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link-building from kostja94/marketing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add kostja94/marketing-skills/link-building@v1.0.1

Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: kostja94/marketing-skills
Path: skills/seo/off-page/link-building/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 6
Latest version: v1.0.1, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded: Mar 1, 2026
Size: 4,163 bytes
Repository stars: 1,089
License: MIT

When the user wants to build backlinks, acquire links, or improve off-page SEO. Also use when the user mentions "link building," "backlinks," "off-page SEO," "link acquisition," "outreach," "guest posting," "broken link building," "link outreach," "acquire backlinks," "how to build backlinks," or "link building strategy." For profile audit, use backlink-analysis.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# SEO Off-Page: Link Building

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.

## Scope (Off-Page SEO)

- **Link building**: Acquire backlinks from relevant, authoritative sites
- **Broken link building**: Find broken links on others' sites; suggest your content as replacement
- **Unlinked brand mentions**: Turn mentions into links via outreach
- **Guest posting**: Contribute to relevant publications; earn links
- **Journalist requests**: Respond to #JournoRequest; provide quotes/assets
- **Digital PR**: PR campaigns for backlinks and E-E-A-T — see **eeat-signals**

## Initial Assessment

**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:
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add kostja94/marketing-skills/link-building@sha256:78985a08a5110d7a

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_6ldihyjim4e6d4mj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6ldihyjim4e6d4mj)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Mar 1, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 42 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.0.1 latest	2026-09-25	03671b1	4,163 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.1	2026-03-27	f1ec9f7	4,066 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-03-11	c7d87bd	4,024 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-03-11	5cca54d	4,028 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-03-01	3e15c8c	4,058 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-03-01	7800423	3,966 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4163 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

kostja94/marketing-skills · 1,089 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6ldihyjim4e6d4mj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kostja94/marketing-skills/link-building
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/78985a08a5110d7a77d3f8141d1338faf0154ff26842f3f0b417600329f478f7

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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