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Find, prioritize, and reclaim missed link opportunities from unlinked brand mentions, image uses, content citations, broken owned URLs, outdated references, and attribution gaps. Use when auditing mentions, requesting credit links, fixing attribution, handling negative mentions, or salvaging lost backlinks.

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Link Reclamation Attribution

Use this skill to recover legitimate links from existing market evidence: brand mentions, cited assets, images, copied snippets, historical URLs, and broken backlinks.

This skill is derived from Garrett French and Eric Ward's Ultimate Guide to Link Building and uses transformed guidance with durable book-topic references. Do not copy book prose into user outputs.

Quick Start

  1. Use the Contents table below to choose the smallest useful reference set.
  2. Use workflows/run-link-reclamation.md for a full reclamation pass.
  3. Separate credit-worthy mentions from weak or risky opportunities.
  4. Verify the page, context, and right contact path before asking.
  5. Track requests, responses, live links, redirects, and no-action decisions.

Default Output

When asked for reclamation help, return:

  1. Opportunity inventory - mention, image, citation, copied content, old URL, or broken backlink.
  2. Qualification - legitimacy, relevance, editorial context, priority, and risk.
  3. Action - attribution request, source correction, redirect, canonical update, or no action.
  4. Outreach draft - concise, evidence-backed, and non-accusatory unless escalation is required.
  5. Tool choices - mention monitoring, reverse image search, backlink crawlers, site crawlers, and CRM.
  6. Verification - live link, link attributes, redirect behavior, and follow-up status.

Contents

NeedStart Here
Understand reclamation conceptsreferences/core/knowledge.md
Apply rules and prioritizationreferences/core/rules.md
See request examplesreferences/core/examples.md
Run reclamationworkflows/run-link-reclamation.md

Core Posture

  • Reclamation works because the publisher already referenced the brand, asset, or URL.
  • Ask for accurate attribution, not a favor.
  • Prioritize editorial relevance and trust over raw volume.
  • Redirect owned dead URLs before asking others to update links.
  • Avoid aggressive legal language unless the user explicitly needs escalation.