Broken Link Building in Action (Strategies, Outreach Emails and Stats Revealed)

[@websiteroyalty5758]

Thank you SO much for this video. I implemented this exact strategy, sent 5 out-reach emails, and got a 100% success rate - even got a back link on a CELEBRITES page! Thank you so much Ahrefs. Gonna buy your book too, for sure.

[@AhrefsCom]

Glad it helped! And hope you'll enjoy the book too 🙌 -Helen

[@BillWidmerBlog]

Sam Oh - you're a genius! This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Love Ahrefs more every day :)

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks, Bill! Glad you're finding new uses out of our tool every day.

[@marciosantos7665]

Yes Sam, your'e a boss!!!

[@AndreyDraganov]

I want to see more real-life link-building and SEO strategies! Thanks, Sam!

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks for your feedback, Andrey! Noted 😀

[@woffell3291]

Love the actionable video. Ahrefs is really lucky to have Sam in their marketing team

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks!

[@TylerKnudtson]

Wow. Love this walkthrough style video - such a great in the weeds compliment to all your other stellar videos and posts, and makes the leap from watching your content to following along in ahrefs with my own process much easier. Would love to see more! Keep up the great work Sam + team!

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks for your feedback, Tyler. Great point on actually following along.

[@Adrian.Danila]

Amazing video with plenty and useful information. Gotta say I do love your videos. Keep up the good work Sam. Thank you!

[@AhrefsCom]

Glad to hear that you're enjoying them, Adrian.

[@JoeLaw02]

Great over the shoulder video! Much better than just teaching a "concept"!

[@AhrefsCom]

Glad you liked the new format. Hopefully, we'll have more to share like this.

[@ijklfam]

Thanks, Sam for sharing this wonderful video. I've learned so much about broken link building.

[@AhrefsCom]

You are welcome!

[@GiOJAmmeR14]

Thank you sooo much I love how you explain everything!!! love it... this video is just gold!! Thank you.

[@AhrefsCom]

Happy to help! 🙌 And thank you for watching. -Helen

[@ateKna]

Wow this is the best video Ive ever seen on this topic. Thank you so much.

[@AhrefsCom]

You're welcome!

[@nabadaybhaskarhalder728]

I loved more than other videos available on broken link building.

[@AhrefsCom]

Thank you for positive feedback! I am glad you enjoyed😊 You might want to check other videos with valuable information on our channel 😉

[@Uscreen]

Ah I love this video! Very insightful! Thanks Sam for sharing this!

[@AhrefsCom]

You're very welcome.

[@davenilsson5443]

Awesome content as always Sam & Ahrefs

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks, Dave. Good to hear from you again.

[@marketinghunts6264]

Great video! But I had a question. Any way to use a keyword to find missing domain pages, instead of using compete domains?

[@samuelnyiro2316]

This was defenitely helpful, chap!

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks :) -Helen

[@marcelgabor4383]

Wow, you are mind-blowing! The stuff that you are teaching is more worth as every course for thousands of dollars (or euros in my case ;)

[@AhrefsCom]

Thank you!

[@anasali6087]

Maaan. Your SEO link building videos are literally awesome. Your videos made me buy Ahref 😂. Anyways, thanks again and keep up the good work.

[@AhrefsCom]

Happy to hear that!

[@ushiealex2295]

Hi, how much did you pay?

[@candiceburch3600]

Great video! Straight to the point

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks! -Helen

[@zeljkolazic650]

Awesome tutorial Sam, thank you.

[@AhrefsCom]

You're welcome, Zelijko. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pshemislavkaspshik1434]

Hi, cool video. Just a quick question. What was the exact e-mail title you used in this particular outreach campaign?

[@TheBeastbar]

I do use "Niche Name" enthusiast.

[@rita4motion]

Great insights, this helps a lot! Still a problem: I have a content piece ready to be sent, so I'm looking for broken links that fit the specific topic. Any possibility to filter for a Keyword?

[@AhrefsCom]

Search for your keyword in Content Explorer :) - SQ

[@manalelaimani8058]

Where do I find or how do I create my own clean sheet of backlink prospects? Please

[@AhrefsCom]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKi8i3qNedGEmpo - SQ

[@user-yk5xu8gr1e]

Awesome tutorial!

