The 5-minute quick start

From an empty account to your first qualified link opportunity in about five minutes.

SWritten by Serpfeed SupportUpdated July 10, 2026

Here is the fastest route from signing up to a feed of real backlink opportunities for your site. The whole thing takes about five minutes, and most of it is Serpfeed working while you wait.

The onboarding wizard on the Basics step

Capture: The onboarding wizard first step (Basics): name, project name, and website fields, with the https:// prefix visible. Light mode, crop to 16:9.

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1. Run through onboarding

Onboarding is five short steps: your details and website, a one-line description of what you do, your market (local, country, or worldwide), a few competitors, and finally your email. There is no password to set: we send a six-digit code to sign you in.

2. Let discovery run

The moment you finish, Serpfeed kicks off a discovery run in the background. You don't have to press anything. It seeds search terms for your site, mines your competitors' backlinks, imports your own links, and pulls in brand mentions and curated directories. Opportunities start landing within seconds to a few minutes.

3. Review your opportunities

Open the Linkbuilding section to see the feed. Each row is a site you could realistically get a link from, with its type (competitor gap, guest post, resource page, directory, and so on). Browsing the feed is free, so keep the ones that fit and skip the rest.

4. Accept one to act on it

Accepting an opportunity enriches it with authority, traffic, and contact data, and moves it into your working list so you can send outreach or submit to the directory. Accepting uses credits, so this is the step where a paid plan (or a credit pack) comes in.

On the free plan?

Discovery, browsing, and drafting are free, so you can see your full opportunity feed and draft up to 25 outreaches a month (which you send yourself) before paying anything. Automated sending and bot link placement use credits, which the free plan doesn't include. See How credits work for the details.

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