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Patons Wallace & Gromit - Gromit [Full pattern PDF: Google Drive / archive.org]
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solradguy · 6 months
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Hey Sol! I remember quite a while ago, someone asked you about how to get into archiving stuff and you answered with a little guide of sorts of useful programs/websites/etc.
Do you still have that guide up? Is there somewhere I can learn more in-depth about how to begin archiving too?
Tumblr search is failing me and I can't find that post now... So! I'll type it again. Lately I've been thinking about writing some kind of "archivist's manifesto" type thing for my Neocities in an effort to hype people up about archiving and to guide them on how to do it. When I write that up I'll post it here too.
Here's a big post I wrote on how to scan books and where to upload them (this is also linked in the big GG masterpost that's in my pinned): https://solradguy.tumblr.com/post/722512206034501632/sol-radguy-scanning-guide
That guide also has some tips on photo editing that may be useful for non-book scanning stuff, like some free program alternatives.
I've tried finding professional guides on how to archive media but most of them are written for people looking to archive family photos/things and not web media or physical books. None of them have been very helpful, honestly. One thing they recommend doing that I think IS helpful though is the rule of 3: Keep 3 copies of an archive somewhere. A physical hard drive, cloud storage, a second hard drive stored separately from the first (in case of accidents/hardware failure), uploaded to separate file hosts, and printing new physical copies are some. Doing any 3 of those is highly recommended. I do the two hard drives and cloud storage/file hosts ones. My hosts are generally Archive.org, Neocities, and Google Drive.
Be very careful about trusting image hosting sites with valuable scan data because they come and go like the wind. Photobucket, Tinypic, Imageshack... They're either dead or require a premium to host files now, which doesn't help hobby archivists at all. Imgur's demise is on the horizon. It's just the way it goes with these due to how expensive and space-consuming image hosting is.
Absolutely 1000% do not ever use just Discord for archiving/hosting things. Nothing on that platform can be backed up easily or with automation, and the guys that run it have already made weird choices the community didn't want while also putting more and more things behind the Nitro paywall. I suspect they're going to kneecap image and file hosting some day soon, too.
For archiving someone else's files, something that helps greatly (if it can be done) is either including the source of the file in the file's name or writing a separate document with the sources and whatever other additional information there is.
Here's a basic example of some Sol images from my Sol folder:
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The first two are from the Counterside collab event and then the second two are official art but the file names are descriptive and it saves time sourcing them for things later. For archiving fan art/fiction, the filename is a good place to put the artist credit. Something like [Artwork Title]-[Artist Name]-[Original File Creation Date].format ("Sol Badguy Missing Link - Daisuke Ishiwatari - May 14 1998.jpg," or however you wanna organize the folder) works good.
Windows 11 didn't like working with Japanese text in file names for some of the Vastedge stuff I archived and I had to translate/romanize them. If you can't read Japanese/source's language, just do your best (number them instead?) and include the native language text in a .TXT file if possible.
A more complex example from the Vastedge .TXT doc:
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The Vastedge materials archive is pretty dense and had a lot of contributors so the first half of the .TXT document's just credits for who did what. This is useful for if something gets lost because we'll know who to go bother about it. Among other things.
The next section is a long stack of details about the files themselves. I won't paste the whole thing here, it's pretty long. It covers how the archive came to be, issues with some of the files, how the files were obtained, and some other stuff:
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The last half of the .TXT doc is a listing of the folder contents. I included this for quick reference and because sometimes archives get fractured by people only reuploading certain parts of it. Future archivists or anyone else going through this archive now have a list of what should be in there and will know if something is missing.
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Archive.org/Wayback Machine has a browser extension for quickly archiving webpages. I have that and WebP / Avif Image Converter by Nullbrains (Chrome, might be on Firefox?) installed to quickly archive pages and convert image files as I save them.
In summary:
Upload/store things in multiple places
Include credits wherever you can, however is easiest for you
Try to keep files in the most widely compatible formats (jpg, gif, bmp, png, tiff, mp3, mp4, txt, pdf, flac, etc). Google's .DOC, Clip Studio Paint's .CLIP, and similar file formats meant for a specific piece of software may not be supported in the future.
A bad/incomplete archive is better than no archive at all. Consider how exciting Sappho poetry fragments are compared to what it would be like if we didn't have anything. Don't worry about making it "perfect."
