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by linuxasheviller 2817 days ago
What's missing is how not to do terrible outreach.

I help operate a blog with a fairly high domain authority that accepts guest posts.

Every morning I have to spend time mass-deleting guest posting requests that are just so bad there's not even a point in reading them. Poorly written but "customized" spam about how much the writer loves our site and why he or she thinks a listicle about online gambling would be a great fit for our audience. But the "legitimate" requests often don't look much better or different than the purely spam ones.