In this Blog, I’m breaking down how to use ChatGPT for backlink and AI link building to get over 1,000 how to get backlinks to your website. So we’re going to show you how to find sites to reach out to with AI, how to do outreach, how to have AI link building write guest posts, how to get links from HARO, broken link building, all the latest techniques, right? So if you stick to the end, you’ll have a full game plan to build the thousands of links to your website, boost your authority, get more traffic, make more money.

Now, before we get started, we’re going to be sharing a lot of like AI link building prompts and frameworks with you in this link building video.

So you can get started building an online business once and for all. Now let’s get into it.

So we’re going to get into the main strategy of link building, which is four key areas.

1. Finding sites to reach out to, to actually get links from. 

2. Doing the outreach itself. How do we do that?

3. Writing guest posts, if that’s a part of the process.

4. Other forms of link building. Things like HARO (Help a Reporter Out), broken link building, and all of that using AI. Is there any new ways that we can do this?

And do you need to build links? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If you’re in a hobby blog and your competition has DRs, domain ratings in like the 30s, 40s, 50s, should you build links? Yes, you still should build links. You should try to get in the ballpark.

If you’re trying to rank for crazy competitive business software marketing terms, good luck. You might need a domain rating in the 60s to start competing. That might be thousands of links.

If you’re just starting a new hobby blog about do-it-yourself stuff, hobbies, indoor, outdoor, whatever that is, you don’t need as many links. You might not need that many at all. You might just get them naturally over time, so you should be focused more on content.

But this blog, we’re going to break it down for you exactly how to do it. So first, we’re going to get into finding sites to actually reach out to. All right, so let’s get to ChatGPT for how to get backlinks and how to help us find.

So we’re going to show you a couple of ways to find sites to reach out to. But first, we have to think of what links do we actually want to build? Well, the most valuable links you can possibly build are for the brands that are selling products in your niche. Not just other random blogs, but the actual companies that you would be an affiliate for.

That is how you build true authority. If you have links from the companies selling products in your niche, you’re going to have authority in that niche. It’s not just getting random links from blogs in your niche.

So we’re going to ask ChatGPT for how to get backlinks something really simple like, what are the top 10 brands in the online course platform space? And you can put your own niche in there, but you’re really looking for the top brands. We want to find things that aren’t just general websites.

So these are the big ones. So these are the ones that you actually want to start reaching out to. So think about building categories.

If you’re a hobby blogger and you’re talking about kayaking or something like that, what are the top kayak brands? What are the top brands selling the oars? What are the top brands selling the fishing kayaks, fishing poles, things like that? What are the categories that you can create? And then you create a spreadsheet and you just start adding these companies into a list. Because when you start link building, where is list building at first?

The key is to find companies that you would be an affiliate for simply and easily with AI.

Another really simple way to do this is just to use this Harpa AI link building Chrome extension.

You click it here and then you can just enter it in here. So we can say like, what are the best online course platforms?  And it’ll search the web and it’ll find what they are. It’ll say:

It’ll start finding ideas. What are the best kayak brands? And then you can find some of those, like if that’s your niche. It’ll say, hmm, what are they? Well, it comes down to that.

Several names consistently come up. So you start to build lists of the individual categories on your blog and then the individual companies in those categories.

And this is actually just good for affiliate outreach. This is good to have this information.

So that’s where we would start.

Creating Your Initial Target List

So your goal here is to create a list of 50 sites or so, 50 companies. Now, if you can’t find 50 companies, you can also add some of the blogs in there.

You can use a tool like Ahrefs to scrape that data. Just look at the site. Who’s linking to them? Find different individual media companies within your domain as well.

But really just get a list like these are the 50 sites we’d like to reach out to. So put that in a spreadsheet.

Step 2: Collecting Contact Information

The next step is collecting the contact information of the person.

Finding the Right Contacts

So to do that, there’s really two ways to do it. So you have to find:

1. The name of who you’re going to reach out to, to get links.

2. The email address.

Using LinkedIn

LinkedIn is really good to find the name of the person.

You can just go to a company page. You put in SEO manager. Just put in the keyword SEO.

So they work for the company. SEO is in the title. And then you can get their name.

It’ll probably give you their first and last name. But it’s not going to give you their email address. So you can put all of this in your spreadsheet.

Using Hunter.io

One tool you can use to find an email address is Hunter.io. So Hunter allows you to put in any domain. And it gives you kind of the format of the email.

So first name at is the email address format. Sometimes it’s first initial, last name at, first dot, last name at. Once you have the name and you know the company’s domain name and the format, you now have their email address.

So you have the domain, the name, and the email. And you just build that out. This is what a VA can do.

Another paid way to do it that I’ve tried before is like Apollo. So you can use a tool like Apollo, which is a paid tool.

