Multiscraper Outreach


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The Multiscraper campaign takes advantage of Postaga’s Ahrefs integration, enabling you to build a Skyscraper campaign quicker and easier than ever. (learn how to set up the Ahrefs <> Postaga integration here).

The Multiscraper approach Postaga takes is also often called “Shotgun skyscraper technique”, made famous by Authority Hacker.

If you’re familiar with the Skyscraper Technique campaign, Multiscraper Campaigns are the next level!  

One challenge of doing Skyscraper campaigns is that sometimes you come across websites that only have 5 or 10 backlinks, and you don’t want to spend the time building an outreach campaign just for that one post because it’s not worth the time.

Now, you don’t need to worry about that.

Inside of a single Postaga Multiscraper Campaign, you can simultaneously run many Skyscraper campaigns at once!

Related: Video – Multiscraper Technique

Here is how you get started.

Creating a Campaign

First, we create a new campaign and choose the Multiscraper campaign type.

(If you have not done so yet, first you will need to link your Ahrefs account to Postaga first by going here and clicking the button to connect your Ahrefs account).

Related: Setting up the Ahrefs and Postaga integration

Postaga Campaign Types - Multiscraper

Next, you are going to enter in your blog post URL and click Analyze Your Post.

your post url postaga automated skyscraper link building technique
 
 
 

Your Post

In this section, Postaga shows your analyzed post, with any additional custom post merge fields that you’ve added.

Postaga will pre-fill any information it finds in your post. You can also click on any given text box field and edit the value.

Postaga campaign post meta information

These fields are important for your campaign because we can use them later as merge fields in our outreach emails. 

The data in these fields can be pulled into your emails wherever you have the appropriate merge field. As an example, if your post title is set to “Great Blog Post” and you have a sentence in your email “Check out this post: {{post_title}},” Postaga will swap in “Great Blog Post” where the {{post_title}} merge tag exists in the email, making the final output, “Check out this post: Great Blog Post.”

These post related fields (and their corresponding merge variables) include:

  • Post Title (post_title) = your blog post title
  • Post Site (post_site) = your website name
  • Post Search Keyword (post_keyword) = your target keyword
  • Post Category (post_category) = your blog post’s category
  • Author Name (post_author) = Author of your blog post

Below these, we also have post related fields for any custom merge fields that we may have created. You can create your own post merge fields in Settings.

Next, you will search for websites and blogs to target for your Multiscraper Skyscraper campaign by entering a keyword in the search bar and clicking the search button. 

Advanced search operator in Postaga to find search results

At this stage, also worh noting: you have a lot of options for search parameters with our advanced search operators.

As an example, you can search specifically for blog posts originally published several years ago. 

searching for outreach targets in postaga multiscraper skyscraper technique outreach campaign

Pro tip: In addition, you can also conduct multiple searches, so if you want to add another search keyword and find different websites to target, you can do that as well.

As you scroll through the search results, you can evaluate each one by clicking on the Get Ahrefs Stats button.

Search results in a multiscraper link building outreach campaign in Postaga, which lets you automatically run a skyscraper technique outreach campaign targeting multiple websites at once

This will give you information on when the article was first published, and an estimate of how many websites with a domain authority (DA) above 25 are linking to it.

Search result in a multiscraper link building outreach campaign in Postaga, integrating with Ahrefs to find stats and relevant data on the target website, including how many links they have with a domain authority (DA) above 25, and when the article was published

In general, the rule with a Skyscraper campaign is “the more backlinks the better”.

But, with Postaga’s Multiscraper campaign, you can easily target many different websites for your campaign, so it’s not any extra work to target a website that only has a few backlinks.

select websites automated skyscraper - multiscraper outreach

Once you are happy with the target websites you have selected, you can click the Analyze Targets button at the bottom of the page.

target results automated skyscraper postaga

At this stage, you can remove any links of websites that you do not want to reach out to.

By clicking the red X, you can exlcude those websites, and you also have the option to blacklist the domains if you want to exclude them from future campaigns as well.

Backlinks

When you are happy with these results, you can click the Analyze Backlinks button at the bottom of this section.

Next, Postaga will find the best contacts at each of these websites.

Links

Postaga will then give you a list of the links to the websites you selected, along with a target contact for each website. 

Finding the right contact people at websites in Postaga

Here, you have options for Basic Configuration and Advanced Configuration.

First, let’s review Basic Configuration.

Postaga will automatically try and find the best fit contact for each website.

As an example, for a blog post, that will usually mean the author of that post. Otherwise, Postaga will look for its determination of the next best-fit contact.

You can review each website and contact by clicking the "1 link" button, on a specific contact, which will then show you the target contact for that website.

The First Name, Last Name, and Site/Company fields are all editable.

Contact finding in Postaga links section

If you would like to search for a different contact, Postaga can help there too.

If you see a + symbol next to the website, you can click it, and you will get results of other contacts at the website that you can choose from. Then, if you click the Use Contact button, you can select that contact.

finding contacts in Postaga

Next, there’s Advanced Configuration.

In Advanced Configuration, you are presented with every merge field for the website, including custom merge fields. You can fill these boxes if you want, or do that later.

link advanced configuration in postaga campaign creation

Once you are satisfied, click the Get Contacts button.

