Managing a successful SEO / Digital marketing campaign is becoming more and more complex, as the platforms we use and products we sell mature and the target customers become better educated in the ways of the web.Here at Marketing Signals, we manage clients of all...
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Outreach, PR, and link building may, deep down, be largely different beasts, but they do share one major thing in common; they involve getting in contact with people (often complete strangers, or at least people you’ve never met face to face) and asking them to...
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Organic search competition is fierce and particularly crowded for e-commerce sites, as e-commerce is becoming an increasingly crowded landscape. So it’s worth allocating time and resource to ensure that your product category pages are fully optimised, should you wish to stand a chance against the...
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If, like me, you manage a number of projects and teams at the same time. You might sometimes struggle to decide how much time to allocate to each task at hand and the best way to tick off all the boxes from your to do list....
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Is your WordPress website broken? Are you having trouble removing a plugin? Perhaps your site relies on a certain problem plugin and you are reluctant to remove it altogether? Have you googled around and the list of possible problems are endless and some solutions are...
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The New AdWords Dashboard More and more accounts have now been granted beta access to the new dashboard. If you decide to try out the beta version you are able to switch back to the old version if required.When going into the new dashboard, I was...
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If you’ve been running a website on WordPress for long enough, you’re bound to have come across this issue sooner or later...
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Link building is imperative to increasing your domain authority and page rank, but not any type of link is valid. You need to create interesting and high-quality links for your target audience. For this purpose, you need to bear in mind the following factors:Topic-related links: The links...
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Spending less time on reporting so we can spend more time on doing valuable work for our clients is a mantra we’ve always had here at Marketing Signals.Recently we’ve taken the step of moving all our clients onto Google Data Studio. Not only does this...
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We are tremendously proud to have received Prolific North’s Small Digital Agency of the Year award.Over the last 12 months at Marketing Signals, we have evolved as an agency; we have introduced new members to our team and significantly grown departments. All this whilst maintaining our...
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Running an effective outreach campaign is one of the cornerstones of any successful SEO campaign. Whether you are outreaching to promote new content, undertake some gifting or are just asking for links, email is usually the most efficient and scalable means of communicating with site owners.
However, with each person receiving an average of over 100 business related emails a day, competition for open and response rates is extremely fierce. Even if the email is to a personal inbox, you are still fighting for attention against all their existing contacts and subscriptions. Remember this as well – 99% of outreach emails are probably unsolicited – e.g the person you are emailing has not communicated with you before – which underlines the need to really stand out from the crowd.
That said, if they are a key influencer then it will be worth doing some initial prep work such as commenting on their blog, sharing their content or contacting them on social media before sending them an email. However for everyone else, the initial email will be their first interaction with you. Furthermore, if you are emailing a popular and reputable blog owner/author, they are likely to receive lots of other unsolicited blogger requests. With this is mind the question really is…
Well the first step to getting a response is to get the actual email you send opened, so you should consider carefully what you write in the subject line . Using mundane subject lines such as “Collaboration Opportunity” etc will work for some bloggers who will no doubt respond to you. However I would contend that the most influential ones are likely to ignore you. So, for your most important, higher authority link targets it pays to think very carefully about what subject line you use. There are several reasons why this is important….
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