mcmaneyprofitcopilot.com and getting quality traffic can be hard and it usually either takes months and months of solid grind and then hoping that other sites will link to your content or it requires spending a small fortune on trying different ads and then hope that one of them works so today i'm going to show you how to get targeted traffic for free and how to get authoritative backlinks that will improve your google seo efforts so let me show you an example of what we're talking about today so this is a link roundup post and we can see that this blogger has just curated or compiled a list of links to other websites that are relevant to his blog now the thing is in practically every industry out there you have influencers and bloggers and marketers compiling these lists every week what they do is they get the best links in their industry and they publish them on the website so it makes sense for me and you to get our websites and our content included on these lists right and the great thing is it's really easy to do so all you're doing here is making a suggestion you're contacting these influencers and you're suggesting that they include links to your content in their lists and this is actually mutually beneficial because you're really helping the influencer so you're going to save them time and you're making their life a bit easier by doing a portion of their job for them so let's get cracking i'll show you how to do it because to do this properly we need to keep track of our results so this is a google sheet it's just a spreadsheet that you can have i'll put a link to this in the description so you can make a copy of this and then keep track of your your results too so the first column is the date the second column is the website url of the website that we're going to try and get links from then we have the domain authority of that website then we have the name of the roundup and then the contact name of the person running the the roundup their email address and then the published url when they publish a link to our content so the reason why we keep track of the name of roundup is because when it comes to the outreach portion which i'll show you how to do we need to include the name of their roundup so we make it as personalized as possible let's use the example that we've just looked at then we put in the website url now we need to check the domain authority the reason why we include the da is because ideally we want to approach websites that have a higher domain authority than our own website because that link juice will then force our website higher in the search engine rank so to check the da we can use moz just put in the website address it's going to give you the domain authority there this one is 18 so that's not too bad that's okay and then the name of the roundup and this is called the marketing weekly roundup copy that and then just paste in there so we have the name now we need the contact name so the name of this blogger is tune we take a record of their name and now we need to find their contact details now they have a contact form available however if we can get their email address that's going to be better for us because we don't really know who's looking at the form detail so when we send that that can go to to anyone in their business when really we want to make personal contact with the author of these articles so as a last resort use the the contact form if you can find their email address that's going to be better for you we'll speak about how to do that later on so for the moment let's just put in the contact form so we can move forward and then we have published u or l so it's not published yet so i'm going to put an n or we can put a zero or some indication that we haven't been published yet so now we have a spreadsheet of the beginnings of a spreadsheet that makes it easy to keep track of our results okay so how do we find these opportunities it's really simple we go to google and we put in a seed keyword so let's say we can go something like marketing plus link roundup so we might want to try it with or without quotes it will bring back slightly different results so let's just go with this for the moment marketing plus link roundup let's see what we've got now you're going to find something pretty interesting here there's going to be a mix of different results on the search engine results page first of all we're going to have content about link roundups which we want to avoid but if we look here we we can find actual link roundups so this might be relevant to us let's go take a look at what type of content is being published and there that's a great example so there we have the links to different articles relating to marketing we would really want to be featured on this website so we would add this to our spreadsheet so we're off to a good start now we have these different operators or search strings that we can use so we can swap this out so let's say we go weekly roundup and now we've got a different set of results one thing that i need to tell you about this strategy is that some of the results here might be from a few years ago so that's no good for you we need recent results so to make sure that we get accurate results click on tools and then go to anytime and let's go with past month so now we're only dealing with websites that i've published recently so we know that they're active so let's say this one could be a good one to go with so we've got lots of options here there we can see that they are indeed linking out to other websites so it makes sense to get featured here as well so let me show you a few more search strings that we can use we've also got keyword plus in url roundup actually for this one you want to remove the quotes we can change that again to in title round up we can also use best posts of the week or plus link up that's another powerful one another strategy is to do days of the week so we can go monday link roundup then we can go with or without the quotes again to get more results so the great thing with the days of the week strategy is we can swap the days out so we can go tuesday or we can go wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday so there we have you know just using the keyword plus day link roundup now we've got seven ways to to find more opportunities and again we can swap all these out so we can swap them in and out so we can go let's say monday best posts of the week or we can go something like top posts of the day so have a