Really interesting post. How do you guys convince website owners to let you post something on their website? I find it really hard. They either don’t do it or ask for money 🙁

Any tips?
Cheers

Thanks heaps for the insights!

Thanks for the feedback. Hope it provides some practical insights for your own outreach. So, question… 🙂

The more links you get from a site, the less valuable the links. It’s like a recognition that you can land the links at any time you want. For this reason, I generally wouldn’t recommend writing multiple posts a month for the same site unless there’s another business goal attached to the initiative. For example, customer acquisition or something. I hope that makes sense.

No worries. With regard to your last question, I’d be careful about link exchanges. If you’re using link exchanges to improve your search rankings, which let’s be fair everyone is, then it’s against Google’s guidelines.

I’d suggest pushing for indirect exchanges. For example, I’ll get you a link from an upcoming guest post or similar, and you link to me from your site. This mixes things up a bit.

Thanks for the detailed answer, Nico. I got the idea. I always reject links from sites that offer casinos, and gambling links even if they offer me a free do-follow link. So that another topic.

One last question in my mind is if I get a link from a site and give a link in exchange (from the same site), will google catch this? I’ve watched a few videos from Ahrefs about exchanging links and they give a green signal about it (means google don’t mind link exchange). What are your thoughts on this?

Hi Hanna. Thanks for the kind words. Let me address those two points you raised:
1) I use my personal email for outreach. Is that good or I should use a business email?
I recommend using a business email over Gmail. It’s not a deal-breaker, but it looks more professional.

2) 99% of the webmasters ask for the money. How to deal with them in such cases?
First off, selling links is prevalent across most niches. In some niches, it can be next to impossible to secure legitimate links through white hat outreach. It’s a pain, and you’ll have to deal with it. Probably not the answer you were looking for :-/

In terms of tips, you can try and offer something instead of money for a guest post opportunity. I’ve got round paying for links in the past by offering a link from an upcoming guest post in exchange for a guest post opportunity. Some website owners will be happy to do this (say 1 in 20 sites). Make sure to check what kind of links they are offering though. If they charge for posts and have a “special price” for casino links and similar then stay away.

1) I use my personal email for outreach. Is that good or I should use a business email?
2) 99% of the webmasters ask for the money. How to deal with them in such cases?

Thanks

Hi Rohtak,

Glad you thought it was agood post. Best of luck with your guest posting efforts.