Welcome welcome! 👐

We're stoked to have you aboard.

I've prepared a quick little guide to get you started and show you all the cool things you can do in our anchor text planner.

Content

1️⃣ Adding your brand
2️⃣ Adding a page
3️⃣ Checking current anchor text percentages
4️⃣ Determining your ideal percentages
5️⃣ Getting anchor text suggestions

1️⃣ Adding Your Brand

➡️On the main dashboard screen at https://app.linkio.com, click the "Add your first brand" button to get started

➡️ Note: If you are a paying subscribers to https://ahrefs.com, please pair your Ahrefs API to Linkio using this link first: https://app.linkio.com/automation_settings

➡️Enter your brand information

• Website Address: Add it exactly as the homepage would appear in your browser address bar
• Website Type: Specify whether its a National, Local, E-commerce or Software business
• Keyword in domain name: Specify in the website is an exact, partial or non-match domain
• Brand Name: The official name of your business (minus the LLC., Inc. type stuff)
• Alternative Brand Names: Include misspellings, old brand names, or variations like space/no space
• Select your backlink data methods: Google Search Console, Ahrefs and/or Moz

➡️Enter your search engine tracking settings

There you have it, you've added your first brand to the system!

2️⃣ Adding a page

➡️ Click "Setup Anchor Text Planner" on the Brand Overview page to go to the "Add New Pages" screen

➡️ Click "Manually import pages to table" button

👉Note: It is not recommended the use the "Autodiscover pages via sitemap" feature.

➡️Paste in the URL of your target page with the full http(s)://www. etc

👉Note: If you're adding multiple pages, add one per line

➡️Verify the "Page Type" column, specify your keywords and click the green button to add the page.

👉Note: Setting the page type helps the system suggest the correct percentage.
👉Note: Once you add a keyword, the daily rankings are tracked
👉Note: The keyword(s) you add will help determine your percentages

🥳You've successfully added a page to the anchor text planner!

3️⃣ Checking current anchor text percentages

⚠️This is where the software has 2 paths:

PATH 1️⃣ You have paid Ahrefs account:

• All data imports is 100% automated
• Pair API on this page

PATH 2️⃣: You don't have a paid Ahrefs account:

• You have to manually import your backlink data
• Message me for more options

➡️ PATH 1️⃣ (✔️Ahrefs) Linkio will automatically import your backlinks

➡️ PATH 2️⃣ (❌Ahrefs) You can import your existing backlinks with the "Import Backlinks" button

👉Note: Only import the backlinks for that particular page

➡️Once import is complete, Linkio will perform several background checks on each backlink

• Verify referring page status (200, 404, etc)
• Verify backlink is on the page
• Determine Dofollow/Nofollow status
• Check if referring page is indexed in Google or not
• Confirm anchor text of backlink
• Categorize anchor text into 1 of 13 categories

👉 Note: These checks can occur instantly, or it can take up to a couple of hours depending on the currently system load. You can check the Crawler queue in the top right header to determine how long it should take

➡️Once analysis is complete, you're anchor text percentage calculations will be complete

➡️ You should make sure these percentages are correct first by opening the categorization settings, and making adjustments to the fields based on incorrect categorizations.

👉Note: Only backlinks that are Dofollow and Indexed will count to your anchor text percentages. You can click on the page metrics to filter by just those links.

4️⃣ Determining your ideal percentages

In the percentages sidebar, you'll see the Ideal percentage column.

By default, an ideal is chosen based on the Page Type you selected in the previous step. You can learn more about how the default system works here.

👉Note: You can change this by clicking the "Change Ideal Percentage" button.

You can switch to a different default, create your own percentage targets from this page, or calculate a custom target percentage based on competitor data.

5️⃣ Checking Your Anchor Text Suggestions

Click the "Anchor Text Suggestions" tab to view the list of the next anchors you should build.