Proof that great content and outreach is still working...

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Hi folks,

I recently launched new affiliate "niche site". Fueled it up with 8-9 pages of juicy, valuable, helpful/interesting content and started my email outreach.

After 2 weeks, I've already got more than 50 referring domains pointing to it. Yet, I need probably more than 300-400 similar links to get top 3. But it's not really difficult when you have content that is linkable.

Here's what I'm doing:

Get in touch with niche influencers (people who have tons of followers)
Resource page linkbuilding (easiest way to get legit links)
Broken link building
Guest posts on REAL sites (such as: huffington posts, business2community, social media today etc... it's get syndicated to yahoo news and so on.)
Visual assets, infographics + outreach
Guides, tools + outreach

etc..
etc...

People should really drop the whole idea of "creating links". Your main goal is to get OTHER webmasters to LINK your content.

Of course, you can rely on PBN and pray that Google will never know, but I personally like to sleep at nights. Putting all eggs into "fake" links is a no-no for me.

What I'm doing is I'm basically turning my site into link magnet... and it works. People love it, Google loves it and more importantly I'm banking in for highly profitable keywords that get more than 20k+ searches every month.

It indeed requires some hard work, but it's long-term and if I want, I can flip this site after a year for 24x monthly.

One single email to authority guy in my niche resulted me 8 links, 44 tweets, 12 G+, and 21 likes. Anyhow, here it is:
#content #great #outreach #proof #working
  • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
    so use email to get links?


    ...thanks...I guess...
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Good job.

    It makes things a whole lot easier targeting niches that aren't popular with SEOs/IMers. My point is SEOs/IMers usually know the value in a link where people outside of SEO/IM only care that your friendly towards them.

    I have a few links.html links just from asking, some of those guys (popular sites) even ask people to submit links (still very few external links on the page).
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  • Profile picture of the author boxoun
    Nice job. When I enter new niches now, I research the audience first to make sure I can easily get some exposure or links. Then I also add in a few manufactured links to speed up the process. I can still sleep at night because I'm hoping to make short term money to fund "real" projects. I don't expect my niche sites to stay on top. Saves me the heartache lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author satrap
    I am sorry, but who said anything about great content AND outreach not working, that you have to prove otherwise?...

    Great content alone doesn't work (at least in most cases), but with outreach (which is basically another form of link building no matter which way you slice it) even ok content can work too.
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  • Profile picture of the author anoopsparx
    it's good to write the quality content and share with people those are interested. if people like your content they start sharing and commenting. Do not need to make links to gain Keywords ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author narenfomax
    I have heard of many people that spend most of your time on quality content and less on marketing/promoting. I agree.

    But without marketing or outreaching even quality content will not help you much. So for me its content writing and marketing is 60/40 ratio.
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