Ask HN: How to get influential blogger help link out your app?

Have anyone tried using this marketing strategy? Incentivizing bloggers with a lot of followers to help reference, write about or simply link out your new app.

  I thought of this strategy and believed it could be useful, but having trouble getting bloggers replying to me. The big chicken and egg problem here is that they won't write about your app unless people want to read about it. 

Any suggestions?