broken link building...is it scalable?

[arobbins]

Anyone try to scale broken link building? I figured I could pull sites and scrape for broken links. But didn't know how feasible this was in terms of a large scale. Anyone try it?

 

[katona44]

Yes, SEO Moz just released an article about this. You should check it

They are also offering a course which i don't think you'll need it if you have experience in linkbuilding.

Their article, below , i hope it helps.

Broken Link Building is one of the last great white hat techniques that can be done at scale and MajesticSEO?s suite of tools is integral to this process.Following their successful partnership with MajesticSEO to deliver the Get Links Course earlier this year, Ken McGaffin and Garrett French have developed a new video course that explains in detail how to do broken link building at scale.
The process of broken link building is simple:
? You find resource pages with broken links
? You contact the webmaster and suggest an alternative
? If they like your suggestion, you?ll get a link in return.
It stands out as a tactic because by pointing out the link and suggesting a viable alternative you?re doing your prospect a favor, even with your first pitch email.
In this video, Ken and Garrett explain how MajesticSEO tools are at the heart of the process:

Highlights of this 9-minute video include:
? How to prospect for broken link opportunities using crawl results (at 00.32)
? How to use the bulk backlinks tool to prioritize broken link prospects (at 4.30)
? Why dead domains are golden nuggets for broken link builders (at 6.35)
Broken link building is a straightforward and rewarding process but the secret is to do it at scale. In the course, Garrett will explain why he has moved his agency?s focus away from guest posting to concentrate on broken link building at scale.
He?s generous at sharing his methods and shows how the process can work for in-house teams, and how agencies and solo SEOs can add broken link building as a profitable income stream.
The course kicks off on Thursday 8th August and you?ll get a pre-launch discount of $30 if you buy through the Linking Matters website before August 5th. That means you get the whole course for just $149. Or if you require more information and wish to contact MajesticSEO then please email the team; [email protected] Broken link building is an underused strategy so there are great links to be had. As Garrett says, ?if you?re not doing broken link building, you?re leaving links on the table?.

 

[InvoiceLABs]

Or you could find a webmaster in the same niche as yours as find broken links which are relevant to any of pages on your website.

e.g: a broken link to "best seo tools" then you could pm the webmaster stating that the link is broken and you have a better resource for "best seo tools" that you can replace the broken link with.

 

[katona44]

Or you could find a webmaster in the same niche as yours as find broken links which are relevant to any of pages on your website.

e.g: a broken link to "best seo tools" then you could pm the webmaster stating that the link is broken and you have a better resource for "best seo tools" that you can replace the broken link with.

Of course, in the article only the concept is presented. From here you can make a technique which will work the best for your niche.
So if you do it on large scale, you can get some nice backlinks which are relevant to your niche.

 

[katona44]

That's time consuming, I prefer spending this time to write relevant articles on web2.0s

Yes it is, but if you get a link from an aged article, with high PR that's way more stronger than building 10 or even 100 web 2.0s. Of course, there are many factors we should talk about.
But this method can be automated, so if you think about it. It's not THAT time consuming.

 

[InvoiceLABs]

Of course, in the article only the concept is presented. From here you can make a technique which will work the best for your niche.
So if you do it on large scale, you can get some nice backlinks which are relevant to your niche.

Definitely, we're in BHW Everything must be automated once the process is ready.

Plug in Scrapebox and a mass email sender and start automating

 

[gsy159]

Not gonna buy that course, gonna wait till someone shares it on BHW

 

[vjchere]

Here is what i normally do.
1. I buy a few expired domains of my niche. I make sure that they have pre-exisitng many links.
2. Now i look for the pages from where they have links. Now i email to owner of those website and i tell them that the given link is bad there and that could harm their site. I show them an url of my site that is absolutely perfect for the replacement of that link. If i request to 10 webmasters than 4 do the favor. 1 or 2 could even gift you some abuses but the technique is well worth if you are building an authority site and dont want any spam.

 

[mrblackjack]

It's like contacting any webmaster for any link exchange, not just brokens. Takes too much time...