Whether you’re a business, a brand or a blogger you need a way to find relevant blogs. Ideally, you want to be able to rank them by influence and reach and keep track of your interactions with the bloggers.
Previously I wrote about the Blog Outreach Management tool Group High, but that solution is only suitable for large agencies and brands because of the high cost. (Originally $3000 per user per year; more recently I’ve been told $7500-$10,000 per user per year.)
Inkybee does everything Group High does starting at only $79 per month (or get 2 free months if you pay for a year). Their maximum cost is $249 per month. See their pricing tab for full details.
Their database is currently smaller, but growing rapidly. I add blogs daily and provide additional information to ensure blogs are more likely to appear in searches done by others.
This video shows me actually using Inkybee:
Video Highlights:- Search for blogs by keyword
- Search results show approximate traffic and engagement levels
- Adding blogs to your list pulls in additional metrics automatically
- Location
- Audience
- Engagement
- Posts per week
- Days since last post (easily remove inactive blogs without even visiting them)
- Inbound links
- Twitter followers
- Facebook friends
- mozRank
- Page Authority (PA)
- Domain Authority (DA)
- Click on blog details to check boxes to indicate interactions with blogs and add notes which are automatically data and time stamped.
- Create a campaign to instantly see how your outreach is coming. Visually see:
- Number of blogs targeted
- Blogs engaged with and %
- Blogs reached out to with percentage
- Published posts for that campaign
- Export PDF relationship reports and Campaign reports in your choice of PDF, csv or Excel file.
Inkybee is the solution I personally use to keep track of bloggers by niche. Using it I find the experts and collaborators I invite into our Blogger Mastermind group and list on our Trello resources boards.
If you watch the video you’ll know how Inkybee works. You can sign up for their free trial using my Inkybee referral link. And remember, you can always ask me for personal assistance via Skype (username growmap). Anything I don’t know I can ask founder Hugh Anderson at Forth Metrics.
Gail Gardner
Well that”s another really cool tool Gail so thanks for the demonstration in the video. I got a lot more information through you showing us so I definitely appreciate that.
As you know from our conversation the other day I intend to step it up more this year although I”ve definitely gotten a slow start. This might come in handy for just that so ”ll look into doing the trial period so I can try it out.
Thanks again Gail and hope you”re enjoying your weekend.
~Adrienne
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That’s really great to find blog and bloggers of your kind. I am really eager to use this Inkybee. Thank you so much for the awareness.
I didn’t even know InkyBee was a thing. Sounds super handy actually – finding worthwhile blogs in your niche can be a little bit like a needle in a haystack. Will check it out, via your referral link. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, Jeff. That is greatly appreciated. I work very hard to share what others’ need and it is good to be rewarded.
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No worries – I know how it goes. It’s nice to get positive feedback on the work you do!
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That’s really great to find blog and bloggers of your kind. I am really eager to use this Inkybee. Thank you so much for the awareness.
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Searching for my blog niches manually hard and takes time to do it. At least I have found Inkybee identifies a new blog and adds it to my lists. Thanks to you, I have bump into your great review plus the tutorial.
great post..some of your points are very important..i m impressed ..very good..
Hi Varun,
I approved your comment because it doesn’t appear to be spam (no other instances found in search), but you need to know that comments like this are typically deleted as spam. When you comment you should include something unique from the post so that the blogger knows you actually read it.
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Now this is a new tool to me. I’m in the process of creating (read: outsourcing) my first infographic so I’ll be needing an outreach tool very soon. I’ve looked at Group High (far too expensive) or manually finding bloggers and using Buzzstream for contact but this solution seems to tick all the boxes. More investigation required on my part I think!
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Pretty interesting tool. I’m glad it incorporates the domain rank and inbound link count. Otherwise it wouldn’t anywhere near as useful. Will be checking it out!
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Inkybee would be very useful to multi niche blog wonders to find lot of blogs related to their niche. I’m gonna use the trial version now.
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Hello Gail,
Wonderful post! I wasn’t aware of this new inkybee which seems very awesome for finding relevant sites.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the information, very useful post for me. Finding relevant blogs are sometimes not that easy.
This is very useful article. It does help people who are doing business as well as to keep track with what are the blog being posted. thanks for it.
I agree with idev – i cant stand people who just spin content, takes the mickey out of us who invest a lot of our time in to writing fully unique content!
Good post
Forgot to mention – fiverr is absolutely full of people claiming to write unique content, but they arent… So steer clear!
Thats really good to find this blog very useful post.if you have a business, a brand or a blogger you need a way to find relevant blogs. you want to be able to rank them by influence and reach and keep track of your interactions with the bloggers.
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That’s really great to find blog and bloggers of your kind. I am really eager to use this Inkybee. Thank you so much for the awareness.
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How nice that your advice here can save businesses a significant amount of money, Gail. Would love to know how brands and PR firms are currently doing outreach, as in, what their preferred tools are, what their first steps look like for a typical campaign. I have a funny feeling a lot of them aren’t making the most of the tools available to them. You’re aware of my main pain point on this outreach issue.
Hi Alex,
PR firms are mostly doing this manually. Some have found GroupHigh. Others use Inkybee. Many more don’t have any idea what they’re doing yet. It is up to the bloggers they reach to educate them as the “mom blogs” have about ‘PR friendly’. Those bloggers have made a clear distinction between offering a post idea and asking for a post about a business.
It is still early days for all of this. PR agencies would prefer that bloggers publish for free, but given the time and experience it takes to create an influential blog they will find that increasingly difficult.
They would do well to investigate both Inkybee and PostJoint as those are the most efficient methods for now. There could be others I haven’t see yet, but these two I use daily.
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I am not in the favor of PR firms actually. Because many of the PR firms are use the same content and spin it twice and published in various sites. It’s just increase the spam nothing else I believe. 🙂
Finding blogs is very easy if you know Google searching operators. You can easily get the blogs you are intersted in. Inkbee can be beneficial but a little bit.
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Yes u r right iDEv , I’m agree with your post because PR Firm are use the same content and spin twice and published in various sites