link-building
Link Building
Earn relevant editorial links and mentions without buying ranking credit or manufacturing endorsements. Read references/skill-contract.md for evidence, permissions, and handoffs; use references/earned-link-plan.md for tactics and verification.
Diagnose before outreach
Identify the target pages, real audience/query intent, existing assets, relevant competitors, backlink data access, prior placements/manual actions, and available effort. Confirm crawl/indexation/content/internal-linking issues before treating links as the limiting factor.
Compare referring pages/domains at the target-page level, with dates and data coverage. Counts or proprietary domain ratings alone cannot prove an authority bottleneck or guarantee that additional links will improve rank. Use offsite-signal-analyzer for detailed profile diagnosis and seo-audit for page issues.
Plan and qualify
Start with useful existing assets and appropriate reclamation or partner opportunities. Research the actual page, audience, editorial quality, destination fit, access limits, and a legitimate contact source. Preserve observed link attributes and placement evidence; do not invent audience traffic or editorial relationships.
For AI visibility, sample the buyer's real prompts and cited pages across engines/markets/time, not a universal list of high-authority domains. A relevant mention is a research lead, not proof that inclusion will cause an assistant to recommend the product.
Draft specific, truthful outreach with a bounded follow-up plan. Approve the recipient list, exact copy, channel, and caps before sending; the request for a link-building plan does not authorize messages, purchases, account creation, or profile changes.