Thank you SO much for this video. I implemented this exact strategy, sent 5 out-reach emails, and got a 100% success rate - even got a back link on a CELEBRITES page! Thank you so much Ahrefs. Gonna buy your book too, for sure.
Wow. Love this walkthrough style video - such a great in the weeds compliment to all your other stellar videos and posts, and makes the leap from watching your content to following along in ahrefs with my own process much easier. Would love to see more! Keep up the great work Sam + team!
hey Sam, how to rank high in local seo for the keyword like keyword near me or keyword in city or that is all concluded in your local seo video and awesome video as always and keep uploading I am getting a positive boost to work
I am not the kind to comment on youtube, however, this is so good and simple and implementable that i have to break character. Thank you sam oh. One more thing, i know there is a free brokenlink checker tool by ahref, i have used it and it only gives few results. I cannot afford the paid plan, do you think you can recommend free tools i can use to implement this strategy? Or if theres a scholarship i can win to use ahref tools.
It's a big challenge for anybody to get broken links even if in your case that's not difficult. I'm curious about an issue. In many studies on the Internet the bloggers wrote that you should find the resources pages because the owners of the pages are not mad linking to other sites, but in your strategy you use just common pages. I know for example Brian Dean in his case studies showed the same way without resources pages. Do you think it works everywhere? By the way, thx Sam, this content is interesting. I will watch again and again all your new videos.
Resources pages + extensions are always going to be hit or miss. Whereas Ahrefs "Best By Links" report can show you all of the broken pages with links within seconds. Try watching the video again and hopefully it'll make more sense.
Great insights, this helps a lot! Still a problem: I have a content piece ready to be sent, so I'm looking for broken links that fit the specific topic. Any possibility to filter for a Keyword?
If you're having difficulty understanding, you can try lowering the speed and turning on captions (both are options available on RU-vid.) Hope that helps! - SQ
Good suggestion, but I'm not sure that fits in with Site Explorer > Best by Links. We do have Content Explorer and a new feature coming up which will let you find broken pages by topic :)
Great video! Do you have any tips on what the people who don't have social accounts and following (all my traffic is coming from SEO only) should say/offer in their follow-up email to prospects to get a reply and/or a backlink? Thanks!
Good question. I think this is something that you're going to have to think about and see where you can provide value to your link prospects. Everyone's will be/should be unique to their pitch.
@Ahrefs Hi, you are doing great stuffs. But in this video at 2.46 minutes, you have found learningabouteos.com and usingeossafely.com and got 47 referring domains, but when I tried the same process, I found the same rather than 2 different urls. And here I got stuck. I have tried a lot but always found the same url. Can you please help me? (I would attach the screenshot if I could.)
Very good tactics. But will it work for ecommerce? If I find backlinks to a broken page of my competition eshop, it is almost certain that it has a replacement on its website. Typically this will be the product page. I think the fix in the end will be just a change of competition. No change to my page. So I guess I have to look for blogs from my business, not competitive e-shops.
I wouldn't bother trying broken link building for product pages. In my opinion, there isn't really any value the site owner is getting by switching the dead link to yours (ie. they haven't tried your product and as a result, they wouldn't recommend it organically). Highly recommend looking through our link building playlist. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C5ddo63kHHI.html -Sam
Hi sam,thanks this video,i watched this video in many times but i cant understand what website that can be link in a broken link to the prospect that be link in their to become good link...give me an example of website.im confusing for that.i im going to have one website.? i hope you will read this my comment eventhough this video last year post..Thanks
In example. your competitor published a 500 word post about Protein Powder back in 2017. A well-known website linked back to that post as they enjoyed the content. Within certain period of time that post got deleted or moved without a redirect. Now you can create a good quality content about Protein Powder with relevant content and reach out to this well-known website asking to replace a broken link to a competitor's website with the link to your fresh post with the same topic. Hope that helps😇
The niche you selected is pretty narrowed down. How would you approach this technique in say an overall sports niche about attending events. The sites most people are linking to are A+ domains, so how do you get them to drop the dead ESPN link they are linking to and link to a lower level domain(mine)?
Unfortunately, there isn't a "one-trick pony" for link building. You would need to get creative and try different things. The principles of broken link building, whether you're in the health space, marketing, or sports would be the same (or at least very similar).
I could be wrong, but I believe GDPR only refers to people on "email lists". You sending a single email isn't the same as adding them to a list, so it shouldn't affect anything. Again, could be wrong. Just my two cents.
You probably want to redirect a broken page with links to a page with relevant content. Alternatively, you may recreate a page, if it has lots of backlinks. Hope that helps. - Max
I'd really like to understand the motives of webmaster that don't replace broken links with new ones. 1. It's bad for user experience to have a broken link on the site. 2. Even linking to not so good article is better than broken (or no link), especially when the context requires a link. You said in one of your videos that simply finding a broken link is not enough to ask to link back to you. I would disagree with that. 3. If a website has broken links, it's obvious that the owner does not use any tools to find them, and thus is unaware of them. For such non-tech person it's a great help if someone shows the broken link for free. Because otherwise they would have to pay for that. 4. I think it's extremely rude for the blog owner to start asking favours, from the person who helped them for free. If they start doing that you can just send them your own invoice: $99 for ahrefs + salary for your time. Maybe then they will understand that it's not that easy to find a broken link. I think the ones who do nothing (don't even delete the link) are simply dumbasses. The ones that "need more value form you" are simply greedy. Seriously if someone on the parking lot would tell you that you have a broken tire and would offer replacement tire for free, would you ask them to "provide more value"!? Just because you interact online, it doesn't mean that you allowed be rude. If one wants to lose faith in humanity, I would advise him to try reaching out to build broken links. It also extremely annoys me, that these same people originally linked to a website, in most cases without asking anything in return, but now, when that link became broken, they suddenly want to make an extra benefit from linking. Where's the logic? What do you think?
It's what happens when SEOs start spamming webmasters because of broken links. You may be one of the nicest guys in SEO, but webmasters don't just deal with you. There are probably hundreds of SEOs spamming webmasters each day with broken link requests and who have less than ideal motives. Eventually, webmasters either get annoyed and ignore these emails, or they realise the power of a link and are incentivised to "make money" off them. - SQ
@@AhrefsCom That's the other thing I don't understand. If you don't want to get broken link replacement spam, fix the damn link! It can't be so hard. And it's such an ultimate solution to the problem, that I wonder why they still haven't figured that out. Top website have thousands of broken links, and they do nothing about it. They should do it at least for the user experience. I honestly think that webmasters should be spammed for as long until they get their lazy ass of the couch and remove the broken link.
@@poutintsev Hey just to let u know...I totally agree with you! It seems whenever people see someone needs them, they try to extract benefit out of it, even f it costs them nothing in the first place....! Do majority ppl we mail for broken link respond in this manner? That wud be quite uninspiring...
Definitely mixed results depending on the freelancer you get. Mechanical Turk is a good one too, but can be an administrative nightmare from my experience.
Definitely mixed results depending on the freelancer you get. Mechanical Turk is a good one too, but can be an administrative nightmare from my experience.