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks!

[@ushiealex2295]

I am not the kind to comment on youtube, however, this is so good and simple and implementable that i have to break character. Thank you sam oh. One more thing, i know there is a free brokenlink checker tool by ahref, i have used it and it only gives few results. I cannot afford the paid plan, do you think you can recommend free tools i can use to implement this strategy? Or if theres a scholarship i can win to use ahref tools.

[@mycricketbuddy]

hey Sam, how to rank high in local seo for the keyword like keyword near me or keyword in city or that is all concluded in your local seo video and awesome video as always and keep uploading I am getting a positive boost to work

[@AhrefsCom]

Hi there. We did address that in our local SEO video. Check the comments there as there was some discussion there too.

[@markjennings5579]

Great tutorial with lots of actionable info, thanks

[@AhrefsCom]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jo_academy]

Thanks Sam for great info : )

[@AhrefsCom]

You're welcome!

[@onyxreen4442]

Hey Sam, is there a way to have a dynamic merge tag for a screenshot in the email?

[@alaminhowlader8768]

@Ahrefs Hi, would you please tell me, what was the subject for mail?

[@AhrefsCom]

It was eye-catchy 🙂 - Max

[@MartinoDeanMusic]

Awesome video, thanks!

[@AhrefsCom]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@shoaibahmad7133]

Hi, I couldn't undertsand a word of what you wre saying. Thanx

[@AhrefsCom]

If you're having difficulty understanding, you can try lowering the speed and turning on captions (both are options available on KZbin.) Hope that helps! - SQ

[@RichtaCZ]

Very good tactics. But will it work for ecommerce? If I find backlinks to a broken page of my competition eshop, it is almost certain that it has a replacement on its website. Typically this will be the product page. I think the fix in the end will be just a change of competition. No change to my page. So I guess I have to look for blogs from my business, not competitive e-shops.

[@AhrefsCom]

I wouldn't bother trying broken link building for product pages. In my opinion, there isn't really any value the site owner is getting by switching the dead link to yours (ie. they haven't tried your product and as a result, they wouldn't recommend it organically). Highly recommend looking through our link building playlist. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWbHlaJsaNB7fqs -Sam

[@AdegboyeAdeniyi]

Awesome post as always but I think there should be a way to filter by date. I am not sure a webmaster will want to update an article from 5 years ago.

[@AhrefsCom]

Good suggestion, but I'm not sure that fits in with Site Explorer > Best by Links. We do have Content Explorer and a new feature coming up which will let you find broken pages by topic :)

[@yogeshpaldm]

How can i do seo for my e-commerce website for traffic which sells "wall stickers" online?

[@AhrefsCom]

I suggest watching our step-by-step tutorial on ecommerce SEO. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnXEn3RjbtycbLM

[@muhammadumerfarooq8156]

Are you Recommend to buy PBN links? if yes then whats the thing should check before buying to that blog kindly tell

[@lisap5198]

Great video! Do you have any tips on what the people who don't have social accounts and following (all my traffic is coming from SEO only) should say/offer in their follow-up email to prospects to get a reply and/or a backlink? Thanks!

[@AhrefsCom]

Good question. I think this is something that you're going to have to think about and see where you can provide value to your link prospects. Everyone's will be/should be unique to their pitch.

[@SantoshKumar-gy6lz]

Hey Sam, Is it okay to use Gmail for email outreach or should I create a custom email with my domain name? Thanks :)

[@AhrefsCom]

Completely up to you :)

[@solario24]

Gosh. So awesome!

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks Robin! Glad you enjoyed the video! - Max

[@NdeMan]

Great video, really helpful.

[@AhrefsCom]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@alaminhowlader8768]

@Ahrefs Hi, you are doing great stuffs. But in this video at 2.46 minutes, you have found learningabouteos.com and usingeossafely.com and got 47 referring domains, but when I tried the same process, I found the same rather than 2 different urls. And here I got stuck. I have tried a lot but always found the same url. Can you please help me? (I would attach the screenshot if I could.)

