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At a glance
Outlink AI, in facts
- What it is
- AI-native backlink building software - it runs the outreach loop end to end inside guardrails you set.
- Who it is for
- In-house SEO and growth teams, and agencies running link building for multiple clients.
- Sends from
- Your own Gmail or Outlook mailbox, connected over OAuth - never a shared sending pool.
- What you control
- Target pages and anchors, tactics, tone, volume and budget caps, quality thresholds, and which replies need your approval.
- What runs itself
- Discovery, qualification, personalization, sending, follow-ups, reply classification, and placement verification.
- Plans
- 3 tiers (Starter, Growth, Scale). Every plan comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first workspace. There is no free tier: a new workspace can preview its first prospects and sample pitches without a card, but a workspace without an active plan cannot send.
- Money-back guarantee
- 14 days on any paid plan, for your first workspace. The plan is charged when you start your first campaign; cancel from billing within 14 days and the full amount is refunded automatically.
- Browser extension
- Outlink Radar, free with any account, badges Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo results with your workspace's history for each domain.
- What it does not do
- It does not buy links, and it does not pay for placements on your behalf.
Plan prices are live on the pricing page rather than restated here, so this list can never fall out of step with what you would actually be charged.
How Outlink AI works
What the autopilot does on its own, what stays your call, and why the outreach is not spam. Product
What is Outlink AI?
Outlink AI is AI-native backlink building software. It finds sites worth a link, writes a personalized pitch for each one, sends it from your own connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox, follows up, handles the replies, and verifies that the link went live - all inside the relevance, volume, and budget guardrails you set.
Who is Outlink AI for?
Outlink AI is built for in-house SEO and growth teams who need link building to keep running without a full-time outreach hire, and for agencies running link building for several clients at once - each client in its own workspace, with its own connected inboxes, billing, and white-labeled reporting.
Will this get my domain penalized, or is it spam?
No. Outlink AI only reaches prospects that pass a relevance, authority, and spam/PBN screen, sends from your own warmed inbox inside volume limits, and writes genuinely personalized outreach. It's the opposite of blast spam - it's the careful outreach a senior person would do, at scale.
Do I use my own inbox?
Yes. You connect your own Gmail or Outlook over OAuth and all outreach sends from there, within warm-up and deliverability limits that protect your sender reputation. Nothing goes out from a shared pool.
Will Google penalize me for this?
Outlink AI earns editorial, contextual links through real outreach - the kind of links Google wants you to have. It avoids link networks and paid-link schemes by design, and every placement is verified live so you always know what you've earned.
What does the AI do, and what do I control?
You set strategy, tone, volume, topics, and approval rules once. The AI runs discovery, qualification, personalization, sending, follow-ups, reply handling, and verification - escalating to you only when a reply needs a human decision. You review the digest; you're always in control.
What does it cost - can I try it first, and do I need a card?
You can create a workspace and see your first prospects and sample pitches without a card. Sending needs a plan, which is charged when you start your first campaign. Your first workspace comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee: cancel from billing settings within 14 days and the full amount is refunded automatically.
What happens to my data?
Your data stays yours. Outlink AI is GDPR and CAN-SPAM compliant, connects to Gmail, Outlook, and Search Console over OAuth, and never sells or shares your information. You can disconnect and export at any time.
Can I run this for multiple clients as an agency?
Yes. Spin up a separate workspace per client - each isolated, with its own inboxes and billing - and see them all in one agency overview. Send each client a white-labeled proof report under your own brand, on a schedule if you like, and optionally require the client to approve outreach copy before anything sends.
Pricing, plans, and billing
How billing and the money-back guarantee work, what counts against your limits, and how to change or cancel a plan. Pricing
How does the money-back guarantee work?
If Outlink AI is not for you, cancel from billing settings within 14 days of your first payment. The full amount is refunded to your card automatically and the plan ends straight away - there is nothing to request. It covers your first workspace, once per person. There is no separate free tier to fall back to - a workspace without an active plan cannot send.
What counts toward my outreach / day limit?
Every email the autopilot sends counts against your daily limit - first touches, follow-ups, and replies alike. Warm-up mail runs on its own separate budget and does not count, and neither does a one-off test send you trigger by hand. The limit resets every 24 hours.
What is the monthly spend cap?
