(I’m really sorry, this review should have been posted yesterday but I had plenty things going on at the same time. Review was written though but I wanted to add screenshots)

Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer Review

I would really wanted to do this a video a review but it’s been a while since my microphone is dead and I didn’t replace it. Anyway, I could show you how to use it, but the videos on the sales page do it just fine.

Plain simply, the software works, really. It delivers what it claims so regarding the functionality or technical question, there is nothing to say. I’ll tell you the ONLY problem I got which was solved by Alex Safie, the owner the same day I asked, and it was a Sunday…

But… How it works?

Well the principle behind Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer (SKCA for short), is quite simple. You enter your list of keyword that you just downloaded from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and you hit start so it perform analysis on your keywords.

You should activate the Cost Per Click column, and select if you want broad, phrase or exact match. I always choose exact. You may need to be logged in to activate the CPC, I don’t remember. Anyway one you have your keyword list returned, download it as CSV (not CSV for Excel), and then import it into STKA. It will ask you if you want to import the Global or Local search count.

Once you hit start the software will check out the competition for each keyword according to several factors. These are explained in the bonus report called “Cutting Edge Keyword Research”, which contains even more tips to make your keyword selection even better and guarantees easy rankings.

Actually everything the software does can be done manually. But when you have hundreds of keywords, you really want to use the power of automation. In addition to your imported datas from Google keyword tool (keyword, search volume, CPC), SKCA then tells you the following.

Number of Competing Pages: these are the number of results when you search your keyword in quotes. Even if buyers or searchers are typing without quotes, this tells you the number of pages which contains exactly your keyword as you entered it.

Real competing pages: Something you want to pay attention. This number is much lower, but doesn’t mean it’s easy to rank. This number is the real number of pages Google displays in its result. Indeed, while Google tells you about a number of competing pages, it will not show you them all. Even if you want to go to the last page of results. This trick is explined in the bonus report:

Type a keyword in Google and hit search, then at the end of your address bar add “&start=990″, this will force Google to show you results from the 990 result. Example with the keyword “weight loss” BEFORE adding this tag:

You can see there are about 300 millions of results. After adding the tag we can read this at the bottom of the page:

At this point Google knows there is no real reason to display even more results. They are certainly similar and less relevant to your search term. So you get the message above. You can also see we’re on page 89, so even before the 990 to 1000 results page.

In this example, Google considers 890 results are well enough competing pages: this is what Stealth Keyword Competiton Analyzer puts in the Real Competing Pages column (892, which you’ll agree is very close).

The other columns are quite self explanatory, Competition Strenght, Average PR (for page 1), PR strenght, Competition, Commercial (does it have commercial intent), Ads count (number of AdWords ads on first page) and the keyword rating.

SKCA is really cool because it will tell you what keywords are Amazing. This is the highest rating the tool gives:

Terrible, Bad, Good, Great and Amazing.

So the best keywords to go for are the one that met all the criteria, buyer keywords with a high search volume, high CPC that you can easily rank for. Wait a minute… That’s exactly what we want! And actually the only thing we want to know about.

Now, you don’t have to only focus on Amazing keywords, but Great keywords are certainly worth a look too. Also watch those with low and very low competition whican be useful to suck a bit of traffic too.

Now of course, your results will depend on the keywords you got from Google Adwords tool and that you imported in first place. But I truly recommend you don’t only shot for keywords with thousands of searches per month. Actually, you will find those with a Amazing rating. But there are also so many more keywords with low search volume that will anyway bring you tons of traffic, because you can target much more of those.

So yes, in any niche you’re in, you will find, 20 or even 50 amazing keywords. You don’t have to limit your website around one seed keyword you entered in the AdWords tool. For example,you can enter the seed keyword internet marketing in the AdWords Tool, then import it in SKCA and it gives you 15 amazing keywords. Do it again, this time starting with affiliate marketing, and one more time with make money online, or keyword research, search engine optimization, etc.

You get the point. With this software you can get all the keywords you need to build an authority website that will make you money faster because you will rank faster, and more easily.

Okay so now, what was the problem I got with this software?

Well… It didn’t import the data from the CSV I downloaded. Yeah, I couldn’t use it I thought. So I just reported this issue to Alex, who solved this super quickly. I just had to change the language in AdWords. Indeed, the software imports datas from the CSV columns, which are supposed to be in English. Since I’m using the french version my CSV was in french and the tool didn’t know where to put the datas. It still keeps the CPC in my own currency (Euro, so it’s even more in Dollars).

So, yeah, this software works, and it rocks. Quite frankly, there are many keyword research softwares out there and if you’re happy with yours then fine. But I also know some much more expensive tools get quite buggy. This one is simple and just tells you what keywords are worth it. A huge time saver and you don’t need really more options or features when yo want to rank for a keyword.

Another thing I almost forgot, the software can tell you if the exact match domain is available (for .com, .net and .org). It is of course useful when you’re doing niche marketing and want your exact match domain for a buying keyword. This helps in SEO and nice this feature has been added.

Then the other features at the bottom are the proxies support, great if you have tons of keywords and may do your analysis faster instead of only using your ip.

And the other button which is interesting is the “Trends” one. One factor that is taken into account by many is the upward trend of a keyword. Alex added this because it’s one of the factor he uses in his keyword selection, this is useful again because if a keyword has a climbing trend, then it may certainly receive more traffic in the future and you will want to rank early for this one. And if its trend gets down, then maybe that niche, or product isn’t as popular as it was and may be not worth the effort. This is another great addition that reinforce the purpose of SKCA: giving you the best keywords to target and get traffic from.

I think the next step for me would be to run a case study on building a website selecting the keywords given by Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer.

Okay, if you can see the value and power in SKCA, then do yourself a favor: buy it now.

If you want to stop wasting your time and only choose the right golden nuggets for your promotion material, blogging or any other content work, then get Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer.

I’ve been working a lot on the new theme, and will finally not use the Gantry Framework as I said in a previous post.I’ve been brainstorming with other persons for Christmas gift ideas (and I still haven’t done any shoppin, oops), and a little bit of… woodworking.

But anyway I think I will have something like 12 widgetized areas, I certainly should have outsourced the work because it took me a lot of time to figure things out. I’m not a designer or coder but really thought it would not take that long. Anyway it’s almost done, I just need to choose few colors. IT will still be a very simple and clean layout.