Hope that helps some!! I'll try to write the manifesto for my NC soon
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Hello! I'm writing a final Essay about Indian parallel cinema or new Indian cinema and I kinda got lost, there are so many movies and themes to explore! since the deadline is pushing me, I don't have much time to explore it deeply, i've watched Charulata and Apu's trilogy but couldn't move forward from there. (all of them mind-blowingly amazing btw) Could you please please please give me some direction on which way should i keep looking/researching or any of your favorite themes that are recurring in 50's-70's Indian "new wave" films ? anything would be really helpful. Thank you in advance, hope you have an amazing day!!
oh my god, i did not see this until now as i typically only see notifications for this blog when i'm on desktop, i'm so sorry!! i really hope this isnt too late to respond. okay so i'm no expert but just some thoughts:
so obviously its a film movement that originated in bengal, a lot of parallel cinema is bengali indian OR bangladeshi, i'm not sure if theres a specific reason you're focusing on indian parallel cinema for your essay but thats something to keep into consideration especially because it spans past the 70s well into the 80s and somewhat 90s so after the independence of bangladesh. and that does impact and put context to the narrative of many films
the themes that are recurring tend to be class consciousness and disillusionment, religious and racial discrimination, casteism, more frank portrayals of the topic of sex, marxist thought, the burden of patriarchal society and expectation, to some extent borderline nihilism in my opinion, essentially the polar opposite of bollywoods pristine glamorized and polished portrayal of life and society that borders on science fiction from how removed from reality it is. in spite of it often.
if you want an outline of some filmmakers, actors, and films that can give you a decent idea of the movement, off the top of my head:
films i can think of that will give you a decent understanding of the tone and themes of the movement at least:
mirch masala
a river called titas and cloud capped star
donkey in a brahmin village
the apu trilogy and charulata as you said as well as devi and shatranj ke khilari. (the coward is also one of my personal favorites but not a necessary watch)
mammo, mandi, and bhumika
dont cry for salim the lame, the strange fate of arvind desai
arth
rat trap
maya darpan
duvidha, nazar, uski roti
quintessential filmmakers to at least get a decently rounded understanding (in my opinion):
saeed akhtar mirza
mani kaul
satyajit ray
ritwik ghatak
shyam benegal
mrinal sen
actors whose work or work during the period of early parallel cinema to look to:
smita patil (!) (probably the most important to look into if youre interested in this movement)
shabana azmi (early work)
madhabi mukherjee
soumitra chatterjee
 naseeruddin shah (early work)
om puri (early work)
all of this is really just what came to mind immediately, i had planned on writing up a comprehensive summary of parallel cinema and what i considered essential viewing and themes and i will do that eventually, but i wanted to answer this as quickly as possible so i could easily be leaving out an insane amount of things. also i primarily used the english translations for these films unless i couldnt remember them. if youre in the usa (and maybe outside of it as well im not sure) MANY of these works or works made by these directors are on youtube or archive.org. i hope this is of some help and eventually i will post more comprehensive detail + scans of books i have about this. hope this helps someone and you have a good day!
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Hi! Where should I start with learning about Marryat/reading his books? Your blog has made me really interested haha
Thanks for the ask, I love getting messages like this! As far as reading his books, we’re in a golden age of accessibility thanks to all the 19th century literature available for free download on Google Books: that’s how I’ve read almost all of my Marryat books so far. If you’re willing to pay for electronic versions of his books, there are many offerings on Kindle and through Apple Books. Print versions are harder to find, but nautically-focused McBooks Press has many recent Marryat reissues. (edit to add: I recommend free scanned 19th century editions of Marryat's books on sites like Google Books and Archive.org, in preference to ebooks and print on demand. No bad OCR, and the original typesetting benefits the period writing style of huge paragraphs with double- or triple-spaced sentences).
When I first started reading Marryat, in the form of Google e-books on my phone, I would always have one or two browser tabs open just to look up the Age of Sail terminology, and sometimes period references. I can now recommend a few more free e-books for that purpose: The Sailor’s Word-Book, by Admiral William Henry Smyth, and The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever. Sometimes just plugging sailing terms into a search engine can give you misleading results that are more relevant for modern yachts, not a sea-going vessel from the days of Nelson’s Navy.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in many ways reading Frederick Marryat is comparable to reading Jane Austen. Same time period, same culture, and you’ll find a similar vocabulary to refer to social conventions, food, clothing, the political climate, and so on. This is useful to know because while there is unfortunately not a big Marryat fandom out there, there is a massive Jane Austen fandom who have produced numerous guidebooks and blogs about fashion, food, you-name-it from early 19th century Britain, and these can be very helpful!