[@AhrefsCom]

Please address your question to our support team via Live Chat. I am sure they will be able to help you. - Max

[@dananjaya3784]

hi sam, does ahref remove the "archive.org" option? it's gone from my menu when I opened the caret

[@AhrefsCom]

It should still be there. There's a chance that it won't be there if archive.org doesn't have any history for the URL.

[@ezensuayan4156]

Hi sam,thanks this video,i watched this video in many times but i cant understand what website that can be link in a broken link to the prospect that be link in their to become good link...give me an example of website.im confusing for that.i im going to have one website.? i hope you will read this my comment eventhough this video last year post..Thanks

[@AhrefsCom]

In example. your competitor published a 500 word post about Protein Powder back in 2017. A well-known website linked back to that post as they enjoyed the content. Within certain period of time that post got deleted or moved without a redirect. Now you can create a good quality content about Protein Powder with relevant content and reach out to this well-known website asking to replace a broken link to a competitor's website with the link to your fresh post with the same topic. Hope that helps😇

[@arafatsamid9883]

Hey ! How are you doing? Any cost was needed to get the link?

[@AhrefsCom]

What do you mean by cost? - SQ

[@samawatss10]

Hey Sam! What should be the subject line for the email?

[@AhrefsCom]

Depends on what you're going for, really. Try and come up with something that is relevant to the email :)

[@samawatss10]

What can be a subject line for the template you used in the video?

[@thomasdoyne]

Legend Sam thank you.

[@AhrefsCom]

You're welcome!

[@Brainvaultgames]

The niche you selected is pretty narrowed down. How would you approach this technique in say an overall sports niche about attending events. The sites most people are linking to are A+ domains, so how do you get them to drop the dead ESPN link they are linking to and link to a lower level domain(mine)?

[@AhrefsCom]

Unfortunately, there isn't a "one-trick pony" for link building. You would need to get creative and try different things. The principles of broken link building, whether you're in the health space, marketing, or sports would be the same (or at least very similar).

[@Brainvaultgames]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, coming up with creative ways is the key.

[@SeoquickUa]

It's a big challenge for anybody to get broken links even if in your case that's not difficult. I'm curious about an issue. In many studies on the Internet the bloggers wrote that you should find the resources pages because the owners of the pages are not mad linking to other sites, but in your strategy you use just common pages. I know for example Brian Dean in his case studies showed the same way without resources pages. Do you think it works everywhere? By the way, thx Sam, this content is interesting. I will watch again and again all your new videos.

[@rijoab]

Resource pages are limited to specific topics. I think a common page delivers better value than a resource page.

[@AhrefsCom]

Resources pages + extensions are always going to be hit or miss. Whereas Ahrefs "Best By Links" report can show you all of the broken pages with links within seconds. Try watching the video again and hopefully it'll make more sense.

[@hauteacorn1770]

You are explaining everything in detail but you don't have a subject for the mail, can you please advise one?

[@AhrefsCom]

Use whatever subject line you think best describes your message :) -Sam

[@employmentnews8990]

How to remove my website broken Links....?

[@AhrefsCom]

You probably want to redirect a broken page with links to a page with relevant content. Alternatively, you may recreate a page, if it has lots of backlinks. Hope that helps. - Max

[@BaskMERKEZI]

thanks

[@amalvasu4830]

Hi Sam, how you make sure emails are GDPR compliance?

[@BillWidmerBlog]

I could be wrong, but I believe GDPR only refers to people on "email lists". You sending a single email isn't the same as adding them to a list, so it shouldn't affect anything. Again, could be wrong. Just my two cents.

[@rijoab]

Bill Widmer Why do people think sending email, requires GDPR compliancy. I guess its mass emailing that is bad.

[@AhrefsCom]

There are mixed thoughts on this and definitely worth doing research or asking someone who specializes in the area.

[@narendrakumar8228]

Can how i find broken link by using ahrefs in free

[@AhrefsCom]

You can sign up for a 7-day trial and follow the process in the video :)

[@learnspherefree]

Hey I have not understand how to make edit on excel?

[@AhrefsCom]

I'm not sure what you mean. Mind clarifying?

