- In this video,
you'll discover how to build high quality backlinks
with HARO using 5 advanced link building tactics
that I've learned from months of HARO outreach,
and you'll discover how to squeeze HARO
for every single link building opportunity
that's actually worth your time,
so that you are as efficient as possible.
So make sure you watch all the way to the end,
if you want to discover these five link building tactics.
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So the first thing to do is measure your conversion rates.
So track your HARO responses in a spreadsheet,
along with the name of the website,
the date, the domain rating of that website.
So by tracking your HARO responses on a spreadsheet,
you can see okay,
how many responses you send
versus how many links you get back.
And then you can also measure
the average idea of the links back.
So at least if it's low,
you can change that and tweak the process
or if it's high, at least you can say,
"Okay great", you're getting some really good results now.
And then you can track the date also because
you can then see how quickly your links are coming through.
So you know sometimes it can take weeks or even months
before you get links back from HARO,
and its better to track them on spreadsheet.
So at least then you get a picture
of how long it takes for links to come through.
So then you can look at your conversion rates.
And you can see your responses along the way,
along with your progress so far.
And you can also ask yourself questions such as,
What can you do to improve the quality of the responses?
Next up, make sure you filter your HARO responses
and check the quality of the links and
the relevance of the link before you start applying for it
because it's easy to jump into your HARO emails
and start responding to every single query.
But the problem is that,
although it feels like you're taking action,
and you're making progress,
there's many low quality websites on there
that aren't really going to move the needle
when it comes to link building.
So you might as well filter those out
before you start wasting your time
and also avoid the sources that are anonymous
because if you don't know the quality of that website,
and you don't know how authoritative it is,
then is it really worth your time applying to it.
Also focus on websites that high DR only
because when it comes to link building,
you want to make sure that you get links from
high quality websites that are authoritative
and therefore I'd aim for around
DR 30 or higher.
So let me quickly show you
how to filter out low quality websites
from high authority ones using HARO email.
So if you scroll down HARO will show us
the source of websites, see you can see here.
And let's do a test one.
So if we type that into hrefs here,
it'll basically give us a picture, okay?
How authoritative is the website,
how much domain ratings does it have,
and how much organic traffic is our websites getting.
And if you type this one into hrefs,
you can see that it doesn't get any organic traffic,
it doesn't have a domain rating yet.
And therefore, if you're an authority website already,
and you want to move the link building needle,
you probably wouldn't respond to this HARO response,
simply because it doesn't have enough authority, right now.
I mean, it might do in future,
and we might move the needle in the future,
but right now, it's probably not worth your time.
So here's another quick little hack
that'll save you a lot of time
when you're link building on HARO.
And this is simply to filter out
all the relevant link building opportunities for you.
So for example with HARO
you're gonna get emails every single day.
They're not always going to be relevant to your niche.
And therefore you're not always going to find
link building opportunities.
So how do you quickly filter out
the HARO responses that are relevant to you?
Well simply type in haro plus
the keyword that your niche is related to
and then, this will filter out all the HARO responses
that are relevant to your niche,
and then you can click on the latest one.
And you can see, okay,
here's a HARO inquiry about insurance,
therefore its relevant to me,
and therefore I should potentially apply to it.
And if you click on it, it will take you straight there.
And then once you're done,
all you have to do is quickly bookmark the page,
and therefore you have it saved
for whenever you need to come back to it.
And if you just want to check that every day
or every other day, you've got it there.
It will save you a lot of time,
it will filter out the irrelevant responses
that you don't need to check or you don't need to reply to.
Tip number four
is to make sure that you're as time efficient as possible
when it comes to managing responses on HARO.
Because at the end of the day,
you know, you only have so much time,
time is money and you don't want to spend your whole day
responding to HARO inquiries,
especially when you have more important things to do.
And not just that,
but every HARO response has a deadline to.
And if you don't respond quickly enough to that deadline,
you're not going to get the link back.
And therefore, you've spent
all your time writing a response,
and not submitting HARO response in time for the deadline,
which is going to waste a lot of time
and you're not gonna get the link.
Also, applying for HARO jobs isn't the most exciting
or, you know, glamorous job in the world.
So how can you make sure that
you're as time efficient as possible
when it comes to managing responses on HARO?
Well, essentially, you want to template,
every single thing that you can,
so create a canned response
and you can see my recent video on text expanders
if you want to learn more about saving time
with canned responses.
But basically, every single HARO response
usually follows the same formula.
So you include your website, who you are,
a bit about why your response is relevant
to the opportunity you're going after.
And it's very easy to create a template response
that you can just quickly fill in
it will save you a lot of time,
especially when you're doing this every single day.
So that's something I definitely recommend,
and you should check out my video on text expanders,
if you want to learn more about this.
Another thing to make sure that you're doing,
is just check your inbox once per day when it comes to HARO
because your inbox will suck up all your time,
and if your wasting it all on HARO responses
and replying to emails,
you know, it's going to suck up a lot of your time
its going to destroy your productivity.
And therefore, I recommend closing your inbox
and don't check it again that day.
Once you've responded to your HARO emails,
personally, you know, my team,
they respond to HARO emails in the morning.
They do it once per day
and then also make sure you've signed up
only to the relevant categories on HARO.
Don't waste your time with the others.
The final thing that I recommend is
outsourcing your HARO responses as soon as possible, Okay?
So HARO is very easy to outsource.
And you could do this by paying per link
or even paying by response.
And whatever you do, it can be very results based
so it's easy to outsource.
And also, you know, the person who's replying
doesn't need to be an expert on the topic.
They just need to provide a valuable response,
that's interesting and there's worth
and this way when you outsource HARO link building,
you can easily scale up
and start seeing bigger results quickly
and the thing is, as well, if you have multiple websites,
then you definitely want to outsource this
as soon as possible and get your team working on it
because you don't want to spend all your time
responding to HARO inquiries.
So that's it for me
and my five advanced link building tactics for HARO.
Now, if you put these strategies into action,
you will definitely see better results.
So they'll save you time,
they'll make link building easier with HARO,
and you'll find better ways to optimize.
So thanks for watching.
If you have any questions about HARO
or link building in general,
drop me a comment below and I'll be happy to help.
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