7 Mistakes Agencies Make With Outreach

As an agency, your profit margins are constantly being squeezed. You have fixed overheads to manage and every process needs to be optimized to deliver the best ROI.

Everything matters with SEO but especially outreach.

If not properly managed, it has the capacity to end up being a resource drain.

Outreach is also constantly changing.  Strategies that used to be effective are becoming less so.

Naturally, with so many moving parts to your businesses, you might take your eye off outreach only to find you have developed bad habits or are not operating as effectively as you could be.

From my position as a link provider, I have the opportunity to work with a variety of different agencies.

I get to see what works and also what mistakes are common.

I’ve highlighted 7 critical mistakes that I […]

How to Build a Killer Team of Writers for Massive Outreach

In this article, I’m going to walk you through how you can find and manage content writers. We’ll be talking from the perspective of outreach, which is our area of expertise, but most of what will be covered can be used for content writers in other areas of SEO and digital marketing.

We’ll cover where you can find writers, how you can interview and select the right writer for you, and we’ll share with you processes for managing them. There is not one way to recruit and manage content writers, but we’ll share with you our extensive experience and what helps us reduce time and increase productivity.

If you’re running your own outreach you might find some little nuggets that will help you tweak your own processes to make them more effective. If you’re looking at starting to scale your outreach,  you have everything you need in this article to get it […]

Link Building Strategies: 30+ SEO Experts Share Their Secrets

Even today, backlinks are still the #1 ranking factor. That’s why everyone that does SEO is so focused on getting more links. In the last years, Google has done many algorithmic updates and that’s why some ways of earning backlinks that worked great a few years ago don’t work anymore or even can get your site penalized. All these changes forced the SEO world to evolve and come up with new and creative link building strategies.

The SEO community wears many hats:  the black, the grey, the white, and the money hat. All of these have advantages and disadvantages. In today’s post, we are going to focus on discovering efficient but often overlooked link building methods.

With this goal in mind, we reached out to 30 SEO experts and asked them:

What is an underused (or less common) link building strategy that has brought you great results?

We received a variety of answers. Although some […]

How to Audit Websites for Guest Post Placements

At Authority Builders we take the quality of the sites we work with very seriously.

We have a strict verification process.

In fact, less than 13% of the sites that are interested in being promoted via the Authority Builders platform are accepted.

But this isn’t about us; it’s about you.

There are a number of different views on what makes a good quality site for a link.

Introducing the 9 steps

Try it for yourself. In this article, we are going to share with you 9 steps to audit blog post placements that leave you with sites that deliver value. It’s part of what we do at Authority Builders.

Before we talk you through the 9 steps, one important concept that some SEOs need to grasp is metrics (and not to rely on them).

A potential guest post placement is less about metrics and more about traffic, the history of the site, and signals that show the value […]