Get onto the resource pages built to link out
Search for "[topic] resources" and "useful links for [audience]" pages, then pitch your best reference asset — a guide, tool, or dataset — with a paste-ready one-line description. These pages exist to link out, so acceptance rates dwarf cold link begging; you’re helping a curator finish their page.
By The Marketinque TeamReviewed June 2026
The play
Find "[topic] resources" and "useful links" pages in your niche — pages whose whole job is linking out — and pitch your single most reference-worthy asset with a one-line description the curator can paste.
Watch out for
- Pitch a genuine reference asset, not your homepage.
- Personalize enough to prove you read the page; template blasts get deleted.
Best for
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Plays like this one
- One great guest post where your buyers actually readWrite one exceptional guest post for the single niche publication your buyers actually read, pitched with three specific angles and grounded in data or experience only you have. One authoritative placement in front of the right audience beats ten posts on link-mill blogs — for referral traffic, the byline, and the link.
- Replace the dead links on pages that already rankScan ranking pages in your niche for dead outbound links, then email the owner: point out the broken link and offer your equivalent content as the fix. The opener is a favor, not an ask, which is why broken-link outreach converts when cold pitches don’t — and every placement inherits an aged page’s authority.
- Build the tiny tool other sites embedBuild a small, genuinely useful free tool — a calculator, grader, or generator your buyers reach for mid-task — and make it embeddable with attribution. Interactive utilities earn links passively for years because writers cite tools they use, and the tool doubles as a qualification magnet for the product behind it.
- Reclaim unlinked brand mentionsSearch for existing mentions of your brand or founder that are not hyperlinked, then send the author a brief, friendly request to turn the mention into a link. Because the writer already chose to mention you, reply rates far exceed cold link outreach — making this the easiest credible backlink win available.
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