Okay so, I’m still here and will tell you about few other things today. I think I’l have a review ready for you about a keyword research software. Yeah I know there are tons on the market but this one is really inexpensive and do everything you actually want from such tool.

For now, have you checked the new videos from The Elevation Group? You really should as they are really giving you some more great infos, such as how Mike Dillard created a 6 figures retirement plan tax free. Tat’s right, from his 60 he will be able to get $100,000. Oh, that’s per month!

Today video 3 should also be released. So if you want to get smart about your finances and protect your assets, grow your money, this is where you want to go today.

See you later for the keyword research software review.

Well, I just came onto something that could really become great at increasing my traffic, rangings and ultimately my revenue. But, I don’t want to talk much about it now because I need to put it to the test first. I really don’t want to recommend something that may not as great as it seems to be.

It is great and I’ve seen proof it works, now I’m going to try to make it work for me. All I can say is that in addition to traffic and rankings, it will also include super cheap outsourcing and product creation. So the world could really soon see my very first product, and I’ll dominate the world. Huh?

This is not the only new idea I came accross today, or more precisely now that’s a new opportunity that is coming to all of us. And I know we all need this. That’s beyond internet marketing, that’s a whole different beast, so I’m definitely not going to talk about IM in this post. But this is BIG.

BIG in the sense that it can change our lives. From what I’ve seen, It has already started to change lives for few ones. And from my research, this is some solid knowledge that you will ba able to get. Just keep coming back to this blog in the next days, at least next week, and you’ll be glad to find out what it is.

Changing lives, changing the world. That’s what it’s all about. You will have the opportunity to enter a group that teaches you all about protecting your assets, getting more financial situation more secure and ensuring you get and keep more money for you and your family for the rest of your entire life.

If that sounds good to you, then I’ll be very happy that we get into that group together. In the meantime, I say have a good night.

Sorry for publishing a post without a lot of details but with more time I know, or at least hope the wait will be worth it.

Bye,

Tom

Long Tail Keyword Groups

So what is a keyword group? Well I guess many internet marketers will have their own answer but for me these are keywords that share the same seed keywords. We could of course add to the group some other LSI keywords, which will be related terms, but if you write naturally these ters should come naturally too in your brain and land in your copy.

The purpose of targetting long tail keyword groups is to get traffic. Easier rankings. I know this is nothing new, buth then why many people still target only one keyword per page and use only one or two anchor text when doing link building to these pages?

Another important thing to keep in mind is the fact that pages, or more generally content if you prefer, can and will rank for multiple keywords. Just check your Analytics account or any other visits tracking tools you may use and you will admit this is entirely true. These many different keywords may even not be the ones you would like to target. Still, they brought you traffic. Maybe it’s actually 1, 2 or 3 visits in the whole month, still these people found you thanks to a related term, a keyword in the group.

What most of us have been told about keyword research and selection is to go for the long tail of course, generally 3 to 4 words. Indeed 1 and 2 word phrases are more competitive, and very broad. Sure. These head keywords, or seed keywords will anyway be part of your content, since they are the seed in any of your long tail. Still here?

The idea (and I swear it’s not only my idea), is to go for the keywords that not only are of 2, 3 or 4 words, but also for longer ones and even if your keyword research tool indicates they only get less than 100 searches a month. I remember a video demonstration from the guys at Link Emperor saying they’ve been targetting tons of keywords with low search volume, and they got success.

It is not surprising, less search volume generally means less competition, easier rankings. So by keeping in mind that your content will rank:

• for multiple keywords
• more easily with long tail and low competition/traffic keywords

… we can assume we can build and optimize content in two various ways:

1. creating more posts or pages, each made for one of these keywords
2. creating posts and pages that include (let’s say “target”) multiple keywords from the group.

In the first case, we may just need lower words count articles, because the competition is not really focusing on the specific keyword

In the second case we can write longer articles, say over 1000 words upto 2000 words and incorporate several keywords from the group.

One of the other great things is that you can definitely get awesome buying keywords to ranking easily using these strategies. I guess you have to put it to the test yourself to see if for the same keyword you can get the same traffic using both strategies. But still, when I say low competition, I’m saying that the first page is not even full. Like… 5 results, 2 results and sometimes 0 results if you can anticipate things (okay I’ll expand on this later).

But the point is that the longer tail a keyword has, the more targeted it becomes. And with targeted buying keywords… you can certianly make money.

Example of Long Tail Keyword Research and Use

I guess a quick example will be helpful. I have several websites in the video game niche. I build sites around the game name keywords and I’m going to show you things that may will find profitbale (I hope so).

Recently, Fifa 12, a soccer game was released. Now you have to know that the highest traffic is certainly when the game is going to be released and shortly after. But, it doesn’t really matter for now, since what we can immediately check is the competition.

So one of the most used buying keyword modifier is “review”. Let’s type it in Google in quotes (YES, people don’t type in quotes, still we’re searching for real competing pages that are clearly optimizing for this keyword, not pages that may have randomly the words fifa, 12 and review in their content).

I find… 8,790,000 for “Fifa 12 review” – Google currently shows 8,100 global monthly searches for the exact match, and 1,600 locally (US) and 2,900 locallu (UK).

Now an additional modifier like… PS3

“Fifa 12 review PS3″ only has 590 global monthly searches, 110 in the USA and 260 in the UK, but the competition is now revealing 216,000 pages. That’s still many to compete with, though easier.

The key is to find keywords that interested people would type if they wanted to know more before they buy. I’m going to reveal one of the modifiers you can use: questions.

In the video game case, this is what I mentioned earlier about anticipating, because Google and many other keyword research tools will not reveal any traffic datas. Still, Google Suggest show you those, but more importantly we can know that these are going to be used. Why? Because they are universal, and because there are many other similar product names which show traffic. Confused?

Type into google “is fifa 12 worth buying” – and see about 124 results. Not too much traffic but when I see a keyword phrase containing BUYING, I guess that’s a BUYING keyword. It does have a very little search volume, 46 global monthly…

Before you decide it’s not worth it, I told you about anticipation and how other similar products show traffic for these same long tail keywords. For example, I see that “is fallout new vegas worth buying” has 720 global monthly search, and 480 locally. It now has over 4,000 pages competiting for that term (in quotes) but I guess that if you created the page before the game was out you would have an advantage (anticipating).

Another key, the sites ranking for these questions are answer sites such as Yahoo Answers, and various forums. So even without a website you could place your link there. I know some have been making tons of money exploiting Yahoo! Answers.

