Antonio Gabrić

I help people write cold emails that convert 🚀 | Marketing @ Hunter.io

Hey! I'm Antonio. I help SaaS companies grow their brand's presence and revenue with outbound marketing.

Building backlinks that move the needle is hard. Here's how I can help you:

- Set up hyper-personalized and automated link building outreach campaigns
- Build contextual backlinks from relevant DR70+ domains at scale
- Get your brand featured on Hubspot, Zapier, Wordstream, and more
- List your brand in high-traffic listicles (top X tools)
- Grow your brand's presence, authority, and revenue

Why me?

- Grew Hunter's organic monthly sessions from 100k to 300k
- Built semi-automated processes for effective link building (7,000+ referring domains in 2 years)
- Sent tailored outreach campaigns with 12% conversion rates
- Featured on industry-leading websites such as Hubspot, Zapier, Wordstream, and many more
- Managing a Slack community with over 100 active SaaS link builders (SERanking, Toptal, Hubspot, and others)

Ready to leverage link building to grow your SaaS into a multi-million dollar success?

🔔 I'll be posting SEO and cold email case studies – so hit that "Follow" button! 

Cheers,
Antonio.

Outreach Manager

Some of the current responsibilities and achievements:

- leading the link building at Hunter
- establishing and reworking processes
- hiring freelancers
- managing a team of link builders and writers
- running a Slack community of amazing link builders
- experimenting with different outreach approaches
- managing affiliate program approvals
- working with influencers
- ensuring Hunter is featured on most authority industry-relevant websites consistently
- increasing organic traffic by 78%

I’m looking for 20 people to join an exclusive SEO partnership circle.

The vibe: 
✅ Real SaaS brands only (No PBNs/Farms)
✅ High-authority guest post collabs (Zapier, Moz, G2, and more)
✅ Editor intros & networking 
✅ Bi-monthly "Win/Fail" syncs
✅ Weekly catch-ups to discuss new strategies and tactics

If you’re tired of shouting into the void and want a small community of peers to grow with, this is for you.

The keyword: "Value".

Comment "SaaS" below, and I'll send you the details.

(I'll go through all comments and messages. But, I'll just respond to people who meet the criteria (e.g., not interested in resellers, agencies, etc.))

Marketing @ Hunter.io | Author on Moz, Zapier, G2 & 50+ top industry sites | Writing on SEO, content marketing, B2B sales & lead generation

Only 1 in 20 cold emails gets a reply.

My colleague Ziemek Bućko did a fantastic job analyzing 31 million emails and pulling this report together. I went through the findings and pulled the 14 stats that actually move the needle.

Some of these surprised me:
→ Turning off open tracking increases reply rates by 68% 
→ Emailing 21–50 people outperforms blasting 500+ by 158% 
→ 3 follow-ups double replies. 4+ kills them. 
→ LinkedIn is now the preferred channel for 50.5% of decision makers

Cold email isn't dead. Lazy cold email is.

The full breakdown is in the carousel 👇

Drop your biggest takeaway in the comments. Curious what resonates most.

(Full report link in the comments)

Email outreach stats

If someone told me you could win $1,000 by writing one email, I'd have laughed.

Which means most people reading this won't bother entering.

Less competition for you.

Messaging Madness 2026: entries close tomorrow, March 10. 

Write one outreach email based on a real scenario. It goes into a public bracket, head-to-head voting rounds, until one winner takes $1,000.

I'm judging one of the 4 scenarios myself.

10 minutes to write. $1,000 to win.

Full details + entry form below

Messaging Madness 2026

Can you write an email worth $1,000? Let’s find out.

Messaging Madness 2026 is officially back. 🎉

Last year, we launched an experiment: a bracket-style tournament to find the world’s best outreach. We saw thousands of votes and one undeniable truth: the "spray and pray" era is dead.

This year, the stakes are higher, the scenarios are tougher, and the philosophy has shifted.

From "Cold" to "Outreach"

In 2025, we called it a cold email competition. We were wrong.

Looking at the winning entries, none of them felt "cold." When you research a prospect and understand their pain so deeply that your message lands at the exact right moment, that’s not an intrusion. That’s a solution.