It is a hard ceiling on what the autopilot can spend on your behalf in a month - paid placements and the data it uses to find and qualify prospects. The ceiling comes with your plan rather than being a number you type in, so moving plan is what moves it. The autopilot pauses that spend at the cap and never exceeds it. Your subscription price is separate.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from billing whenever you like. There is no contract and no cancellation fee; your plan simply stops renewing at the end of the period - or, inside the first 14 days on your first workspace, ends at once with a full refund.
Can I change plans later?
Yes. Upgrade, downgrade, or switch between monthly and annual at any time. Either direction takes effect immediately and Stripe prorates the difference - so a downgrade moves you onto the lower plan's limits right away, with the unused part of what you already paid credited against the next invoice. If you have more inboxes or campaigns than the lower plan allows, disconnect or archive the extras first.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You can delete your account and its data at any time from settings. The deletion is honored end to end - we remove your workspace data rather than just deactivating the login.
White-label link building for agencies
How agencies run client link building on Outlink AI under their own brand - and what it is not. White-label link building
What is white-label link building?
White-label link building is link building an agency delivers to its clients under the agency's own brand, with the provider behind it invisible to the client. It is usually sold as fulfillment - a vendor builds links and the agency resells them - but it can also mean the agency runs the work itself on software that reports under the agency's brand, which is the model Outlink AI provides.
Does Outlink AI build links for my clients?
No. Outlink AI is software your agency operates, not a fulfillment service: it runs the outreach loop for each client workspace inside the guardrails you set, and every link depends on an editor choosing to add it. It does not sell placements, and it does not promise any number of links per month.
Will my clients see the Outlink AI name?
The shared report and the client approval page show your brand name, logo and accent color, and the small "shared via Outlink" line on the report can be switched off. Both pages are served from private links on the Outlink AI domain, and scheduled report emails come from our sending address, with your brand name in the subject and heading.
Can my clients approve outreach before it sends?
Yes, campaign by campaign. Turn on client approval and drafted outreach waits instead of sending; your client opens a secure review link - no login, branded with your name and color - and approves or rejects each email. Approved drafts move into the send queue, rejected ones never send, and you can revoke a link at any time.
Whose mailbox does client outreach send from?
Whichever Gmail or Outlook inbox is connected to that client's workspace, over OAuth. Connecting a mailbox on the client's own domain means outreach goes out under the client's name, and each workspace's warm-up and volume limits protect that domain's sender reputation.
How is Outlink AI priced for agencies?
Each client workspace has its own plan and billing, so cost follows the number of clients you run rather than a separate agency tier. Plans differ by throughput - daily outreach, connected inboxes, concurrent campaigns and the monthly spend cap - not by features, so white-label reports and client approval links come with every plan. The 14-day money-back guarantee applies to your first workspace only.
When is a white-label fulfillment service the better choice?
When your agency has no capacity to run outreach at all and wants links delivered as a finished product. That is a legitimate need - but ask exactly how the links are made, because a placement bought for ranking credit is a link spam violation, and the risk lands on your client's site rather than the vendor's.
Outlink Radar (Chrome extension)
What Outlink Radar badges on a results page, what it sends, and who on your team can add prospects. Outlink Radar
Do I need an Outlink AI account?
Yes. Radar has nothing to show without one - every badge is your own workspace's history. Sign in from the toolbar icon with the credentials you already use at outlinkai.com, and the extension resolves your workspace and campaigns from there.
Does it cost extra?
No. Radar is included with your Outlink AI account on every plan, at no additional cost. The lookups behind the badges are deliberately cheap - batched reads of your own data, so they stay free no matter how much you scroll.
Which search engines does it work on?
Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo - including the regional Google domains (google.co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .de, .fr, .es, .it, .nl, .co.in). Those pages are enumerated in the extension's manifest; it does not request access to any other site.
What does it send about the pages I visit?
Only the domain names of the results shown on a search page, in order to match them against your workspace. Your search terms, the content of pages, and the sites you browse are never sent - and there is no analytics or tracking call behind a lookup.
Who on my team can add prospects from search?
Adding is limited to workspace owners and admins, matching the CSV importer, because it seeds real outreach. Everyone on the team sees the badges - the read-only signal is the part that stops duplicate pitches.
Is a prospect added from search treated differently?
