TacticsGuest posting
Earn editorial guest placements on relevant sites
Outlink AI finds publications that accept contributor articles in your niche, pitches genuinely useful topics in your voice, and tracks every placement - on the rails you set, with anything that misses the quality bar held back for your review.
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The problem
Doing this by hand doesn’t scale
Done by hand, guest posting is a grind: combing for sites that actually take contributors, qualifying each one, tailoring a pitch an editor will say yes to, then chasing the thread for weeks. Most of the hours go into research and follow-up, not into the writing that earns the link.
How the AI does it
How the AI runs your guest-posting loop
Find sites open to contributors
It scans your niche for publications that accept guest articles and surfaces ones that fit your topics and quality bar.
You set the relevance and quality thresholds it works within.
Pitch topics in your voice
For each fit, it drafts a relevant, editor-ready topic pitch written in your tone - not a templated blast.
Pitches go out from your own connected inbox, inside the caps you set - drafts that fail the quality checks wait for you.
Track every placement
It follows each thread and records where your article lands, so the link and its context are logged, not lost.
You review the running digest rather than chasing replies.
What gets measured
The proof is being built
We’re onboarding our first customers now - here’s how the engine works in the meantime.
See how the autopilot loop qualifies prospects and protects your domain, and the trust signals it runs on.
You set the quality thresholds; the AI earns editorial placements by pitching real value - it does not buy them, and we never promise a specific Domain Rating or a number of placements. Editors decide.
Last reviewed 2026-08-20.
- Built on Stripe
- Gmail & Outlook OAuth
- Google Search Console
- GDPR & CAN-SPAM compliant
Guardrails
What the AI runs vs what you control
- Target pages & anchors
- Tactics
- Tone
- Volume + budget caps
- Quality thresholds
- Which reply categories need your approval
- Discovery
- Qualification
- Personalization
- Sending within deliverability limits
- Follow-ups
- Reply classification + negotiation
- Placement verification
All reported into your digest.
Not approval-gated by default; not zero-oversight. You set the rails, the AI drives, you review the digest and can pull anything up for approval.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Background
Guest posting: the terms and the alternatives
Plain definitions of the vocabulary this play uses, straight from the link building glossary, plus how the autopilot model compares with the outreach tools you may already run.
Definition
Guest posting
Guest posting is writing an article for someone else's publication, usually including a link back to your own site. It remains a legitimate tactic when the article is written for that publication's audience rather than produced primarily to place a link.
Definition
Editorial link
An editorial link is a link someone chose to add because it was useful to their reader, with nothing given in exchange. It is the category of link search engines are trying to reward.
Definition
Anchor text
Anchor text is the visible, clickable words of a link. Search engines read it as a description of the page being linked to, which is why it influences what that page is understood to be about.
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.
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