link building for dummies
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1@DavidIwanow
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2@DavidIwanow
Link Reclamation for dummies
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3@DavidIwanow
Who am I?I’ve been doing SEO for over 10 years and I’m currently the Director of Strategy at BlueGlass, a London-based digital
marketing agency with a focus on SEO and Content Marketing.
We also have BlueGlass offices in Zurich and Tallinn.
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4@DavidIwanow
The Drum 2016 Content Marketing
Agency of the Year
5 x Search Awards winner
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5@DavidIwanow
1. Building links are hard
2. Do you need to update links?
3. Why should I do link reclamation?
4. Why should webmasters care?
5. What data to source?
6. Set quality guidelines on links
7. What to send?
8. How can webmasters might react?
9. Improve your campaign results
Link reclamation done right or wrongThere is always ways to screw things up if you cut corners or don’t gather enough data
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6@DavidIwanow
Building links is hardWhy make things harder than they should be?
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7@DavidIwanow
Already have enough links?
1. How many links resolve in 404 errors?
2. Have you moved domains?
3. Have you rebranded the business?
4. What % of your links redirect?
5. What % of your links land at 404 error pages?
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8@DavidIwanow
Are inbound links current?
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9@DavidIwanow
Do your links redirect?
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10@DavidIwanow
How many links to update?
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11@DavidIwanow
How many can be reclaimed?
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12@DavidIwanow
Why should I do it?Webmaster need a good reason to action your request
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13@DavidIwanow
Personal attacks may not be ideal
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14@DavidIwanow
Negative emails don’t motivate
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15@DavidIwanow
Should they care?You are asking them to do something that might require their time
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16@DavidIwanow
Give them detailed background
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17@DavidIwanow
Cleaning up past SEO mistakes?
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18@DavidIwanow
Cleaning up past SEO mistakes?
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19@DavidIwanow
What data to source?Success relies on gathering as much data as possible before outreach
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20@DavidIwanow
Gather as much detail as possible
1. Does the page still resolve? Status code?
2. Google Cache Date
3. Scrape IP address
4. Whois details
5. Adsense & Google Analytics ID
6. Domain extension
7. Trust Flow, Citation Flow, Referring Domains, Backlinks
8. Is the Page or Domain indexed?
9. Does the website have too much adsense?
10. Does the website have links to Porn,Pillz, Casinos
11. Type of link? Mention, Redirect, 404, Affiliate Link
12. Classification? Forum, Blog, PBN, Directory, Aggregator, Affiliate
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21@DavidIwanow
Group URLs with same owners
1. Check whois details company details
2. Check whois email details
3. Check IP address
4. Check Adsense & Google Analytics
5. Check if page is mirrored ie Blogspot.ie & Blogspot.fr
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22@DavidIwanow
Set quality guidelinesConsider the strictness based on why you are doing it
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23@DavidIwanow
Which websites to contact?
1. Focus on ccTLDs that match your website (ie .CO.UK)
2. Focus on authority domains next (Gov,Org,Edu,AC.UK)
3. Focus on the links based on this priority
a. Pointing to old domain or anchor with old brand
b. Pointing to error pages (500,503)
c. Pointing to dead pages
(400,401,403,404,405,410,414,415)
d. Pointing to redirects (301,302,307)
e. Pointing to parameters (Gclid,UTM,Internal tracking)
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24@DavidIwanow
Which websites to avoid?
1. Domain or page is not indexed
2. Page contains malware
3. Site has links to Porn, Pillz or Casinos
4. Suspect site is part of a blog network
5. Domain has same whois registration details
6. Domain has same IP or DNS as other domains
7. Links are sitewide
8. Domain uses same Adsense or Google Analytics code
9. Anchor text is SEO friendly/suspicious
10. Content is low quality
11. Content about your brand is negative
12. Link is from a spam domain like XYZ or CC
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25@DavidIwanow
What to send?You will have to balance between being polite and getting action
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26@DavidIwanow
What should your email contain?
1. Who are you?
2. What is your relationship to the website?
3. Why are you disturbing them?
4. Why should they care?
5. Why do you want them to fix the link?
6. What is the old link you want fixed?
7. What is the anchor text, as this helps them find it?
8. What is the new link you want in place?
9. When will you follow up if not resolved? 2 weeks?
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27@DavidIwanow
We had several rounds of review
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28@DavidIwanow
Webmasters react?Why do I need to better measure what we’ve done?
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29@DavidIwanow
Sometimes webmasters react
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30@DavidIwanow
Manual checks and balances
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31@DavidIwanow
If you mess up…. then apologise
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32@DavidIwanow
Sometimes they ask for money
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33@DavidIwanow
Sometimes they get angry
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34@DavidIwanow
Sometimes they remove the link
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35@DavidIwanow
Improve resultsYou are doing the hard work, why not go the extra step?
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36@DavidIwanow
Go above and beyond
Geachte Mijnheer,
Beste,
Mijn naam is David, medewerker van Domain.be. Eerst en vooral wil ik u bedanken voor het geweldige werk dat u doet met uw website.
Het viel me echter op dat uw pagina (...) nog geen link naar onze website bevat. Om het aanbod op uw site verder te verbeteren, raad ik u aan om deze link(s) toe te voegen ...
• URL 1• URL 2
Het zou fantastisch zijn, mocht u dit even updaten.
Indien u nog vragen hebt, dan kan u mij altijd contacteren. Met plezier help ik u vooruit.
Vriendelijke groeten,
David
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37@DavidIwanow
Improve your success rate
1. Don’t send to [%First Name%]
2. Don’t use a generic Gmail address
3. Be honest & sincere
4. Use real contact details
5. Ensure you get their name right
6. Ensure you get the website details right
7. Provide them with the right details of link to update/fix
8. Provide them with what actions you want them to take
9. Try not to spam same webmaster with multiple requests
10.Localised your email template where relevant
11.Test different subject lines
12.Use alternative email templates
13.Consider how to deal with spam filters
14.If doing bulk send provide unsubscribe/feedback option
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38@DavidIwanow
Thank You!