To start looking for link prospects, you need to create a project in LinkAssistant. This is a one-step process, and all you need to do is follow the wizard that pops up automatically once you open the program. To activate it yourself, simply click New:
Enter the URL of the site you'd like to promote, choose your target country and language - the search engine used by the app will be automatically customized based on the setup.
You can also add the negative keywords to the Topic blocklist if needed - the app will check each potential prospect's backlink profile to exclude the ones that have your negative keywords in referring anchor texts.
Hit Create, and the app will take a few moments to gather the initial prospect suggestions for your website.
By default, that would be the list of top 100 backlinks or your domain's competitors with the highest InLink Rank.
You can always start a new search by clicking the Start a New Search button in the Search for Prospects module.
Choose what type of link prospects you'd like LinkAssistant to look for. Pick any of the 6 predefined methods or set up a search of your own in the Expert Mode.
Six pre-defined methods and one Expert Mode allow you to run a targeted search depending on the type of link prospects you're looking for.
You can Get Keyword Suggestions if you don't have any seed keywords in mind - the app will automatically find your top 20 ranking keywords that bring the most traffic.
Using this search method, you'll get the top 100 prospects (by Organic Traffic) that are found with the specific search operators based on your seed keywords and are likely to offer guest posting.
To start the search, you'll need to enter the seed keywords, adjust the search engine if needed and, optionally, assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
Using this search method, you'll get the top 100 prospects (by Organic Traffic) that are found with the specific search operators based on your seed keywords and are likely to offer reviews posting.
To start the search, you'll need to enter the seed keywords, adjust the search engine if needed and, optionally, assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
This search method helps you find the prospects that rank best in the niche for your topic keywords.
To start the search, you'll need to enter the seed keywords, adjust the targeting settings (country, result type, the number of results to check, and the search mode), and, optionally, assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
To search for prospects, the app will harvest the top websites that rank for the same keywords you website does.
To wizard will let you set the target URL and search mode, the targeting settings (country, result type, the number of results to check), and, optionally, assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
Backlink Gap is a method letting you find the potential sources that link back to your competitors, but from which you don't have any backlinks yet.
Enter up to 10 competitors' websites to spy on, and, optionally, assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
This method lets you investigate the backlinks recently obtained by your competitors' websites (top 100 backlinks by InLink Rank).
To start the search, enter the competitors' URLs, and assign Tag(s) to the prospects-to-be-found for further management.
The mode lets you choose from three highly-customizable search methods:
Advanced Google Search will let you add seed keywords and choose any of the available search methods with the predefined sets of advanced search operators, and adjust the search engine to search in.
Advanced Backlink Search method will let you find the backlinks to your and competitors' websites. You can choose the search mode and the freshness of backlinks to be found, and set one of the predefined intersection modes - find all backlinks, competitors' backlinks, or the ones that competitors have and you don't.
Advanced Niche Search helps you harvest the websites ranking best in the niche - ranking for your seed keywords or competing with your website for your ranking keywords.
You'll need to choose the search method, enter your target URL or topic keywords, and adjust the search settings.
In step 2 of the search, you can pre-filter the results by setting the minimal InLink Rank, Domain InLink Rank, and Traffic for the found prospects, choose the number of results (up to 1K), and choose which factor they should be picked by.
In step 3, you can pre-assign Tags, and set the app to automatically acquire Title and Description, Contact details (if possible), and get Exact URLs rather than Prospect Domains:
Once the search is done, you'll see the list of found prospects along with their pages' preview, vital page stats, contact details, and more:
Jump to Managing Search Results to see how you can dig through the data you got.
Remember that you can Save the project, Close it without saving or click New to create another project.