# Build a link building list that is worth pitching. Pages that already link to your competitors Link building prospecting finds the sites likely to link to you and the person to ask. With Agentik, your AI finds pages that link to your competitors with DataForSEO, finds resource pages with Serper, reads each prospect with Firecrawl, and finds and verifies contacts with Icypeas. - For: SEO teams, agencies and founders doing outreach - Providers: 4 (DataForSEO, Serper, Firecrawl and Icypeas), 5 tools - Example (Two competitor pages in the United States, 100 linking pages, 3 resource-page searches, 15 prospects read, 15 domains scanned and 15 emails verified): at most $0.47, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **DataForSEO** (1 tool, at most $0.09): Pages that link to both competitor guides and not to you. - **Serper** (1 tool, at most $0.03): Resource and roundup pages on Google for your topic. - **Firecrawl** (1 tool, at most $0.04): Each prospect page, read to check it still fits and what it links to. - **Icypeas** (2 tools, at most $0.32): Email addresses at each prospect site, then a deliverability check. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: link building prospects. Build a link building prospect list. First ask me for my domain, two competitor pages that earn links, and my topic. Find pages that link to both competitor pages with dataforseo/backlinks-page-intersection. Find resource pages on the topic with serper/search. Read the 15 best prospects with firecrawl/scrape to check relevance and find the right page to pitch. Find contacts at those sites with icypeas/scan-domains-batch and verify them with icypeas/verify-emails-batch. Finish with a table (page, why it fits, contact, verified or not) and a short pitch for each, based on what the page already links to. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - Your domain - Two competitor pages that earn links - Your topic ## What you get: a prospect list with verified contacts and pitches - Pages that link to your competitors but not to you - Resource pages that list sites like yours - A verified contact per site - A pitch per page based on what it already links to ## How to build a link building prospect list in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: Two competitor pages in the United States, 100 linking pages, 3 resource-page searches, 15 prospects read, 15 domains scanned and 15 emails verified. ### 1. Find who links to both competitors DataForSEO lists the pages that link to both competitor guides and not to you, the likeliest to add a link to a better resource. - [Backlinks page intersection](/tools/dataforseo/backlinks-page-intersection.md) `dataforseo/backlinks-page-intersection` (DataForSEO, 100 linking pages): at most $0.09 ### 2. Find resource pages Serper searches Google for resource and roundup pages on your topic, a second source of prospects. - [Google web search](/tools/serper/search.md) `serper/search` (Serper, 3 searches): at most $0.03 ### 3. Read the best prospects Firecrawl reads the best fifteen prospects, so your AI checks they still fit and finds what each page already links to. - [Scrape a web page to markdown](/tools/firecrawl/scrape.md) `firecrawl/scrape` (Firecrawl, 15 pages): at most $0.04 ### 4. Find and verify contacts Icypeas finds email addresses at each prospect site, then checks that they can receive mail before you write. - [Icypeas domain email scan in batch](/tools/icypeas/scan-domains-batch.md) `icypeas/scan-domains-batch` (Icypeas, 15 domains): at most $0.29 - [Icypeas email verification in batch](/tools/icypeas/verify-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/verify-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 15 emails): at most $0.03 ### 5. Write the pitches Your AI writes a short pitch for each page, based on what it already links to and what your page adds. Example total: at most $0.47. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Which sites link to my two competitors’ onboarding guides but not to mine? - Find resource pages about remote work that would fit my guide, with a contact for each. - Build a list of 15 link prospects for my pricing calculator, with verified emails. - Write a pitch for each of these pages that refers to what they already link to. ## Why through Agentik - Backlinks, Google results, page reading and contacts come from four providers through one connection. - You pay for contacts found and checks done; searches cost cents. ## Good to know - A linking page found by DataForSEO may have changed since it was crawled; reading it first avoids pitching dead pages. - Emails found at a domain are not always the editor; your AI says when it is unsure. ## When to use something else For outreach at scale with sequences and follow-ups, use an outreach platform. This playbook builds a short, researched list your AI can explain line by line. ## Link building prospects: questions ### Will these sites link to me? No one can promise that. The list starts with pages that already link to similar resources, which is where a useful pitch has the best chance. ### Couldn’t I do this in an SEO tool? An SEO tool finds the links. Reading each page and finding a verified contact take other providers, which Agentik brings into the same conversation. The example costs at most $0.47. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.47. Contact searches are the largest share, and you pay only for results Icypeas returns. ## Keep going - [SEO competitor analysis](/seo-competitor-analysis.md): Your real Google competitors, the keywords and links you’re missing, their best pages, and what they changed on them. - [AI citation outreach](/ai-citation-outreach.md): The pages ChatGPT cites most for your category, read to see who they list, with the authors’ verified emails to ask for a mention. - [Media list](/media-list.md): Journalists who covered your topic in the last months, found from their articles, with their X profiles, verified emails and the story each one wrote. - [SEO tools for your agent](/tools/seo.md) - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) - [Scraping tools for your agent](/tools/scraping.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/link-building-prospects) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)