How to Set up a Project in Semrush Link Building Tool

Link Building is to get links from other websites and also provide our links to other websites to improve our ranking.

In SEO, getting backlinks is crucial because it helps to rank our websites and drive traffic.

To get a backlink easily, there is an effective tool called Semrush Link Building Tool.

In this guide, will learn about how to build a backlink project and get a backlink for your website using Semrush.

How to Setup Project in Semrush Link Building Tool?

To set up a project, first, you need to log in to Semrush. If you don’t have an account, create a new account.

Now, in the SEO dashboard, click the Link Building Tool option and click ‘Create Project’.

You will get a page to enter your domain and project name(optional). After entering your domain, click ‘Create Project’.

After that, enter your 10 keywords that are ranking higher in the SERPs.

And move to the competitor’s tab.

Add your 10 competitors in the tab. This will help to see the backlinks, that your competitor is linking.

According to Google, if you have more backlinks, you will be considered an authoritative website.

After adding the competitors, click ‘Start Link Building’.

It will take a few minutes to create a project dashboard.

Finally, it was completed by collecting and analyzing all data.

Now, click to view prospects.

You will find many domains in your niche and start to build links.

Dig deeper, to learn about link building in Semrush.

How To Use Semrush Link Building Tool?

It is easy to send an outreach email for backlinks using the Semrush Link Building tool.

You already set up a project right?

Now you can the overview of Domain Prospects. It will show you, how many domain prospects you have in your link-building tool.

Now, come over to the Prospects tab.

These are the domains, you need to reach out for the backlinks.

If you compare it to other tools, it is easy to identify its authority score and the URL type.

In the old method, it’s a long process to analyze a domain score, type, and more. You want to search for high authority and reputable domains, right?

But, here everything is in one place and easy to process.

Let’s start to send an outreach mail.

On the right side, you will find the term ‘To In Progress’.

Click it or click the arrow to see the options. Like, for what purpose do you want to send the mail?

Options are shown in the below image.

Now select it and your selected domain moved to the In Progress tab, click to view it.

In down, you will the selected domain. Click ‘Contact’ to send an outreach email.

Here is a tab for sending the mail.

If you don’t add your email ID, first add it.

Semrush analyzes the domain and provides you with the Email ID of the targeted domain.

And create the best email content and get noticed by the receiver.

After sending the mail, you can track the mail here.

The four dots for, email sent, email delivered, and email were read by the receiver and got a reply for your mail.

It’s nice, right?

So, only Semrush is known as an All-In-One platform tool.

How To Find Backlink Gap Using Semrush?

It is the features that help you to identify your competitor backlinks, that you don’t have.

For that,

1. Login Semrush
2. Open Backlink Gap
3. Enter your domain
4. Enter your competitor’s domain(at a time, you can enter only four competitors)
5. Now, click ‘Find Prospects’

Here you can see the backlinks that your competitors have, but you don’t have this backlink.

It’s also a perfect feature like a link-building tool.

Which is going to get more backlinks.

You can see, each domain’s authority score, monthly traffic, and Matches(out of 5).

You may have doubts, what is the meaning of best, weak, strong, shared, and unique.

Let me explain.

Best: Backlinks are in your competitor’s domain, but not yours.

Weak: Domains that link to Your domain less than to competitors.

Strong: Links that have only to your domain.

Shared: The domains that link you and your competitor’s domains.

Unique: Only one domain has the link that others, including you, don’t have.

I hope you got an idea of the backlink gap tool.

Conclusion

In this guide, I explained the set up of link link-building tool campaign, how to send the outreach mail for backlinks, and analyze the backlink gaps.

I hope you get a clear understanding of how it works and how to get the backlinks from the high authority domains.

If you have any doubts regarding this guide, leave the doubt in the comment. I will definitely clear it.

Here’s the full guide of Semrush backlink checker and how to check and remove the toxic backlink domain from your site.