Again this tactic will not require you to have  big content produced if you decide to go for each of the long tail in the group. Still you want to provide quality to your readers. This will ensure that anyway LSI terms and related keywords land on the page. For example in this post LSI terms naturally get into the content.

I didn’t try to, and I didn’t optimize this post for a single keyword, but if the seed keyword was in the title I guses it would have been “Long Tail Keywords”. LSI terms would then have been “long tail keyword groups, keyword research, keyword research tool, LSI keywords, traffic, link building, rankings, SEO, Google.” Now at the end of this post I will go through it and optimize it with little bolding, h tags and such.

For bigger articles, integrating many long tail with low competitions and traffic can lead to an amazing traffic boost. If you decide to go this route, then your site will become an authority in its niche. Becaue your content will have a lots of good information and contain all related keywords, all the keywords in the group. Not necessarily in the same post. You can certainly imagine various posts that have the same keywords. These posts will fall into a category, and maybe even sub categories.

This will create a very specific themed site and organized content that both your readers and search engines will love.

Long Tail Keyword Case Study Coming

I hope to have a case study soon to show real and more concrete results (cash). I know I said in the past I wanted to do more case studies and though I did, I didn’t really post much here. So I’ll try to do something this week and track results over time with what’s been discussed here.

I also want to remind everyone that using these kind of keyword strategy means less off site SEO, and you may even not have to create backlinks to these posts. Remember content pages rank for multiple keywords anyway, just shoot easy targets in mass and bank.

Most of us have already found pennies in the street, small value coins. Rarely do we find a case full of hundreds of dollars in green tickets. However with keywords, even what seems to be a value keyword can be related to a high ticket product, and big commission. Wow, thought of the day. (If you quote me be sure to link to this post )

Christmas is coming. Target product names, you don’t necessarily need to buy a domain for all. Try to theme them all under one site, or even use free platforms that can easily rank anyway when you go for the lowest competition keywords.

PLEASE, do your homework. Get out there and find these little nuggets and ask yourself if it would not be possible to create some content with these keywords and see how things go. Take action, it’s an easy one this time.

Hope to have something worthwile to say soon.

Tom

So what are the automated backlink creation solutions out there. Well there are just so many to choose from. This may be a problem though since a lot may only give you one source, I mean one link type. For example, and article distribution software will only get you links from article directories. Your goal is to get a wide variety of source, and also to get those links indexed so you also need to create backlinks to these backlinks.

You then have the choice in choosing multiple softwares or services, or outsource different tasks to SEO experts. Even if you get a software that gets you a variety of links, it may not cover everything you would like. But still, owning such tools or subscribing to various services can really save you time and make you more money. You can’t physically maintain multiple URLs and keywords rankings, and at the same time write content, or create videos and so on.

You can do it on your own, but you will have to invest more time. It may be frustrating and during that time, you’re not getting cash into the bank. OF course if you only have one site to focus on, this is another stor, however building authority sites also requires effort. Sidenote: Viral marketing, social networks may be your friends. Indeed, without link building, you can build a fan community and still receive traffic, sales and commissions. So explore that route too.

Automated Link Building Solutions

Okay, that was kind of a long introduction for that post. Now let’s get to the meat, what Automated link building solutions you may want to have a look to. I principally want to discuss tools that can bring you link diversity from one place.

Blog Networks

Well, I’ve already mentioned some here. And I really think these provide powerful link juice. Of course I haven’t tried them all, and I’m currently runing a test with the Link Juicer before I certainly switch to Build My Rank. Build My Rank would be the one I recommend the most from my observations. There are many more out there (Unique Article Wizard, My Article Network, Seo Link Vine, Article Ranks, SEO Blueprint).

SEO Softwares

Again here, there are so many to list that it is quite impossible to give them one and only definitive software name. However, I’m quite sure, many of you have heard about SENuke X. This is a software that can build backlinks from diverse type of sites, and interlink those. So you can get links from social bookmars, article directories, social networks, web 2.0 profiles and more.

It is not the only one to do so. SE Nuke X may have the advantage of an easier interface and a wizard that takes care of most of the technical stuff. I don’t use it though, at $127 per month it wasn’t for me. I think there’s even a one time fee, for something over $2000.

I chose aother solution. I have SEO Link Robot, which does the same thing, without the wizard and I got it at the time it was a one time fee. $157 I think, don’t remember exactly. It’s now $47 per month, or $227 per year, or or a one time fee of $347. There’s also a Lite version of SEOLR for those who don’t need all functions.

SEO Link Robot submits to web 2.0 sites, article directories, social bookmarking, rss feeds, ping sites, press releases sites.

Now softwares like this need to be constantly updated because they post to other sites that they don’t control. So when an article directory or a social bookmarking site changes its scripts or interface, it fails to post. I have to say it’s not necessearily a deal breaker. I still get updates often and if a post doesn’t get through I can live with it.

Just like every tool out there. You need to use it to make it work for you. Using it for a few days to see if it works and then stop will not bring a lot of results. So really, once you invest in such tools, you must use those regularly so they pay for your investment, especially if they have reccuring fees! Another solution is to purchase a license and outsource the use to a virtual assistant.

There is another tool that is more recent and that I saw popping few months ago, it’s IMSlave, it really looks exactly the same as SEO Link Robot. They say it is more white hat. Well I don’t know if it’s true, I guess it’s how you use your tools that make it white hat or not. It may have different sites it posts to. Can’t talk much about it since I don’t use it but it’s a one time fee of $127. Maybe worth a try.

SEO Services

These services include several things done for you. You just give them what they require and they will post content and links a bit everywhere. They have all their own strategy, link pyramids mixing and interlinking web 2.0, bookmarks, articles, and other types of links.

These can be very useful, and you can get a time shot or a monthly service. It really depends on how you see your SEO strategy and how you have set a budget.

I already mentioned in an earlier post LinkBytes.net. They have a package I foud on WickedFire forums, the SERP Power Booster. For under $40 bucks it is a great deal. They have more, including a monthly service.

LinkingMadeEasy.com – I don’t remember who recommended this to me, but it seems to get good results, they indeed have some nice plans.

Browse forums for such packages and you will find great deals.

The Beasts

These are services that I would really want to get subscribed to. They make all the work for you, you just need to provide them the enssential: keywords and URLs.

