Chris Panteli
Co-founder of Linkifi · Founder of Total Authority · United Kingdom
Chris has spent years earning brands the kind of authority that search engines reward — real coverage, real links, real trust. As ZeroRank's brand ambassador, he's championing the next chapter of that work: visibility inside AI search.

The digital PR mind helping brands earn authority
Chris Panteli is a digital PR and link-building specialist who has spent years helping brands earn the authority that search engines — and now AI systems — reward. After more than a decade running a family business, he taught himself the craft of earned-media link building, then co-founded Linkifi: a UK-based, white-hat digital PR agency that lands clients in tier-1 publications through genuine journalist outreach rather than shortcuts.
At Linkifi, Chris and his team earn around 100 high-authority links a month for clients, built on a foundation of more than 100,000 journalist pitches and real relationships with the writers behind major publications. He's become a sought-after voice on modern digital PR, sharing his playbook across dozens of podcasts — Niche Pursuits, BuzzStream, eCom@One and many more — as well as his own show, Market Movers.
Today Chris is focused on the next frontier: brand visibility inside AI search. Through Total Authority he helps companies get mentioned and trusted by large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — the very shift in discovery that ZeroRank was built to measure. It's a natural partnership. Chris helps brands earn authority; ZeroRank shows them exactly where that authority surfaces across AI answers.
“Zero-click visibility often creates demand before it creates a measurable click. Someone might see your brand in an AI answer, a media quote, a best-of list, a podcast, a byline, or a third-party recommendation, then come back later via direct search, branded search, referral, or even word of mouth.”

What Chris brings to the table
A decade of earning real coverage, real links, and real authority — the foundations brands now need to win AI search.
Digital PR & Earned Media
Crafting newsworthy, data-driven stories that earn brands genuine coverage in the publications their customers already read.
Earned Link Building
Earning high-authority editorial links the right way — judged on domain rating and topical relevance, never bought or spun.
Expert-Quote Sourcing
Turning journalist requests into placements at scale across platforms like Source of Sources, Qwoted and PressPlugs.
Brand Authority & E-E-A-T
Building the experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust signals that both Google and AI models look for.
AI Search & LLM Visibility
Helping brands get mentioned — and trusted — by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity as discovery shifts to conversational AI.
Converting Unlinked Mentions
Spotting where brands are already being talked about and turning those mentions into links and lasting authority.
The companies behind Chris

Linkifi
Co-founder & CEOA UK-based white-hat digital PR agency that earns brands high-authority editorial links and coverage in tier-1 publications through real journalist outreach.

Total Authority
FounderAn AI-visibility consultancy that helps brands get mentioned and trusted by AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.

LifeUpswing
FounderA UK personal-finance and side-hustle publication whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes and Yahoo Finance.

Market Movers
Co-hostA podcast on building brands and links, where Chris and his guests unpack what's working — and what's next — in modern SEO and digital PR.
Where Chris shares the playbook
A regular voice on the podcasts, publications, and stages where modern SEO and digital PR get discussed.
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