Expired-Domain Backlink Mining When a niche site expires, every link pointing to it becomes a broken link you can claim. 1. Find recently expired domains in your niche (expired-domain crawlers, filter…
Resource-Page Broken-Link Workflow Resource pages are dense with curated links — and curated links die. Mine them systematically. 1. Search operators: 'keyword' + inurl:resources OR inurl:links. 2. Cr…
Pre-Send QA Checklist Never send an outreach email that hasn't cleared all five checks. 1. Dead URL still returns 404 (re-verified today, not last week). 2. Your replacement URL is live, indexed, and …
Reclamation-Before-Building Decision Gate Reclaiming your own lost links beats building new ones. Run reclamation first every cycle. 1. Pull your own lost backlinks (Ahrefs 'Lost' report, last 90 days…
Soft 404 Detection Protocol Many 'live' competitor pages return 200 but show a 'page not found' body. Crawlers miss these. You won't. 1. Crawl competitor backlink targets and capture status code + res…
Batch Throughput Model for Solo Operators Scale broken link building by separating the workflow into stations, not by working faster. 1. Station 1 (Mon): prospecting only — export and tier 200 broken …