Easy Link Building Strategy

January 16, 2012 By 2 Comments

I love to test and try new things.  In fact, I am always searching for ways to save time, make more money, automate processes and get more done with less hands-on.  The busier we become in life the more critical simple solutions for getting more done, with less, becomes important.

Today I want to show you what I am doing currently to automate my link building even more and how I am doing it while spending just a few minutes of my time. 

Obviously, everything we do for our websites; we do with the intent to get hem ranked in the top 5-10 on Google (optimally #1) and of course ultimately the goal is to make more money by doing so.

I call this article marketing with a twist and it involves having someone else do everything else for you.

Before you start keep in keep in mind that there may be a little extra learning involved here for you.  However, I have some extra links with some extra teaching if you need it on this page.

Step 1 – You need a system where you can build links to high PR sites.  (PR = page rank and is a stat that only relates to Google.  If you need to read more about PR read this Page Rank At Wikipedia).  Of course you’ll put a backlink pointing back to whatever web page on your site that you want from these sites.

The system I recommend is this one right here.   What this system allows you to do is put in articles and put backlinks pointing to the web pages that you want to boost in the search engines.  You'll need to write up a few articles to submit into the system.  It's extremely easy to follow and use. 

Step 2 – You need articles.  You can either write these yourself (need to be 150 or more words in length to put them in the system) or you can hire someone to write them for you.  You can use a service like this one that that will do the writing for you or you can use a service like Article Builder where you can snag articles on the cheap but, you’ll need to upload them into the 1 way links system yourself (it’s easy and will save you some cash in the long run).  Using Article Builder is the cheapest way in the long haul.

Again, optionally you can also just write everything yourself and spend nothing but, I am simply showing you how I like to automate my link building as of late.  Writing a 150 word article should only take you a few minutes.

Step 3 – Once you have your articles make sure each article has at least 1 link inside of it pointing back to whatever webpage you want.  This doesn’t have to be your home page it can be any page you want to rank on your site.  Use anchor text with the keywords you want to rank your webpage for as your anchor text.  (If you need help understanding anchor text read this article).  Change your anchor text for every few articles that you submit so it’s not always 100% the same.

This is an easy way to build links, increase your web rankings for pages of your websites and a big timesaver.  I wanted to share this with you today because it’s one of the many ways I do my link building now and I know many of my students would appreciate this method.

You will gradually rise in the search engine rankings for your keywords and it will be done naturally. 

If you have questions or comments I’d love to hear about them below!

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Is Link Building Ethical?

September 24, 2011 By 12 Comments

Unethical links?

Link building is a practice that increases traffic to your website, increases visibility and helps your website increase in the search engines rankings.  Ultimately, this helps you make more money.

However, one question I see over and over again is:  Can I post a link there?  And, isn’t it shady to build links in such and such a way? Are automated tools unethical?

I do believe there are shady ways to build links and ways that I never would do it. An example of something I would never support is comment spamming.  This is where you visit other people’s blog and drop off comments that have no relevance to the conversation only for the purpose of a backlink.

There are tools that do the bulk of that work (trust me I wade through hundreds of SPAM comments each week on this blog alone!)

However, I do believe there is good commenting.  If you visit a blog and join in on a conversation and add a link back to your site in your name field, that’s great!  You are contributing to a community and adding value.  Even if you automated this process I’d still be fine with it.

But, that still raises the question on tools that post your links to article directories or networks.  This is especially true with tools that do this on autopilot or semi-autopilot.  Are they ethical?

I’ve discussed my love for 1 Way Links quite a while ago right here.

Here is my take.  Time is limited and tools only help speed up everything you do.  Link building will always be a grey area where many will question even the most ethical ways of link building.

I would rather use tools that automate link building rather than hand-build everything.  Sure, in the beginning everything I did was by hand as I didn’t know any better.  You might be the same way but, there will come a time where you’ll want automation to open up more free time.

Last week I mentioned a tool called digi auto links.  It’s simply another tool to automate link building and pingbacks.  It’s also a real time saver.  But, the reason I bring this up is because this tool posts to social sites and other relevant blogs with like topics and of course links back to yours.  In testing, I’ve been really impressed.

So here is why I bring those 2 tools up specifically.  I believe both are ethical and to me ethics are HUGE.  I would never do anything I thought was wrong in anyway.  I know, it’s straight laced but that’s how I’ve been for years.

But, my ethics don’t matter here.  It’s all about YOU.  Only you can decide what you believe is ethical or not.  I’ve had people argue with me that simple comment spamming is harmless and that there is nothing wrong with it.  I disagree – but, that was someone else’s opinion.

My final thought on this is if it automates a process you were going to do anyway, why would you not use a tool?  Save yourself some time, hang out with your family more; build more to your business so you can make more money faster and spend less time worrying about the mundane task of link building.

What are your thoughts?  I’d love to hear them.

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Why Isn’t My Website Making Money?

May 10, 2011 By 20 Comments

"Why isn't my site isn't making money!"

Believe it or not this is a phrase I have heard several times or at least some variation of it. But, I have an easy 5 point plan to help. This will make you money if you focus and follow through on it.

#1. TRAFFIC (If you're getting decent traffic skip this step)

If you're not getting traffic your site won't make money. Period. End of story. You must get traffic. So if you're not getting traffic determine why. This is usually the first place people make a mistake at.

Are you link building?

Are your keywords for each page ranking in the search engines? Even low volume keywords will make you money if they are targeted.

If you're pages/posts aren't ranking in the search engines you need to work on link building and making sure your content is optimized (read this post is you need help understanding link building and optimization).

