Linkbuilding Strategy | Expanding Outreach Database | Advice Needed

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Hi everyone!

If you don't mind, I will start with a short backstory so you can better understand the issues I'm facing at the moment.

I'm working on a website and its backlink profile generally grows well enough on its own since it has some sections that bring organic backlinks. However, there are a dozen commercial pages that actually convert the traffic, and those pages, unfortunately, get little to no organic backlinks. Therefore, a decision has been made to boost those with outreach.


Over the months, I've made over 150 good ******** links from different websites, most of which were in the same niche or closely related to our niche.
What I tried:
  • I've made a keyword list, filtered through the SERP results, and created an outreach list. It was pretty time-consuming, but the links from this source were pretty good.
  • I've also scraped data from marketplaces like adsy or prposting, filtered through, picked the options that would look organic in our backlink profile, and outreached directly to them.
  • Lastly, I've worked with a couple of agencies that would link to us from the websites they own.

Overall, I felt the results were okay. However, in the last couple of months, finding good donor websites has become increasingly harder.
I'm running out of ideas. I keep stumbling into the same websites. My email gets bombarded with multiple linkbuilders/webmasters offering me websites 99.9999999% of which are total garbage. The options I have left in my database are clearly overpriced and would not work with the current budget.

I was thinking of a couple of ways to help me in my efforts:
  • Paid outreach databases. For example, I found a thread on this forum on a 100,000 paid outreach database. I'm not sure though if it is worth it, since I realized that there is no way to check the quality of websites in this database beforehand. Do you think it is a good idea or not? Perhaps you know a better option? I'd really appreciate any advice on this.
  • Tools to help me dive deeper into the search of potential donor websites with keywords. Again, would be very helpful if you could give me your recommendations.

Also, if you think I missed something or you have a great idea/advice on anything discussed, please let me know. I will be grateful for any useful info and I welcome any feedback.
 
I know which database you found on the forum (rocketguestposting.com) because I signed up when the owner (which is also a member of this forum) offered a free trial for his service.

Unfortunately, the dumbass that I was, I never outreached to any of the websites in that database, so I can't say whether that DB is any good or not. I regret this even today...

Anyway, adsy is good... at least they were good several years ago when I used them, which is why I keep recommending it to others, but since you've already milked it for all its worth I'll leave it out of discussion now...

So, other things you could try....

1) linksmanagement.com (I think the owner of this network was / is also a BHW member, but I'm not sure), but their prices are a bit too high for my pockets, but... if you can afford it, then have a look at it!

2) postaga.com (not sure what type of link building network this is, but I found them on AppSumo last year, and their salespage got me interested so I remembered it. But I haven't tried this one, either, so I can't speak for the quality of their sites. But, it's an option if you have the time and money to try it...)

3) someone posted these 2 pages on BHW last year, so I bookmarked them. Not sure how useful they are, but you can check them out yourself:

bloggerspassion.com/guest-posting-sites-list/
solvid.co.uk/180-websites-that-accept-guest-posts/


4) try our forum's marketplace. It's full of backlink sellers, I'm sure you can find a few golden nuggets in here:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/seo-link-building.43/
5) last but not least, have you tried manually finding opportunities by just typing stuff like this into google?

"niche" + "write for us"
"niche" + "guest post"
"niche" + "submit article"

"keyword" + "write for us"
"keyword" + "guest post"
"keyword" + "submit article"

"topic" + "write for us"
"topic" + "guest post"
"topic" + "submit article"

Obviously that you'd replace the words niche / keyword / topic in the strings above with the niche / keyword / topic that you're trying to find guest posting opportunities for. Also, don't limit to only those 3 strings, test more variations like "submit article", or "send your content", etc...
 
I know which database you found on the forum (rocketguestposting.com) because I signed up when the owner (which is also a member of this forum) offered a free trial for his service.

Unfortunately, the dumbass that I was, I never outreached to any of the websites in that database, so I can't say whether that DB is any good or not. I regret this even today...

Anyway, adsy is good... at least they were good several years ago when I used them, which is why I keep recommending it to others, but since you've already milked it for all its worth I'll leave it out of discussion now...

So, other things you could try....

1) linksmanagement.com (I think the owner of this network was / is also a BHW member, but I'm not sure), but their prices are a bit too high for my pockets, but... if you can afford it, then have a look at it!

2) postaga.com (not sure what type of link building network this is, but I found them on AppSumo last year, and their salespage got me interested so I remembered it. But I haven't tried this one, either, so I can't speak for the quality of their sites. But, it's an option if you have the time and money to try it...)