No. A domain you add from a results page goes through the same enrichment and scoring pipeline as one Outlink's own discovery found - crawl, contact-finding, qualification. Nothing added from Radar is second-class.
What happens to a link I already lost?
A dropped placement is deliberately not treated as blocking, so those domains stay addable. A site that linked to you once and then dropped it is one of the best re-pitch targets you have.
Guest posting
Find contributor-friendly publications, pitch relevant topics in your voice, and track each placement. Guest posting tactic
Do you guarantee a certain number of placements?
No. Placements are editorial decisions, so we never promise a count or a Domain Rating. The AI runs the outreach loop and surfaces qualified opportunities; the editor on the other side chooses to publish.
Who actually writes the pitch?
The AI drafts the topic pitch in your voice from the site's editorial context, and it sends from your own inbox so the relationship is yours. By default you see the pitch in the digest afterwards, not beforehand: one that clears the grounding and quality checks goes out on the rails you set, and one that fails them waits for your review. If you want every pitch signed off first, turn on the review link for that campaign.
How do you keep the outreach from looking like spam?
It only pitches sites that openly accept contributors, tailors each topic to that publication, and respects the thresholds you set. The goal is a relevant pitch an editor wants, not volume.
Resource & broken-link
Find resource pages and dead outbound links, then pitch your content as the relevance-scored replacement. Resource & broken-link tactic
How do you decide my content is a real replacement?
Each opportunity is relevance-scored against the dead or missing resource, so the AI only pitches pages where your content is a genuine fit - not anything with a pulse and a contact form.
Do I control which pages get contacted?
You control the rules, not each individual target. You set the topics, the relevance threshold and the volume, and the AI pitches the opportunities that clear them; you review what went out in the digest. If you want a human sign-off on every draft, turn on the review link for that campaign.
Is a link added automatically?
No. Adding a link is the page owner's decision. The AI sends a relevant, well-targeted suggestion from your inbox and logs the outcome - inclusion is always editorial.
Unlinked mentions & niche edits
Find unlinked brand mentions and relevant posts, then draft and send link-insert requests from your own inbox. Unlinked mentions & niche edits tactic
What counts as an unlinked mention?
A page that names your brand or content but does not link to it. The AI finds those, plus relevant existing posts where a link to your content would genuinely fit, based on the brand terms and topics you set.
Do you promise the link gets inserted?
No. The link insert is the page owner's decision. The AI surfaces the opportunity and drafts a courteous request; we never assume the insertion will happen.
Do I see the outreach before it goes out?
By default you see it in the digest afterwards, not beforehand: a draft that clears the grounding and quality checks sends from your own inbox on the rails you set, and one that fails them waits for your review. If you want every draft signed off first, turn on the review link for that campaign.
Still unanswered? Ask us directly. For terminology rather than product questions, see the link-building glossary; to weigh Outlink AI against other tools, see the comparisons.
Last reviewed 2026-10-04.
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Definition
Link building
Link building is the practice of getting other websites to link to yours, because search engines treat a link from one site to another as a signal that the destination is worth showing to searchers.
Definition
Editorial link
An editorial link is a link a writer or editor chose to add because it helps their reader, with nothing given in exchange. It is the kind of link search engines are trying to reward, as opposed to links that were bought, swapped, or placed by the site being linked to.
Definition
Domain Rating (DR) and Domain Authority (DA)
Domain Rating (DR) and Domain Authority (DA) are third-party scores that estimate the strength of a website's backlink profile on a 0–100 scale. DR is Ahrefs' metric and DA is Moz's; neither is a Google metric and neither is used by Google to rank anything.
Definition
Google link spam policy
Google's link spam policy is the published section of its search spam policies defining link practices Google considers manipulative - buying or selling links for ranking purposes, excessive link exchanges, large-scale automated link building, and requiring links as a condition of an agreement.
Definition
Email deliverability
Email deliverability is whether the messages you send actually reach the recipient's inbox rather than their spam folder or nowhere at all. For link-building outreach it is the constraint that decides whether any of the work is seen.
Definition
Dofollow vs nofollow links
A nofollow link carries a rel="nofollow" attribute telling search engines not to pass ranking credit through it; a dofollow link is simply an ordinary link with no such attribute. 'Dofollow' is informal shorthand - there is no rel="dofollow".
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