Consider adding a Facebook plugin to your site so people can share your message. I like using sexybookmarks and April's Facebook Like Button. Just type those into the “add new” under your plugins area of your blog and you'll find them. I'll cover how to get people to share this more in the next bullet point.

Traffic is vital – get some.  Post more articles, press releases, tweet it, post it to Facebook, comment on other blogs.  Do whatever it takes (ethically) to go get more links and traffic.

#2. Content. (If you have good informative content – skip this step).

If you have less than 200-250 words of content on a single page start there and get at least that. I use as much content on a page as needed to get my point across.

A). Avoid selling language. Don't try to persuade them and sell heavy to your reader. Suggest and recommend but back it up with reasons and facts. No one likes the pushy sales person – so don't be that person.

B). Does your writing make sense? I ask this question because many times people hire other people to write all their posts. The person just tosses the content up on their site but, something is wrong here. Many time cheap writers are just trying to make money and could care less if you make anything.

Make sure ANYTHING you put on your site relates to your user. Ask yourself; will this benefits my reader? If not, fix it. Giving people good advice will help get clicks on your ads, and land those sales at your site.

Imagine your dog has a rare skin disease and you need a solution to help him. Then you read a really informative post why Super Anti Doggy Skin Disease Shampoo will help Fluffy's skin from itching and burning constantly. Would you take a chance on something that someone who knew what they were talking about was suggesting? I would and I do all the time.

If you're giving good information and using Facebook and Twitter plugins people will share it as well. This will help increase your traffic and pump up your sales as well in the long haul.

#3. Ad positions.

Many times especially when we are new at blogging we just use whatever layout we are giving by our theme and that's that. However, position does matter especially with Adsense (read what I've learned here and use Google's heat map).

If your site is getting traffic but your ads aren't getting clicks and you're just not making money with your website try changing things up. Experiment with different layouts. If all else fails always remember we see the top left of the screen first as most of us read left to right.

#4. Wrong products?

It pains me to say this but I can't tell you how many times someone asked me why they weren't making money and I am shocked at some of the things I see.

Promoting Netflix banners on your site about weight loss will not get you any sales. Sure every now and then you might get that lucky sale but, never anything substantial.

Give your visitors ads that make sense to them. Give them products that make sense and your reward is a lot more money in your pocket. If you're an offender of this one – don't wait, go fix it now. If you're promoting weight loss give them weight loss ads. If you're promoting peanut butter give them things based off of peanut butter. Even desert ads would work on a peanut butter site but, Netflix or anything else that doesn't apply to peanut butter, just don't do it!

#5. You're doing all this and still not making any money?

Change your ads to Adsense or vice-versa. Test, test, test! I have never built a site that didn't make me money (unless it was clearly just a demo site).

Lastly, are you really doing it and are you really focused? I'[m not trying to be evil here but I've had some people tell me how hard they were working on traffic building only to find they weren't even building links to their site.

If you're not going to do anything and you're not going to try, you're not going to make money. It may sound harsh to say something like that but I'm not in this to make you feel warm and fuzzy all over I WANT YOU T MAKE MONEY and make a bunch of it.

Sorry for the caps there but I mean that, I want you to succeed. I want you to be as rich as possible and you won't get there with smoke and sunshine. You've got to do the things that will make you money and test, test, test and keep growing.

As summer approaches do not forget this post. Stay focused and stay at this and success is there waiting for you.

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Does Google Hate You?

April 6, 2011 By 15 Comments

 

Recently, Google updated their algorithms again. This caused many people to lose ranks in the search engines. I waited to make a post about this so I could monitor anything I noticed over the previous few months.

However, I didn’t experience any sliding at all. In fact, my sites increased in ranks in the search engines.

So if you’re using the Niche Blitzkrieg methods that I teach you’re safe.

Here is why I think many people lost their rankings outside of NBK.

I believe some people out there are using methods like link spamming, link farms, mass comment spamming and other frowned upon techniques. If you have no clue what those are… good. Stay away from them.

Here is what I use the most still to this day.

Articles (link building within the resource box).

1 Way Links (love this program for automation).

Press Releases.

Directories are still good too.

These are my favorite link building methods and the only reason is….

Because they work.

Link building isn’t going to go away.

Ranking in the search engines isn’t going to go away.

I am going to add a few tips here to help you even more as to what I would ultimately avoid.

#1. Keep building links.

#2. Do not build shallow affiliate sites – these are sites that have very little to no content, just a few pages and are loaded with affiliate links. Make sure you have good content (over 250 words on the page as well), the content should also be unique. Don’t use content that you do not own.  When in doubt add more pages/posts to your site. Hey more content can’t hurt. It can only make your site better and add more openings to get more traffic.

#3. Avoid link farms and link buying deals. Basically any sites that just have a ton of links on them (outside of directories) If someone tells you they will get 10000 links for $100 bucks run away.

Tools like 1 way links will help you automate your link building and are safe. They are safe because it’s a non-spammy way of link building. You actually have to do a small bit of writing to make it work but the rewards are high.

Remember, as I mentioned in several other posts.

On page optimization + link building = ranking in the search engines. I cover that in more detail here.

Not ranking where you want to be? Keep building links into your site and never forget that each page/post of your site ranks individually in the search engines.

So to sum it up.. Google doesn’t hate you.  Google wants to make sure it’s giving it’s users the best search results and not stuff that has millions of spam laced links driving it.  However, Google hates shady tactics for a good reason – so steer clear.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Increasing Traffic, Link Building
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