Earn links from the pages that already skipped you
Three places your buyers get sent and you don’t appear: the pages AI cites when it answers them, the pages already linking to your competitors, and the best-of lists ranking for what they search. It finds all three, works out who can edit each, and writes the pitch in your voice. You send it from your own inbox, then it fetches the page to prove the link is really there.
We can’t send email, by design. Every draft is copied into your own inbox and sent by you.
“10 Best SEO Automation Tools”
thestacc.com
- Cited for your prompts7×
- Rivals it links to2
- Quality score86
It lists two of your rivals and not you, and there’s a slot you could fill.
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- Sarah Chen · Content Manager
- Subject
- Consider SEOLadders for your automation list
Hi Sarah, your piece on automated SEO tools is the one I keep seeing quoted. You cover Semrush and Ahrefs well; the gap is tools that actually write and publish, which is where we sit.
There is no send button. You send it, from your own address.
<a href="seoladders.com" rel="dofollow">SEOLadders</a>
- AnchorSEOLadders
- Passes authoritydofollow
- StatusStill live
The only number here you didn’t report to us. Re-checked for weeks after, so a link that quietly disappears still shows up.
Link building fails in execution, not strategy
Everyone knows which pages they want to be on. The work falls apart in the hundred small steps between knowing and getting there.
Sending to everyone
A scraped list of a thousand domains, the same email to all of them. Reply rates fall through the floor and your sending domain takes the damage, for links that mostly wouldn't have helped anyway.
Reaching the wrong person
info@ goes nowhere. So does a support rep, or a salesperson, or anyone who can't edit the page. The pitch was fine; it just landed with someone who has no power to say yes.
Chasing links that do nothing
A link from an untrusted site doesn't move rankings, and one from a site that sells placements can actively earn you a penalty. Volume feels like progress right up until it isn't.
Automating the judgement away
Fully automatic outreach sends more email, not better email. One bad prompt goes out four hundred times in your name, and the domain it burns is yours.
From a page that skipped you to a link you can prove
Eleven steps, every one of them shown to you. No black box, no automatic sending, no link you have to take our word for.
Start from the pages AI actually cites
It runs your prompts across the assistants your buyers use and captures every page they quote. That's the target list, not a scraped index of domains, but the specific pages already sitting inside the answers you want to be in.
Prompts your buyers ask
228 pages cited across your prompts · 95 filtered out
And the pages linking to your rivals, not you
Citations are one way in. Another is every page that already links to your competitors and doesn't link to you, pulled from a backlink index of the whole web, then filtered hard: syndication networks, scraped copies, spam scores and dead pages all removed before anything reaches your list. What's left is a page whose editor has already decided tools like yours belong there.
One page, three of your rivals
“The 21 Best SEO Tools We Actually Use”
benchmarkone.com · DR 72
700 pages examined · 63 survived the filters
And the best-of lists your buyers already find
The third way in is plain search. It takes the topics your agent decided are worth owning, runs them as the queries a buyer actually types, “best” and “top”, and reads page one. Only pages shaped like a roundup are kept, listicles, comparisons, alternatives pages and reviews, because those have a row you can be added to. A how-to guide or a news piece has nowhere to put you. The higher a page ranks, the higher it sits in your queue.
Page one only. The higher it ranks, the higher it sits in your queue.
Every source sorted by how you'd actually win it
A listicle needs an email to its editor. A Reddit thread needs a genuinely useful reply. A G2 listing needs a claimed profile. A GitHub list needs a pull request, and a directory just needs you to submit, so those get instructions rather than a drafted email that would reach nobody. A competitor's own page needs none of it: you can't earn a link there, so it becomes intelligence instead of a task.
Publishers
Editors and authors you can pitch
Social & forums
Live threads on Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn
Review sites
Comparison tables and lists
Repos & directories
On awesome-lists and listing sites you add yourself by pull request or submission form, so it tells you how instead of drafting a pitch nobody would read
Competitors, filtered out
You can't earn a link on a rival's own site, so they're never a target here. They show up under AI Visibility instead, as who AI quotes instead of you.
Judged on whether the link would help you
Every source gets a score with a reason you can argue with. It weights how often AI cited it for your prompts above raw domain authority, a DR 40 page quoted nine times beats a DR 80 page quoted once. Sites selling placements are refused outright.
Cited 7× · a list you can be added to
Cited once · nobody edits old news
Sells links, paid placements advertised
The person who can edit that exact page
Not info@. It starts on the page you're pitching and reads its byline, follows that author's own profile, then maps the site to find the team and write-for-us pages that actually exist, ranking editors above anyone who'd have to ask permission. When a site publishes no address at all, a contact database is the last resort, and only for someone we've already confirmed works there. We never assemble an address from a name and a domain.
