Hundreds of sites already mention your brand by name. Almost none of them link to you. I pull 200 unlinked mentions a week from Ahrefs Content Explorer, let Claude triage + draft a personalized 3-sentence email for each, and ship 40 new backlinks a month without writing a single new piece of content.
The hard part of broken backlink recovery isn't finding them — Ahrefs hands you the list. The hard part is matching 1,200 dead URLs to live pages without inventing redirects to 404s. A 3-step workflow using Ahrefs exports and Claude batch-classification.
A 4-step workflow that exports Ahrefs' Broken Backlinks report, batch-classifies each dead URL by topic with Claude, and maps it to the closest live page or a fresh 301 redirect — recovering link equity without a developer.
A real workflow: pull 1,247 Ahrefs on-page issues, batch them through Claude, ship 50 fixes back to the CMS via Google Sheet. Four tools, two afternoons, no developer.
