<b>Competitor 404 Mining Workflow</b>

<b>Competitor 404 Mining Workflow</b>
Your competitor's dead outbound links are a pre-built prospect list.
1 — Export a competitor's full outbound link profile.
2 — Batch-check status codes; isolate 404, 410, and DNS failures.
3 — Cluster dead targets by topic, not by linking domain.
4 — Trigger: any cluster with 3+ dead targets becomes a single replacement asset.
5 — Map each linking page to that asset for outreach.
6 — QA gate: confirm the linking pages still exist and still link out before pitching.
Automation fits at step 2 — a status-check batch handles thousands of URLs per run.
<i>Definition of done:</i> every dead cluster has one mapped replacement asset and a verified list of live linking pages.