How to Create Resource Content Guides For Linkable Audiences

by Venchito Tampon Jr | Last Updated on October 24, 2021

Have you ever wondered why marketers are too confident with their content? The reason is that they know exactly that what they’ve created has the potential to earn links once they promote it.

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This is how you can guarantee links even before creating the content.

Linkable audience is a term coined by Garret French, founder of Citation Labs, who is also a good friend of mine. 

He says, that linkable audiences are audiences who belong to communities with high-level academic, medical, and government interest. 

And so these audiences are more receptive to giving you backlinks, given they want more resources, data, and references for their content. 

Now, what you want to do is look for these linkable audiences first before creating content. Because you will create content to match and target a specific linkable audience. Given you know these audiences can link to you, you can guarantee links even before you create the content.

Here are some linkable audiences. We have teachers, caregivers, parents, senior citizens, veterans, health conditions sufferers, job seekers, unemployed, workers in the non-profit sector, immigrants, people with disabilities, local community, students, families of substance abusers…

So step one in using this link building strategy is to create a resource guide based on your chosen linkable audience. 

So let’s say your brand can target parents. So wanna make sure you don’t get go too far from your target customers. Check your target customers and see if any linkable audiences ring a bell to you.

So if you’re selling mattresses, and beds, you can create a guide to target parents. So you can have The Ultimate Parent’s Guide to Sleep For Kids. Another example is to target people with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and create a guide just for them. PTSD and Sleep Problems guide for example. So now each guide you create is targeted to a specific audience. 

The next thing you want to do is to get a list of resource pages within your target audience. So if you’re targeting people with PTSD, you wanna look for resource guides that have a list of references about curing PTSD or helping people with such disorder. 

You can use a resource page prospecting spreadsheet which we include our Broken Link Building blueprint.

You can also check similar content for more link opportunities. These are content that your competitors might have or other websites published that talks about the same topic, in our given example, these are pages that talk about PTSD. To find all of the pages that link to these similar content, and add them as your backlink prospects in your link prospecting spreadsheet. 

Make sure your spreadsheet is well-organized. So you can include columns for each detail about your backlink prospect. 

Next, you wanna do is to find broken links using LinkMiner. The reason you want to look for broken links on a resource page that you just prospected is that the broken links are your value proposition in your outreach.

So when you send an outreach email, you say that you’ve found a broken link in their resource page. And you want to fix it by suggesting a replacement, which is your content. 

So that is the link building strategy using resource guides for linkable audiences. You choose a linkable audience, create a content piece around it, find resource pages that talk about your audience, reach out to owners of these resource pages and let them know of any broken links they have, offer your content as replacements, and boom, you get the link!