What Marryat books should you read first? This is subjective, but I recommend his early and mid-career novels for adults —as opposed to the books for children that he wrote at the end of his life, which are unsurprisingly less spicy and more didactic— and avoiding his historical fiction e.g. The Phantom Ship, which is heavy on the purple prose since people from The Past have to be melodramatic. (Also he didn’t have access to Google, and he put carronades in a historical novel 100 years before they were invented amongst other bloopers). One of Marryat’s greatest charms is the veracity of his Napoleonic-era novels, which draw from his lived experiences. Scholars look to Marryat as a primary source on everything from club-hauling a ship to sailors’ tattoos.
My current Intro to Marryat rec is his novella The Three Cutters (but not, as I note in the linked post, his novella The Pirate, which usually comes bundled with The Three Cutters as they were originally published together). Mr. Midshipman Easy comes up a lot, and it’s certainly one of his more well-known works in the present day. I’m a little more equivocal about recommending it as a first venture into Marryat (I prefer a few books ahead of it), but in a way it’s a good crash course into his novels, for good and bad. It can be very funny, there is some trenchant commentary, and in other parts it totally runs off the rails. There is also a characteristic level of simultaneously condemning racism (the prejudice the character Mesty encounters) and indulging in racist tropes that make modern readers uncomfortable (the way Mesty’s dialog is written; the fact that he is a Scary Black Man devoted to the white hero character).
Not to digress too much about Marryat’s Problematic ways, because he was a pretty complex and flawed person from two centuries ago and I hate to flatten that complexity, but it bears mentioning that he tends to write, in general, in broad national and ethnic stereotypes. It’s rare for his Black characters to not speak in an othering dialect which I could very charitably say is influenced by a West Indian accent that he would have encountered in real life. He has barbaric Irish characters in The King’s Own who attack and kill the survivors of a shipwreck, but a more positive albeit still stereotypical representation in Terence O’Brien from Peter Simple. (O’Brien and Mesty are, weirdly enough, very similar characters who both exist to support the [Anglo] white hero— and “Ashantee” Mesty even speaks with an Irish accent, since he learned English from Irish emigrants). Marryat’s white European (non-British) characters can have literally the same diction as his Black characters, as in this passage from Jacob Faithful with a French person speaking: “Madame Tagliabue did noting but cry all last night when she heard the very bad news about de debt, and all dat [...] suppose a gentleman no lose his honour, what matter de money?”
The fact that Marryat’s novels take place all over the British Empire, and depict the multicultural world of that Empire even within Britain, because the Royal Navy took a pragmatic approach to a diverse workforce, means that there are many opportunities for him to use cringey dialect and indulge in offensive stereotypes that were regarded as acceptable humour or familiar tropes at the time. Contrast and compare with his friend and contemporary Charles Dickens, who is beloved even today, but I would argue that he was about a hundred times more racist than Marryat, going by the screeds that he published in magazines (many of them quoted in Patrick Brantlinger’s book Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914, which also examines themes of imperialism and colonialism in Marryat’s works).
I wouldn’t be reading so much of Frederick Marryat if I didn’t enjoy the way he spins a yarn, and I find his novels genuinely entertaining on their own merit, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that a big part of my enjoyment is the way Marryat illuminates his time period and his world. I am deeply interested in the 19th century Royal Navy, the British Empire, and life in early 19th century England; and Marryat is almost like having a personal guide, making his era “real to us and ordinary,” as Virginia Woolf wrote. There are thrilling aspects to his world and horrifying ones. Marryat writes from his own perspective, that of a privileged, upper-class, Protestant white man, but he is not without empathy and nuance (and sometimes I think he is unfairly painted as some kind of imperialist cheerleader when he was often critical of the empire and its machinations).