Now, you will see the contacts.

Postaga campaign outreach contacts

On the left side of the screen, next to each contact, is a checkbox. With the box selected, that individual contact will be added to your email sequence.

Though you will see email addresses for each contact, some information may not be available, such as name, company, position, social media handles, or any custom contact merge fields.

If you would like, you can supplement that information and add that to contacts by filling it in the appropriate text boxes.

Also, you can edit existing contact information text boxes. As an example, if the Company Name returned is Acme Company, Inc., but you want to just refer to the company in merge tags as Acme, you can edit that field as needed.

Next to each email address found is a numerical contact score. This indicated how confident we are that the email address is accurate. If the contact score shows as red, you can click the score to bring up a validator and try to validate the email through Mailgun.

To the right of each contact are icons for Twitter, Linkedin, the original link, and a few other key pages at that contact’s website.

If a Twitter handle is provided , clicking the Twitter icon will load up a default tweet, presuming you are already logged into Twitter. Otherwise, it will perform a Google search for the Twitter handle of the contact.

If a LinkedIn url is found clicking the LinkedIn icon will load the contact’s LinkedIn profile. Connecting with a contact on LinkedIn before emailing can be a great way to increase response rates. If a LinkedIn url is not provided, clicking the icon will perform a Google search for the contact’s LinkedIn profile.

Clicking the link icon will take you to the original link.

You can also toggle between Basic Configuration and Advanced Configuration to make edits to all available merge fields.

Once you are satisfied with the outreach contacts, you can move onto editing the email sequence.

Email Sequence

Next, you will choose an email sequence for your contacts. 

Postaga campaign email sequence

Email sequences available to you will include any sequences that you created and assigned to this particular campaign type, sequences assigned to “any” campaign, as well as template sequences created by Postaga.

Once you select a sequence from the drop-down menu, you will see the sequence laid out on the screen.  

If you are not happy with the sequence, you can always modify the sequence by going to Sequences in another window by clicking the edit button to the right of the selected sequence. Then, you can edit the sequence, save it, and then reload the sequence section in you campaign by clicking the Load Sequence Changes box below the sequence.

Related Help Doc: Sequences

Email Preview

Next, you will see an email preview section with the email templates of the sequence you selected.

Postaga campaign email preview

On the left side of the page are the list of emails as well as contacts who will receive each email. If you click on a specific contact as well as a specific email, you will see that email as it will send to that specific contact in the preview pane on the right side of the page.

If there are merge fields used in your email template, they will fill with the supplied information in the preview pane.

However, you may also see merge tags in red. If you see red merge tags, it means that Postaga does not have data for these merge fields. You can always go back and provide that information to see how the revised email will look with the new information.

postaga campaign email preview red merge field

Alternatively, you can edit the email by clicking the edit icon to the right of the email, then clicking the Load Email Changes button to see how the revised email will look. Any changes here will affect the template, and therefore, every message using that email template.

It should be noted that red merge tags do not show up in outreach emails. If there are any red merge tags when you send out your campaign, they will disappear from the outreach email and your contact will not see anything where the merge tags would have been.

You can overwrite individual emails in this section as well. To do so, just hover over the email, and you will see the screen darken and an edit icon appear. This will let you edit an individual email in the sequence, related to the contact that is highlighted in the left side of the screen.

Once you click the edit button, a modal window will pop up, allowing you to edit that unique email.

email overwrite in postaga campaign

One cool feature to note here is that you can insert unique snippets to your personalized email. For example, let's say you want to mention something specific on your contact's website that you appreciated. Postaga's AI pulls mention-worthy snippets from your contact's post or URL, so you can paste it in your message. 

email snippets in postaga

Once you are happy with the edits you have made, click the Save Email Overwrite to save the individual email, or Close to undo any changes.

To send a test email, click the Test Email button below the email in the preview pane. Then, enter the email address for the test and click send.

Rules and Scheduling

Next, you will set the rules and schedule for your email.

Postaga campaign scheduling and rules

The Schedule button has a checkbox option. If you select it, you will be able to schedule your sequence to run at a given day and time. If not selected, the sequence will run as soon as you click the Launch button at the end of this campaign screen.

If you select a schedule, click the text box under Start Date to select a start date and time.

Below the schedule button is a Testing Mode button. If selected, the email sequence will send all the emails to your test email address, but not your actual target recipients. This is generally used for situations where you want to confirm what emails people will receive, though you can also do this in the Email Preview section.

There is also a Send on Weekends option that you can select. If it is not selected, your email sequences will only send on Monday through Friday; any emails that would have been scheduled to send on a weekend day will send on the first following weekday (e.g. if scheduled for a Saturday or Sunday but “Send on Weekends” is not selected, it will send on Monday).

There is also a rule for Stop on Reply. If selected, the sequence will stop for a specific recipient if they reply to any of your emails. For example, if I have an email sequence with 5 emails, and a recipient responds to my 2nd email in the sequence, the sequence will stop for them and they will not receive emails 3, 4, or 5.

Track Opens lets you know if your email opens are being tracked. If you have configured your Postaga account fully, this should say “Opens are automatically tracked.”

Schedule and Launch

With your campaign created, it’s time to launch your campaign.

Postaga campaing launch

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