The theme for 2026: 

Turning a cold lead into a warm conversation through human-to-human connection.

How the Messaging Madness works:

Pick your scenario: Choose one of four specific prompts.
Write your email: Craft the perfect initial outreach.
The Selection: Our judges pick the Top 64 entries.
The Bracket: You go head-to-head in 6 rounds of public voting.

What we learned from the 2025 winners (@anne kar:

Relevance > Cleverness: "Smart" copy loses to "helpful" copy every time.

Length is a myth: Value-packed 200-word emails beat generic 50-word ones.

Be Human: If you sound like an AI template, you’ve already lost.

🏆 The Prize:

The "Follow-up 4" (Semi-finalists) all get a year of Hunter’s Starter plan.
The Champion takes home $1,000 cash.

📅 The Key Dates:

Entry Deadline: March 10

Bracket Announcement: March 16

First Round Voting: March 17

Stop sending spam. Start writing outreach that actually gets a reply.

I’m dropping the link to the scenarios and the entry form in the comments below. 👇

Anna York

SEO meets AI | 10x Your Brand's Success with Proven Tactics 📈 | Follow ➡️ for actionable How-to guides!

SEO used to be about keywords.

Now it’s about infrastructure.

AI is everywhere.

Prompts. Tools. Automations. Content at scale.

But most teams are still operating without a system connecting demand, decisions, execution, and feedback.

So AI feels powerful yet chaotic.
Content volume increases but growth doesn’t compound.
Experiments happen but nothing scales.

Because AI is being used as a tool.

Not as an operating layer.

Infrastructure means growth that runs without constant manual intervention.

That’s what I build.

I architect AI-powered SEO systems that turn organic growth into a self-improving engine.

Not isolated workflows.
Not scattered automations.

AI agents that continuously:

• Identify real search demand
• Prioritize based on business impact
• Orchestrate production across channels
• Feed performance data back into strategy

That feedback loop is what compounds.

That’s not automation.

That’s architecture.

As Founder of Growth Architecture Studio, I help founders and marketing teams move from scattered AI experimentation to a production-ready SEO engine in 3 weeks.

No hacks.
No generic prompt libraries.
No “AI for the sake of AI.”

Just systems designed to scale without adding headcount.

Over the past 9+ years, I’ve worked with startups, scale-ups, and enterprise teams, partnering with platforms like Semrush, Ahrefs, Pipedrive, AIOSEO, and Weglot.

Named one of LinkedIn’s Top 12 AI Voices to Follow.

AI is accessible to everyone.

Infrastructure isn’t.

If you’re ready to turn AI into leverage — not noise —
let’s build the system behind your growth.

Member

"Brand30" is a 30-day challenge designed to help you create a personal brand on LinkedIn.

If you’re still celebrating ranking #1 on Google…

You might already be invisible.

Last quarter, a brand ranked #1.

Traffic still dropped.

Why?

Because one keyword now activates 4 visibility layers:

🔹 AI Overviews answering the query directly
🔹 Paid ads dominating above the fold
🔹 Maps capturing high-intent searches
🔹 Organic pushed further down

Ranking #1 ≠ Owning search anymore.

Search has shifted from SEO…
to full Search Experience Optimization.

Most brands optimize one layer.

The smart ones dominate all 4.

That’s exactly why I created an AI-Visible Playbook.

It breaks down:

• How to appear in AI Overviews
• How to protect organic CTR
• How to structure content for AI + SEO
• How to expand visibility beyond rankings

📩 Link in the comments


P.S. For deep Google Business Profile (GMB) strategy, I recommend following my colleague Mike Forgie. He’s a true specialist in that space.


P. P.S. Once you see the graphic with Google Maps, it becomes pretty clear it’s not Generative Engine Optimization. 
Even SEOs should take a day off from acronyms sometimes. 😉 💙

SEO meets AI | LinkedIn Top 12 AI Voice to follow in Europe | Practical guides

Meta is hiring an SEO Strategy Manager for $152K–$213K!

Let that sink in.