play around with this strategy swap the different boolean search terms see what you can find so you've got loads of opportunity here now when it comes to creating the content it needs to do three things so first of all it needs to be relevant if it's not relevant no one's going to publish it second of all it needs to be timely so it has to has to mean something today and then finally it has to be authoritative so it has to be credible it has to be truthful it has to deliver enormous levels of value and genuinely help people with those three things in mind you should be able to create decent content okay let me show you another way to find even more opportunities if we go to twitter and go to the explore section we can search for more link roundups so let's say we go marketing plus link roundup then we want to go to latest and here we're going to have even more opportunity to find link roundups now we need to focus on the outreach aspect of it because once we have the opportunities available to us we have to go out and speak to the influencers or the marketers so let's say this one big apple media it looks like a really good list to get featured on so what we would do is look for some form of contact so here we have gene armstrong it looks like this is the guy that is curating this list so we need to get in contact with gene armstrong and thankfully he makes it pretty easy because we have these social media icons here so we can reach out to him on facebook twitter linkedin instagram so if we were adamant that this is the the website that we want to get featured on we can plan in advance before we reach out to them so what we can do is retweet this roundup and then tag the author on twitter so that puts you on their radar it tells them that you're sharing their content it warms them up a little bit so now we have a way of contacting them again you know what if if you can find their email address that's the one to go with now to find email addresses i'm going to show you how to do that so we can use a website called hunter we can put in a website address here and hopefully it will be on their database but if not and if it's not on their actual website then we will have to use social media so once you have their contact details and you're ready to reach out to them what do you say what does the email actually say well i'm going to give you a template to use check this out so here we have a template that is proven to work so here we have the subject we have the contact name the name of the person that you're reaching out to then we have the roundup name and then we have contribution so here we are telling them the reason why we're contacting them we're making it personal so they're going to see their name they'll see that it's addressed to them they'll see it's in reference to the roundup that they're running and then we have contribution or suggestion so it gives them a reason to open the email it makes life easy for them remember these influencers are spending hours every week going out trolling the internet looking for content to add you're helping them with with this process they're going to be grateful to you for making a recommendation then we have the body here we again we're personalizing it we address them by name and then we get straight to the point we say something like i'd like to suggest a piece of content for inclusion in your roundup and then again we would name the roundup so this tells them that we are familiar with them and their work now here we give them an explanation and a bit more detail so we say it's a so it could be a 2000 word article about email marketing i've written for and then we have the target audience so it could be for affiliate marketers so we might say something like it's a 2 000 word article about email marketing i've written for affiliate marketers and then we give them a reason to include it so we say i believe it will be of interest to your audience because it will help them achieve x y z here this is really important when we give people a reason a because to do something we have seen an increase in conversions so absolutely give people a reason to do something if you want someone to if you want to influence someone to do something give them a reason to do it and then here we have a sentence the article is published here and then we include the url to your website to the piece of content then we finish off with thank you for your consideration best regards we include your name and your phone number why do we include your phone number because it gives you more credibility it makes you seem more real remember these guys are probably getting pitched left right and center and there's a lot of tactics going on that they will be immune to so the best approach is to just be direct be upfront and honest say i have this piece of content this is it i think it's going to benefit your audience and i am a real person i am accessible this is my phone number so if they have any questions they will just respond via email and then follow up so give them a few days give them a week and then follow up just send a little reminder saying i've emailed you on such a date about this roundup just chasing up seeing if you've got the email if you have any questions and what's going to happen is when you follow up you increase the the chance of a response we always benefit from the follow-up so the first email is going to be cold and then the second email is a little bit warmer so we tend to get better results from the follow-up so don't ignore that so go back to your spreadsheet take a note of that and the follow-up if you need to and we can also save this as a template in gmail if you want me to create a separate tutorial on how to do that let me know and i'll go ahead and create that for you and listen if you are serious about growing a popular and profitable internet business then of course you need more traffic so look at how my student matt used my traffic strategies to make over two million dollars online in less than one year so go to profitcopilot.com traffic or click the link in the description or the thumbnail on screen now and get the secret traffic methods that i never share on youtube or anywhere else for free and also if you found today's tutorial useful give it a thumbs up below subscribe to the channel to hit that little notification bell so you never miss an update from me and i will hopefully see you again in a couple of days 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