The script demonstrates an outreach system built with Hermes Agent that automates link building end-to-end: finding and enriching relevant blog leads (e.g., “AI automation blogs”), collecting contact details, generating an email outreach campaign with AI from a target URL and brief, and launching the campaign to send messages. It highlights campaign management features like previews, activation, tracking metrics (validated/sendable leads), skipping overly large sites, viewing sent items and inbox replies, follow-ups, and opt-out handling. The tool integrates Hunter API for email finding, Firecrawl for enrichment, and Gmail via Google Workspace API, runs on a schedule, and can be paused. It’s positioned as a flexible, customizable UI-based alternative to using Hermes in the terminal, and as an all-in-one replacement for duct-taping tools together.
00:00 Automated Backlinks Overview
00:21 Finding And Enriching Leads
01:24 AI Written Outreach Emails
02:50 Creating And Activating Campaigns
04:04 Tracking Metrics Inbox Sent
05:35 Tool Stack And Scheduling
06:02 Customizable UI And Followups
07:04 Why Backlinks Still Matter
07:50 Get Agent OS And Community
08:48 Tutorials Coaching And Support
09:23 Agency Offer And Wrap Up
Full transcript
Today, I want to show you how to automate backlinks and link building using a powerful system we've built with Hermes Agent. And essentially what we can do here is we can basically automate and build link building campaigns and generate leads for link building campaigns using this outreach system that's plugged into Hermes Agent. So what we can do, for example, here is we would find leads. So let's say, for example, I have a blog about link building automation, or let's say I have a blog about AI automation.
Well, I can type, for example, AI automation blogs here, find an enrich, and that will basically search for leads related to AI automation and relevant blogs. So you can see it said found eight sites enriched with their details here. And then you can see the details of those leads at the top. So we found a couple of example websites that we could reach out to.
And then it has enriched the lead in terms of what they talk about, what they do. It's found the details of how to reach out to them. And then from here, we can either delete them or what we could do from here is we can go to our campaign section and we can automatically generate the email outreach campaign to build links for them. And what I've typically found with link building is that the more websites you reach out to with relevant content, asking for a backlink, the more backlinks you get in return.
Right. So it's just a case of reaching out to more websites, reaching out to relevant websites and having a good email campaign. So what we can do from here is we can plug in the email that we want to reach out to or the leads we want to reach out to. And then you can either write the email yourself with the subjects in the email body, or you can tell the AI exactly what the campaign is about.
And then that will use this to generate the outreach campaign. So let me show you an example of this. If we go to the AI Profit Board, as you can see right here. And let's say, for example, we want to get backlinks to a page like this.
So what we can do here is we can plug in that URL and we can say, OK, reach out to prospects asking for backlinks. For my blog about Hermes agent and offer a backlink in return to say thanks. Then we can write the email with AI. And that's going to begin to write the subject line and the email body for the campaign.
So you can see now, let's say I was just reading through your domain and liked it because of this reason, just published this article. Would you be open to link into it? Want me to send over the details? Cheers.
And here's exactly what the email campaign looks like. We also have the opt out inside the email too. So we can easily automate link building. Reach out to these relevant websites that we've contacted.
We've got an email address set up for Hermes that can do the average for us, and I'd recommend that too. And then from here, if we're ready to go on that, then we can click on create campaign. Right. We can start building the backlink.
So, for example, we have a link building campaign set up over here. And basically this means that we can automate our outreach. Now, this also means that you could use this not just for link building, but for email outreach, for getting potential clients, for lead generation, whatever you want to use it for. But it's a really powerful way to basically turn Hermes agent into an outreach SaaS tool that does all the work for you.
I think this is one of the things that you're missing out on if you're just using Hermes inside the terminal. So if you're using Hermes inside the terminal, like so, you just don't get that sort of automation. You don't get that sort of setup. You can't see everything that you've done previously.
You could train Hermes with a skill inside the terminal to do this, but how would you manage it? How would you visualize everything you created? It'd be very difficult. Right.
Whereas, for example, if we set up this system and we're like, OK, we'll call this link building campaign. We've got the setup over here. We've got the email. And then we can click on create campaign.
All right. And then we can preview the whole setup here. And our campaign has been added. Now, if we actually want to start sending it, we can click on activate and that will reach out to the prospects inside that campaign.
So we literally go from lead generation to write an email to do in the outreach and we can manage all of the systems here. So we can see all the key metrics, like the number of leads we reached out to, validated, sendable, etc. And then we skip anyone that's too big because obviously there's no point reaching out to like, you know, if we reached out to like Forbes or something like that, they're not going to reply to us, obviously. So we skip all the stuff that's too big to reach out to.
