Websites often link to pages that no longer exist. Offering your relevant page as a replacement helps the site owner and can earn you a link.
Steps
- Find resource pages in your industry or city: lists of useful links, guides, directories.
- Check their links for broken ones (browser extensions and crawlers help).
- See if you have, or can create, content that replaces the broken resource.
- Contact the site owner, mention the broken link and suggest yours.
Keep it helpful
Point out the broken link even if they choose not to use your page. Helpful outreach builds relationships.
Check links
Inspect URLs with our URL parser.
Fix your own broken links too
Redirect your own removed pages so you do not lose links; use our redirect generator.
Effort vs results
This takes time and works best in industries with many resource pages.
Read linkable assets.
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