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Link Building

link-building

When the user wants to earn backlinks or third-party mentions that lift rankings and AI citations. Also use when the user mentions 'link building,' 'linkbuilding,' 'backlinks,' 'get more backlinks,' 'link prospecting,' 'link gap,' 'competitor backlinks,' 'unlinked mentions,' 'link reclamation,' 'broken link building,' 'resource pages,' 'guest posting,' 'get into best-of lists,' 'listicle outreach,' 'domain rating,' 'referring domains,' 'anchor text,' or 'is this link vendor safe.' Use this whenever rankings stall on authority or someone wants off-site mentions that AI engines cite. Never recommend buying links that pass ranking credit: paid or exchanged placements get rel=sponsored or nofollow. For press coverage and journalist requests, see public-relations. For directories, see directory-submissions. For reviews, see referrals. For Reddit and communities, see community-marketing. For on-site AI citation work, see ai-seo.

Install

Run this in your project folder. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and dozens of other agents.

$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill link-building

Needs Node.js. Add -g to install for every project, or -a claude-code to skip the agent picker.

How to use Link Building

Once it's installed, Claude reads this skill on its own whenever a request matches what it's for, so you don't have to mention it by name. In Claude Code you can also run it directly by typing /link-building.

It contains no scripts, only instructions and reference files, so it can't run code on its own.

What the instructions cover

  1. 1Before Starting
  2. 2Step 1: Confirm Links Are the Bottleneck
  3. 3Step 2: Have Something Worth Linking To
  4. 4Step 3: Pick Tactics by Effort and Quality
  5. 5Step 4: Prospect, Qualify, Reach Out
  6. 6Step 5: Stay Inside the Rules
  7. 7Step 6: Anchors and Pace
  8. 8Step 7: Measure Both Outcomes
  9. 9Running It as a Loop
  10. 10Tools
  11. 11Output Format
  12. 12Related Skills

Section headings from the skill's SKILL.md file.

What's inside · 5 files

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/prospecting-and-outreach.md
  • references/risk-policy.md
  • references/tactics.md

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