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Thanks John, really looking for examples that I can learn from. Heard a lot of assurances that content marketing is the way to go, I'm now looking for concrete examples.

Can anybody share?

Thanks, but no real examples of keywords that they had succeeded for. Admittedly some good content, but no evidence of success, like "We were here before we started content marketing, we got to here after x amount of time."

thanks for the reply tho

I know SEOmoz is always going on about content marketing as the best SEO tactic, but I'm struggling to achieve search engine success with it for my site.

Has anybody very successfully pursued a content marketing strategy for their site in a competitive niche? Can you give us the examples? (including the keywords you succeeded for).

Any help greatly appreciated.

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I am an agency-side SEO who has a few different SEO clients. A couple of them absolutely refuse to add any content to their site - no blog, no articles, no link bait, nothing.

They have resisted efforts for any content to be placed on their site - whether it is written by us, them, or a third party. They just don't see the value in it, despite my attempts to persuade them.

As a result, these websites are just brochure websites.

What are your options for link building in this situation? If content is the foundation of white hat link building, what do you do if the client refuses to add content to their site?

All help gratefully received!

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I've been using OSE for a while now, and I'm struggling to see any value in it. When I search my competitors link profiles, I find just hundreds and hundreds of crappy reciprocal links, splogs or the like. I have to go through days and days (thousands of links) before I find anything worth using.

Is anybody having this sort of problem?

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Thanks Ryan, some good tips there.

On point 1 you make, would that be 1 response every 50 requests, or 1 success (link) every 50 requests? (or 15-20 requests). I'm getting some responses from bloggers, but usually of the "thanks for the praise for my blog, but I'll decline your offer of content" variety.

On point 2, I can see how sponsored guest posting can work. Also the blogroll idea seems feasible,

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How many emails do you send in the average outreach campaign? How many links would you expect from that?

Also - when doing email blogger outreach do you need to offer the blogger something other than (great) content, in order to get a link? (maybe cash, or a link back?)

I'm doing email blogger outreach for a number of clients and types of content, but am finding it hard to get links from bloggers.

Any help is appreaciated!

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