Link-Building Specialist — Prospect Research + Personalized Outreach (Niche Website, Ongoing)

**Overview** I run an independent U.S. electricity-comparison website and I'm looking for one reliable person to handle outreach-based link building end to end: building qualified prospect lists AND running personalized outreach to earn backlinks and guest-post placements. This is **relationship outreach to a small, relevant audience — not a mass cold-email campaign.** If your approach is blasting thousands of scraped emails, we're not a fit. If you build tight, qualified lists and write personalized, low-volume outreach that gets real replies, keep reading. **What you'll do** - Research and build qualified prospect lists: energy/utility publications, personal-finance and consumer-advice blogs, and regional U.S. business press that publish relevant content and accept contributions or expert input. - Qualify each target (genuinely relevant, real contact path, not a junk/link-farm site) — quality over quantity. - Run personalized outreach using templates and angles I provide (I write the core pitch; you personalize, send, follow up, and track). - Manage follow-ups (2 max, value-adding, well-spaced — no nagging) and triage replies, surfacing the positive ones to me. - Keep a clean tracker of targets, status, and outcomes. **You must NOT** - Send anything that isn't personalized and relevant. - Pursue links from low-quality directories, link farms, or link-exchange schemes. - Use my primary domain for outreach without setup (we'll use a separate warmed sending domain — tell me if you know how to do this). **You're a fit if you** - Have done genuine outreach-based link building (please show examples/results). - Write clear, natural English. - Understand that a high reply rate from relevant sites beats high send volume. - Are comfortable with tools like Instantly or Quickmail used for *personalized, low-volume* sequencing — not mass blasts. **Structure & pay** Flat monthly retainer. I'd like to **start with a paid 30-day trial** so we can both confirm fit, then continue monthly if it's working. Please tell me your monthly rate for roughly [X hours/week — adjust], and what's included (lists + outreach management). I provide pitch templates, target criteria, and tooling. **To apply — three quick things (applications that skip these are ignored):** 1. Describe one link-building campaign you ran and the actual results (links earned, reply rate, or placements). 2. How many outreach emails per week do you consider appropriate for *personalized* link outreach? (There's a right answer.) 3. Start your reply with the word "BACKLINK" so I know you read this. Looking forward to seeing your work.