citation-harvesting SKILL.md skillA

citation-harvesting from leadmagic/gtm-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
leadmagic/gtm-skills
Path
skills/content-seo/citation-harvesting/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 10, 2026
Size
6,886 bytes
Repository stars
76
License
MIT

Builds backlinks and brand citations through digital PR: expert-source platforms (Qwoted, Muck Rack), source-blogger outreach, and data-driven PR assets. Use when the user needs authoritative links or press mentions, wants to answer journalist requests, or is planning a link-building campaign. Triggers on: "citation harvesting", "backlink building", "digital PR", "link building", "get featured in publications".

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

# Citation Harvesting & Link Building

## Overview

Citation harvesting is the most efficient link building strategy for B2B SaaS:
respond to journalist and blogger source requests with expert commentary, and
earn backlinks from high-authority publications. This skill covers the full
citation harvesting motion.

## Authoritative Foundations
- **Moz — Beginner's guide to link building** — Prioritize relevant, authoritative referring domains and evaluate each link opportunity for quality before volume.
- **Google Search Central — SEO Starter Guide** — Earn links with genuinely useful content and expertise; links should be a byproduct of being worth citing.
- **Google Search Central — Spam policies (link schemes)** — Never buy or trade links for ranking; mark paid or sponsored placements with rel=sponsored.

## When to Use

- "Build backlinks"
- "Citation harvesting"
- "Get featured in publications"
- "Digital PR for links"
- "Get cited by journalist sources"

## Step-by-Step Process

### Phase 1: Source Request Monitoring

Monitor these platforms for source requests in your domain:

- **Qwoted:** Journalist source request platform — high-quality requests, verified journalists
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting@sha256:de738c07ec006236

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 10, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 23 days.

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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 (6886 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

leadmagic/gtm-skills · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fgce43fdgpi63gm3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=leadmagic/gtm-skills/citation-harvesting
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/de738c07ec00623622d8862ab58fcb2b6c3f6adea3b5db753fd1e5a222449109

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