LinxBoss

This is really hands off. It’s a $147 per month service. One account gets you 1000 backlinks per month. You can have upto 5 domains. For each domain you can have as many URLs as you want. But keep in mind that you still have amaximum of 1000 links per month. So if you use only one site, you will receive all 1000 links to that one site, if you add 5 sites, you will receive 200 links per month to each.

How it works? Well there are two videos you can watch on their site: check out LinxBoss (the system demo link shows you the user interface and exactly what you’re getting). If you don’t want to read here is a quick version:

• You add a site (domain)
• You then add pages you want links to (the domain itself if you want, an internal page, whatever…)
• For each page you add anchor text: one primary keyword and then secondary keywords. The primary keyword will be used about 50% of the time, the secondary keywords will share the remaining 50%.

That’s it. Really, nothing more. They will create a variety of links for you, they will create content for you that they will distribute with your links. You just see your backlinks grow and your rankings go higher. They have a rank tracking tab that will let you see the movements of your pages for each keyword.

LinxBoss have been online for over 4 years so they are serious, and deliver on what they claim. I forgot to ad, you can pause a linking campaign for any page anytime, change keywords anytime, delete a site and replace it with another one anytime. All the links create are permanent. So if you reach rankings for the keywords you want, you can remove those keywords or sites and replace with others.

If you want to build links to more than 5 sites at once, this is possible too, just get an additional account.

Link Emperor

When I saw the capabilities of this service I was really amazed. Basically, the Link Emperor subscription you pay for it includes subscription to other services. So you only need an account with them to centralize our link building efforts.

They have several plans, $149, $349, $749 and… $2999 per month. YEAH! So I guess if you want to start with them you wil wnat to go with the cheaper plans, but also note that they have a 3 day free trial.

You really MUST see what it does, they also have a video demo at their site here: Link Emperor. It works with credits, each plan gives you a certain amount of link credits that you can then spend in the system. You have the ability to purchase additional credits if you like. The cheapest plan gives you 1,000 links to spend per day.

As I said, the system uses other services from one place, these include: high PR blog comments, forum profiles, linkwheels, social bookmarks, article links, link pyramids,web 2.0 properties, .edu and .gov profiles, link indexing, web directories submission, SE Nuke blasts, Google +1, private blog networks, videos, links from DripFeedBlasts and Dripable (which create comments and forum profiles on a drip fed manner).

And that’s just the beginning since their goal is to integrate any kind of worthwile links creation service in their system. Of course not all links cost the same amount of credits, a social bookmark is less expensive than a full SENuke blast for example.

But they are not just about link building. In fact they are really into ranking, and will help you with other features such as keyword research, tracking, keyword management. This last one is cool, it tells you what keywords you should put more efforts into. Indeed, it not just suggests keywords to use, but also what are the ones that need more boost, so you can create campaigns for it.

This service is really a beast and I just recommend you check it out because it could really be the one you need. For $149 as a starter price, a tons of things can be done. I am not using it, not yet, because I’m currently testing other services but this is surely on my list. Even for small niche websites this will be powerful.

Check out Link Emperor.

That’s the end for now.

I will not talk about XRumer or ScarpeBox as automated backlinks solution as if you use those to automate your links, it’s mostly spam. I use ScrapeBox to find awesome links sources such as high PR blog posts, yeah, even dofollow ones. Got several hundreds of PR4+ and PR5 with low outbound links just yesterday.

Other softwares that may give you principally one link source, as mentioned earlier, are article marketing, social bookmarking, RSS submission softwares, video submission software.

Basically for onle type of link source there is a software that can handle those. I have few ools from IncanSoft, I haven’t checked if they have updated their stuff but most of the ones I own have stopped working properly (ArticleBot never worked for me, SocialBOT, RSSBot, PressBot always had difficulties to go through posting process).

The best article submission software out there is Article Marketing Robot. Over 1200 article directories and you can add as many as you want, the ability to spin content of course and much more. This one piece of software can get you tons of backlinks, you can then simply pick the report and submit your links to get indexed to a service such as LinkClaw, Linklicious or Lindexed.

Okay, so as you may or may not know, I’m more into SEO when it comes to building sites that I want to monetize. The goal, even if you want to pay for it, is to get visitors see your page, offer, content, message. In other words: getting TRAFFIC.

Of course, the ultimate goal is to make money, and depending on what you are more comfortable with, you may have decided to make product reviews sites, CPA offer landing pages, optin box to build your list in several niches, or sell your product. But today there’s even more than your own pages hosted on your own sites, there is social media that comes in the game. And it plays a huge role. Not only for traffic because you can reach tons of people very quickly, but also for SEO, branding, interaction and more. PEOPLE.

So what came to my mind was this: what is your internet marketing plan – with people in mind -in its BIGGEST picture? What should this master plan involve?

Because I build affiliate sites that take the SEO route, my internet marketing plan is more powered by link building and free ways to drive traffic. But you will see that it can be adjusted to any plan, the first goal being to get traffic before you monetize it. So I’m not going to talk about creating content or outsourcing, this is not about that, and you should know when you have to do those.

So here is my Master Plan, or at least some of it since I don’t know if I thought about everything.

I’m far from doing this for all my sites, but I’m considering doing more of that stuff. Especially when you want to build long term businesses, to sell your own products, or even sell later your business or site.

I tried to be smart for once, I hope you will agree. My approach was this: what links look natural, from one type of site to another type of site. In the past you would you need a wide variety of links and all should point to your money site. Well that is still true, but it is strange that no other sites are linking to those too, right? So you should ask yourself, “what can I do to have people know about MY link, MY video, MY Facebook page, My money site”. Here we’re talking about PEOPLE to notice your content and links, but of course search engines will do too. But we want to do this for people, our TRAFFIC.

Many people would do this wrong and link stuff together to get link juice (which indeed matters) but that would not look natural. Here’s an example. Say you have found a high PR blog post that you comment on and it gets approved. Would you write a press release about your comment, and link to the high PR blog post? No, it’s not that newsworthy. You may want to ping the url of the post but not create a campaign for someone else.

However, what can be natural is something like this. You create a site, it’s brand new. So you write a Press Release to announce it.

You make a video presentation of your offer or website. The video will mention your link, both in the video and description. You create a facebook page for your business or offer. You can again create a press release to tell everyone they can now interact easily with you on Facebook. On your facebook page, you will share your videos, embed your optin form.

