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I am looking for my "Flywheel" that can help me scale link building

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uBreakiFix last edited by

I am looking to scale our link building efforts to create better inner link opportunities, according to the "flywheel" method by Rand, I need to find something that is "evergreen" and creative, What are some of the coolest campaigns you guys have seen?
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Paddy_Moogan last edited by

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the question.

Here are a few couple of sources of great content / great campaigns that I usually refer to:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z2CSidq-6fxOY1YJLu-MY-DdTqWKiSL4gsuSGVC42r0/edit (curated by Rand)

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?award=2017&pcategory=winner&type=awards - very data led but naturally evergreen because you can refresh the data when new sets come out

Hopefully that helps!

Paddy
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