Strategy & Research

Outreach to Citation Gap Pages

Surfaces pages that cite competitors but not you, scrapes the contact, and launches personalised outreach.

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Smartlead Smartlead

What this workflow does

When AI cites a competitor but not you on a high-traffic prompt, there is a specific page somewhere that the AI learned that citation from. It could be a review, a comparison article, a resource list, or a forum thread. If you can find it and get your brand mentioned there, you close the gap at the source.

This automates the full loop: ChatBakers surfaces the exact URLs where competitors appear and you do not, Firecrawl scrapes those pages to extract context and contact signals, Apollo finds the right person to reach, and Smartlead sends a personalised pitch at scale.

Every outreach email is written around the specific article and the specific section where a competitor appears, so it reads like a researched human pitch, not a mass blast.

Example prompt

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❯ Pull the citation report for the last 30 days. Find all URLs where our top 3 competitors appear but our brand does not. For each URL, scrape the page content and extract: the author name, any editorial contact email, the topic angle, and the specific section where a competitor is mentioned. Enrich each contact with a verified email via Apollo. Draft a personalised outreach email for each URL proposing we add a mention of our brand, with a specific hook relevant to their article angle. Launch a Smartlead sequence for all verified contacts and log the outreach in a Google Sheet.

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