Who can edit this page?
Confidence 95, published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.
The right page of yours to send them to
It matches the topic of their page against your published pages and picks the one that genuinely fits. When nothing matches well it asks for your homepage instead of forcing a deep link, a bad one is the fastest way to read as automated.
Their page
10 Best Automated SEO Tools
ListiclePoint the link at
/features
matched on topic
Legal, login and utility pages are never suggested, and if nothing matches closely, it asks for your homepage rather than inventing a fit.
Written about their page, in your voice
Each pitch references what that specific article covers and names the gap honestly, which competitors it lists, and why you belong beside them. Set your tone, your sign-off, and what you can offer in return once, and every draft inherits it.
Consider SEOLadders for your automation list
Hi Sarah,
I read your piece on automated SEO tools, the point about disconnected reporting is exactly the problem we built for.
You list Semrush and Ahrefs but not us, and we'd fit the solo-founder end of that list.
Fifteen a week, not five hundred
Your first batch lands the moment onboarding finishes; after that it's every Monday. Five from the pages AI cited most, five from the competitor gap and five from the roundups ranking for your buyers, contacts found, pitches written, because outreach works when each email is worth reading and personal pitches are what one person can actually send and follow up on. Each source gets its own five so none of them crowds the others out, and a publisher you are already waiting on is left alone until they answer. If last week's are still unsent, we hold off rather than pile more on top.
Who can edit this page?
Confidence 95, published on her author page. A shared inbox would be labelled as one. We never guess an address.
You approve everything, and nothing goes stale
Ready, Sent and Replied read like an inbox. Sent leads with whatever's been silent longest, and after five quiet days offers a follow-up that references your first email, capped at two, permanently. You send every one of them yourself; nothing leaves our system in your name, because nothing leaves our system at all.
3 have gone quiet for 6 days
Follow-ups drafted and ready. Capped at two, a third email costs you the next campaign, not this one.
It keeps checking the link, and tells you if it drops
It fetches the pages you pitched and looks for a live link back, recording the anchor text and whether it passes authority. Pages you're waiting on are re-checked daily; confirmed links are re-checked every few weeks, so one that quietly disappears months later still surfaces. This is the only number here that isn't self-reported.
It fetches the page and looks
It learns which targets are worth your time
Conversion by page type, authority band and the role of the person you reached, measured from verified links, never from what was marked won. Nothing is reported until a segment has enough sends to mean something.
Links earned, by page type
Alternatives pages convert 3× better than guides, so discovery starts weighting toward them.
An inbox, not a spreadsheet of domains
Ready, Sent and Replied, each one telling you the single next thing to do. The draft is already written when you open it.
Ready
Up to fifteen fresh pitches every Monday, contacts found and drafts written, five from the prospects AI cited most, five from the pages linking to your competitors, five from the roundups ranking for your buyers. Each shows its evidence, the prompts that page was cited for, the rivals it already links to, or the query it ranks for, so you can see why it's worth asking before you spend a word on it.
Sent
What you told us you sent, sorted by whatever has been quiet longest. After five silent days it offers a follow-up that references your first email, and stops after two.
Replied
Threads that came back, plus the links it has since found on the page itself. A target you marked won stays unverified until it actually sees the link.
Fewer emails, better ones
Against the two ways this normally gets done, a mass-send tool, or an afternoon a week by hand.
The last row is the honest trade. We don’t send for you, sending on your behalf needs an inbox connection and a compliance regime that costs more than it earns you right now, and an agent with a send button is one bad prompt from burning your domain.
We can't send email at all
Not "we won't" — there is no send button in the product. Every pitch, reply and follow-up is copied into your own inbox and sent by you. Follow-ups stop at two, permanently.
Real sources, and real contacts
Targets come from pages AI actually cited for your prompts, or from pages a backlink index shows linking to your competitors. Contacts are either published somewhere we can link you to, or returned already verified by a contact database — never assembled from a name and a domain. If we can't find one, the row says so.
Proof, not claims
We fetch the pages you pitched and look for your link, then keep re-checking for weeks afterwards. Anything you marked won but we haven't confirmed is reported as unverified, not as a win.
Link building, answered.
Where the targets come from, why we never send anything, and how you know a link is real.
Still have questions? Book a demo →No, and it can't. There is no send button anywhere in the product. Every pitch, follow-up and reply is written for you to copy, or to open in your own mail client, and it goes from your address rather than ours. An agent with a send button is one bad prompt away from emailing four hundred people in your name, and the domain that burns would be yours.
Rank on Google. Get cited by AI.
On autopilot.
Connect your site once and the work runs in the background, it finds the topics, builds the content and authority behind them, then tracks where you land on Google and how often AI platforms recommend you.