Got a link building question here

[BryanCroft]

I've been doing a lot of back link analysis on my competitors and noticed that a lot of links are coming from wordpress.com, blog.com, blogspot.com, etc blogs. These are free blogs in the format of http://www.username.blogplatform.com.  These individual blogs seem to have product reviews and mentions for many different products (we are an e-commerce website). I would like to know if anyone has done any outreach to the owners of the third party blogs. This looks very different from guest blogging and I want to know if there is a way to reach out to these blog owners in order for them to write something about our products.

Please let me know if anyone had any success with this, Thank you

[TommyTan]

Hi Bryan,

Does those blogs have a contact us page or any Social Media network they are participating in?  You can fill out the contact us page or reach them via social media.

Another way I see this is that might your competitor be the owner of those free blogs and simply linking back to himself?  I've seen people creating free blogs and linking to themselves as a link building tactic.  I am not sure if it works and I am planning on testing it.

[BryanCroft]

Thanks for the answer. I will look into social media network and try to contact blog owners that way. Not sure if they own bunch of blogs and link to themselves.