link-building — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited link-building (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 0 flagged
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Guides link building strategy: acquiring quality backlinks to improve domain authority and rankings.
When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1-2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.
Project context: Read root contextus.md when present and load only the modules relevant to this task. Without Contextus, use available project material or user-provided facts and ask for missing information; do not create a parallel context system.
Identify:
| Strategy | Description |
|---|---|
| Content marketing | Create link-worthy content (guides, research, tools) |
| Guest posting | Write for relevant sites with author bio link |
| Broken link building | Find broken links, suggest your content as replacement |
| Unlinked brand mentions | Turn mentions into links via outreach |
| Journalist requests | Respond to #JournoRequest; provide quotes/assets |
| Directory and curated list submission | Get listed on directories (Taaft, Product Hunt, G2) and curated "best-of" lists; cold-start channel—see directory-submission for submission workflow, cold-start-strategy for launch plan |
| Digital PR | Press releases, news, expert quotes; earn authoritative links at scale |
| Partnerships | Partner links, co-marketing |
| Factor | Good | Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance | Links from related sites | Irrelevant niches |
| Authority | High-quality, trusted sites | Spammy, low-quality |
| Anchor text | Natural, varied | Over-optimized, exact match |
| Context | Editorial, contextual links | Footer, sidebar link farms |
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.