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## Create/Edit template screen

Inside a template you can edit:

- **Name**
- **Subject**
- **Body** (rich editor toolbar)

Below the editor you can insert tokens/variables like:

- Website URL
- First name
- Last name
- Contact title
- Photo URL
- Twitter URL
- LinkedIn URL
- GitHub URL

Bottom right:

- **Update template**

✅ Templates are essential for scaling outreach without rewriting every email.

### **🔗 Link Laboratory (Publisher & Placement Sourcing)**

This is part of the broader authority ecosystem: it supports finding placements, evaluating publisher quality, and tracking orders. Link Laboratory is a separate product with its own dedicated support team — for questions about a specific order, use your Link Laboratory chat rather than general Search Atlas support.

### **🗂️ LinkLaboratory navigation layout**

The LinkLaboratory UI has its own left navigation with sections like:

- My Projects
- Sites Catalog
- Marquee Publications
- Orders

Top left includes a role toggle:

- **Advertiser**
- **Publisher**

### **📁 My Projects**

This page shows a table of projects (domains) and tracking columns like:

- total orders
- in progress
- complete
- spend this month
- spend in total

On the Home page (Hi, CSM. What will we get done today?), you'll find:

- **Create Project** button

### **🧭 Site Metrics → Site Explorer (Site Explorer) (Find publishers related to your site)**

This page includes:

- a headline panel with benefits bullets
- a large search bar area: “Enter your site…”
- a button: **Find Publishers**
- a checkbox option like “Create a project for your site”

Below:  
A dense filter row with dropdown filters such as:

- Publisher
- Category
- Country
- Language
- Organic Keywords
- Traffic
- Domain Power / Authority / Rating
- Trust Flow
- Spam Score
- Index status (Google Indexed)
- Common Crawl
- Gemini LLM / OpenAI LLM (visibility signals)
- A big button: **Columns**

Then a publisher table showing:

- publisher name
- category tags
- organic keywords/traffic
- DP/DA/DR metrics
- backlinks/ref domains
- trust flow / citation flow
- spam score

✅ This is the “research and selection” hub.

### **💎 Marquee Publications**

Similar layout to Sites Catalog, but curated premium placements.

You’ll still see:

- filters row
- publisher list
- authority metrics

Some rows show badges like **Coming Soon**.

### **🧾 Orders**

Orders shows an empty-state table if none exist, plus filters like:

- Status
- Promoted URL
- Anchor text
- Service type
- Price

This is where placements get tracked after ordering.

### **🔔 Popups / visibility gates**

One of your screenshots shows a modal that says something like:

For big engagements, we allow all URLs to be visible… contact us.

This implies visibility or catalog scope may expand for large placements.

## ✅ Recommended End-to-End Authority Workflow (Practical)

Here’s how most users should run Authority as a system:

1. 🧠 Use **QUEST** to identify the questions, answers, and sources that dominate a topic
2. 📣 Convert those sources into targets via **Create Campaign** (Digital PR)
3. 🧩 Send outreach using **Templates** + connected emails
4. 📥 Track engagement in **Inbox** and follow-ups
5. 📰 Publish credibility assets via **PR Distribution** (optional but strong)
6. ☁️ Reinforce link ecosystem using **Cloud Stacks**
7. 🧷 Submit new URLs + PR URLs using **Indexer** so everything gets discovered faster
8. 🔗 If needed, expand authority sourcing via **LinkLaboratory catalogs** and manage placements through **Orders**

## 🌐Notes & UX Tips (Based on UI Behavior)

1. 🟣 If you see **Publish to 0 channels/sites**, you must select at least one option before the publish button activates.
2. ⋮ menus are typically your **Export/Delete** controls for items in tables.
3. The **stepper panel** (left) is your best indicator of “what comes next” in PR Distribution and Cloud Stacks.
4. The **Summary box** in PR Distribution helps prevent surprise credit spend, always review **Total credits** before publishing.

Authority in Search Atlas is not a single action, it’s a connected system.

Each tool in the Authority section is designed to solve a specific part of the visibility problem, but the real impact happens when they’re used together. From publishing PRs and Cloud Stacks, to accelerating discovery with the Indexer, to researching and activating outreach through QUEST and Digital PR, every step builds on the last.

This guide is meant to help you understand **where everything lives, how each workflow functions, and how the pieces connect**, so you can move from execution to impact with confidence. Whether you’re building authority for a new domain, reinforcing trust in a competitive niche, or expanding visibility across search engines and AI-driven platforms, Authority gives you the tools—and the control—to do it at scale.

As a next step, you can dive deeper into each workflow with focused, step-by-step guides covering:

- 🧱 **Authority Building** (Cloud Stacks, PR Distribution, and Indexer)
- 🔍 **QUEST & AI Visibility (formerly LLM Visibility)**
- 📣 **Digital PR Campaigns and Outreach Management**
- ✉️ **Templates and Outreach Scaling**

Used together, these tools turn authority building from a fragmented process into a repeatable, measurable system.