in ihrem Bereich. Das merkt man immer wieder in jedem Meeting. Zudem sind sie immer pünktlich und liefern zuverlässig.“
MartinVerified review · Reviews.io
Reviews.io
„Seit der Zusammenarbeit haben sich unsere Traffic- und SEO-Zahlen signifikant verbessert.“
Die Fußexperten GmbHVerified review · Reviews.io
ProvenExpert
„Absolut zu empfehlen! Sehr kompetentes Team, das versteht, was es tut. Sehr angenehme und gute Zusammenarbeit.“
Patrick H.Verified review · ProvenExpert
ProvenExpert
„Alles bestens – super Agentur, kann ich nur empfehlen.“
Ayse P.Verified review · ProvenExpert
Google
„Wir hatten gestern einen Termin mit Herrn Gül zum Thema SEO, und ich kann ihn absolut weiterempfehlen. Er ist ein absoluter Experte auf seinem Gebiet und hat mit seinem fundierten Wissen und klaren Strategien überzeugt. Wer eine kompetente SEO-Beratung sucht, ist bei Trustfactory und Herrn Gül genau richtig.“
Dennis GoeVerified review · Google
Reviews.io
„Super SEO-Agentur – empfehlenswert für alle, die SEO in der Tiefe betreiben möchten. Hohes Know-how und netter Service :-)“
Nikolai AdeVerified review · Reviews.io
Reviews.io
„Ich arbeite bereits seit mehreren Jahren mit Trustfactory zusammen und bin sehr zufrieden!“
Kira ZywietzVerified review · Reviews.io
ProvenExpert
„Sehr gute SEO-Agentur mit enormer Erfahrung und sehr guten Dienstleistungen.“
Fabian P.Verified review · ProvenExpert
ProvenExpert
„Top Beratung! Sehr zu empfehlen.“
Andreas O.Verified review · ProvenExpert
Google
„Bin absolut zufrieden mit dem Service. Wir haben regelmäßige Calls, meine SEO-Werte werden monatlich besser. Ich empfinde Trustfactory als absolut transparente und seriöse SEO-Agentur – und jeder weiß, wie viele unseriöse Unternehmen im SEO-Bereich es sonst so da draußen gibt. Wenn ich Fragen habe oder etwas unklar ist, sind sie sofort bemüht, das zu klären. Habe Trustfactory auch schon an Kollegen empfohlen.“
Florian Sami SalmanVerified review · Google
Reviews.io
„Absolute Empfehlung. Tolles Team und sehr angenehme Zusammenarbeit. Ausgesprochen engagiert und kompetent. Bitte weiter so.“
Anil P. PolatVerified review · Reviews.io
Reviews.io
„Absolut empfehlenswert. Die Jungs wissen, was sie machen.“
Verifizierter KundeVerified review · Reviews.io
ProvenExpert
„Ich danke Max für ein kompetentes Gespräch zum Thema SEO-Optimierung. Max hat umfassend auf meine Fragen geantwortet.“
N.Verified review · ProvenExpert
Google
„Wir arbeiten jetzt seit einem Jahr mit Trustfactory. Mir gefällt neben der eigentlichen Arbeit auch der feste Ansprechpartner und die Einhaltung von Zusagen. Verbindlichkeit ist in unserer Branche sehr wichtig — mit Trustfactory haben wir einen guten Partner gefunden!“
itrium .datentechnikVerified review · Google
See all 349 reviews

Common questions

Press & backlinks, honestly explained.

The questions companies ask us most often about PR and link building.

  • The investment depends on reach and the number of placements you aim for, and it's set transparently in the free strategy call. We don't sell cheap mass links, but real editorial placements that build trust and are rated by Google and AI systems as an authority signal. The benchmark is the quality of the media, not sheer quantity.

  • Yes. We rely on real, editorial publications in genuinely existing media through our own publishing network, not bought link farms or PBNs that Google penalizes. It's precisely this kind of trustworthy mention that builds sustainable authority, instead of taking a short-term risk.

  • We work with a publishing network and more than 100,000 press contacts, ranging from industry and regional media to high-reach leading outlets. Which placements make sense for you depends on your industry, audience and goal. Relevant mentions in the right environment work more strongly than indiscriminate reach.

  • AI models like ChatGPT and Perplexity weight sources by how often and how trustworthily a brand is mentioned across the web. Editorial press placements are exactly such trust signals: they make your brand better known as an entity and increase the likelihood that AI systems cite you as the answer. PR therefore pays directly into SEO and GEO at once.

  • Individual placements are often live within the first weeks, while the effect on authority and rankings grows compounding over several months. Unlike paid ads, editorial mentions stay online permanently and keep working long after they were published. Every step is transparently documented.

READY TO START?

Here’s what you get in the strategy call.

In the strategy call we check what you really need: the full system or individual disciplines. A concrete competitor analysis, a clear action plan, a revenue forecast. Free. In 30 minutes.

01 · Status quo

Where your competition stands. And you.

We analyze where your competitors stand organically, in paid, and in the AI answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. You see at a glance where your gaps are and which disciplines your competition occupies.

02 · Target state

A concrete action plan with measurable milestones.

From the analysis we build a clear 12-month plan with quarterly targets, KPIs and a budget recommendation. After the call you know what to do, even if you decide against us.

03 · Forecast

What you invest and what comes back.

We run the concrete numbers: at which budget which traffic, which conversion rate, which revenue. Clear figures. A realistic forecast.

Sample calculation

Traffic18,000 / mo
Conversion rate2.5%
Avg. order value€220
Monthly cost€13,000
Possible monthly revenue€99,000
ROAS7.6×

Ready for market dominance?

30 minutes. You leave with a plan, whether or not you book.

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