How Hair in USA Got Replies From 52 Site Owners in a Medical Niche, and What They Asked For

Hair in USA is run by Kaan Sakar, a hair transplant advisor who helps patients compare procedures in the U.S. and Turkey: real prices, a U.S. surgeon's opinion, and what aftercare looks like back home. He signed up for Mentiohunt in September 2026 with a young site and almost no backlinks.

Over the next two months, Mentiohunt emailed 277 sites for him and 52 of them replied, an 18.8% reply rate. This case study is mostly about those replies: who answered, how fast, and what they asked for. That last part matters, because in this niche the honest answer is "money, most of the time."

Where Hair in USA started

Hair transplants are a crowded, high-value medical niche. Hair in USA's competitor set included established clinics like Bosley and a long list of Turkish clinics, and its target keywords were expensive ones: "hair transplant cost," "usa vs turkey hair transplant," "best hair transplant," "hair transplant chicago."

A new site with almost no backlink profile, in a niche where established clinics have years of links, is a hard place to start. Instead of prospecting sites one by one, Kaan let Mentiohunt find them and send the outreach.

The approach

Mentiohunt runs its discovery methods every day: Competitor Backlink, Listicle & Roundup Inclusion, Guest Post Pitch, Resource Page Inclusion and Broken Link Building. For Hair in USA, they surfaced 370 opportunities: pages that had already written about hair loss, hair transplants or a competitor clinic.

Each email pointed to one Hair in USA page that fit the article it was pitching. Here's an early email Mentiohunt sent for him, with the site's details removed:

Subject: A resource for your hair transplant guide

Hi [name],

I read your "[article title]" page and noticed it cites a resource on
post-transplant recovery without naming the source in the visible text.

Hair in USA could sit alongside that citation by giving readers a clear
comparison of hair transplants in the USA and Turkey, including transparent
pricing and a U.S. surgeon's perspective.

Would you consider adding it as another useful resource on the page?

Best,
Kaan

Each site got the first email and up to two follow-ups (2.2 emails per site on average). When a site replied, the sequence stopped and Kaan took the conversation over from his own inbox.

The results

Replies came fast. The first one arrived two days after the first email, and half of all replies landed within about 6 hours of the first email. The median replying site had a Domain Rating of 42, and 20 of them were DR 50 or higher.

Kaan's first published link went live 13 days after he signed up, and more followed before the end of September. Each of those was a placement he chose to pay for after the site quoted a price, which is the next part of the story.

The discovery methods didn't perform equally:

Pages that already linked to a competitor clinic were the most likely to answer. They had already shown they were willing to link out on the topic.

Most replies came with a price

Here's the part most link building case studies leave out: 47 of the 52 replying sites quoted a price. Some offered a paid guest post, others a link insertion in an existing article, a few a sponsored listing. The typical quote was around $70, most fell between about $45 and $130, and the outliers went from $5 to a $2,500 listing.

That isn't unusual for sites in this niche. Across all Mentiohunt outreach, about 2 in 3 replies ask for money. The hair transplant niche simply sits at the high end.

Mentiohunt doesn't hide these replies or pretend they're wins. Each one is labeled "quoted a price" in the dashboard so you can tell them apart from free replies at a glance. What to do next is your call: decline politely and offer something else, or decide a placement is worth it. Mentiohunt never pays or negotiates a fee for you. Kaan made that call case by case: he took a few of the offers and hasn't taken the rest.

The 5 replies that didn't ask for money are the ones to watch. One of them, a DR 68 medical tools site, replied that a U.S. versus Turkey comparison would be a natural fit for its readers, and that conversation is still going.

What this doesn't prove

This is one site in one niche over two months. A 19% reply rate isn't a promise for any other product, and in this niche most of those replies were price quotes.

It also doesn't show free links. Every live link in this story was a placement Kaan chose to pay for. The free conversations are still open. What it does show is that a young site in a competitive medical niche can get in front of 277 relevant publishers and hear back from 52 of them in two months, without the founder writing a single cold email himself.

Try it yourself

Hair in USA ran the same way any Mentiohunt product does: point it at your website and competitors, let the daily discovery methods fill the queue, and monitor what comes back. The outreach and follow-ups run on their own until the first reply. After that, it's a real conversation, and you decide what's worth saying yes to.