It’s its own database, but you can see there’s, this was one outreach we did for like affiliate management to find sponsors and stuff.  You can add the employee size, the industry, different keywords and things like that. And then it brings a list automatically. And then you can send email sequences through there.

So we had an email sequence, right? First name, I’m looking to partner with brands. You can just send fully automated sequences where it’s day one, automatic email. Day four, they get a follow-up.

Day seven, they get a follow-up. So there’s ways to automatically do that. Apollo is good if you’re in the business or software space and things that were, you know, the companies would be on LinkedIn.

Not as easy for hobby blogs and things like that. All right.

Another easy thing to do now is what are we actually going to send them? Well, ChatGPT for how to get backlinks can help us. I’m going to say, we need to create an email template we can send to get guest posts. This is one form of link building we’re covering first.

It should be based on a few different things, like a one-sentence value proposition, which we think is the most important sentence that you’ll ever do. Link building is outreach. It is what it is.

You can get passive links, yes, if you do certain strategies with your content. But the vast majority of links that you build will be by doing outreach to other sites.

And you might not have the most impressive resume, but pick one thing that is most impressive to you

So you find a value proposition sentence within your email.

If you’re asking for a link for nothing, for free, you’re just saying, hey, we get these emails all the time. Hey, you should add our company to your list. It’s going to help the reader.

Immediately delete them. There’s nothing in it for the individual reader of that email. However, if you say, hey, we do a lot of guest posts.

We will link to you in some of those as well. People are much more likely to open the email, read it and allow you to write a guest post as well. Because again, as we’re going to cover later in this, you need a link surplus.

So the ability to give links will increase your ability to get them in return. So I’m going to hit enter on this chat GPT thing here. And it’ll just give us an email template that we can use.

We always want to have first name. Hey, first name. You can even have the first name in the subject line.

But you could use as well as HubSpot sales. So the HubSpot sales Chrome extension is free. And you can just take the template.

You create a template in HubSpot sales. And then in Gmail, when you’re sending emails through Gmail, it will automatically just… You can click a button and the template will import. So it’ll automatically just plop it in there.

So you can just hit send.

Connect with them on LinkedIn if you want to send another thing. Do an email and a LinkedIn post. We have to realize though is when we’re sending outreach emails, whether we’re in sales, we’re in marketing, we’re doing link building, it doesn’t matter.

Everyone on the other end of that email has a different personality. And what really shines through, what will make you most successful both in blogging, link building, and just in life is having interpersonal skills through email. So knowing how to respond to people because everyone’s personality is very different.

If you’re reaching out for links or for guest posts or whatever it is, they might answer you right away. They might never answer you and ghost you. They might say yes or say no or have different criteria.

So when it comes to doing link building for guest posts or any type of links, someone’s going to answer that on the other end. What’s a good response rate? Anything over 5% is actually kind of good for guest posts and link building because people get a lot of these emails. So that’s why we think the incentive helps.

But they’re going to say, okay, yes, we can accept a guest post from you. What do you want to write? Then you’re going to pitch three topics. So give them in a bulleted list.

Here’s three topics. Now what you can do is you can use Chat GPT for that too. It’s really simple to say, hey, scan this website and give me three blog posts ideas that we could write that would help their audience.

The main thing is that it helps their audience and it doesn’t exist yet on their site. And a third optional benefit is that it has SEO value or hey, it’s easy to rank for. Now when you’re doing and scaling this, could you really, really deeply research every single topic that you pitch? Yes, you could do keyword research.

So with that, we get to the topic. Now we actually have to write the guest post itself. Which AI can help us with? Now what we have here to help us write this guest post with AI AI link building is the AI Content Generator version 1.0.

So what you can do is this thing writes an entire post for you. So we copy this text and we go to Claude because we actually like Claude a little bit better for more of the creative side of AI.

So ChatGPT for how to get backlinks is better for research, scanning URLs and looking at data. Claude is better for like just creative writing, we feel like ideas and things like that. So I’m going to paste this into Claude.

They have their content managers have relationships with all types of other people writing guest posts and they link to each other.

So again, they’re going to say no follow, doesn’t count, removed it, doesn’t count. You just try to be as even as you can. It’s like 13 to 12 so it’s pretty even.

No one’s ever going to be 100% perfectly even but again, link building is based on relationships. We want to stress that. It’s not just people randomly typing in links to sites.

Sometimes they do research, yes. They’ll look at stats, they’ll add a link in but most of the time people that are writing for like CNBC, they’re just messaging a contact at NerdWallet or one of these big financial sites and getting links that way. It’s all based on relationships because when you think about it, links have value.

