Guest post by James Agate, founder of Skyrocket SEO, the content-led link building agency and a Link Prospector Power User. My team and I are pretty heavy users of the link prospector tool. Combined with a couple of other sources, Link Prospector helps us to find a large number of guest posts consistently every month [...]
I designed my “scraper suite” of tools (not the link prospector) as stand alone pieces of a Broken Link Building tool I had planned. What we found was that my process, and the nature of the “dead web” itself, makes it quite difficult to processitize large scale BLB in a “add-URLs-and-click-go” tool. There are so [...]
In some types of campaigns – value-add commenting and broken link building for example – you know the URL where your link will show up, assuming it gets published. And until today though I’ve always had to go, URL by URL, to see if my links went up. Go register now for the Citation Labs [...]
Link builder, there remain deep wells of link prospect opportunity… Even if you’ve queried every last prospect from Google and snatched every last link from your competitors’ backlink profile. If you can make the right offer and have a ready team for outreach then list-scrape prospecting could add a steady stream of powerful links to [...]
I have a confession. It’s more than a little embarrassing… Off and on for the last several years I’ve gathered contact info by hand. Yup that’s right, I’d spend hours going site by site to copy/paste contact us form pages and email addresses into a spreadsheet. Usually for batches of 100 or fewer sites. Sometimes [...]
Nick LeRoy, the Minneapolis SEO, adds to the broken link building interview series that began with Melanie Nathan and moved next to Napoleon Suarez. I’m conducting these interviews to add to my knowledge base for my August 25th webinar: The Content Marketer’s Guide to Broken Link Building. Campaign Viability Q: What kinds of sites or [...]
Prospecting for broken link building opportunities typically begins with a “seed set” either of competitor/relevant sites to check for 404s, relevant pages with lists of links and old/niche directory pages. 1) Finding relevant resource pages with lists of links Managed collections of hyperlinks provide some of the best “hunting ground” for rotted resource pages. Here [...]
I’m currently at work on a sort of “multi-tool” for large scale broken link building. Obviously I’m learning by doing, but reading definitely adds to my education as we inch slowly towards a beta offering. Here are broken link building tools, articles, interviews, forum posts, videos and link rot information that you may find useful [...]
Big thanks to Napoleon Suarez of SEO Company Seer Interactive for generously contributing to my education on broken link building… I will be citing both him and expert broken link builder Melanie Nathan in my upcoming webinar: The Content Marketer’s Guide to Broken Link Building. Keep your eye on Napoleon Suarez – he’s got mountains [...]
In preparation for my upcoming webinar – The Content Marketer’s Guide to Broken Link Building (August 25th 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT) I sent some “best-practices” questions over to Edmonton SEO Melanie Nathan, creator of a formalized broken link building process. You can (and should) follow Melanie on Twitter for fantastic link building resources. [...]
