Many SEOs think that finding link prospects is a rather boring and tedious task because sometimes it takes days to select a reasonable quantity of good sites. In this guide I'll show you how to reduce the time spent on this activity from several hours to 15 minutes using Google and an Excel spreadsheet you can download for free below.

When it comes to finding sites for link or content placement, all SEOs can be divided into 3 main groups:

• Novices. They don't know where and how to search and filter results.
  Estimated time spent on the research is from several days to "damn, let's skip it and do something else!"
• Intermediates. They know what they need to do and filter the results using a couple of tricks.
  Time spent ranges from several hours to one working day.
• Professionals.  They know all the best practices of finding what they need, have a number of tools to help filter the data (quite often they develop the tools themselves).
  Time required is 15 minutes max.

By link prospecting I mean searching for appropriate websites which don't link to my site BUT will most probably place a link to it if I knock at their door.

Good news: after reading this guide you'll be able to do link prospecting at the velocity of sound.

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