Shotgun Skyscraper is work?

Who can share some succeed samples & details? Thanks.

Yes, it works and it works amazingly well.

The only issue is I'm not sure if this method leaves you susceptible to an algorithmic penalty.

I've tried that technique in the past, and as it is quite easy to find content that you can rewrite in a better way and add few things here and there to make it more readable etc, it's not so easy to get mentioned with only cold-emailing people.

For me, it always has been better, to build some digital things, like ebook, infographic, video to get mentioned and get links from strong domains.

But if you will try to rank in a semi-competitive niche and you will be able to scrap a lot of emails it can work pretty decent.

It's working now but most of the time you need to pay some editorial fee for links. It's hard to find something completely free because people know the value of backlinks from their sites. Of course, you can get free backlinks from some new/low authority sites by using this method as well