How To Build Links You Actually Want By Ruth Burr Reedy

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#SMX #14a @ruthburr While Avoiding Links You’re Too Good For HOW TO BUILD THE LINKS YOU ACTUALLY WANT

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While Avoiding Links You’re Too Good For

HOW TO BUILD THE LINKS YOU ACTUALLY WANT

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Just Build Good Content!

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Good Luck with That.

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Let’s Be Real.

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The Best Links Build Themselves.

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The Best Links Drive Traffic.

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What do your customers like to do?

Build a Content

Calendar for Link Outreach

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“1: A strong piece of local content (goal: organic reach, topical relevance, local SEO)2: Two pieces of evergreen content (goal: traffic)1: A link-worthy asset (goal: links)”- Ronell Smith, “How to Create Content for Boring Industries”

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-create-content-for-boring-industries

1 Month, 1 Theme, 4 Pieces of Content

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http://buzzsumo.com

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Affinities

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https://followerwonk.com

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Do you really want that link?

Evaluating Link

Prospects

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http://majestic.com

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http://www.semrush.com

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Ask for Links Without Being Weird About It

Outreach Strategies that Work

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Twitter Outreach in 15 Min a Day

h/t

@dr_pete!

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The Secret to HARO

www.helpareporterout.com

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Find That Address!

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What a Press Release Is

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What a Press Release Is Not

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In Person

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Track it all. Track everything.

Track and Repeat.

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WHO YOU TALKED TO

and whether they responded

(if they didn’t respond, move on)

Weekly

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INBOUND LINKS

per content piece

(new and old)

Monthly

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TRAFFIC

organic and referral

per content piece

Monthly

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OH YEAH

and is any of this

resulting in conversions?

Monthly

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DO IT ALL AGAIN

learning from what

worked best before

Quarterly

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