ChatGPT Prompts for Link Building: 12 for White-Hat Outreach

ChatGPT prompts for link building help you find what on your site deserves a link, match it to real sites, and write short outreach that editors actually read. The 12 prompts below cover assets, prospects, emails, and tracking. Paste your own pages and prospect list into the [variables], and keep everything white-hat.

Outreach note: Earn links with useful pages; do not buy links that pass ranking credit, use private blog networks, or join link schemes. Mark paid or sponsored links with rel="sponsored" (or rel="nofollow"). Send a small number of personal emails rather than mass outreach, and follow CAN-SPAM for commercial email: honest subject lines, your physical address, and an easy way to opt out.

Find your linkable assets

1. Asset audit

Here are my pages [list of URLs and one-line summaries]. Rank them by how likely another site would cite them, and say what to improve on each before outreach.

2. Asset idea from competitor links

A competitor got links for [their resource and who linked]. Suggest two original resources I could build that serve the same readers better, using only what I know about [my niche].

3. Data from my own work

I have this first-hand data [tests, notes, results]. Turn it into an outline for a small study page that others could cite, and list what I must disclose about my method.

Match assets to prospects

4. Prospect fit table

For these prospects [site, page type], make a table with the best asset to pitch, a one-line angle, and a priority. Do not add sites I did not list.

5. Resource page check

Here is the text of a resources page [paste]. Tell me if [my asset] fits its readers, and what gap it fills that the listed resources do not.

6. Broken link replacement

This page links to a resource that no longer loads [paste the section]. Write a short note to the editor that points out the dead link and offers [my asset] as a replacement.

Write the outreach

7. First email

Write a first email under 120 words to [editor role] at [site] about [asset]. Lead with what their readers get, no flattery, one link, and an easy no.

8. Follow-up

Write one polite follow-up under 70 words for this email [paste], sent 7 days later, adding one new detail about [asset].

9. Newsletter pitch

Write a pitch for [newsletter] that gives the editor a ready-to-use blurb about [asset] in two sentences.

10. Subject lines

Give me 8 plain subject lines for this outreach email [paste]. No clickbait, under 50 characters each.

Track and improve

11. Weekly outreach plan

I can send [number] emails a week. Plan the next two weeks from this prospect table [paste], with follow-up dates.

12. Reply review

Here are the replies I got [paste]. Group them by reason, and suggest one change to my asset or my email for each group.

Plan a full campaign in one prompt

The flagship Link Building Prompt: Outreach Plan From Your Own Assets takes your site, assets, prospects, competitor notes, and weekly limits. It returns an asset ranking, a prospect fit table, outreach angles, two emails, new asset ideas, and a tracker. Its example plans outreach for a home coffee roasting blog with a printable roast chart.

Keep link building white-hat

Google's spam policies treat buying links that pass ranking credit, excessive link exchanges, and automated link schemes as link spam. If a placement is paid, it needs rel="sponsored". Send fewer, better emails, and never claim authority scores or traffic numbers you have not measured.

Related prompts

Fix your own site's links first with the ChatGPT prompts for internal linking and the internal linking prompt. To create more pages worth linking to, see the ChatGPT prompts for bloggers.

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