To learn more about Captain Marryat himself, you can’t go wrong with one of the chief sources for all of his biographies: his daughter Florence Marryat’s collection of correspondence and biographical sketches, The Life and Letters of Captain Frederick Marryat. This is available as a free e-book: volume 1, volume 2. David Hannay’s Life of Frederick Marryat is very Victorian and mediocre, but also free in e-book form. (Can’t beat free books!)
For a modern(ish) biography of Marryat, my personal favourite might be Oliver Warner’s Captain Marryat: A Rediscovery, but it was published in 1953. Much easier to find, and most recently published, the naval historian Tom Pocock wrote Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer and Adventurer in 2000. Pocock’s book is probably the best recommendation for someone looking for a good Marryat biography that includes illustrations and isn’t impossible to find. It’s fun to read, and Pocock has an obvious love for Marryat and his books (and he gets bonus points from me for being a Frank Mildmay fan).
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Get Backlinks By ӓtealingԠFrom Low-Quality Pages
How to Get Backlinks By “Stealing” From Low-Quality Pages
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I’m sure you’ve been there before. You search for something on Google, you click through to a page and you think to yourself: What in the world? How is this ranking on the first page of Google? Rather than getting frustrated, think differently. Because this is the perfect opportunity for you to get backlinks from pages that probably don’t deserve them today. And in this video, I’m going to show you how to find a ton of these pages, find thousands of link prospects, and get more backlinks asap. Stay tuned. What’s up SEOs? Sam Oh here with Ahrefs, the SEO tool that helps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche. So this video is all about finding low-quality content that has high-quality links. Which is the perfect opportunity for you to pitch your superior resource and earn some backlinks. So let’s get started with this link building tutorial and find tons of relevant link prospects.
Shall we? Alright, so the first step is to find a page that has a lot of quality links, and ideally, their content should be subpar at best. This will increase your chances of gaining a link. The best way to find these pages is to go to Ahrefs Content Explorer and type in a seed keyword that’s related to your niche. So I’ll use “protein powder” for our example. Next, I’ll set the minimum number of referring domains to something high like 50. And since we’re looking for pages that are of “low quality,” a good place to start are articles that were published a while ago. So, I’ll set the publish date to something like from somewhere in 2012 up until 2016. And we’re down to a list of around 270 results. Finally, I’m going to set the word count filter to pages with less than 1,000 words.
Now, I’m not saying that articles with less than 1,000 words are low quality. But in general, content length is often the byproduct of a very thorough article. So it’s more of an “eyeball” metric for me. Alright, we now have 76 pages at this point, which is a very manageable list to filter through. To make things even easier, I’m going to sort these results by “search traffic” in descending order. More often than not, you’ll find that pages with good-quality link profiles get the most search traffic. And if these link profiles happen to be low-quality today, it might reveal a low-competition topic that generates search traffic.
Scrolling through the results, this one immediately stands out to me. This page has 242 referring domains, gets over 11,000 monthly search visitors, and is less than 200 words. Clicking through to the page, you’ll see that it’s just a curated list of images with links to separate recipe pages. From here, you can click on the caret, and then open up the Backlink report to scan and vet the quality of the backlinks. And it looks like there are some decent sites linking to this page. Now, something that catches my eye on this report is that this page has links that go to an old URL, which was redirected a couple of times. And this is actually quite common for old content, because websites tend to consolidate pages as their site grows in size. So let’s investigate this redirected URL. I’ll just click on the caret beside the old URL, and open the page on archive.org. And there is one huge difference on this page compared to the current version. The old version actually had the recipes on the page. In fact, they even had a way you can download them as a PDF.
Not the prettiest, but an A for effort. But the current post forces you to click through to a page just to see the recipe. Not a great user experience in my opinion. Now if I were to create a post on this topic, there are two things that I’ve learned about stealing links from this page. So first, I would create some nice visuals and add printable PDFs for each recipe for a better user experience. Second, I’ve found a point of leverage. The content that these pages are linking to got worse.
So I could integrate this somehow into my pitch. Now, you don’t need to limit yourself to very thin posts like our example. You can actually extract ideas from all of these pages that have clearly attracted a lot of links. But the key point is that you should be able to create something that’s better, which will make it easier to formulate a good pitch. So at this point, it’s time to create your content. And the goal here is two-fold. #1. You want to create something that’s better than the page you’ve found, but still on the same topic. So in this case, that would be “protein shake recipes.” And #2. If the page is getting organic search traffic, then you want to know which keywords they rank for so you can optimize your page for maximum search traffic potential. So from inside Site explorer, you can go to the Organic keywords report, which will show you all of the keywords that this page ranks for.