You then create web 2.0 pages (squidoo, hubpages), on which you can also embed videos, and the rss feed from your site. You also write articles to submit to article directories and turn articles into pdf or powerpoint to submit to document sharing sites. They all have links to your site and. You will then bookmark those.

If you subscribe to a high PR blog network, you can submit posts that will be drip fed over time and giving you constant baklinks to your site or web 2.0 properties.

Forum signatures or thread links can point towards virtually anything when it’s relevant.

So basically, you shoud find an angle to tell others what there’s been going around your business. For example if you have a video that is very relevant to a blog post, then you can mention the YouTube url inside the comment instead of using it in the website field.

Now, social bookmarking can almost be used for everything. But obviously, bookmarking a forum profile isn’t natural. Why would you bookmark a profile on a forum you are never active. Sure, you’re building a backlink to your backlink, it helps search engines. That doesn’t mean it should never be done, if you can find an angle. But in the approach of “building links that people would find natural”, it seems strange.

RSS feeds can be created for all your links, you may want to create separate feeds for different link sources. And then submit those to RSS aggregators.

Now here is some details about all the elements from the diagram.

Money Site – this is the site or page that you want to get traffic too. For any purpose, either getting a commission or getting an email on a form, or a like on your facebok page. Where the action takes place.

High PR Blog Network – This is the strongest links you can get to your money site. Use it to get links over time to it. These are strong enough to get ranked and some people only rely to them. But you will still want to add other links to keep things natural. Actually, we don’t care if those blogs recieve traffic, we just use them to get strong links and SERP boost. You normaly don’t have to create backlinks to the blogs in these networks as the owners generally do this to ensure your posts and links are indexed.

Web 2.0 properties – Web 2.0 sites were hot in the past, you’ve all heard about linkwheel. these are still powerful but needs to receive link juice too. There was a time when you could just create a linkwheel around a keyword and rank quickly. I never thought natural to have a squidoo page linking to a hubpage that had the same content, or at least content that means the same thing, cause it was spun. The better way to do it was either to keep the wheel NOT interconnected, thus having to link to them from other sources. Or having a differentunique article on each, then interlinking those would be fine. They have lost their power, still they are great to create a new layer of links on link pyramids for example.

Web 2.0 means user generated content. So it includes more than Squidoo or such, document sharing sites and video sites are in the web 2.0 category.

Doc sharing sites – Just like web 2.0 they were golden. There was a time that you can rank within 24 hours or less of publishing your document. Still a good way to get links.

Videos – YouTube is the biggest video site, it is also the biggest search engine. There are more search queries happening on YouTube than Google. YouTube is owned by Google and is still ranking on it and other search engines. Video can drive tons of traffic to your site or other pages that you want to promote. There’s more than YouTube though and you want to use these also to embed them in posts, web 2.0 content pages, social networks…

Blog comments – the ones that are not spammy. An easy way to get backlinks to your money site, video, fanpage. depending on what you want to promote you will have to decide if you put your link in the website field, or in the comment field. Sometimes you can just add it as a signature, but ou always want to be constructive in your comments. No “great post!” and then your backlink as a signature will be very effective. I like to quote a part of the article and comment on it and ask questions too.

.edu and .gov – Mostly blogs and blog comments too. These give some strong link juice, but again you have to play fair if ou want to get a chance to get approved. These can also be forums or other platforms that allow you to create content, where you will place your links. On moderated platforms I would only link to a main money site, not sure that .edu blog owners would approve a comment linking to a Squidoo page, though you never know. The key is to be constructive and targeted to the topic.

Press Release – To use when you have something news worthy. You just published your review or announced a bonus on your affiliate site, write one. Created your facebook fan page, go for it. A squeeze page where you give away a special report, again a press release is a great way to get links and rank better. Actually news sites rank well on search engines, and will receive traffic, so you want to be sure to have a message that encourages readers to visit your page.

Social Networks – Much necessary now to interact with others, but also to create social proof for your website. A popular website should certainly have a facebook fanpage or have people talk about it on social networks like twitter. So you need to get there.

Article Directories – I still believe article marketing works, I still see people sharing their experience by using them and making money. Just like web 2.0 sites they are nice to create a new layer of links, that you will then bookmark, or mention on a social network “written a new article…”, so people know about it and Search Engines too. Also, there are many article submission softwares, the best on the market being Article Marketing Robot. It can submit to thousands of directories, there are 1200 directories by default, but you can add much more on your own, there are many lists on forums. Once you get these many links, getting them indexed will give you a nice boost.

Forums – There are three type of links you can get from forums: signatures, profile links, thread links. Signatures are those links you can see at the bottom of each of your post. Profile links are those you create for your profile, you generally enter your home page url or anything else you want. Thread links are those you put inside a post, it is part of the discussion. These last ones may be the most important, because they bring direct traffic if they are relevant to the discussion. Forum profiles are more just additional backlinks, and nowadays are often deleted if you are not active. Signatures may also drive great traffic. If you are helpful on a forum and people see your links, they ma want to click on it. You want to make it catchy, and “sell a benefit” inside. You can link to virtually any place from forums, depending on the 3 link types.

Social Bookmarks – As I said earlier, bookmarks can be used for almost everything, though there are certainly places that would not seem natural to bookmark. Also to keep things natural you want to bookmark others stuff, hey maybe someone else’s blog post where you have a comment, but not necessarily. You can bookmark completely random things, and various places: a forum thread that you find interesting and where you encourage others to give their opinion because you already gave yours (with a link of course), a web 2.0 page, a video, deep posts from your site,social media pages… Social bookmarks are great to build links to your links, and can be also just made for YOU to remember what you like. So it doesn’t have to be made for others. But you want to keep a natural look to your account, so mix things up. And if you want a page of yours to make it to the first page of Digg naturally, submit killer content.

RSS – your site has an rss feed, your web 2.0 pages have rss feed, your article directories accounts have too, your video site profiles too. They can all be submitted to RSS aggregators and give more power to your links. Also, you can create an RSS feed from a list of backlinks, and then submit this one too. It helps getting your backlinks indexed. So ALL backlinks you have everywhere, can be contained in one or preferrably multiple XML feeds.

Web Directories – These are maybe the least important links. You will only use those for your own sites. The reason why you want to get those, is not for the SEO power they bring. But all things equal with you competitors, they could make a difference. And, as it looks natural to have a popular important site mentioned on social networks,I guess it is also natural to be listed on important web directories.

