How to get incredible Real links ?

The first tool we use to get links is Ahrefs. You can contact sites that link to your competitor’s page and ask them if they’d like to link to your page as well.

(Note: your content should be better or more up-to-date than your competitor’s!)

For example, if I’m promoting hotel management software in Lebanon and want awesome sites to link to my awesome resource, I first google “hotel management” and grab the top result:

Then drop that in Ahrefs and see who linked to it:

Then I export this list to a spreadsheet and try to contact each site. (I also normally have assistants or Noura do this work.)

The best way to contact these people is by LinkedIn or email. On LinkedIn, send a connection request to start the conversation. To get their email address, use?VoilaNorbert, which charges $0.008 to $0.100 per email, depending on volume.

Use a Business Gmail account or?Mailshake?($29/month) if you’re emailing so that the email ends up in their Primary inbox. Mass emails from Mailchimp get buried in their Promotions, Social, and Updates categories!

When it comes time to send the email…

Always?use the subject:

trying to reach <FirstName LastName>

I tested many alternatives for cold email open rates and this one always worked best.

Tell the person you saw they linked to the other page and show them the actual URL of the link on their site. Start by asking if they’d like to see your updated/better resource. If they do, offer to write a quick post for their blog so they can share that with their audience.