One of the most advanced tech companies
…is investing heavily in SEO.

But SEO today isn’t just Google.

It’s everywhere people search.

TikTok → discovery 
YouTube → tutorials 
Reddit → opinions 
Google → answers 
LinkedIn → expertise 
Instagram → inspiration 
X → real-time insights 
Amazon → product research 
Pinterest → ideas


Because people don’t just Google anymore.
They search everywhere.

The real question is:

Where are you investing in visibility right now?

Is your About page ready for the AI era? 🤖

Smart people are now optimizing for what comes next:
👉 Answer Engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.

This is where AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) comes in.

Not keyword stuffing.
Not longer copy.

But structuring your content so AI systems can clearly understand:
– who you are
– what you do
– and why you’re the right answer to trust.

Here’s the overlooked part:

Your About page is the GOLD standard for this. 🔥 

It’s the primary source AIs use to form an opinion about your brand.

So if it’s vague, fluffy, or outdated
don’t expect to be cited.

I created a detailed infographic (see below 👇) 
that breaks this into 9 practical steps.

Here’s the short version:

The 9 pillars of an AEO-optimized About page

1️⃣ Question-based title tag
“Who is [Your Company]?” instantly signals intent to AI systems.

2️⃣ 40–60 word intro
A clear, standalone summary that can be quoted as-is.

3️⃣ Proof of expertise
Years of experience, awards, recognizable clients 
→ machine-readable trust (E-E-A-T).

4️⃣ Clear USP
3–4 concrete differentiators. No buzzwords.

5️⃣ Natural subheadings (H2/H3)
Written as real user questions, not SEO artifacts.

6️⃣ FAQ block
3–5 short answers (<60 words). 
Direct fuel for AI Overviews.

7️⃣ Team & author bios
 AIs connect people, entities, and credibility.

8️⃣ Contact + social links
 Use sameAs to connect your digital footprint.

9️⃣ Structured schema (JSON-LD)
 Person, FAQPage, etc.


Pro tips most miss:
 – Link internally to your strongest content
 – Keep references up to date (stale data kills trust)


If you had to start today:
What’s the first thing you’d fix on your About page? 👇

Most brands are underestimating one major shift:

AI search is multilingual by default.

And the data proves it.

→ 56.96% of French prompts trigger at least one English query
→ 61.6% trigger two English queries
→ 60%+ of AI answers cite multiple domains

AI doesn’t:

→ Rank pages
→ Stay within one language
→ Respect local SERPs

It:

→ Fans out queries across languages
→ Retrieves from multiple markets
→ Synthesizes answers from authority signals

Which means:

Ranking #1 on Google ≠ being visible in AI answers.

If your brand isn’t selected by AI systems, you don’t exist.

The strategic questions now are:

→ Which languages should you activate first?
→ When is local-language content decisive?
→ What increases citation probability across markets?
→ How do you measure AI visibility?

Weglot, Getfluence and Ahrefs are breaking this down 
📅 LIVE in a webinar on 5th March.

Using visibility data from 75,000+ brands and 50,000+ prompts.

If you operate internationally, this is no longer optional.

AI visibility is already multilingual.

Register now.

Link here: https://lnkd.in/eE3fhD2H

Well this certainly was a pleasant surprise and made my day. 🌼 

I was just named by Conductor as 1 of the 15 AI Search and AEO Experts to Follow in 2026.

Seeing this pop up in my inbox this morning definitely put a big smile on my face.

Incredibly humbled to be included alongside so many brilliant minds shaping how search is evolving in the AI era. 🙏 

Especially right now where AI is turning search upside down. 

Now more than ever we have to question old assumptions, experiment, learn fast, and rethink how discovery actually works.


Read the full list here:  https://lnkd.in/df-T_2YG

Aleyda Solís
Andy Lambert
Anna York
Barry Schwartz
Carley Lake
Eli Schwartz
Kate Vasylenko
Kelsey Libert
Lily Ray
Patrick Reinhart
Peter Rota
Rand Fishkin
Rebecca Thorburn
Ryan Law
Steven Schneider
Vincent DeCastro

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