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title: "Link Prospecting Agent Skill"
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description: "Find relevant link prospects from SERPs, competitor backlinks, and topical publishers with your AI agent."
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<RunSkillCallout command="/openseo-link-prospecting" />
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The Link Prospecting Agent Skill finds relevant outreach prospects for a page or asset.
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Your agent searches resource pages, articles, directories, and competitor backlink patterns. It uses OpenSEO data and web research to find sites with a real reason to mention your asset.
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You get a smaller set of qualified prospects, with notes on why each one fits and what outreach angle could make sense.
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## What this skill helps your agent do
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- Build prospecting queries from your asset, topic, audience, or competitors.
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- Find resource pages, listicles, comparisons, directories, publishers, and topical articles.
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- Use competitor backlink patterns to understand where attention comes from.
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- Qualify prospects by topical relevance and outreach angle.
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- Draft outreach messages tied to the specific page and reason.
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- Avoid inventing contacts or treating spammy prospects as useful.
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## When to use it
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Use this skill when you already have something worth linking to: a useful guide, product page, original study, tool, template, dataset, or strong point of view.
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It also helps after competitor analysis if backlink patterns show publications, directories, communities, or partners that matter in your market.
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## What you get back
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Your agent should return the best outreach angle, highest-priority prospect type, a prospect table, contact-discovery notes, and a few reusable outreach drafts.
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## How to get the best result
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- Share the target URL or describe the linkable asset.
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- Explain why someone would reference it.
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- Provide competitors when competitor backlinks are useful.
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- Ask the agent to prioritize relevance over volume.
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- Require source URLs for any contact details it finds.
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## Use it with OpenSEO MCP
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Set up [OpenSEO MCP](/docs/mcp) so your agent can inspect SERPs, backlink overview data, and domain context before researching contact paths.
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## Read the actual skill
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The source `SKILL.md` lives on GitHub:
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- [Link Prospecting skill](https://github.com/every-app/open-seo/tree/main/.agents/skills/openseo-link-prospecting)
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## Related skills
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- [Competitor Analysis](/docs/skills/competitor-analysis) when competitor backlink patterns should guide prospecting.
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- [Competitive Landscape](/docs/skills/competitive-landscape) when you need to understand which publications or directories matter.
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- [Keyword Research](/docs/skills/keyword-research) when prospecting queries need expansion.
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