% of the time you find email addresses - broken link building

[BobGW]

Hello,

What percentage of the time do you find an exact email address of the person to contact when doing broken link building?

And what do you do if you can't find an email address?

Always interested in more tools if I need them, my last post here brought out several good tools.

Thank you.

[SEODinosaur]

You can always use who.is to find out who the site is registered to I also remember this question being asked in the past: http://www.seomoz.org/q/finding-specific-name-to-send-email-to-broken-link-building

[TheSEODR]

To report broken links, you will usually want to report this to a webmaster. So if you are unable to find their email address you can always try standard email address formats.

For example, if you find a broken link on brokelink.com, try emailing to webmaster@brokelink.com or postmaster@brokelink.com. You can even try to contact someone for general inquires so they can forward your email to the right person or give you the correct email address. To do this (using the example above), I would try info@brokelink.com or admin@brokelink.com

If you are able to spot a name on the website but can't find their corresponding email address, you can use a combination of Rapportive and this custom google doc - bit.ly/name2email -  to help you discover the correct email address. Here is the blog post on Distilled where this idea was derived - http://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anybodys-email-address/

[BobGW]

So for broken link building, what's an algorithm?:

Like

1. Look for webmaster contact info

2. try whois

3. email webmaster@site.com

4. email admin@site.com and info@site.com

The above (1) - (4) are just an example. What do you recommend?

[SEODinosaur]

I would recommend doing whatever it takes to find the contact information. Also take a look at these two articles they will help you:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/broken-link-building-guide-from-noob-to-novice

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/outreach-letters-for-link-building-real-examples-14902