05 September 2026
Original-data assets earn 3.2x more links per outreach hour than skyscraper rewrites We compared two link-bait formats across 120 campaigns (n=120, 6-month window). — Skyscraper (longer/better version…
04 September 2026
Email finders disagree on 29% of contacts — and pick the wrong one 11% of the time We ran 500 contacts through three finders and verified against confirmed addresses (n=500). — Tool A valid-and-correc…
03 September 2026
Tool-assisted prospecting is 6x faster but lifts reply rate only 0.4 points We timed two operators building 200-prospect lists (n=4 list builds, paired). — Manual SERP-scraping: 4.2 hours per 200 pros…
02 September 2026
Profiles at 100% dofollow rank worse than those holding ~22% nofollow We binned 300 ranking URLs by their referring-domain follow ratio (n=300, top-20 positions). — Pages averaging 78-82% dofollow: me…
01 September 2026
HARO-style sourcing converts at 8.4% vs 2.1% for cold outreach Sample: 1,200 cold emails and 600 journalist-request pitches, same operator, same quarter (n=1,800). — Cold outreach reply rate: 2.1% — R…
31 August 2026
Ahrefs surfaces 31% more referring domains than Semrush on the same target We cross-checked backlink exports for 40 mid-DR domains (n=40, pulled same-day Q1). — Ahrefs median referring domains: 1,840 …
