Back in the day resource pages were my bread and butter. Search “keyword + useful resources”, find the pages, email the owner, get added. Easy 5-10% response rate.
Last campaign I ran (around 200 emails, education niche) I got 4 links. Most of the pages I found hadn’t been updated in years, and a bunch of the contacts bounced.
Is anyone still getting results with this or is it basically dead now?
Not dead but the easy version is dead. The pages you find with the old footprints are mostly abandoned. I now filter for pages that were updated in the last 12-18 months, or that have a date on them. Smaller list, maybe 30-40 targets, but my hit rate went back up to something like 8-10%.
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