Conclusion

You can almost link everything together, as long as you can find an angle to do so, and that your link is relevant, from site to site. When a type of site have various ways to drop a link you will have to decide which one is the most appropriate but that shouldn’t be a proble at all if you do things naturally. Always ask the question to yourself, what resource would I like to be presented here with, if I needed. What do I want to see from others? that’s putting yourself in others shoes and building a serious and natural link web that will attract traffic.

More traffic sources can be added to those, we haven’t talk about banner ads, or pay per click advertising, but these would certainly be used to drive traffic directly to the money site.

I hope it was helpful for you. You can download the diagram (by the way, it was created ith the Draw module from Google Docs), just right click and save

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First, it’s been about 6 months since my last post on Internet Marketing Trip. I know, I know… I’m not a great blogger it seems, but I try to tell you things that I think matter, and if I don’t receive tons of visits because of the lack of updates, it doesn’t really matter. That blog will still get seen by a few and may help.

So during these 6 months (I wasn’t in vacation), few things have happened, I tried few experiments on my niche sites, trying to get better rankings, higer income, implemeinting other strategies. Not everything worked, but it gave me some insights, that I will share with you if you agree.

Before I go on, if you don’t know me, I’m mainly doing affiliate marketing, building review sites that I market via SEO. So I will mainly discuss the various SEO works I’ve been involved in.

(Let me log in to my PayPal account so I can check what I paid and subscribed to… and cancelled)

Blog Comments

Let’s start with Actually Rank – a service by Chris Rempel. If you know me, you certainly know I’m a huge fan of what Chris does, and I thought that joining AR would be a great deal. Well, I stayed two months subscribed, and then I thought it wasn’t the best bang for my buck I could get. Of course I’m commenting about it 5 to 6 months later and things may have improved.

I expected much more quality sources. Maybe I should have waited, but I think I took the right decision to cancel my subscription. Let me explain. Actually Rank provides you a list of blog posts where you can comment on. these blogs are all PR2+ and dofollow. It was great on the paper. Their system even has a rating score based on several SEO factors that are definitely great, no doubt about this. But I never bothered going through the 2000 links I got each month.

Indeed a lot of the best rated source I got were “bad” blogs. Which in the system means you either can’t comment on (comments closed), or site is not in english, or page doesn’t exist or other things like that that don’t allow you to place your comment.

Now, the service was made for those who also wanted to outsource their blog commenting. Great, but still my assistant would have to waste some time filtering out bad blogs. They had a feature where you could export all the links, which was good, but then removed it. The reason is that you could use these supposedly great blogs in softwares like ScrapeBox and spam the hell out of these.

I understood that, though ScrapeBox is much more than a spamming tool, and is only a spamming tool if you use it for spam. It does much more than that, and can very well give me thousands of high PR blogs I can comment on MANUALLY too. I’ll make a post just about it soon.

If I was able to import those links to ScrapeBox, I could have checked if the comments were open and if the page was still live (no Error 404 or the like).

That’s the first part of why I cancelled: the link source itself. Note that I DID comment on those blogs. I used the service because I truly believe that I didn’t need too many backlinks from those to rank, well I guess you need more than”only a few”.

That’s my experience. Still I know Chris shoots for quality stuff and I guess he will do its best to improve it. So it is still an option you can have a look to.

The second reason is the price. I entered at $69 per month, it is now $89 for the lite package. I think that getting only a list of blog posts for that price is a lot. For this price you can have comments written for you. Sure these are high quality dofollow blogs that re not spammed. But I can get a list of blogs like this (thanks ScrapeBox) for a one time fee of $57. And even if you tell me that you still have to run the software, well no, you can outsource it. Browse forums or go to sites like oDesk and search for ScrapeBox services and ask them to get you a list of High Pr blog posts, dofollow or not (upto you for natural profile), with low outbound links, filtered according to your own criterias. It can be done each month, and you then forward this to a blog commenter for manual, high quality comments.

But there’s even better. It seems contextual backlinks are strong, and on high PR blogs too. Even if I know PR is not the factor that determines ranking, it still is a score for some authority in the eye of Google. And they use it. So instead of blog commenting, you could subscribe to a blog network such as Build My Rank for $60 per month, and you will get links that will land on the homepage of High PR blogs. Sure you have to write the posts, or outsource it, the same way you would have to outsource blog commenting.

For Build My Rank, you just need 150 words posts. Quality non spun content. They will disapprove any bad content. And guess what, you can find writers that will post to your account and guarantee approval. So if their content is rejected, they fix it. It is a lot of work to post dozens of posts every day. I’ll have to write more about this in my next post.

This leads us to…

Blog Networks

Well, blog comments can certainly give you a huge boost. But I have to say, it seems blog networks are quite a fantastic way to get higher rankings. I subscribed to one, more on that later. Why I recommend you to join a blog network (or find a service that can submit posts to blog networks for you using their acount), is simply upon observation.

It took me some time to decide if I should jump in or not. I certainly wanted to see if others would get results, but certainly I didn’t want to waste money. Plus there are now quite many networks out there, all with good and not so good reviews. But the fact is that these work.

Here’s something you can try, go to ClickBank and check the e-Business and e-Marketing category. You will see the current top internet marketing products. Type those into Google, adding the word review, or bonus or just the name of the product alone. You will see affiliate sites that have been built especially for those products as they use the keyword (name of product) in their domain.

You will also see some blogs that have reviews for all these products. They are ranking for all products. If you analyze their backlinks, these come from blog networks. Now that Yahoo Site Explorer is dead, you can try OpenSiteExplorer.com, ahrefs.com and MajesticSEO.com. You will see homepage backlinks, actually, since these are blogs the posts are pushed in the archive and not appear on the home page anymore, but they have been indexed at that time.

Build My Rank is the one I would recommend upon my observations, again that’s only my observations. But still, I’ve seen PR2+ blogs linking to those same blogs again and again.

In my next post I’ll tell you more about blog networks and the one I use. I’ll publish that today.

Blogs are not the only SEO power you need

There’s much more than blogs to build links. Really outsourcing is absolutely needed once you want to have multiple sites, or want to promote more than one product on one site. It depends at the spped you want your business to grow.

So I’m not going to  make this post too much longer and talk about all aspects of SEO. But really, if you are not ranking, you may need to do or add something different. I’m not talking about competition, if you decided to go for top spot for broad terms like weight loss, finance, loans it will take a looooooong time.

Since the purpose of this post was to tell you what I’ve been doing during these 6 months, let’s go on.