And you’ll see that it’s sorted in descending order by search traffic. From here, you can try and extract some keywords that can act as subtopics for your post. I won’t go any further into the actual content creation process, because we’re talking about link building here. Instead, I’ll show you a couple more ways to find relevant link prospects. The first way is to analyze the backlink profiles for the top 10 ranking pages for your target keyword. So I’ll go to Ahrefs Keywords Explorer tool and enter in “protein shake recipes.” And from here, I’ll scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the SEO metrics for the top 10 ranking pages. From here, I’ll look for posts that are similar to mine and see if there are any other backlink profiles I can hijack. These two look promising to me, which even follow the same list post format as the original article we found. And it’s worth checking these articles to make sure that the pages will be inferior to the content you create.
For example, this page has no images or instructions on a post that you think should have them. So from here, I would go to each individual link profile of the low-quality pages, qualify link prospects, and add them to my outreach list. Now, you don’t need to stop at just your target keyword. The original article we were looking at was called “50 Best Protein Shake AND Smoothie Recipes.” So I’ll scroll back up, and type in “smoothie recipes” as our target keyword. And again, we’ll go down to the SERP overview. As you can see, there are a few more potential opportunities that would be worth investigating.
Another way to find link prospects would be to search for variants of the title in Content Explorer. So I’ll search for something like (“protein shake” or “smoothie”) in brackets and then I’ll add, “and recipe.” Finally, I’ll set the search type to a title search. Now, 11,000 results is way too many to go through, so we’ll set a minimum number of referring domains to 30, which will give us about 118 pages with at least 30 referring domains pointing at it. The thing with referring domains is that it can be misleading. Sometimes these linking sites won’t be of great quality. But we can actually export these results and throw them into Batch analysis tool to get the URL rating for each page. And URL rating represents the overall strength of a page’s backlink profile. So I’ve already exported the results, ran my batch analysis with the Target mode set to URL, and sorted the table by URL rating. So based on these results, I’d probably want to reach out to people who are linking to these two pages since they seem to have decent link profiles and just by looking at the URL, they seem to be relevant to what I’m creating.
Now, I want to put this into perspective. Here are the number of referring domains for each page I said I’d steal links from. If we add these up, that’s potentially 1048 link prospects that we found in around seven minutes. But let’s be realistic here. I would probably reach out to maybe 50% of these websites after deduplicating and qualifying the linking pages. So that’s a total of 524 outreach emails. And let’s say you convert at a 5% link acquisition rate. That’s 26 links from unique referring domains, which in my opinion, would most likely be enough to get a top 10 ranking for both “protein shake recipes,” “smoothie recipes,” and a whole bunch of long tail variations.
So to scale this process, it’s literally just a matter of going through all of the pages that you’ve found in your initial search in Content Explorer, picking pages that have good link profiles and low-quality content, expanding your list of link prospects, doing outreach, and then repeating the process for other keywords. Pretty straightforward, right? Now if you enjoyed this video, make sure to like, share and subscribe, and actually, I highly recommend watching our video on creating a link building system if you want to take this strategy a step further.
So keep grinding away, go steal some links without feeling bad, and I’ll see you in the next tutorial. .
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Get Backlinks By ӓtealingԠFrom Low-Quality Pages
How to Get Backlinks By “Stealing” From Low-Quality Pages
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I’m sure you’ve been there before. You search for something on Google, you click through to a page and you think to yourself: What in the world? How is this ranking on the first page of Google? Rather than getting frustrated, think differently. Because this is the perfect opportunity for you to get backlinks from pages that probably don’t deserve them today. And in this video, I’m going to show you how to find a ton of these pages, find thousands of link prospects, and get more backlinks asap. Stay tuned. What’s up SEOs? Sam Oh here with Ahrefs, the SEO tool that helps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche. So this video is all about finding low-quality content that has high-quality links. Which is the perfect opportunity for you to pitch your superior resource and earn some backlinks. So let’s get started with this link building tutorial and find tons of relevant link prospects.
