Automate Backlink Prospecting and Email Outreach

This automated SEO pipeline acts as your personal link-building assistant. It uses Bright Data and an AI agent to scrape websites for prospects, extracts key contact information, and organizes it all in Google Sheets. The workflow culminates by automatically sending personalized outreach emails, turning a manual, time-consuming task into a scalable 24/7 growth engine.

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    Workflow Overview

    What is this?

    What is this?

    This workflow automates the entire process of finding and contacting potential backlink partners. It starts by scraping a target website using Bright Data, uses an OpenAI-powered agent to intelligently extract contact information like names, emails, and addresses, and then saves this structured data directly into a Google Sheet.
    What problem does it solve?

    What problem does it solve?

    Tired of spending countless hours manually searching for websites, hunting for contact emails, and copy-pasting data into spreadsheets for your SEO campaigns? This workflow eliminates that entire tedious, error-prone process, ensuring no valuable prospect ever falls through the cracks.
    What will you get?

    What will you get?

    You will automate the discovery of hundreds of potential backlink opportunities, saving over 10 hours per week on manual data collection. This process builds a clean, structured prospect database in Google Sheets and launches personalized email outreach campaigns on autopilot, effectively running your link-building 24/7.

    Apps Included

    • OpenAI Chat Model
    • Thrivecart
    • AI Agent
    • Gmail
    • Sticky Note
    • Manual Trigger
    • If
    • Google Sheets
    • Edit Fields (Set)
    • Auto-fixing Output Parser
    • ChatMasters
    • Mallabe Barcodes
    • Structured Output Parser
    • No Operation
    • do nothing

    How to Use

    Prerequisites

    Setup Steps

    1

    Import the Workflow

    Download the provided JSON file and import it directly into your n8n canvas to get started.

    2

    Define Target Website

    Navigate to the 'Define Search Parameters' node and update the 'Value' field with the URL of the website you wish to analyze.

    3

    Configure Bright Data Credentials

    Select the 'MCP Client' node. From the 'Credentials' dropdown, add a new credential using your Bright Data API key to enable web scraping.

    4

    Connect Your OpenAI Account

    Select the 'OpenAI Chat Model' node. From the 'Credentials' dropdown, add your OpenAI API key to power the AI agent.

    5

    Set Up Google Sheets

    In the 'Save Leads to Google Sheets' node, authenticate your Google account and select the specific Spreadsheet and Sheet where the extracted data will be saved.

    6

    Customize and Connect Gmail

    Open the 'Send Outreach Email' node and authenticate your Gmail account. Crucially, review and customize the email 'Subject' and 'Message' body to fit your campaign's tone and offer.

    Pro Tips

    1
    Add an error handling branch after the 'Run Agent' node to catch failed scrapes and send a notification to Slack, so you can investigate any issues.
    2
    Replace the manual trigger with a 'Schedule' trigger to run this prospecting workflow automatically every day or week, continuously populating your leads list.
    3
    Enhance the Gmail node by adding more dynamic fields from the AI's output, such as the website's name, to make your outreach emails even more personalized.
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    Information

    • Published date9/22/2025
    • Last updated9/22/2025

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