It just really depends. So if a link has that much value, some of those are no follow. So if a link has value to people, you better believe that there’s going to be, it’s going to be based on relationships.

I’ll write a guest post, you write a guest post. The idea is you just get in the game and the game is you start doing outreach. You start building a brand.

You start having this snowball effect of authority by building these types of links over time, building these relationships and then building up your own site. So again, we can take this, we humanize it, we edit it, we can submit it. We wait.

If you don’t hear anything back after you send the email with the finished Google Doc linked and sent, then you follow up. So you want to follow up once a week or so and then it finally gets published and you’re all good to go. So that’s guest posting.

Let’s talk about a couple other ways to build links. Let’s do HARO.

So this is you sign up for HARO, you get a bunch of, you can choose your niche or your area and then you’ll get a bunch of different emails when journalists and different sites are looking for experts and quotes and things like that. Now to do that type of outreach, you create a HARO template.

That’s a reusable template that when you start seeing those responses, it’ll give you an email address to send your answer to and then you take your prompt. You can put it again into HubSpot sales. You take your entire prompt, you add in that one sentence, that quote that you wanted, but then everything else should be a template.

So find the queries that are interesting and you can answer, take this, you know, format this correctly, put it in HubSpot sales, and then bring the template up, respond with this type of formatting.

And then you just wait, see if you get links or not. Either way, it doesn’t take a lot of time or effort. So that’s Haro.

Another way you can do link building is broken link building. So that’s saying, hey, you have a broken link on your site. It’s going to nothing.

Add mine instead.

It’s actually can work sometimes, but that’s really easy to, you can go to any article.

So these email templates and outreach is super easy. It’s more about, you know, incentivizing it for the other person.

People get all these emails all the time. Broken links, we get them all the time. Different guest post outreach, different, hey, can you add this? Hey, we want to sponsor.

Hey, we’ll do this. So it’s really about the incentives that drive it. So you can use AI AI link building to speed up the whole process with guest posts and all of that.

But what you really want to have is just a link surplus. So that is basically that you have relationships, you’re doing enough outreach that you’re getting, say five guest posts a month are in progress. At any given time, you’re writing five a month.

That gives you the link surplus to be able to, in future outreach, have a link surplus that you can send links to these other sites too. I’ve done that many times. So maybe it’s like, they wouldn’t accept a guest post normally.

If a link’s worth anywhere from 500 to $5,000, don’t expect to get it for free. Expect to do some trades and do some different things in return.

So overall, link building is a process that doesn’t really stop. You should continue to keep doing this over time based on your niche and getting in the ballpark of the sites that are doing well in your niche.

So it’s really important if you’re starting out. You see, sometimes Google is rewarding. Oh, Forbes and TechRadar, CNET, Reddit, right? They have huge amount of authority.

So to do that, you need to build authority in your own niche. So if you’re a gardening blog and you see that most of the gardening sites have domain ratings in the 20s and 30s and yours is zero as a new site, aim to start doing some link building to get within the ballpark. It will just help you rank overall.

Do You Need to Build Links?

So the need for links is completely dependent on the niche. Not a lot has changed with link building. They are more valuable than ever.

It’s the same thing. And the process is really just sped up with AI. So here, when you’re thinking about it, here’s exactly what you should do.

So number one, build a list of 50 sites to start, up to 100. Get the name and contact information. Use LinkedIn, use Hunter to find their email address.

Reach out to them with this process with an email template from ChatGPT for how to get  backlinks that you have customized. Try to get five guest posts going at any given time. Just keep doing outreach.

Keep trying, keep testing. You’re gonna have to deal with a lot of no’s and that’s okay. Maybe you have to tweak the intro sentence a little bit more.

Maybe you need to incentivize people more, but it’s okay. Now this link surplus will help make future outreach easier. And then you just continue to build your DR to get in the ballpark, depending on your niche.

So in marketing, you might need to get in the 50s and 60s. Hobbies or physical products, aim to go from zero to 30. That’s a really good part.

Your AI Link Building Game Plan

Look at the small blogs in your niche that are ranking. For any top 10 Google search, for anything from like hobbies, best kayaking gear, you’re going see big sites, media sites, and you’re going see those small blogs in there. What’s the domain rating, domain authority of those small blogs? Aim to get to that level.

Then once your domain rating is at a reasonable level in that niche, then you can kind of step off and focus more on the content side. But if you’re just starting out, the internet is a worldwide web. And if you’re just starting out with a domain rating of zero, you have no links pointing to you.

You’re off the web. We need to pull you into the center a little bit with getting some links to show Google that you are an expert, a decent source of information that is trusted. So it’s not the easiest part.

It’s probably the hardest part actually of blogging. A lot of people avoid it completely and just focus on scaling the content. That is fine, especially in certain niches.

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