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From there, when we are notified of acceptance, that is where we are going to update this column on yes, and then they will actually input in the link URL of the accepted post. So in this particular example, I’ve actually just exported all of the links that we’ve acquired in the time that we’ve been running this, instead of just showing all the other responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what you can see here is that you know, we’ll have the HARO outreacher input in the URL as well as the domain relevance and whether or not it was a no-follow or do-follow link. I pay my HARO outreachers regardless of whether or not it’s a do-follow or no-follow link, mainly because they have no control over that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what we do is after we’ve done that payout, if we know that that particular domain does not give do-follow links, and we’ve already kindly asked the journalist if that’s possible to change it into a do-following we will add that domain to our blacklist and essentially not respond to that pitch in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But from there, what we do is we essentially have the website domain as a whole, and then we have a note in terms of initial response and whatnot. So the link is live or brand mention and stuff like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How we pay and how do we pay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The next columns over on the right are literally just my tracker for whether or not I’ve paid my HARO outreacher. So usually, what I do is I set up milestones in anywhere from blocks of 25 to 50 pitches. And then what I do is I have them submit that block for the payment of the pitches as well as any bonus payments that I’m due for paying them on because you know there’s been an update from journalists and these links are live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so that’s typically my sort of system in which every single one, if you think about it, all right, if we have 50 pitches and you are paying $5 per pitch, it means that the base payment is $250. And then in the case where they get, for example, just one backlink, then that would be a $30 bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the case where the domain authority is 90 or above, which you can see we’ve gotten a couple placements of, we have this one where there was 94, another one that was 91, and so on, we will pay a three x payout for that just because those sites are so much harder to place on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’ll also notice, though that it is sometimes hard to get do-follow links with those high domain authority sites. We did happen to get one later on in here. But essentially, what you’ll see is that I’ve got done a quick calculation to kind of show you this in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How many links I got after implementing this system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So by month, essentially what we see here is you can see that I got 12 links the first month after that I had implemented this system, nine the following month, and then as we’ve started to really see the results in the longer term of these journalists getting back to us and things like that on pitches, we’re starting to see a ramp up, and this is around the time when we started to really hire more people on our team. So we’re seeing a direct function in which what’s happening is as we reply to more queries, we’re getting more backlinks as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to go ahead and take a look at this in the form of a chart, I will go ahead and make a quick one here. And what you can see here is that with respect to the backlinks, we are essentially quickly growing to a steady flow of 20 or more backlinks from these particular high domain authority sites that are definitely gonna help our site as we start to work on our authority score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ve already seen the impact of this. In fact, we’ve seen around a six to eight, depending on which tool you use, domain authority increase across our site because we’ve been targeting these domains that are comparable, if not higher authority, than our own core domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So this sort of system is really not that hard to implement. All you need to do is go on Upwork and hire an outreacher or check out sites like onlinejobs.ph to find great writers where there’s a huge market of Filipino freelancers that are ready to write for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it can be a great way to create a sustainable sort of system that you know is going to work in the background of your business while you are working other SEO or content initiatives. This is something where it really hasn’t cost us all that much money. We spent a couple of grand all in, but the cost per link, as I calculated in my last article, has largely remained the same, if not gone down, in that we aren’t paying a ton of money for each of these links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you look at it from an all-in cost relative to the quality of the links we’re getting. And the nice thing about this is that we still maintain control over every single query that goes out. So that means that as opposed to hiring some sort of link building agency where you don’t really know exactly what they’re doing in order to acquire that link, we are in full control of our destinies when it comes to this sort of link building tactic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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