Shall we? Alright, so the first step is to find a page that has a lot of quality links, and ideally, their content should be subpar at best. This will increase your chances of gaining a link. The best way to find these pages is to go to Ahrefs Content Explorer and type in a seed keyword that’s related to your niche. So I’ll use “protein powder” for our example. Next, I’ll set the minimum number of referring domains to something high like 50. And since we’re looking for pages that are of “low quality,” a good place to start are articles that were published a while ago. So, I’ll set the publish date to something like from somewhere in 2012 up until 2016. And we’re down to a list of around 270 results. Finally, I’m going to set the word count filter to pages with less than 1,000 words.
Now, I’m not saying that articles with less than 1,000 words are low quality. But in general, content length is often the byproduct of a very thorough article. So it’s more of an “eyeball” metric for me. Alright, we now have 76 pages at this point, which is a very manageable list to filter through. To make things even easier, I’m going to sort these results by “search traffic” in descending order. More often than not, you’ll find that pages with good-quality link profiles get the most search traffic. And if these link profiles happen to be low-quality today, it might reveal a low-competition topic that generates search traffic.
Scrolling through the results, this one immediately stands out to me. This page has 242 referring domains, gets over 11,000 monthly search visitors, and is less than 200 words. Clicking through to the page, you’ll see that it’s just a curated list of images with links to separate recipe pages. From here, you can click on the caret, and then open up the Backlink report to scan and vet the quality of the backlinks. And it looks like there are some decent sites linking to this page. Now, something that catches my eye on this report is that this page has links that go to an old URL, which was redirected a couple of times. And this is actually quite common for old content, because websites tend to consolidate pages as their site grows in size. So let’s investigate this redirected URL. I’ll just click on the caret beside the old URL, and open the page on archive.org. And there is one huge difference on this page compared to the current version. The old version actually had the recipes on the page. In fact, they even had a way you can download them as a PDF.
Not the prettiest, but an A for effort. But the current post forces you to click through to a page just to see the recipe. Not a great user experience in my opinion. Now if I were to create a post on this topic, there are two things that I’ve learned about stealing links from this page. So first, I would create some nice visuals and add printable PDFs for each recipe for a better user experience. Second, I’ve found a point of leverage. The content that these pages are linking to got worse.
So I could integrate this somehow into my pitch. Now, you don’t need to limit yourself to very thin posts like our example. You can actually extract ideas from all of these pages that have clearly attracted a lot of links. But the key point is that you should be able to create something that’s better, which will make it easier to formulate a good pitch. So at this point, it’s time to create your content. And the goal here is two-fold. #1. You want to create something that’s better than the page you’ve found, but still on the same topic. So in this case, that would be “protein shake recipes.” And #2. If the page is getting organic search traffic, then you want to know which keywords they rank for so you can optimize your page for maximum search traffic potential. So from inside Site explorer, you can go to the Organic keywords report, which will show you all of the keywords that this page ranks for.
And you’ll see that it’s sorted in descending order by search traffic. From here, you can try and extract some keywords that can act as subtopics for your post. I won’t go any further into the actual content creation process, because we’re talking about link building here. Instead, I’ll show you a couple more ways to find relevant link prospects. The first way is to analyze the backlink profiles for the top 10 ranking pages for your target keyword. So I’ll go to Ahrefs Keywords Explorer tool and enter in “protein shake recipes.” And from here, I’ll scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the SEO metrics for the top 10 ranking pages. From here, I’ll look for posts that are similar to mine and see if there are any other backlink profiles I can hijack. These two look promising to me, which even follow the same list post format as the original article we found. And it’s worth checking these articles to make sure that the pages will be inferior to the content you create.
For example, this page has no images or instructions on a post that you think should have them. So from here, I would go to each individual link profile of the low-quality pages, qualify link prospects, and add them to my outreach list. Now, you don’t need to stop at just your target keyword. The original article we were looking at was called “50 Best Protein Shake AND Smoothie Recipes.” So I’ll scroll back up, and type in “smoothie recipes” as our target keyword. And again, we’ll go down to the SERP overview. As you can see, there are a few more potential opportunities that would be worth investigating.