SEO: Link Diversity

Recently I’ve been looking for All in one solutions, to have someone do link building to my sites, using a variety of link sources. There are quite a few on forums, but you could just go on Fiverr and check out for some SENuke services. I have tried few providers and some do really a good job.

Another source you can have a look to is WickedFire forum, especially their Links and SEO section where people sell their services. I’ve found one with some great work done for quite cheap. It’s LinkBytes.net, and here is their SERP Power Booster pack, they have others I consider too, but it seems this one has some nice link power for just under $40. What’s cool is the submission to blog networks, which will have blog posts drip fed for 2-3 months, plus they boost your backlinks too.

For other services you may find, you will have to get your links indexed. Building thousands of backlinks for your site means nothing if search engines never find them.

So you can use indexing services, or crawling services. These are not the same, crawling is cheaper, it is just to get your links spidered by search engine bots, and eventually some will get indexed. There is a debate on what you should do, if indexing or crawling is better. The truth is that most crawling services allow you to submit thousands of backlinks, so in the end you still get many of your links indexed.

I joined LinkClaw (elite package), for a one time fee of $47 (normally $97), which allows me  to submit upto 100,000 backlinks, and a total of 1000 domains. Their other packages are cheaper. There is a one time offer for $17 per month for unlimited sites and links. good if you’re doing it for others or blasting links from all over the web.

Others I consider joining are Linklicious.me (they have a free package), and Lindexed.com (50,000 links per day), but I will first see what LinkClaw can do for me, and anyway this was a one time fee. I have to admit I only joined LinkClaw few days ago so I need to wait a little bit to report results, but this will come soon.

Here are other All in One Solutions I’ve found.

• Linking Made Easy
• SERP Rockets – I want to try their package, they have some social media boost, which is now required to get better rankings or strenghten your authority/trust.

Fiverr

As I said, I used Fiverr many times, either to get content or to get links. I have always found good providers. It’s not that hard, you just need to search for what you want, sort by populartity or rating, read the reviews, and ask for a fix if it is needed. Don’t hesitate to open conversation with a provider if you want to know more.

This is the place where I got several SENuke campaigns made for me. But this is also where you can order several different link building campaigns and have a totally custom link building plan for your site. What I mean is that you can order an SENuke service from one guy, and a bunch of edu/gov backlinks from another one, and an article written, spun and submitted with Article Marketing Robot, and a press release written and submitted, and a video created and distributed… and so on. I just mentioned 5 types of gig, and that would only cost you $25.

And if you want to make some quick bucks you can create an offer for an all in one seo service on a forum and outsource the various tasks to Fiverr. It costs you $25 to do the above, you charge $50. It’s a simple middle man strategy that many others have been doing with sucess. Plus you get paid first, prior to outsource. Of course you need to get good and reliable providers first.

Content

Content itself is an essential element of SEO. There are on-site SEO factors such as title, h1, h2, h3 tags, description, keywords placement, alt tags and so on, but if you forget about these, you’re left with… CONTENT.

Is it still king? I don’t know. What I know is that great content that give what the visitor is searching for is certainly what you should aim for. And it seems that longer posts such as 1000 words one are preferred. I know, that sucks if you used to hear “500 words minimum”. Especially when you pay for content, the cost is now double!

Still I’m not sure all your content should be over 1000 words every time. Just like you don’t want to use the single SAME strategy for link building to avoid footprints, you also want to get great content from 250 words, to 2000 words. Acutally I don’t even know if there is a limit.

But I’ve read a lot from others and yes, great quality content and long posts rank better according to many. And some people only even rely on their content. They just add one 1000 words everyday to their site. This is maybe the difference between focusing on ONE website or spreading your efforts on multiple niche websites. And if you’ve been in the game for a while you may have created few small websites that need to be maintained and that’s a lot of work.

However only have one website means having all your eggs in the same basket. If that site doesn’t get any traffic anymore because it loses its ranking… it may become hard to come back. Although I think that if you always created your site with quality content in mind you shouldn’t get any trouble.

Now, you may want to try these kind of sites. Sure it may look a lot of work, but that’s just one article a day, and that’s a long term strategy. In few weeks you will post less often. As I’ve said, some people only rely on their content, they don’t do any kind of link building. Natural links will come if people find it, I’m sure you have already seen sites ranking with no incoming links, or very little.

Are Content and SEO Links quality always needed?

I’d say yes, and common sense. However there cases where it seems nothing seems to be done with quality in mind and still people can rank.

There is a ClickBank product which is a bestselling in its category, I’m also promoting it. So I’ve seen competitors sites. Well the top site (yeah number 1) for both the product name, and review keywords has only ONE page of content, about 450 words. And all the backlinks seem to be crappy blog comments. Thousands of them I guess blasted with ScrapeBox on autoapproved blogs.

For this same product, there is another website, I guess from the same guy(s) since the design is exactly the same. But the content is terrible. No sentences seem related and make sense, but the keyword is included here and there. It’s just one big block of content. This second one was also on first page, I checked today they are on the second page of Google.

So either these guys are trying an experiment and it works, or they do it with multiple sites and since they rank why would they give a chance to quality? Just one page of content, a comments blast and you’re on first page. There’s certainly something to learn and this will have to be tried too.

Conclusion

Okay this post is approaching the 2700 words  so I may end it now. I have more to post but let’s stay a little bit organized.

I will see you very soon as I’m going to post new articles about stuff I’ve been using and recommend. For now let’s sum up:

• You may want to join a blog network. One that seem to be a quality one is BuilMyRank, I’ll give you my review once I join, and tell you about others as well.
• Link diversity: You need to have links from awide variety of source. Everyhing you know. It certainly has to be consistent but see next tip or previous one for links that continually come to your site.
• You also want to index your backlinks, it’s building links to your links. LinkClaw (my link to the 50% discount) ensures they all get crawled.
• Post great content to your site, try with various lenght, and preferrably with longer ones. You will attract links naturally.
• Add some social proof: you need backlinks from tweets and Facebook or Google+.
• Try something different. If you’ve been doing the same things over and over, andit does’t give you the results you want, try something else. Test, tweak, improve.

There is much more (such as domain age) that now plays a role into rankings. But let’s start with those will you?

Tom

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You simply only have 24 hours in a day and you can’t just do every little task on every aspect of internet marketing. Actually, you can. But not in one day, especially when you have more than just one website. Micro Jobs Sites may be a smart solution, that’s the power of crowdsourcing: assigning a job to many people instead of one.

