How to Use LinkAssistant for Outreach & Link Building

In this video, you'll learn how to use LinkAssistant, the most effective link-building and outreach management tool.
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Link building is one of the best ways to drive your website to the Google top. Yet it can turn into a challenging SEO job when it comes to finding first-rate link partners and managing them, not to mention it's extremely time-consuming.

LinkAssistant is loaded with a wealth of features to entirely transform your link building experience, making it many times faster and easy.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:42 How to set up your first project in LinkAssistant
01:26 The Search for Prospects dashboard in LinkAssistant
05:32 How to connect an email account to LinkAssistant
07:03 How to send emails to your potential prospects in LinkAssistant
08:05 How to set different anchor texts in LinkAssistant
08:59 How to verify backlinks in LinkAssistant
10:14 How to import link prospects from SEO SpyGlass to LinkAssistant?
11:27 The Reports dashboard in LinkAssistant

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In this tutorial, I’m going to 
show you how to use LinkAssistant,
the most effective link-building 
and outreach management tool.
Hey everyone and welcome back! This is Mary 
from SEO PowerSuite, the all-in-one toolkit
that covers every aspect of SEO. Previously, 
I did tutorials about RankTracker,
WebSite Auditor and SEO SpyGlass, so 
this is kinda like the forth and the
last tutorial of this kind. And I left links 
to those videos in the description below,
so if you’re new to our software, these video 
series will help you get started with the tools.
To start looking for link prospects, you need 
to install and start your LinkAssistant. After
you open it, the tool will ask you to 
create your first project. The setup is
super simple. All you need to do is to enter 
the domain that you would like to promote.
You can choose your target country 
and language, and 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. But again, these settings are optional.
Now click Create. Please wait a 
couple of moments until the app
gathers 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.
The idea of LinkAssistant is to help you 
find your potential link partners. For that,
the app uses different search methods such 
as guest posting, reviews, top-ranking pages,
similar websites, and more. 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.
Okay. Let’s say you want to find 
blogs that allow guest articles.
You should click the guest posting method, enter 
the seed keywords that best describe your niche,
adjust the search engine if 
needed and assign Tag(s).
Tags are optional, but are very convenient 
for further management. Hit Find and the
LinkAssistant tool will start searching for 
new partners. And as soon as it finishes you
will get a list of potential partners along 
with their pages' preview, contact details,
domain and page InLink Rank,showing link 
popularity, and Organic Traffic the domain gets.
If you see that the at sign is green, that 
means the tool has found the contact. Click
it and the details tab will appear. At a 
glance, you'll see the page's Title and
Description to evaluate the content of 
the page, and of course contact emails.
Pay attention to Domain InLink Rank 
and Inlink Rank scores. These metrics
have been introduced by our team as 
a substitution for Google PageRank,
and they show the popularity and importance 
of a domain or a specific page. The higher
the InLink Rank is, the more important 
this domain or this page is for Google.
The results in the feed can also be sorted in 
a convenient order and filtered based on the
freshness, Traffic, or InLink Rank. You can also 
apply any filtering conditions to exclude the
results you're not interested in. For instance, 
you can sort out the results by prospect info,
prospect authority factor, indexing in search 
engines, social media popularity and topic
blocklist, because Link Assistant allows 
us to block prospects if we want to do so.
If you feel like a certain domain is irrelevant 
and you want to remove it from the list,
click here and the prospect will be excluded. To 
manage your excluded domains, go to Preferences -
Prospect Management - Excluded Prospect 
Domains. Here you can create a list of domains
and subdomains that LinkAssistant shouldn’t 
suggest to you as link prospects in the future.
For instance, here you can add 
websites whose webmaster has asked
you not to contact them with link requests again.
If you'd rather work with the good old spreadsheet 
view, you can switch to Table view at the top
right. The workspace will list all the same 
search results in a table instead of a feed,
with the metrics in the columns next to 
each. You can move, add or remove any column.
To add or remove a column, click the 
Edit visible columns button and choose
any factor you like to add. As you can see, 
there are plenty of factors to choose from:
titles, meta descriptions, Facebook 
likes and shares, Pinterest bookmarks,
and many others. Check the box next to 
the necessary factor that you would like
to appear in the table, or uncheck it if you 
want to remove it. Click OK and there you go.
If you find some relevant prospects and wanna 
start the outreach process, select a prospect,
click the Move to Prospects button and it 
will be added to the main Prospects dashboard.
As you can see, the tool has added 
not only just the prospects URL,
but also title, meta description, the 
prospect’s email, and other information.
Before you contact website owners 
with a proposal, you should set up
your email account first. LinkAssistant has 
an in-built mailing module to let you reach
out to prospects right in-app, in a few clicks, 
and keep all the correspondence in one place.
To connect your email account, go to the Email 
module and click on the Settings button. Now
you'll need to specify the Sender Name, 
and enter your email address and password.
Optionally, you can Configure Advanced 
Settings in the next steps if you tick the box.
You may need that for a custom email address 
that may have uncommon server/port/security
settings to connect to third-party apps.
In Step 2 you'll need to enter the Incoming
mail settings, including server, port, username 
and password, and security settings. Please
