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Listicle placement engine

  • seo
  • placements
  • listicles
  • geo

Get your brand named in 'best of' and 'top 10' listicles that rank on Google and get cited by AI assistants when buyers ask for recommendations. An expert identifies the highest-value listicle opportunities in your category, reaches out to site owners and editors, and manages the

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4 Steps in the flow
2 Tools orchestrated
1 Human checkpoint
Weekly Run cadence
Tracked monthly Listicle placements

The objective

What this system is built to do

Get into the "best of" pages buyers and assistants already trust. Third-party endorsement ranks and gets cited in ways your own pages cannot. Not doing: paying for low-authority link placements.

Cycle & hand-offs: Find the pages that matter runs monthly and starts the cycle. Hand-offs: Find the pages that matter → Pitch the editor: straight away; Pitch the editor → Negotiate the placement: once an editor has replied to the pitch. Runs on its own rhythm: Track the citations (weekly (Mon)). Any other link waits for a person. Sign-off steps stay with a person; everything else can run on its own once armed.

How it runs

The steps your team follows

The workflow, exactly as it runs inside . It plays through step by step, or pick any node on the map.

1Find the pages that matter
2Pitch the editor
3Negotiate the placement
4Track the citations
1

Find the pages that matter

Weekly
  1. In , find the "best X" and "top X" pages ranking for our category.
  2. Score each by traffic, authority, and whether assistants cite it.
  3. Note which competitors are already listed.
  4. Human approval, approve the target list.
2

Pitch the editor

Weekly
  1. Find the actual editor or author in .
  2. Pitch the specific gap our product fills in their list.
  3. Offer the copy, screenshots and data ready to paste.
3

Negotiate the placement

Weekly
  1. Agree the entry: position, wording, and the link.
  2. Where it is paid, check it against traffic, not domain rating alone.
  3. Approve the final copy before it goes live.
4

Track the citations

Weekly
  1. Monitor rankings for the placed pages.
  2. Re-ask the assistants whether we now appear in their answers.
  3. Chase refreshes on lists that have gone stale.
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Setup

The stack

The tools this system drives. Connect your own accounts, or swap in your team's equivalent.

Tools to connect

Ahrefsfrom $129 / mo Powers Find the pages that matter Or Semrush, Moz
BuzzStreamfrom $24 / mo Powers Pitch the editor Or Pitchbox, Respona

Proven in market

Run by 82 teams, verified on real accounts

Listicle placement engine is built and verified by Growth Division, the GTM team behind 130+ companies.

Built & verified by Growth Division

Get started

How to run this system

Live in an afternoon. Clone it, connect your tools, set your inputs, and turn it on.

  1. 1

    Add to

    Clone the Listicle placement engine into your workspace, wired end to end.

  2. 2

    Connect your tools

    Ahrefs, BuzzStream.

  3. 3

    Set your inputs

    Your ICP, targets and brand rules, once.

  4. 4

    Turn it on

    It runs weekly on autopilot, checking in with you only where it matters.

1 approval / weekly your time on autopilot · the rest runs itself
Tracked monthly Listicle placements, produced for you
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Next launch: Week of 3 Nov 2026 · 1 slot left

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