3) someone posted these 2 pages on BHW last year, so I bookmarked them. Not sure how useful they are, but you can check them out yourself:

bloggerspassion.com/guest-posting-sites-list/
solvid.co.uk/180-websites-that-accept-guest-posts/


4) try our forum's marketplace. It's full of backlink sellers, I'm sure you can find a few golden nuggets in here:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/seo-link-building.43/
5) last but not least, have you tried manually finding opportunities by just typing stuff like this into google?

"niche" + "write for us"
"niche" + "guest post"
"niche" + "submit article"

"keyword" + "write for us"
"keyword" + "guest post"
"keyword" + "submit article"

"topic" + "write for us"
"topic" + "guest post"
"topic" + "submit article"

Obviously that you'd replace the words niche / keyword / topic in the strings above with the niche / keyword / topic that you're trying to find guest posting opportunities for. Also, don't limit to only those 3 strings, test more variations like "submit article", or "send your content", etc...
First of all, thank you for your advice and sorry for taking so long to reply. I was a bit swamped in the last couple of days.

1) Yeah, I've seen linksmanagement. It was among the databases I scraped right away. The thing is, they have like 60-80% duplicates among them. It is a good short-term solution but won't work in my case.

2) This one looks interesting. I'll definitely look for more info on this one. Thanks!

3) I don't think it is going to work for me. Most of the websites on the lists are pretty tough to get published on. Besides, I'm working on a grey niche website. It would be a big no-no for them.

4) I'm actively monitoring the marketplace, but I have yet to find my golden nuggets ;)

5) That's actually something I have not tried. Sounds like a good idea.
 
no worries, mate! We're all busy, so take your time :)

Regarding point #4, maybe it's your niche that's preventing you from finding good linking opportunities as many BHW sellers do not work with grey niches, so I don't know what to say in this case... But maybe the other 2 options can help...
 
Here we are. Let's make it clear:

1) Paid outreach databases. For example, I found a thread on this forum on a 100,000 paid outreach database. I'm not sure though if it is worth it, since I realized that there is no way to check the quality of websites in this database beforehand.

Opinion: I don't think so. All the bases - are common used and you will not find anyrthing good there. Moreover, those bases include bad sites. I doubt that some kind of a serious agency would sell their base with top-quality resources. Just forget it.

2)Tools to help me dive deeper into the search of potential donor websites with keywords.

Opinion: Better one, But you still will spend much more time and the results may not be as good as you expect. Because even KW research will help you to find spammy resources which are also common used. "niche" + "write for us" and all the similar requests just come into the resources created to sell backlinks. There is low profit from such a placement ( and you spend your time + paid placement + article writing $).


In overral, I recommend you to use some kind of other backlinks: blog free submissions, forum backlinks, create your OWN PBNs maybe, and other.
You may get over 1000+ new referring domains if you difersity your backlinks. So, just try this out.
 
Here we are. Let's make it clear:

1) Paid outreach databases. For example, I found a thread on this forum on a 100,000 paid outreach database. I'm not sure though if it is worth it, since I realized that there is no way to check the quality of websites in this database beforehand.

Opinion: I don't think so. All the bases - are common used and you will not find anyrthing good there. Moreover, those bases include bad sites. I doubt that some kind of a serious agency would sell their base with top-quality resources. Just forget it.

2)Tools to help me dive deeper into the search of potential donor websites with keywords.

Opinion: Better one, But you still will spend much more time and the results may not be as good as you expect. Because even KW research will help you to find spammy resources which are also common used. "niche" + "write for us" and all the similar requests just come into the resources created to sell backlinks. There is low profit from such a placement ( and you spend your time + paid placement + article writing $).


In overral, I recommend you to use some kind of other backlinks: blog free submissions, forum backlinks, create your OWN PBNs maybe, and other.
You may get over 1000+ new referring domains if you difersity your backlinks. So, just try this out.
Thanks for your input!

1) Yep, that's exactly what I was afraid of. After all, it doesn't really matter if you have 1000 or 10000 websites in your database if the majority of them are total garbage.

2) I haven't tried the obvious "niche" + "write for us" method so I'll have to at least check it for myself. But yeah, I don't expect it to be fantastic in terms of price/value ratio.


Free submissions are most likely not going to work in my case because of the niche. Let's say you've got a dating website or essay writing website, this kind of stuff. How many good donors can you really find? And again, here comes the matter of time management and efficiency.
Forum backlinks is something we outsourced. I guess that leaves me with PBNs which actually sounds like a good idea. I might try something with this in the coming weeks.
 
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