mind that the software does not support 
IMAP, so to connect an email account,
you need to make sure that POP is enabled in its 
settings directly. If you're using a standard
Gmail account, this can be done in General account 
settings in Forwarding and POP/IMAP section.
In Step 3 you'll be asked to 
specify the Outgoing mail settings.
Step 4 will enable you to adjust the settings that 
should be used to manage messages on your server.
This dashboard works the same way 
as Microsoft Outlook or any other
email client so you can keep your emails here, 
receive responses and send back your answers,
in other words do all the communication with 
your partners within the LinkAssistant tool.
Once the setup is done, you can 
start sending emails to your
potential prospects. To do that just 
select them in your project workspace,
click email and this will open up a 
predefined email template that you may use.
If you click here, you will see a drop-down 
menu with a number of predefined email
templates you can use for common situations. 
The templates include pre-written text for
rather standard requests like Guest Posting 
Inquiry or Link Removal Request and others,
with your data being applied automatically.
You can Edit, Clone, Remove any template,
or create your own ones. Just pay attention 
that email templates are using different
variables that stand for such information 
as backlink partners, domain partners,
backlink page etc, so if you want to use these 
variables, make sure that they are used properly.
When you’re ready, hit the Send button. All the
emails sent and received will 
be visible in the Email module.
When building backlinks, it's important to specify 
the basics, so that your link partner knows
exactly what you expect the future link to look 
like. Equally important is checking on backlinks,
once gained, to make sure they are 
alive and well set up. To do that,
you need to create an anchor 
text in your project settings.
Go to Preferences - Prospect Management 
- Anchor Settings. To specify new anchor
settings, click Add, Specify the URL 
you want to promote, set the link type,
as well as backlink anchor text and description.
Now switch to the main dashboard, select partners, 
right click, choose the change anchor text option,
and then select one anchor tag from the 
list you want to assign to a certain
partner. This way the partner will have 
the right anchor URL and anchor text.
After you've got your first backlinks, 
check whether they were set up the way
you wanted them to be: double-click on any 
of your prospects to analyze the backlink
you gained. Switch between the tabs to edit 
prospect and backlink data in two clicks.
Pick one or several linking domains 
and hit Verify to update prospect data.
Choose to scan only the current page, click OK, 
and then LinkAssistant will start verifying these
partners. Once done with the verification, add 
the Verification Passed column to your workspace.
Click on the column's header to quickly sort 
out the prospects with backlinks to be verified,
and keep an eye on the links that come back with 
a No status, a Nofollow tag, or wrong anchors.
For instance, the app can show you 
that some of your partners do have a
backlink to your website but they are 
using a wrong anchor. Knowing that,
you may want to contact these partners again 
and ask them to change the backlink anchor text.
Or let’s say you see that some partners are 
no longer having backlinks to your site,
and you may also want to contact 
them and ask to put it back or offer
them something just to make them 
link back again to your website.
If you have a project in SEO Spyglass with a 
list of backlinks that your competitors have,
you can import them to your LinkAssistant 
project too. Let me show you how to do that.
Open the Spyglass project, go to Export, 
choose the name for the export file,
click Save and now my backlinks 
have been exported to a CSV file.
Then I go back to the LinkAssistant 
project, choose import,
find the necessary CSV file, and just follow the 
steps of the wizard. Hit finish, and now we have
our prospects from SEO SpyGlass 
added to LinkAssistant.
You can also do this manually. Select and 
copy some backlinks in your SpyGlass project,
then go back to LinkAssistant, click 
Add, paste the results and click Next.
Assign status and tags, select 
the data to update and hit Finish.
LinkAssistant is equipped with a set 
of customizable report templates that
can be saved as HTML or PDF files and 
delivered to clients by various means:
as an e-mail attachment, as a shareable link 
or can be uploaded directly to an FTP server.
To customize a report you need to click the edit 
button. This will open up the edit menu. The left
side of the report template will show the list of 
widgets that can be added to the current template.
Simply click the plus ‘+' button 
next to the widget you want to add
and it will be added to the report template. 
Besides, you can edit or remove any widget.
If you want to change the color, 
the font or language of your report,
go to the report settings, click color 
and font settings, choose any, click OK,
save the changes, and the report 
will be changed immediately.
Please note that white-labeled reporting is 
available only for the enterprise- level users,
so if you are the professional user then you can
only review reports inside the software 
or print them out with the watermark.
If you purchase an Enterprise license, 
then you are able to quickly save these
reports either in HTML or PDF format. To 
do that click this Quick Save button and
then select a place on a hard drive 
where the reports should be saved.
There is also an option on how you may publish 
your reports online. Just click this share button
and LinkAssistant will generate a shareable link 
you may copy and open in your external browser.
You can send this link to your clients,
and they will be able to see the same 
report online which you have here.
Well that is all about the LinkAssistant main 
settings. I hope this tutorial was helpful to
you. As usual, if you have any questions about 
our products or LinkAssistant in particular,
if you’d like to share with us your 
feedback, please leave a comment under
this video. Also feel free to send us emails 
at support@link-assistant.com and join our
private Facebook group for SEO PowerSuite 
users. See you in the next video. Goodbye!