Link Building Through Blogger Outreach

Link Building through Blogger Outreach Search London Meetup, 29th May 2012 Paddy Moogan, SEO Consultant @paddymoogan

PADDY MOOGANI’ll be live tweeting from @paddymoogan #SearchLondon Slides available afterwards

PADDY MOOGAN The Goal: Help you go back to the office tomorrow and build more links

PADDY MOOGANIT’S NOT THIS EASY A combination of these elements will add up to good quality links

PADDY MOOGANBut it can be made easier Planning Processes Tools Outsourcing By using these things, you make your life as a link builder MUCH easier

PADDY MOOGANBut it can be made easier We’re going to talk about these ones Planning Processes Tools Outsourcing By using these things, you make your life as a link builder MUCH easier

PADDY MOOGANContent based link building process Find the Find the Do Follow Link Angle Outreach Up Targets This process can be used for any content based link building

PADDY MOOGAN Who gives a shit about your content? Find at least five people who do!

PADDY MOOGAN Don’t find out here that no one cares about your content Find the Find the Do Follow Link Angle Outreach Up Targets Don’t put all the hard work into creating content only to find out no one is interested

PADDY MOOGAN 10 ways to find link targets

PADDY MOOGANLists – easy pickings More on the process here – http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-power-of-using-lists-for-link-building

PADDY MOOGANMulti Links Firefox / Linkclump for Chrome Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-links/ and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.blogdash.com - $20 a month for Pro membership

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/

PADDY MOOGANAdvanced Search Queries More help here - http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professionals-guide-to-advanced- search-operators

PADDY MOOGANUse Scrape Similar for Chrome Right click on result and scrape all results with one click Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbigbapnjcgaffohmbkdlecaccepngjd

PADDY MOOGANSEOmoz Competitive Link Finder Tool here - http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect

PADDY MOOGANFinding People on Twitter Tool here - http://followerwonk.com/ - there is a paid version that gives you additional details about the users such as their websites

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://topsy.com/experts

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/tools/author-crawler/

PADDY MOOGAN Filtering and sorting link targets

PADDY MOOGANIs it a good site to get a link from? Find contact details FIRST!Pro Tip – check header and footer Ideally this should be done before any content is created

PADDY MOOGAN Flags up here if there is an email on page More info: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gllmkcahdekdbapmdfnffclacbpnicaj

PADDY MOOGANUse your instincts• Does it feel like a nice site?• Has it been updated recently?• Do they link out to external sites?• What is the Domain Authority? Develop your instincts and over time, you will be able to do this very quickly

PADDY MOOGANRecord in a spreadsheet• Their name• Email• Website URL• Something specific about them This matters a lot! Make sure you include something specific – you will need it later

PADDY MOOGANWrite something specific about them This forms your opening email line and makes you look real This then becomes part of your email and makes you look real

PADDY MOOGANGrab the PageRank & Domain Authority More info: http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/ and https://seogadget.co.uk/links- data-excel-seomoz-api/

PADDY MOOGANThen filter and prioritise them• Take out low DA and PageRank scores• Order highest to lowest• Highlight stand out sitesAllocate your time to each accordingly Put more time into the high level targets as they can seed your content with more people

PADDY MOOGAN 4 tools to help with outreach

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.buzzstream.com

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://www.engag.io/

PADDY MOOGAN More info: http://rapportive.com/

PADDY MOOGAN Enter email and more details appear on the right More info: http://www.johnfdoherty.com/rapportive-linkbuilding-tool/

PADDY MOOGANOutreach email tips• Be Personal – use their name• Good Subject Line• Mention something Specific (remember your spreadsheet?)• Explain why they should care and link• Use your location if relevant More info: http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2011/01/13/link-building-contact-info- email

PADDY MOOGAN Explain why the should care and link (why they give a shit) Don’t get to the point of sending emails and not knowing what to say here

SPEAKER NAME - EDIT FOOTER Follow up

PADDY MOOGAN Always follow up at least once Most people are busy, its too easy to miss your first email

PADDY MOOGANThey can help you in the future• Don’t get pushy• Get feedback on what would have been good for them ++ for future content• Create what they want and go back to them next time Use their feedback to shape future link building and content, then go back to them

PADDY MOOGAN Find the Find the Do Follow Link Angle Outreach Up Targets

PADDY MOOGAN Finding bad links

PADDY MOOGANStep 1 – Gather all your backlinks Use these tools to gather all of your backlinks and dedupe them

PADDY MOOGANStep 2 – Gather metrics by page & domain Use SEO tools for Excel for the PageRank & read this post about how to do get DA in Excel - https://seogadget.co.uk/links-data-excel-seomoz-api/

PADDY MOOGANStep 3 – Visualise the low quality links Use these tools to gather all of your backlinks and dedupe them

PADDY MOOGANStep 4 – Prioritise low quality sitewides Sitewide links Learn to love pivot tables: https://seogadget.co.uk/how-to-make-a-pivot-table-and- chart-in-excel/

PADDY MOOGANStep 5 – Prioritise unnatural anchor text Natural links do NOT contain commercial keywords

Thank You Any Questions? @paddymooganpaddy.moogan@distilled.netPADDY MOOGAN

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