Another way to find link prospects would be to search for variants of the title in Content Explorer. So I’ll search for something like (“protein shake” or “smoothie”) in brackets and then I’ll add, “and recipe.” Finally, I’ll set the search type to a title search. Now, 11,000 results is way too many to go through, so we’ll set a minimum number of referring domains to 30, which will give us about 118 pages with at least 30 referring domains pointing at it. The thing with referring domains is that it can be misleading. Sometimes these linking sites won’t be of great quality. But we can actually export these results and throw them into Batch analysis tool to get the URL rating for each page. And URL rating represents the overall strength of a page’s backlink profile. So I’ve already exported the results, ran my batch analysis with the Target mode set to URL, and sorted the table by URL rating. So based on these results, I’d probably want to reach out to people who are linking to these two pages since they seem to have decent link profiles and just by looking at the URL, they seem to be relevant to what I’m creating.
Now, I want to put this into perspective. Here are the number of referring domains for each page I said I’d steal links from. If we add these up, that’s potentially 1048 link prospects that we found in around seven minutes. But let’s be realistic here. I would probably reach out to maybe 50% of these websites after deduplicating and qualifying the linking pages. So that’s a total of 524 outreach emails. And let’s say you convert at a 5% link acquisition rate. That’s 26 links from unique referring domains, which in my opinion, would most likely be enough to get a top 10 ranking for both “protein shake recipes,” “smoothie recipes,” and a whole bunch of long tail variations.
So to scale this process, it’s literally just a matter of going through all of the pages that you’ve found in your initial search in Content Explorer, picking pages that have good link profiles and low-quality content, expanding your list of link prospects, doing outreach, and then repeating the process for other keywords. Pretty straightforward, right? Now if you enjoyed this video, make sure to like, share and subscribe, and actually, I highly recommend watching our video on creating a link building system if you want to take this strategy a step further.
So keep grinding away, go steal some links without feeling bad, and I’ll see you in the next tutorial. .
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I’m sure you’ve been there before. You search for something on Google, you click through to a page and you think to yourself: What in the world? How is this ranking on the first page of Google? Rather than getting frustrated, think differently. Because this is the perfect opportunity for you to get backlinks from pages that probably don’t deserve them today. And in this video, I’m going to show you how to find a ton of these pages, find thousands of link prospects, and get more backlinks asap. Stay tuned. What’s up SEOs? Sam Oh here with Ahrefs, the SEO tool that helps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche. So this video is all about finding low-quality content that has high-quality links. Which is the perfect opportunity for you to pitch your superior resource and earn some backlinks. So let’s get started with this link building tutorial and find tons of relevant link prospects.
Shall we? Alright, so the first step is to find a page that has a lot of quality links, and ideally, their content should be subpar at best. This will increase your chances of gaining a link. The best way to find these pages is to go to Ahrefs Content Explorer and type in a seed keyword that’s related to your niche. So I’ll use “protein powder” for our example. Next, I’ll set the minimum number of referring domains to something high like 50. And since we’re looking for pages that are of “low quality,” a good place to start are articles that were published a while ago. So, I’ll set the publish date to something like from somewhere in 2012 up until 2016. And we’re down to a list of around 270 results. Finally, I’m going to set the word count filter to pages with less than 1,000 words.
Now, I’m not saying that articles with less than 1,000 words are low quality. But in general, content length is often the byproduct of a very thorough article. So it’s more of an “eyeball” metric for me. Alright, we now have 76 pages at this point, which is a very manageable list to filter through. To make things even easier, I’m going to sort these results by “search traffic” in descending order. More often than not, you’ll find that pages with good-quality link profiles get the most search traffic. And if these link profiles happen to be low-quality today, it might reveal a low-competition topic that generates search traffic.
Scrolling through the results, this one immediately stands out to me. This page has 242 referring domains, gets over 11,000 monthly search visitors, and is less than 200 words. Clicking through to the page, you’ll see that it’s just a curated list of images with links to separate recipe pages. From here, you can click on the caret, and then open up the Backlink report to scan and vet the quality of the backlinks. And it looks like there are some decent sites linking to this page. Now, something that catches my eye on this report is that this page has links that go to an old URL, which was redirected a couple of times. And this is actually quite common for old content, because websites tend to consolidate pages as their site grows in size. So let’s investigate this redirected URL. I’ll just click on the caret beside the old URL, and open the page on archive.org. And there is one huge difference on this page compared to the current version. The old version actually had the recipes on the page. In fact, they even had a way you can download them as a PDF.
