If you promote a resource, you need maintained lists whose readers have a reason to use it. Resource pages are the easiest opportunity type to find and they have the worst hit rate of any of them, because most stopped being maintained years ago. Qualification here comes down almost entirely to whether anyone still updates the page.
Why prospect dates work in your favor
Prospect pages often carry no publication date, so the index keeps useful older resources that a date filter would throw away. A resource list from 2019 that somebody still curates is worth as much as one from last month.
The cost is that your search also returns plenty of abandoned pages. The indexed date tells you when the page was collected, never when it was last touched.
The maintenance test
All checkable in under a minute.
- Broken links. Open three entries. Two broken means nobody has looked at this page in years.
- A dated addition. Some lists record when each entry went on, which settles the question immediately.
- Site activity. Nothing published in two years means the resource page is not being updated either.
- A suggestion mechanism. A form, a stated email, an invitation to propose additions.
With no mechanism you are asking somebody to edit a live page as a favor, and that needs a relationship you probably do not have.
Fit is stricter than it looks
A curated list has a standard, and you can read it off what is already on there. Look at the existing entries and answer honestly whether yours belongs next to them.
Lists of free tools do not want a paid product. Lists of research do not want a marketing page. Lists for practitioners do not want a vendor overview. Suggest an obvious mismatch and the curator files you as somebody who did not read the page, and curators remember.
Propose the right URL
Suggesting a homepage is the commonest failure. Resource lists link to resources.
Send the page that does what the list exists for. The guide, the calculator, the dataset, the template. If nothing you have belongs on the list, the honest answer is that you do not have an entry yet.
Writing the suggestion
Short, and about the list and not about you. Name the section it belongs in, give the URL, and say in one sentence what a reader gets that the current entries do not give them.
Do not ask for a reciprocal link. Do not send a template. Do not follow up more than once on a request this small.
Where these come from
Search by opportunity type for resource and link pages. Then run a link gap against your competitors, which returns the ones they are already on. Different list, equally useful: every page on it has demonstrated a willingness to list companies like you.
Where several competitors share a resource page, find out whether getting on it required anything beyond asking.
Expected returns
A low reply rate, and durable links when it lands, because resource pages stay up for years. Run it steadily and drop any page that fails the maintenance test immediately.
Before suggesting a link, check that the page is maintained and your resource meets its purpose. Send a specific URL with a clear reason for including it.
See searching by opportunity type, qualification, or finding the ones competitors hold.