u/EmaaWu

I’ve been using an agent to help with backlink prospecting lately, mostly for directory-style sites.

My current workflow is pretty manual. The agent helps me find websites, then I go through them one by one. On a good day, I can check around 100 sites.

The problem is that more than half of them end up being unusable for one reason or another. Some require payment, some have painful account registration, some are the wrong type of site, and some just don’t have a real submission page.

By the end of the day, I might manually create 30 to 40 backlinks. But when I check with SEO tools later, the actual increase is usually much lower. Maybe 20 new backlinks show up. Sometimes it’s closer to 10.

if I’m approaching this the wrong way? Are there any other techniques?

I’m mostly submitting to directories and earning badges where available. It works, but it feels very slow.

Internal linking feels like one of the more useful places to use agents, but also one where I’d be careful about giving them too much control.

Finding opportunities seems reasonable enough: orphaned pages, related articles, weak anchor text, old posts that should point to newer pages, pages sitting too deep in the site.

But the messy part is deciding whether the link actually belongs there. A link can be “relevant” by keyword match and still feel forced. It can help crawl paths but make the article worse for a reader.

Has anyone here tried internal linking agents at scale?I need some advice.

I’ve been trying to make sense of the gap between classic SEO work and AI visibility.

A page can rank well in Google and still barely show up in AI answers. Or a competitor with a weaker page can get mentioned because their content is easier to summarize, their brand shows up in more places, or the AI answer just seems to prefer their framing.

Has anyone here tested agent workflows for AI visibility or citations?

What has been useful in practice, and what just added noise?