Cold Emailing

How to Create Cold Emails for Growth in Your SEO Services (+ Template)

lemlist team
LAST UPDATED
September 2, 2024
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7 min.

Did you know SEO related cold emails have the highest open rate?

Obviously, for your cold email to be successful, you can't just rely on the SEO topic. We're bringing the best tips to craft your cold email templates for your SEO services. Buckle up.

Cold Email Fundamentals for SEO Outreach

To reach the full potential of SEO and digital marketing, it's crucial to grasp the fundamentals of cold email outreach for prospective companies.

We'll leave you with a short checklist:

  1. Understand the place cold emails hold within the digital marketing industry.
  2. Adopt the principles of successful cold email strategies that are specifically tailored to capture the interest of prospective companies.
  3. Ensure that your outreach complies with all legal and ethical email standards, maintaining the integrity of your content at all times.

By implementing these foundational practices, your cold emails will not only reach the inbox but also encourage meaningful engagement with your SEO services.

Check out this video to learn ow to set up your cold email campaign with lemlist. 👇

Craft a Cold Email Template for SEO Services

Creating an impactful sales cold email template is both an art and a science. It requires a combination of different components.
The key components of a successful template include:

  • Designing email subject lines that instantly grab attention and spark curiosity.
  • Developing concise, actionable email content that gets to the point and highlights the value of your SEO services.

With these elements in place, your cold email template will not just convey information but will compel your recipients to take action, setting the stage for a successful business relationship.

Make Your Cold Emails Personalized

Personalization is more than just a buzzword—it's a proven strategy that can significantly engage potential customers.

Now, by personalization we don't just mean including leads' names in the intro line. We mean personalized icebreakers, your leads previous work, personalized images or videos, personal details. Be creative.

With automation tools such as lemlist you can achieve high personalization on all your emails.

By tailoring messages to meet the specific needs and interests of your audience, you increase the relevance and impact of your outreach.

Sequential Email Strategies for Maximum Engagement

Engagement doesn't end with the first email.

To truly synchronize your SEO efforts with your cold email campaign, a strategic series of communications is essential.

  • Develop a cold email series that complements and reinforces your SEO objectives.
  • Identify the optimal time to send follow-up messages to maximize response rates.
  • Construct a follow-up email template that persuasively encourages further dialogue and action.

With a well-timed sequence of emails, you can keep your audience engaged and interested, leading to higher chances of conversion and successful SEO collaborations.

Use Advanced Tactics and Tools

To further enhance the effectiveness of your cold email outreach, incorporating advanced tactics and leveraging the right tools can make a substantial difference.

These tactics are some of our favourites:

  • Use storytelling and emotional triggers to create a compelling narrative that resonates with recipients.

Storytelling will make your prospect connect with you on a deeper lever.

You’re not just selling, you’re telling them who you are, what you do, and why you do it. You’re making them know you on a deeper level. This will resonate with your prospects and give you a higher level of trust.

When using emotional triggers, you’re hitting the right spot. You’re going straight to your prospects desires and pain points. Awakening in them curiosity and comfort.

Imagine you’re starting your day, you open your email and you have dozens of boring pitches, which all look the same and you probably won’t read.
Now, imagine, you open one of them up and it looks like this:

You receive an email that starts talking about you and your success, is personalized but also includes a personalized video just for you.

Wouldn’t you be instantly hooked?

  • Use automation tools to streamline your email marketing process, saving valuable time and resources.

Now, this is by far our favorite. With tools such as lemlist, you can turn your cold email campaigns into liquid fire! It manages your cold email campaigns, and multichannel outreach uses AI to define your ideal buyer persona, automates your lead database and so much more.

Don’t believe me? See for yourself.

By adopting these advanced tactics and tools, your cold emails will not only stand out in a crowded inbox but also foster stronger connections with your potential clients.

Performance Optimization and Tracking

Getting the maximum impact from your cold email campaigns goes beyond crafting the perfect message.

There are many ways you can optimize your campaign's performance to ensure you're getting the most out of it.

  • The role of A/B testing in perfecting your SEO email templates and discovering what resonates best with your audience.

You want to achieve the perfect email template but just can’t get there?

Make sure you A/B test your emails until you find the one that gets the best results.

For it to work accurately don’t swap everything for every test. Test one thing at a time and make sure to check your open, click and reply rates until you achieve desired results.

  • Strategies for improving your landing page and website design to ensure a seamless transition from email to website, enhancing user experience and conversion rates.

If you include a link to your website in your email, make sure you’re guiding with a strong call to action. You want your prospect to know that there’s something waiting for them on the other side, and you’re not just promoting yourself lazily.

Once they click and get to your website, your prospect should immediately see what you meant and be compelled to keep on reading.

If your headings or visuals are confusing or unappealing your prospect may very well just turn around and leave.

And we definitely don’t want that.

  • Use analytics to gain insights into the effectiveness of your marketing services, allowing for data-driven decisions and ongoing optimization.

As with A/B testing, it’s important to see exactly where and how your emails are landing.

Are they being opened? Are your prospects engaging? Are they following up?

In order to successfully keep track of your metrics, make use a cold email software (such as lemlist 😉) that will have a clear representation of all your campaigns.

Blend Cold Emails with Your SEO Marketing Strategy

Integrating cold emailing into your broader SEO marketing strategy is essential for creating a cohesive outreach plan.

You can leverage cold emailing for guest post outreach, align sales email campaigns with SEO efforts, and draw inspiration from successful SEO agencies.

  • Understand the role of cold emailing for effective guest post outreach, and how it can be integrated within a multi-channel marketing strategy.
  • Use techniques to align sales email campaigns with your company's overall SEO goals, ensuring that every communication contributes to your brand's search engine visibility.
  • Check out case studies from successful SEO agencies that have used cold emails to secure valuable link-building opportunities and forge industry relationships.

By synchronizing your cold email initiatives with your SEO strategy, you can create a powerful synergy that amplifies your online presence and drives more organic traffic to your site.

SEO Services Cold Email Template

You’ve learned how to create your own templates and campaigns, but let's take it a little step further.

Here’s a template that got an 85% open rate.

Hey {{firstName}},

This month we have chosen {{website}} as the site to analyze for SEO.

As an SEO agency, every month we choose a website and review all the things we could do to help you improve your SEO.

We generally do this with a brainstorming session with 2-3 members of our team.

Currently, I’m working on a presentation with all the ideas we have. So, if you’re free anytime next week, I’d love to show you in a meeting online.
Let me know when it would work for you and I’ll adapt to your options.

Have a great day,
{{Signature}}

P.S. Our approach aims to raise {{companyName}} awareness of SEO without any commitment behind it, if your company is not interested in the analysis you can click on this link

(unsubscribe link)

SEO Cold Email Checklist

Before giving you the checklist, remember that with lemlist you can access an entire template library, with successful campaigns that other experts have sent out. Acess them directly from your dashboard, fuilter, preview, duplicate, and launch! 

As we conclude, let's encapsulate the blueprint for successful cold emailing:

  • Customize your cold email templates
  • Segment your email lists according to intent, funnel, and needs
  • Construct a sequential email strategy
  • Make use of advanced tactics and tools
  • Track your perfomance and conduct A/B tests
  • Ensure your cold emails are integrated with your SEO strategy

Remember, the efficacy of a cold email is often determined by its ability to prompt action.

So including a clear CTA is vital.

Enjoy watching how your SEO services business flourishes. 🎉

Start your 14-day free trial with lemlist today and watch how your cold emails campaigns sends your business’ growth through the roof!

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