link prospecting - step away from the search engine - brightonseo april 2014
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It may not be glamorous but it’s damn useful. Whatever kind of link building campaigns you're running, the ability to find relevant link prospects can help lay the foundation for a successful campaign. These are some of my top techniques to get away from the common methods and discover more relevant prospects waiting for you off the beaten track. As I've found that this stage of an SEO campaign is often one of the biggest unnecessary time drainers, I've also shared some tools and tips to help you prospect smarter. You can find links to all the tools mentioned as well as detailed tutorials on some of the methods over at: http://www.webdurance.co.uk/brightonseo-slides/TRANSCRIPT
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Link Prospecting: Step Away From The Search Engine
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Takeaways
• Why you should step away from the search engine
• Other places to find prospects
• How you can do this more efficiently
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Spend more of your time
• doing things where you can make a difference
• that need the personal touch,
• planning, researching, delivering great campaigns,
• building relationships
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What’s wrong with search engines ?
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not to scale
sites found with
advanced search
queries
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I <3 lists
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alltop.com
ebuzzing
blogmetrics.org technorati.com bloglovin.com
ebuzzing.co.uk blogcatalog.com konector.com dmoz.org
cision.com lookbook.nu foodies100.co.uk hibs100.co.uk
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Copy & PasteDonkey’s years & RSI
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Alltop.com
Right click headings > Select “scrape similar” > Save as google doc.
Chrome Scraper Extension
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Blogmetrics.org
Scrape similar > change xpath: //div[*]/table/tbody/tr[*]/td[2]/a > scrape > save as google doc
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More than one page?
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No details on page?
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OutWit Hub & Bloglovin FTW!
Outwit Hub & Bloglovin Tutorial
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Curated lists = social proof
• top / best [keyword] blogs to follow 2014
• “list of [keyword] bloggers”
• “top [keyword] blogs” etc…
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Linkclump chrome extension
• Hotkeys > drag > paste
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We’re still not done with lists
• Blogrolls
• “list of blogs I love” and “Places I’ve been featured / interviewed / guest posted” style pages
• Linkclump works well for all of these
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I also <3 comments
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Comments
• Commenters on articles that have covered your stuff or a similar topic
• Collect and review those with sites.
• Linkclump or Scraper extension works on majority of formats.
• Blogger.com, Disqus powered trickier
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Disqus
• Name links to disqusprofile
• Profiles include site & social details
• And other sites they’ve commented on!
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Blogger.com powered
• name links to blogger profile or redirects to g+
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I also <3 linkys
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Common linky tools
• misterlinky.net – linkclump does a nice job as does scraper with xpath tweaks
• inlinkz.com & linkytools.com - hop through redirect. Scraper and linkclump don’t work, Outwit Hub does.
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From an e-mail list
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Gmail & rapportive chrome extension
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Fullcontact Person API
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Fullcontact API & Excel
What you need: e-mail addresses, FullContact API key, the Excel Template
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social
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Followerwonk
[keyword] blog > more options > “http” in URL field > download
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Twitter chats & hashtags
• #bbloggers – beauty bloggers, #fbloggers – fashion , #pbloggers – parenting, #lbloggers – lifestyle
Loads more hashtags: http://blog.tweetchat.com/calendar/
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Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/02/twitter-archive-tagsv5/
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#brightonseo
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Who’s tweeting about #brightonSEO?
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Let’s find out more about them
Top 100 Tweeters
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Where are they?
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What do they talk about?
advertising bbc radio 1 blogging brighton
business christmas east midlands facebook google
infographics london manchester marketing microsoft
windows music public relations ricky gervais search
engine marketing seo social
media software sussex twitter web analytics wordpress
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What else did it find?
MySpace 1 Occupation 50
Age 2
Other: Vimeo,
Foursquare etc 50
Skype / gtalk 3 LinkedIn 53
Flickr 3 General Location 88
YouTube 8 Klout 92
Google+ 17 Bio 94
Facebook 33 Name 95
Gender 36 Photo 95
Company 50 Website 95
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Twitter has lists too
But no native way to search for them!
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Twitter List Explorer Google Doc
So we made one:
• Search for lists & collect member details
Will be released shortly
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Google+
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Google+ Communities
Search “[keyword] blog” > Click on group > Scroll down to members > Click see all > Visit profiles & collect URL data
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Facebook Groups
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Graph search
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Events
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Pages
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A Problem with Facebook
• 50% profiles we tested didn’t display website details anywhere!
• Is email outreach the best way?
• Facebook advertising to individual ids.
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Getting their info off Facebook
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Step 1: Scraper or Linkclump Chrome Extension
Groups members page > scroll to show all members > scrape similar on last member > swap numbers with * in expath > scrape
Method also works for
Events & Graph search
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Step 2: Facebook Graph API & SeoTools for Excel
=JsonPathOnUrl("https://graph.facebook.com/username","id")
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What about Pages?
• Can’t get all fans, but Facesniper will get engaged ones.
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Google news
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Google News
• If you have something topical to promote – find people who are already talking about the topic
http://press.customerdevlabs.com/
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Spy on your competitors
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Which sites linked to a few competitors?
• Moz competitive link finder & Majestic Clique Hunter
Great, but based
on historical data
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Which sites linked to a few competitors?
• Link intersect excel template by @mihaiaperghis
• Last 6 – 12 months backlink data from ahrefs or Majesticseo.
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What are they up to lately
• Open Site Explorer Fresh links – no api yet
• Majestic Seo fresh links - has api
• Ahrefs - sort by date - has api
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What are they up to lately
• Monitorbacklinks.com handy if you don’t have a developer
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What’s their best performing content?
But what does best performing mean?
Used to check for top linked pages.
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What’s their best performing content?
Now find social performance more helpful
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Reverse engineer badges
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Bloggers love badges
• Check where they link to
• Pull a link report & review
• Ongoing: monitor fresh links
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Spy on similar themed assets
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Find similar themed stuff & borrow their success
• Buzzsumo again
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Look for similar themed infographics*
• Paddy Moogan’s infographic search engine
*yes even if you’re not doing an infographic
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Look for similar themed infographics*
*yes even if you’re not doing an infographic
• Search on visual.ly
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Find who linked
Use backlink tools to all of its URLs
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Find who linked
• reverse image search to find some the tools missed
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Before I go…
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Remember
• Not about spamming people
• It’s about being more efficient
• Spend less time collecting and more validating and on the stuff you shouldn't outsource or automate.
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Thanks!
Find links to all tools, files, templates and tutorials at http//www.webdurance.co.uk/brightonseo-slides/
Find me on twitter @carolynlyn