## **What Is the Authority Building Feature?**

The **Authority Building** section in Search Atlas is a suite of tools designed to help you grow your website's domain authority, improve link signals, and increase your brand's visibility across the web. It brings together several powerful sub-tools under one unified workspace.

To access Authority Building, navigate to the **left sidebar** and click **Authority**.

## **Overview of Authority Building Sub-Tools**

Once inside the Authority section, you will find the following tools in the left sidebar:

- **Cloud Stacks** — Build structured cloud-based link networks to strengthen your site's authority signals.
- **URL Indexer** — Submit URLs to help search engines discover and index your pages faster.
- **QUEST LLM Visibility** — Monitor and improve how your brand appears in AI-generated responses and large language model outputs.
- **Campaigns** — Create and manage outreach campaigns to build backlinks and press coverage.
- **Inbox** — Review and respond to incoming messages related to your outreach campaigns.
- **Sent** — Track all outreach emails and communications you have already sent.

## **Getting Started with Authority Building**

1. Click **Authority** in the left sidebar to open the section.
2. Choose the sub-tool that matches your current goal — for example, use **Campaigns** to launch a new outreach effort, or **URL Indexer** to speed up page indexing.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts within each tool to configure your settings and begin work.
4. Use the **Inbox** and **Sent** tabs to manage your outreach communications in one place.

## **Common Tasks and How to Complete Them**

Here are some of the most frequent actions customers take inside Authority Building:

- **Starting a new outreach campaign:** Navigate to **Authority → Campaigns**, click the button to create a new campaign, and follow the setup steps to define your targets and messaging.
- **Submitting URLs for indexing:** Go to **Authority → URL Indexer**, paste the URLs you want indexed, and submit. Results typically reflect within a short processing window.
- **Setting up Cloud Stacks:** Navigate to **Authority → Cloud Stacks** and follow the guided workflow to build your link stack structure.
- **Checking LLM brand visibility:** Go to **Authority → QUEST LLM Visibility** to view how your brand is represented in AI-generated content and identify improvement opportunities.
- **Managing replies to outreach:** Visit **Authority → Inbox** to see all incoming responses to your campaigns and reply directly.

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.