[@learnspherefree]

@@AhrefsCom On this video you showed some lonks opened in Microsoft Excel. I haven't got that part sir

[@marcosantonioventuratorres3286]

Man... light-years ahead of me... I would have sounded so much like the robot...

[@AhrefsCom]

Hope it helped improve your outreach emails! 👍 - SQ

[@ramchDash]

Need some samples how u gonna pitch a mail.

[@AhrefsCom]

There are exact samples within this video. Did you happen to miss them the first time through?

[@pratikshinde7686]

9:31 email template for broken link building.

[@lamborghinicentenario2497]

The robot voice is so funny 😂

[@AhrefsCom]

Indeed :) -Helen

[@abdulrazzaq5418]

Great

[@jocelynvillardar1438]

I subscribed

[@AhrefsCom]

Thanks for the sub!👍 -Helen

[@rohit_sarangthem]

Cool 😎

[@mehedeehassanapu1272]

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[@poutintsev]

I'd really like to understand the motives of webmaster that don't replace broken links with new ones. 1. It's bad for user experience to have a broken link on the site. 2. Even linking to not so good article is better than broken (or no link), especially when the context requires a link. You said in one of your videos that simply finding a broken link is not enough to ask to link back to you. I would disagree with that. 3. If a website has broken links, it's obvious that the owner does not use any tools to find them, and thus is unaware of them. For such non-tech person it's a great help if someone shows the broken link for free. Because otherwise they would have to pay for that. 4. I think it's extremely rude for the blog owner to start asking favours, from the person who helped them for free. If they start doing that you can just send them your own invoice: $99 for ahrefs + salary for your time. Maybe then they will understand that it's not that easy to find a broken link. I think the ones who do nothing (don't even delete the link) are simply dumbasses. The ones that "need more value form you" are simply greedy. Seriously if someone on the parking lot would tell you that you have a broken tire and would offer replacement tire for free, would you ask them to "provide more value"!? Just because you interact online, it doesn't mean that you allowed be rude. If one wants to lose faith in humanity, I would advise him to try reaching out to build broken links. It also extremely annoys me, that these same people originally linked to a website, in most cases without asking anything in return, but now, when that link became broken, they suddenly want to make an extra benefit from linking. Where's the logic? What do you think?

[@AhrefsCom]

It's what happens when SEOs start spamming webmasters because of broken links. You may be one of the nicest guys in SEO, but webmasters don't just deal with you. There are probably hundreds of SEOs spamming webmasters each day with broken link requests and who have less than ideal motives. Eventually, webmasters either get annoyed and ignore these emails, or they realise the power of a link and are incentivised to "make money" off them. - SQ

[@poutintsev]

​@@AhrefsCom That's the other thing I don't understand. If you don't want to get broken link replacement spam, fix the damn link! It can't be so hard. And it's such an ultimate solution to the problem, that I wonder why they still haven't figured that out. Top website have thousands of broken links, and they do nothing about it. They should do it at least for the user experience. I honestly think that webmasters should be spammed for as long until they get their lazy ass of the couch and remove the broken link.

[@user-yk5xu8gr1e]

@@poutintsev Hey just to let u know...I totally agree with you! It seems whenever people see someone needs them, they try to extract benefit out of it, even f it costs them nothing in the first place....! Do majority ppl we mail for broken link respond in this manner? That wud be quite uninspiring...

[@alessiogiorgianni_official]

Upwork sucks, it's the worst marketplace ever. I've switched to Mechanical Turk and i found it very trustworthy.

[@AhrefsCom]

Definitely mixed results depending on the freelancer you get. Mechanical Turk is a good one too, but can be an administrative nightmare from my experience.

[@AhrefsCom]

Definitely mixed results depending on the freelancer you get. Mechanical Turk is a good one too, but can be an administrative nightmare from my experience.

[@alessiogiorgianni_official]

​@@AhrefsCom I agree. But still, in my opinion i prefer to face an admin black hole instead of argument with arrogant people..

[@JeanneCiampa]

How does anyone get excited about this..it's giving me a headache

[@JeanneCiampa]

Costed is not a word It's cost..🙄

[@assulaimi7973]

Your explanation is complicated and very fast. Not helpful👎