3-steps to earn editorial backlinks — Farzad Rashidi // Respona

Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator at Respona, talks about strategies for organic growth. In a digital world where everyone is creating unique and original content and ensuring their website is fast, how do you top Google’s search results? When it comes to building domain authority, it’s crucial that we create content pieces that are primed for link-building. Today, Farzad discusses the three steps that you need to follow to earn editorial backlinks.
About the speaker

Farzad Rashidi

Respona

 - Respona

Farzad is Lead Innovator at Respona

Show Notes

  • 02:32
    How to get your content prioritized by Google
    Youre going up against a hundred million other people trying to rank for the same keyword. So, the real differentiator is backlinks to your website to rank and bring in traffic.
  • 04:12
    The three step process to get backlinks
    Start with a transactional collaboration with the website. Proceed to collaborate on content, then nurture the relationship towards a partnership that produces the desired backlinks.
  • 07:07
    Ethical backlink outreach strategies
    Respona advocates for going on other peoples podcasts as guests. The podcast host gets content and you get in front of their audience while also receiving backlinks to your website.
  • 08:51
    Content pieces to build backlinks
    Create a content silo for each category on your blog. Within those categories, create content pieces that are primed for link building, SEO based content, bottom of the funnel content.
  • 10:58
    Earning editorial backlinks
    Original research articles and data are ideal for link building. Create content people organically want to link and reach out to the people who will get value from the content.
  • 14:39
    Backlinking strategy resources
    Respona.coms outreach strategy hub is a free resource for breakdown of the different strategies. Click the outreach strategy hub link to access tons of different outreach strategies.
  • 15:47
    Automating personalized backlink outreach
    Respona provides templates to automate and personalize your backlink outreach. Youre able to focus on building relationships, getting quality backlinks, and driving organic growth.

Quotes

  • "If youre in the top 1% in terms of content quality, you're still going to be in the hundreds of millions of search results. How do you get to the top 10, which gets over 99% of the clicks?" -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "Not only do we need to create content, but we have to spend time building backlinks to our website. So, were making sure that these content pieces get up in the search results to bring in traffic." -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "We built a three stage process to get links. Start from a transactional collaboration with the website and work your way up to a content collaboration. And then, Narnia is the partnership." Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "One of the strategies we advocate for is going on other people's podcasts as a guest. Podcast hosts need content, and you get free advertising to their audience and backlinks to your website." -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "We create three types of content. And that is content pieces that are primed for link building. The second type is SEO based content. And third is the bottom of the funnel content." -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "Our campaign on who the market thought was going to win the Game of Thrones brought us 60-70 press mentions and backlinks to our website from major sources like Forbes, Men's Health, POPSUGAR, etc." -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

  • "Id much rather send 15 emails that get seven or eight replies, over sending 10,000 emails and getting no response." -Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator, Respona

About the speaker

Farzad Rashidi

Respona

 - Respona

Farzad is Lead Innovator at Respona

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