Manual Link Outreach Specialist — Gift Guides & Blogger Outreach for Jewelry Brand (White-Hat)

We're a US personalized-jewelry DTC brand (Shopify) hiring a careful, honest outreach operator for legitimate, manual, editorial link outreach. Strategy, target priorities, pitch angles, and quality control are handled internally — your job is clean execution. Start small, grow on proof: 10 hours/week maximum at $8–$10/hour to begin. If the first 4–6 weeks show clean methods and real placements, hours can grow. If you need a package model or high-volume link promises to make this work, please don't apply. You will: Research and qualify outreach prospects (gift guides, lifestyle/fashion blogs, jewelry editorial, mom/family sites, memorial and community resources) against our written criteria Send personalized, one-to-one pitches from our approved angles (no mass templates, no automation blasts) Run polite follow-ups and keep a complete tracking sheet (prospect, contact, date, pitch, status) Verify every placement: live URL, date, how it was earned, screenshot, and the email thread We provide: the strategy, priority clusters, pitch angles, brand assets, and fast answers. You are not responsible for SEO strategy — we own it. STRICT PROHIBITED METHODS — automatic contract termination: PBNs or "our network of sites" · link farms · mass guest-post packages · DA/DR backlink packages · bulk link insertions · automated outreach spam · directories, profile links, or comment links sold as SEO · reciprocal/link-exchange schemes · Fiverr-style backlink bundles · undisclosed paid placements. If a site openly sells posts, it is not a placement for us. A valid placement = a live, indexable, genuinely editorial page on a real site with a real audience, relevant to jewelry/gifting/lifestyle (or our niche clusters), earned through your pitch — not purchased — with our link appearing naturally in editorial context, fully documented. Relevant nofollow placements on real publications count; junk dofollow does not. First-month deliverables (10 hrs/week): Week 1: a 30-prospect qualified list with relevance notes + 10 pitch drafts for approval Weeks 2–4: 10–15 personalized pitches/week from the approved set, follow-up log, weekly tracking-sheet update, and full placement verification records Target: 1–3 valid placements by week 4, or a demonstrably warm pipeline How we'll judge weeks 2–4: pitch personalization quality (spot-checked), reply rate on personalized outreach, prospect-list accuracy against our criteria, valid placements with full verification, zero prohibited methods, and reliable communication. To apply — required (applications missing any of these are declined): Begin your proposal with the word GIFTGUIDE so we know you read this Include 2–3 live URLs of editorial placements you personally earned (not directories, not your own sites) Paste the actual pitch email that earned one of them One or two lines on any e-commerce/DTC, jewelry, fashion, lifestyle, or gifting niche experience Confirm you accept $8–$10/hour and a maximum of 10 hours/week to start