In this blog post, you will study how this Citation Labs Link Prospecting Instrument operates. The primary advantage of the tool is that it will save you endless hours of manually link prospecting as well as assist you in pumping out a list of link prospects.

Here is what the tool appears like as you initially log in:

Then, let us jump inside the ‘Find Prospects’ segment. The initial thing you will see is that you could choose various report types:

Let us blow up these reports in case you are experiencing trouble in viewing the options within the image:

Guest Posting: Build targeted traffic, brand and links.
Links Pages: Locate the links and resource pages for the vertical.
Contact Promoter: Locate writers seeking articles, infographics and news.
Reviews: Locate reviews for your service or product.
Giveaways: Fund some blog contests with services or goods.
Donations: Become charitable and earn links via sponsorship.
Commenting: Add links, brand and value to comments.
Expert Interviews: Pitch your expertise or interview the experts.
Directory Finder: Quickly get your website listed.
Forums: Add some value to the conversation.
Blog Finder: Locate blogs.
Pro Organizations: Become member of trade and additional pro organizations.
Research Content: Locate top ideas for writing excellent content.
Customs: Utilize any quantity of research phrases you like.

After selecting your report, you will possess these options to select from:

Select Region: Choose the location of queries.
Select Scope: Select the kind of results wanted.
Select Depth: Choose how many results wanted/query – from 20 – 1000.
TLD: Select from .mil, .us, .com, .org, .gov, .edu or additional high level domains.
Date Range: You can filter results based upon year, month, week, day hour, or custom range.
Exclusions: Exclusions permit you to set websites to be excluded from results.
Research Phrases: You can add up to five search queries.
Report Cost: Number of credits a report costs.

Following the tool being done searching, you will have the ability to assess the prospects manually:

In this report, you will have the ability to export the paths and domains to CSV.

Within the actual web report, you will be presented with:

Domains: Actual domain being assessed. The amount next to every domain reflects the amount of various URLS on the domain the link prospector located. You could click every domain to expand the list to see every link opportunity to check if the website would be a proper fit.

TLD: Top level domain.
LTS: Link Target Score. It’s based upon a domain’s LTS based upon the position and number of its occurrences in the SERPs. Domains will be sorted in descending order based upon this amount by default.
PR: Present PageRank of domain.

Price

Citation Labs possesses two pricing models. One includes a ‘pay as you go’ model which charges a five credit minimum at $2/credit – $10 minimum if you choose this plan.

The other includes a month-to-month subscription:

Consultant: $27 per month for twenty credits
Agency: $47 per month for fifty credits
Enterprise: $97 per month for 120 credits