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Spent 6 hours building outreach lists last week, zero replies
I manually scraped 200 blog owners from my niche in home renovation using Ahrefs and built personalized emails for each one. Not a single response after 7 days, even the low authority sites ignored me. Turns out half those sites were dead or the contact forms were broken. Anyone else have better luck with automated scraper tools or should I just buy a list next time?
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abbyg1428d ago
Scraping with Hunter.io got me a 5% reply rate on home decor blogs.
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juliag1028d ago
Buying a list is honestly a bad move, those things are full of outdated contacts and people who never asked to hear from you lol. Hunter.io works okay but you gotta double check the emails yourself or the bounce rate kills your domain reputation. Dead sites and broken forms are just part of the grind, automating the verification step is what makes the real difference.
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