OpenSEO Link Prospecting

Goal

Find realistic pages, sites, and authors that might reference the user's page, product, study, guide, or tool. Use OpenSEO for prospect discovery, then use available web/search/browser tools for contact discovery.

Required inputs

• projectId
• User domain or target URL
• Linkable asset, page, product, study, tool, or topic
• Optional competitors
• Optional market/location/language

Project context

The project-context tools are free and shared with the app and other agents.

1. Call get_project_context first and ground the outreach in it, positioning supplies the claim that makes a link worth giving, and the saved competitors are the backlink profiles to mine.
2. This skill needs positioning and competitors. If either is empty, run a minimal inline setup: ask the user why someone would cite them and who they compete with, or infer from the site and find_serp_competitors and confirm, write it back with update_project_context, then continue the prospecting. Never front-load the full interview; suggest seo-project-setup at the end for the rest.
3. Before spending credits, check the research log. If the same research ran within the last 30 days, reuse that result and say so instead of re-buying it.
4. On finish, write back what is durable, the linkable asset via addKeyPages, any competitor whose backlink profile proved useful via addCompetitors, and append a research log entry: { appendResearchLog: { summary: "Link prospecting: <asset/target page>. Verdict: <conclusion>" } }.

Deliver as a report

Deliver through the seo-report skill, saving with skill: "link-prospecting". If that skill is not available, say so and stop before writing HTML.

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