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title: "Create an industry statistics page to attract editorial links"
description: "Publish a dedicated '<industry> statistics <year>' page built from sourced, dated figures, then link it from related pages and from the site footer so it is crawlable and easy to find. Journalists looking for citable numbers discover such pages and link to them, building backlinks without an outreach-first campaign."
url: "https://seo-mcp.io/t/create-an-industry-statistics-page-to-attract-editorial"
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# Create an industry statistics page to attract editorial links

Publish a dedicated '<industry> statistics <year>' page built from sourced, dated figures, then link it from related pages and from the site footer so it is crawlable and easy to find. Journalists looking for citable numbers discover such pages and link to them, building backlinks without an outreach-first campaign.

## Prerequisites

- Ability to publish a new page on the site
- Access to the site footer or global template
- Source data or references for the industry statistics

## Steps

1. **Pick the industry and year target** — Choose one industry and the current or next year, then search '<industry> statistics <year>' to confirm the query returns results and that existing pages are citable rather than exhaustive official reports.
   Check: A search for '<industry> statistics <year>' returns a results page with competitor statistics articles on page one.
2. **Publish the statistics page** *(general best practice)* — Create a single URL at a clean path such as /<industry>-statistics/ containing the figures, each one attributed to its source, plus a visible last-updated date. General best practice: keep the page focused on one query instead of mixing unrelated data.
   Check: The page source contains at least one <time> element with a datetime attribute and at least one link to an external source next to a figure.
3. **Link to the page from related content** — Add contextual links to the statistics page from existing articles, category pages or guides on the same topic, using descriptive anchor text.
   Check: Search the site pages you edited and confirm each contains an <a href> pointing at the statistics URL.
4. **Add the footer link** — Place a link to the statistics page in the site footer or another global template so every page passes a link to it.
   Check: Open any unrelated page on the site and confirm the footer contains an anchor whose href matches the statistics URL.
5. **Request indexing and confirm the page is crawled** *(general best practice)* — Submit the new URL in Search Console and check that it becomes indexed before starting any outreach.
   Check: Search Console URL Inspection for the statistics URL reports 'URL is on Google' or the page appears in a site:<domain> "statistics" query.
6. **Pitch the page and track links** *(general best practice)* — Send the page to writers or reporters covering the industry and monitor new referring domains pointing at that URL over the following weeks.
   Check: A backlink tool or Search Console Links report shows at least one new referring domain to the statistics URL.

## Source

@borjafat on 2026-10-18: https://x.com/borjafat/status/2089742971679691089

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