Find competitor pages attracting external links
Give a content brief a stronger research starting point by seeing which pages on a documented competitor site attract external links.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
List best by external links
Lists a website’s pages with the most external links pointing to them.
Why this helps
Content planning often misses the pages competitors have already earned links to, requiring a separate manual audit.
- Identify externally linked competitor pages
- Ground a brief in backlink evidence
- Start with a competitor already named in research
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Affinda and Ahrefs once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in plain language or in Automations, New Automation.
- 3Ask Notis to extract the competitor domain from the supplied processed brief and retrieve its best pages by external links.
- 4Choose the webhook trigger and report destination.
- 5Test with one brief and confirm the competitor domain before using the results.
Questions about this workflow
Does this find content topics automatically?
It returns pages ranked by external links. Notis can summarize patterns, but topic recommendations require analysis and a defined content goal.
What if several competitors appear in the brief?
The prompt can request one domain per run or a short, explicit set. Review the targets to avoid mixing different markets.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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Recurring trigger
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