Not the prettiest, but an A for effort. But the current post forces you to click through to a page just to see the recipe. Not a great user experience in my opinion. Now if I were to create a post on this topic, there are two things that I’ve learned about stealing links from this page. So first, I would create some nice visuals and add printable PDFs for each recipe for a better user experience. Second, I’ve found a point of leverage. The content that these pages are linking to got worse.
So I could integrate this somehow into my pitch. Now, you don’t need to limit yourself to very thin posts like our example. You can actually extract ideas from all of these pages that have clearly attracted a lot of links. But the key point is that you should be able to create something that’s better, which will make it easier to formulate a good pitch. So at this point, it’s time to create your content. And the goal here is two-fold. #1. You want to create something that’s better than the page you’ve found, but still on the same topic. So in this case, that would be “protein shake recipes.” And #2. If the page is getting organic search traffic, then you want to know which keywords they rank for so you can optimize your page for maximum search traffic potential. So from inside Site explorer, you can go to the Organic keywords report, which will show you all of the keywords that this page ranks for.
And you’ll see that it’s sorted in descending order by search traffic. From here, you can try and extract some keywords that can act as subtopics for your post. I won’t go any further into the actual content creation process, because we’re talking about link building here. Instead, I’ll show you a couple more ways to find relevant link prospects. The first way is to analyze the backlink profiles for the top 10 ranking pages for your target keyword. So I’ll go to Ahrefs Keywords Explorer tool and enter in “protein shake recipes.” And from here, I’ll scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the SEO metrics for the top 10 ranking pages. From here, I’ll look for posts that are similar to mine and see if there are any other backlink profiles I can hijack. These two look promising to me, which even follow the same list post format as the original article we found. And it’s worth checking these articles to make sure that the pages will be inferior to the content you create.
For example, this page has no images or instructions on a post that you think should have them. So from here, I would go to each individual link profile of the low-quality pages, qualify link prospects, and add them to my outreach list. Now, you don’t need to stop at just your target keyword. The original article we were looking at was called “50 Best Protein Shake AND Smoothie Recipes.” So I’ll scroll back up, and type in “smoothie recipes” as our target keyword. And again, we’ll go down to the SERP overview. As you can see, there are a few more potential opportunities that would be worth investigating.
Another way to find link prospects would be to search for variants of the title in Content Explorer. So I’ll search for something like (“protein shake” or “smoothie”) in brackets and then I’ll add, “and recipe.” Finally, I’ll set the search type to a title search. Now, 11,000 results is way too many to go through, so we’ll set a minimum number of referring domains to 30, which will give us about 118 pages with at least 30 referring domains pointing at it. The thing with referring domains is that it can be misleading. Sometimes these linking sites won’t be of great quality. But we can actually export these results and throw them into Batch analysis tool to get the URL rating for each page. And URL rating represents the overall strength of a page’s backlink profile. So I’ve already exported the results, ran my batch analysis with the Target mode set to URL, and sorted the table by URL rating. So based on these results, I’d probably want to reach out to people who are linking to these two pages since they seem to have decent link profiles and just by looking at the URL, they seem to be relevant to what I’m creating.
Now, I want to put this into perspective. Here are the number of referring domains for each page I said I’d steal links from. If we add these up, that’s potentially 1048 link prospects that we found in around seven minutes. But let’s be realistic here. I would probably reach out to maybe 50% of these websites after deduplicating and qualifying the linking pages. So that’s a total of 524 outreach emails. And let’s say you convert at a 5% link acquisition rate. That’s 26 links from unique referring domains, which in my opinion, would most likely be enough to get a top 10 ranking for both “protein shake recipes,” “smoothie recipes,” and a whole bunch of long tail variations.
So to scale this process, it’s literally just a matter of going through all of the pages that you’ve found in your initial search in Content Explorer, picking pages that have good link profiles and low-quality content, expanding your list of link prospects, doing outreach, and then repeating the process for other keywords. Pretty straightforward, right? Now if you enjoyed this video, make sure to like, share and subscribe, and actually, I highly recommend watching our video on creating a link building system if you want to take this strategy a step further.
So keep grinding away, go steal some links without feeling bad, and I’ll see you in the next tutorial. .
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Originally posted 2019-06-26 19:08:17.
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