Should You Pitch Bloggers for Backlinks? |

July 13, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 6 minutes read

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Successful bloggers cold pitch emails as a semi-popular strategy.

I advise against cold pitching.

What strategy *works*?

Any strategy yields backlinks eventually.

Successful bloggers tailor personalized pitches to up their response rate.

I admire mindful pros.

Asking strangers can yield positive responses if you personalize the approach.

But should you pitch strangers for backlinks?

Should you ask bloggers for opportunities?

No.

I guide bloggers to build assets not a job.

Pitching strangers is a job.

Trading time for money is a job.

The last module of my online course for scoring high level backlinks poses the question:

Should you pitch bloggers to get the job done?

I do not suggest taking this route.

Feel free to do it. Ask bloggers for links if it feels good to you.

But I advise most bloggers not to do it for a simple reason.

Blog posts never sleep.

Blog posts beam themselves into the online world 24-7, 365. Established bloggers see blog posts. Impressed established bloggers link to credible blog posts while you:

sleep
vacation
enjoy time with the family
work online

Interview Request

Two weeks ago I received an interview request.

I opened my gmail to check out the invite.

After playing email volleyball (two volleys) I completed the interview form.

The post went live two days ago.

I received another quality backlink.

What does this prove?

The power of content wins again.

I ask no one for backlinks. But 70,000 plus backlinks point to Blogging From Paradise Dot Com based on:

nearly 700 long form, detailed blog posts
thousands of genuine blog comments
my loyal blogger friend network built through heartfelt blogger outreach

I publish content, drop authentic comments and help successful bloggers without asking for anything in return.

Successful bloggers point backlinks to Blogging From Paradise Dot Com around the clock based on my content, comments and blogging buddies.

Backlinks point to my blog:

organically
passively
24-7, 365

I built my blog to achieve freedom from time and location not to perch over an inbox pitching strangers.

Convincing uninterested people does not make sense for those hellbent on being free from time and location. Manipulating strangers makes little sense if targeted blog posts actively find people who want the content. For one positive reply you get 50 negative replies. Do you get that time back? Would publishing content, comments and building strong bonds with pro bloggers make greater sense?

Nobody Gets Wasted Time Back

Picture this scenario.

You cold pitch 50 bloggers daily.

Two bloggers agree to link to your blog.

At day’s end, two backlinks for 10 hours of work feels like a poor trade off.

I have a better approach.

Consistently publish blog posts, comments and engage in genuine blogger outreach. Perhaps you get no backlinks today, tomorrow or even this month. But something positive happens. Successful bloggers see your content. Genuine blog comments and generous blogging friends point pros to your detailed, long form blog posts.

Ten bloggers point do follow links to your blog next month.

Every second of blogging work you did last month and this month paid a solid return of ten backlinks next month.

Twenty five bloggers drop backlinks to your blog during month number three.

The number mushrooms to 200 backlinks during month number four.

By year’s end, two thousand passive, organic backlinks point to your blog. You asked no one for links. You wasted no time begging pro bloggers for links. Building your blog into a backlink-generating asset handed the legwork to your blog.

Create and connect.

Let your blog posts and blogging friends drive backlinks.

Enjoy freedom from time and location.

Think like an entrepreneur not an employee.

My Issue with Cold Pitching Bloggers

How many hours do bloggers waste trying to score ten backlinks by trying to personally convince bloggers when content does the job passively? How long does it take to score one thousand backlinks with cold pitches? Pros waste thousands of hours to score hundreds of links. I spent those hours circling the globe because my content scores my 70,000 plus backlinks. I invested thousands of hours towards writing detailed content, dropping genuine comments and building strong blogging relationships.

Investing time compounds success.

Wasting time pisses it away.

Either you experience freedom from time and location by building your blog into an asset or you lose time stuck at one location chasing strangers who rarely want to link to your blog.

For every 1,000 bloggers who never read your pitch email you need to create 20 detailed, targeted, long form blog posts generating 10,000 backlinks over the next few years *while you sleep, enjoy time offline or work online.*

Invest 30 hours to write 20 posts that generate backlinks for you.

Stop wasting 30 hours attempting to convince strangers with your intimately efforts.

Build a blog to do the work for you.

Stop doing the work blogs handle effectively.

Blog posts do not:

breathe
eat
sleep

but you do.

What No Traditional Backlink Builder Tells You

Every blogger who pitches strangers “assumes” a positive reply.

Detailed blog posts make a beeline for bloggers who organically link to your blog.

Assuming wastes thousands of hours.

Take the guess work out of blogging.

Publish irresistible content guaranteed to find pros who cannot help but link to the detailed resources.

Detailed blog posts, genuine blog comments and blogging friends find bloggers who want to point links to your blog.

What would it feel like to make your own schedule as pre-qualified bloggers drop links to your blog passively?

The emotion seems alien to outreach specialists who trade time, work, blood, sweat and tears for a few backlinks.

Chasing strangers with your personal efforts make no sense when creating content, comments and bonds influences credible bloggers to link to your blog passively.

Traditional backlinks builders never stress this point: assuming positive replies results in weeks’ worth of wasted motion cumulatively.

None tell it like it is: you will lose 10 hours a day pitching bloggers who never see your email because it finds the spam folder.

Does this strategy sound effective?

Is It a Mistake to Pitch Bloggers for Backlinks?

Technically, no.

But pitching strangers wastes most of your time because the return becomes anemic.

I’ll give you an example from earlier today.

A blogger addressed me by name. He used “Hi Ryan” in the subject line.

He was the first blogger in 100 plus blind pitch emails to use my name. Kudos to him.

I clicked his link.

He processed to ask for my email address to give me what he promised to give me for free.

Bye-bye my friend.

He sprinted to 10 feet before the finish line before falling flat on his face.

The ego CANNOT help it self.

Email: “Hi Ryan, I will give you all of this awesome content for free. No strings attached.”

Squeeze Page: “Enter your email to get all of this awesome content for free. STRINGS ATTACHED!”

I deleted his email. I will mark the inevitable follow up as spam because he is a nice guy but lied to me.

Give me the free content straight up like you promised to earn my trust. Do not break your promise by asking for my email address because you never explicitly asked for my email address in the pitch email. I’d have never wasted time opening the link if you did.

Even fairly smart cold pitching bloggers mess up in the end.

Now do you see why you should never cold pitch bloggers for backlinks?

I had to work consistently to build my blog.

But now my blog works for me.

Build your blog into a backlink generating asset.

Stop pitching.

Enjoy freedom from time and location.

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