OpenGSC Link Prospecting

Goal

Produce a concrete outreach shortlist: which domains to contact, why they're likely to link, and what content to pitch — grounded in the fresh competitor backlinks the user's Link Monitor has already pulled from Ahrefs.

Required inputs

• Optional: a specific watched brand to focus on, and the user's own site for the backlink-health check.

OpenGSC MCP tools

• get_link_mentions: fresh quality backlinks earned by the watched competitor brands + multiLinkerDomains (domains linking to 2+ brands — the highest-probability outreach targets). This is the core tool.
• get_backlinks: the user's OWN curated backlink inventory with liveness/indexed status — use to spot dead links worth reclaiming.
• list_sites: resolve the user's site if backlink health is in scope.

Workflow

1. Call get_link_mentions. If it returns a "no data yet" note, stop and tell the user to add brands and run a pull under SEO Tools → Link Monitor.
2. Prioritize multiLinkerDomains: a domain that linked to two competitors but not the user is the warmest lead.
3. From mentions, infer WHAT earns links in this niche: content types (studies, comparisons, tools), anchor patterns, and the context titles suggest.
4. If the user's site is known, call get_backlinks and list dead (alive: false) links as reclamation targets — the cheapest wins in link building.
5. Build the outreach shortlist with a specific pitch angle per domain.

Output format

• Top 5 outreach targets: domain, DR (from data), which brands it linked, suggested pitch.
• Content/PR ideas the mention data supports (with example source titles as evidence).
• Reclamation list (dead backlinks), if any.

Guardrails

• Do not fabricate DR values or mentions; every claim must trace to a returned row.
• Never suggest paid links or PBNs; keep recommendations white-hat outreach/content.

Site context — read first, free

get_site_context is this skill's step zero. It returns the site's shared memory — business overview, current goal, positioning, writing preferences, the competitor list, key pages and the research log — and grounds every decision below in what the operator already told us.

1. Call it before any other tool. If it errors or comes back empty, continue without it; never block the workflow on missing context.
2. This skill especially needs: positioning, competitors. If a needed section is empty, do a minimal inline fill — ask the user (or infer from the site and confirm), write it back with update_site_context, then continue. Never front-load a full interview.
3. Before any PAID tool, 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 — new or corrected key pages, competitors the work revealed, positioning facts the user stated — and append a research-log entry if the session spent paid units (appendResearchLog).