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How to Use HARO – 3 Steps to More PR and Backlinks

By Nicholas Rubright
Sep 20, 2022

In this article, I’m going to walk you through exactly how I’ve used HARO to land PR and backlinks for myself and clients. I’ve used this process to get mentioned in places like CNET, American Express, MarketingSherpa, and others. Here are the 3 steps to successfully using HARO to land powerful PR placements and get…

How to Qualify Your Link Building Prospects [5 Qualification Questions]

By Nicholas Rubright
May 13, 2022

When executing any sort of link building strategy, it can be extremely disheartening when you send hundreds of emails and get no responses. Or worse, you’ve wasted your time with sites that ask you to pay for the link placement. This is a challenge of any link building campaign. However, effectively screening your prospects to…

How to Write a Link Building Email [Copywriting Tips, Templates, and Examples]

By Nicholas Rubright
May 04, 2022

I’ve been writing outreach emails for nearly 10 years. Early on, I built a music app and sent hundreds of emails to record companies to request music licenses. Later, it was all about link building strategies to grow the blog for that startup to hit 35k monthly visitors in one year. Over the years, I’ve…

Link Intent Study – 5 Reasons Websites Link to External Content

By Nicholas Rubright
Mar 15, 2022

With search engines today using backlinks as a signal for content quality, their impact on rankings is well-known among the SEO community. In fact, if you look at popular SEO guides on the internet, like this one from Moz, there are frequent mentions of link building as a means of acquiring backlinks. Google even mentions…

5 Link Building KPIs to Track Outreach Campaign Success

By Nicholas Rubright
Mar 05, 2022

The legitimate success of your link building outreach campaign is essential to moving up in Google for your target keywords. We run link building outreach campaigns for our clients that span from five to 40+ hours/week. Here are five KPIs we use to track the success of our link building outreach campaigns. 1. Prospects per…

Competitors Buying Backlinks? Try This White-Hat Negative SEO Hack

By Nicholas Rubright
Jan 10, 2022

Link building is thought to be one of the most effective ways to improve your rankings. In fact, according to this Backlinko-Ahrefs study, more links usually means better rankings. So when putting together a link building campaign, the first step is usually to look into how many links your competitors have for a particular keyword…

3 Startup Link Building Strategies That Scale

By Nicholas Rubright
Jan 04, 2022

If you want to raise massive amounts of money for your startup, you need to prove that your business is designed to scale. If you’re doing SEO for your startup, that includes building out a scalable link building strategy. I’ve been doing link building exclusively for five years now and have done it in almost every industry….

How to Outsource Your Link Building [FREE Vendor Test!]

By Nicholas Rubright
Dec 29, 2021

If you’re looking to outsource your link building, you’re not alone. More than 60% of businesses outsource their link building to agencies or contractors. With 65% of marketers agreeing that link building is one of the most difficult parts of SEO, this makes a lot of sense. In-house employees at a business have higher-level things…

How To Move Up in Google for Any Keyword

By Nicholas Rubright
Dec 13, 2021

SEO can get confusing quickly if you’re new to it. With Google’s numerous ranking factors and 350-400 algorithm changes per year, it’s hard to know what you should focus on. This article will help you determine what elements of SEO you should aim your efforts toward to improve your rankings for a specific keyword based on your…

Startup SEO – How I Reached 35k Monthly Visitors in 1 Year

By Nicholas Rubright
Dec 02, 2021

When I was in college, I attempted to launch a Spotify competitor. It ended up failing. However, in the process of attempting to drive signups for that business, I built a blog, which I grew to 35,000 monthly visitors in a little over 1 year. From this traffic, I was able to generate over $2,000/month…