Tracking the results
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 5:26 am
That seems like a lot to handle, right? Well, it was.
If I ignored my inbox for even two days, I would regularly come back and find it flooded with HARO query emails.
So I decided to set up a series of pitching criteria to filter the queries and make my job easier.
My criteria for answering inquiries
When you participate in interviews or surveys for publication, you want to ensure that the time you spend on that task is well spent and fruitful for your goals.
Because I knew how time-consuming it would be to write thorough citations that fit the needs of specific publications, I set out some criteria to optimize both my time and ROI (in this case, acquiring backlinks):
1. Build links to only two of my websites: luanaspinetti.com and mama.luana.me
2. Only answer queries related to my niches (Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Motherhood)
3. Only respond to inquiries from online publications that will—or are likely to—credit experts with a backlink
Applying these criteria greatly reduced my email workload and helped me focus my gambling database efforts on delivering quality contributions to a smaller number of publications.
As for the best time of day to answer queries, I did my best to do it in the morning so that I could tackle each query with a fresh mind and better ability to concentrate on the task at hand.
It wasn't always possible due to deadlines, but I managed to do it about 40% of the time.
I used two things to track the results of my HARO link building experiment: SEOptimer and a good old-fashioned spreadsheet.
1. SEO Optimizer
SEOptimer helped me monitor the inbound backlinks I got from HARO.
(Doing this manually would have been overkill!)
I added both of my domains to the monitoring tool and SEOptimer did the rest.
If I ignored my inbox for even two days, I would regularly come back and find it flooded with HARO query emails.
So I decided to set up a series of pitching criteria to filter the queries and make my job easier.
My criteria for answering inquiries
When you participate in interviews or surveys for publication, you want to ensure that the time you spend on that task is well spent and fruitful for your goals.
Because I knew how time-consuming it would be to write thorough citations that fit the needs of specific publications, I set out some criteria to optimize both my time and ROI (in this case, acquiring backlinks):
1. Build links to only two of my websites: luanaspinetti.com and mama.luana.me
2. Only answer queries related to my niches (Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Motherhood)
3. Only respond to inquiries from online publications that will—or are likely to—credit experts with a backlink
Applying these criteria greatly reduced my email workload and helped me focus my gambling database efforts on delivering quality contributions to a smaller number of publications.
As for the best time of day to answer queries, I did my best to do it in the morning so that I could tackle each query with a fresh mind and better ability to concentrate on the task at hand.
It wasn't always possible due to deadlines, but I managed to do it about 40% of the time.
I used two things to track the results of my HARO link building experiment: SEOptimer and a good old-fashioned spreadsheet.
1. SEO Optimizer
SEOptimer helped me monitor the inbound backlinks I got from HARO.
(Doing this manually would have been overkill!)
I added both of my domains to the monitoring tool and SEOptimer did the rest.