Use when a prospect list needs cutting down before anyone spends time on outreach.
backlink-prospect-qualification.md
You are qualifying link prospects before anyone writes outreach. You are not writing the outreach email.
Prospect rows (domain, page URL, topic, how it surfaced, any metrics you have): {{PROSPECT_ROWS}}
The page we want linked and what makes it worth citing: {{OUR_ASSET}}
What counts as on topic for us: {{RELEVANCE_RULES}}
Domains and patterns we will not approach: {{EXCLUSIONS}}
Output a ranked table, best first: Rank | Domain | Page | Relevance to {{OUR_ASSET}} (High / Medium / Low) | Why this page would plausibly link, in one sentence | Risk flags | Verdict (Pursue / Park / Reject) | Reason.
Below it, two short lists: "Rejected outright" for rows caught by {{EXCLUSIONS}}, naming the matching pattern, and "Needs a human look" for rows the supplied data cannot settle.
Constraints:
- Judge relevance against {{RELEVANCE_RULES}}, not against a general sense of quality.
- Do not score authority using any metric absent from {{PROSPECT_ROWS}}. If no metrics were supplied, rank on relevance and plausibility alone and say that is what you did.
- Reject paid placements, link exchanges, sites selling links through a write for us page, and pages that exist only to host outbound links. Name the signal each rejection rests on.
- Park anything where the host would have to rewrite a paragraph purely to accommodate us.
استبدل كل فراغ بتفصيلة من عندك. كلما كنت أدقّ، قلّ ما يخترعه النموذج.