And then also what's pretty cool about this is we have the sent items so we can easily see what was sent here. And then we've got the inbox as well as we can see, you know, who's in our inbox and who have we reached out to. So this whole system here just automates the. For me personally, as someone who's done a lot of link building and building backlinks for our agency, I know that it can be super draining, super time consuming.
And this is why most people don't do link building. So we built an AI tool with Hermes agent that just automates all the hard stuff I don't want to do. So this is how the whole system works. And, you know, your AI can basically do the whole email outreach system for you using this.
Here's another example of an email draft that it wrote. Pretty simple and easy to set up. And the great thing about this is like, you know, what a lot of people do is they'll go into something like Pitchbox and they have to write the emails themselves or they have to copy and paste from chat GPT or they have to figure out themselves. Especially if you've got a team doing it like that's a lot of work.
Whereas with this system, you can easily just automate it from start to finish. And it's all inside one place. You're not like duct taping multiple different tools together. The way this works is basically we have Hunter API and we have Firecrawl as well for enriching the leads.
And then we have Gmail plugged into this. So we have a Google Workspace API that we can plug into this system. And so it finds email, it finds the leads, enriches them, validates them, writes a campaign. You can preview it and then you can send.
And this runs on a schedule as well. So it runs day to day. And you can always pause or stop it whenever you want to as well. The other thing that I would say here is like the actual UI is super nice, right?
It looks nice. It's nice to read. Feels good to use. And also because this is basically your own setup.
Like we give AI Profitable Boarding members the zip file to install. Because of that, you can customize it however you want. So if you're like, I don't really like this color or I want this layout to be different, etc. You can ask the AI agent that sets it up for you to just customize that and change that for you.
So everything that you'll see in here is fully flexible and you can change it however you want. So this is basically how it works step by step. Super simple and easy. And then you give it a brief.
The AI writer does its job. And then it customizes each outreach message to the person it's reaching out to. And then also it can follow up with those leads too, which is great. And everyone can opt out as well.
So it has like an auto, you know, if they reply stop or if they click the button to opt out, no problem at all. So that's basically the whole system, how it works, how you can use it for outreach. You might also say, okay, well, does link building actually work? So the website that we use this for, as you can see, the AIprofitboredom.com, it works really well.
So the more backlinks we build from relevant authoritative websites, the more our rankings increase. Because in a world where everyone can create content and everyone can easily find keywords using AI, the only thing that really matters now is the human relationships that you build. How do you build human relationships for backlinks? Well, you just reach out to other websites and say, hey, got this blog, would you link to us?
We can help you in return. And that's how it basically works, right? And so for 99% of people, they don't even know that you can build outreach systems like this. If you're watching, you're already in the top 1%.
And this is a whole system that you can use with AI to automate this whole process. So if you want to get the agent operating system with Hermes Outreach built in, the outreach tool I use is one of many tools inside the agent operating system. You can get the Hermes Outreach system, you can get the local Hermes engine, the Claude workspace, free local models, so we have a free local engine inside there. The AI email tool, the lead generator, agent kanbans, memory vault built in as well, and 3,800 founders who are also using this together too.
And if you're thinking, OK, this sounds technical to set up, whatever, you can see that we have 191 pages of people winning, learning and growing with this stuff. 192 actually, sorry. So you can see all these people using the agent OS system, loads of people getting awesome results. And so if I'm non-technical and I can use this and all these people are non-technical too, then we live in a world where we can build tools like this.
We can share it, we can learn together. And if you want to get the whole setup from me, that's available inside the AI Profitable Community. Link in the comments description or go to the AIprofitable.com. So if you go to the classroom here, then go to new daily updates, you can find the agent OS system right here.
We add new daily updates. You can get the video tutorial on how to use it. We've got a full guide and also the zip file to install. We add new daily tutorials like you can see right here.
Inside the community, I personally answer all of the questions daily with a video tutorial for everyone. And also you get the help and support of everyone online, which means that 24-7 there's always someone online to help you. You can also jump on weekly coaching calls. We have four weekly coaching calls where you get help and support in real time.
And then inside the map, you can meet people in your local area. So feel free to join us inside there. The other thing I would say is if you like SEO, but you don't have the time to implement it, we do have an SEO agency that can help you with link building. So you can book that at a one-to-one SEO strategy session at Goldie.agency.
And you'll get a free SEO domination plan to discover the secrets to SEO link building. If I answer any questions you have one-to-one, you'll learn the best link building strategy for your website. And you'll learn how to outrank your competitors with link building based on what's working for us. So feel free to get out at Goldie.agency.
Link in the comments description or just go to Goldie.agency. https://goldie.agency.com
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