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65%
65% -- outreach response rate increase from follow up email for link building outreach emails (2025)
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65%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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75
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Backlinko
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10 Link Building Strategies to Grow Your Small Business
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10 Link Building Strategies to Grow Your Small Business
Link building has come a long way since the early days of SEO. Webmasters no longer have to stuff their pages with keywords, buy thousands of low-quality links, and watch their sites soar to the top of search results. Today, link bui…
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link building outreach emails: 65% outreach response rate increase from follow up email. Source: Backlinko (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/follow-up-email-response-increase-65
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/follow-up-email-response-increase-65" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>65%</strong> -- outreach response rate increase from follow up email for link building outreach emails<br><small>Source: Backlinko (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/follow-up-email-response-increase-65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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