So I used the most powerful search tool on the planet… Google. Yeah I know, that’s a search engine, but actually when you plug something in it spits quite relevant results.

And I searched for micro jobs sites, where you can pay pennies for very short tasks. Of course you can pay more for longer tasks (like writing articles) but on these type of sites I don’t do it.

Here here the list of micro jobs sites I’ve compiled:

• MicroWorkers.com
• ShortTask.com
• MTurk.com (amazon)
• www.MicroJob.co
• simpleworkers.com
• myeasytask.com
• desklancer.com
• minute-jobs.com
• jobboy.com
• minijobz.com
• RapidWorkers
• MinuteWorkers.com
• tasksworkers.biz

I’ve only tried the first 2, I don’t know about the others! Of course Amazon MTurk is legit too.

You could also add Fiverr to that list though it’s more for a one time job, and it must be $5.

Basically these sites are almost all the same, and work all the same. They have various fees and some even tell you the minimum you should pay for a certain task. Some just let you choose the amount you want to pay. You can also choose the number of times your task should be done.

Here’s an example, I did this yesterday. You need to fund your account via PayPal or others if available.

I went to shorttask.com, and I asked one of my link (a squidoo lens) to be submitted to reddit. I wanted this task to be performed 12 times, so I should have about 12 votes on my link.

I did the same thing on microworkers.com, but this time for a hub at hubpages, I wanted this to be done 30 times.

I first shorten my URLs with bit.ly. then in my instructions told people to open the link in their browser, then submit the new URL to reddit, or Digg.

Results:

On ShortTask, I don’t know what happened but almost everyone submitted the bit.ly link, while I clearly stated the NEW link in the instructions. Now I could have simply posted my squidoo URL but I wanted to track the number of visits (you can do this if you create a bit.ly account) and also for not leaving footprints anywhere. Plus it gets you traffic on your site, or web 2.0 properties. For hubpages, traffic is a factor that increase your HubScore (important for dofollow backlinks).

On Microworkers, everything went fine, only 2 people didn’t digg my link.

On each of these websites you can ask for proof, you actually want to track the job, see that it’s really done. So you can ask them their profile URL as a proof, or the URL of the bookmark. Always ask for a proof of some sort. For a simple task like increasing views, you want to shorten the link so then you can ask what was the URL of the video as a proof, or the name of the channel.

Now on ShortTask, I know that I’d need to rephrase and be even more clear in my instructions. On microworkers I think they changed my instructions before these were live. So these were well laid out, they mentioned that bit.ly link was a shortened URL.

When you’re not satisfied, you can reject the job, and you’re not charged. Of course if you rate someone unfairly, your account could be banned too. I had to reject almost everything on ShortTask, but I will use them again with better instructions.

How much did I pay?

On shorttask, I paid $0.03 for each submission. With their fees, a total of $0.48.
On microworkers I paid $0.10 (it was the minimum required, or recommended, don’t remember). With their fees I paid $3.97.

On microworkers you must assign a task to a minimum of 30 people. I haven’t checked other websites.

Really you can get nice ranking jumps with stronger social bookmarking backlinks. I have seen my squidoo page getting better though most didn’t do the right thing. Same for my hub with microworkers.

What’s better, it’s fast, few hours later and you get things done. You can geo target the workers. For submissions like this you don’t care where the diggs are from. So International is okay, this is the number of votes that will make your link appear higher, not the country of the diggers, or redditers.

What could you ask?

• Well for just 1 cent, that’s $0.01, you can have someone open a youtube video. Ask them to watch it, or actually “just let it play from the begining to the end”. If I’m correct a video needs to be played for 30 seconds on youtube for a view to be counted.

  You want views to your videos because the more views, the higher it appears on YouTube search, and on Google too. You still have to optimize the description and tags for better results.

• You can also increase the number of articles views at EzineArticles so your article jumps in the “most viewed” of its own category, and more internal backlinks point to it. It will get more traffic from Search Engines too.
• You can ask for acount creations too on many services, social bookmarking, web 2.0 sites, email accounts, video sites…
• You can ask for blog comments, social bookmarking from $0.03

I saw someone paying $0.06 for twitter account creation, so it’s $6 for 100 accounts, without the fees.

Don’t ask for illegal or unethical stuff. I’ve seen people asking for clicks on their ads. I’m not sure f it was for AdSense or not but it is strictly prohibited by AdSense TOS and can get you banned. Some others ask for signups to CPA offers. If your CPA networks find out that all your signups are crap, they can kick you out too and may not pay your money, even the legit signups you got.

Increasing views on an article or a video may be grey hat or black hat for some but you’re not doing harm. But if you do things that can get you into troubles, don’t cry.

I talked about article writing, well the ones I use are:

• thecontentauthority.com
• articlez.com
• textbroker.com

Now you can of course try to use the micro job sites, maybe for rewriting. Just assign a rewriting task for each sentence of the article. You may pay just 0.05 for that kind of task, maybe more, I’ll try that. Of course ask for perfect english. By having all your sentences rewritten several times you can create more versions of your article, then spin everything.

What I see is something like this (just an example):

• Go to ShortTask, or MTurk
• Create one task for each of your sentence, asking it to be reviewed.
• If you pay $0.05 per sentence, that’s $1.5 for a 30 sentences article. Not bad at all!

You may adjust the amount you want to pay according to the number of words of each sentence. It may be time consuming but actually, you can generally save a template of your task to use later, so you can just change the sentence on each new task.

Plus each task can be renewed too. So if you go there to ask for backlinks, you can renew your task every month and get new backlinks to your site. Just an idea.

Okay I hope this article was helpful to you. All I want is that you actually DO something with this information. Try this and maybe you’ll find you get greater results.

Hey, 100 diggs at $0.03 on ShortTask would cost you just $4, fees included. If you have some valuable content this could be a great boost. Now imagine you invest $10 to get 100 diggs, 100 reddit votes, 100 delicious, 100 propeller and so on, 100 votes on your video, 100 blog comments… You can have a cheap SEO plan and these backlinks will be really powerful.

That’s it for micro jobs sites, have a great week.

But if you apply the simplest stuff consistently, you will make money. So let’s talk about one aspect of internet marketing that most marketers struggle for, getting traffic.

If you don’t pay for it, you wil have to go the SEO route. Without talking of on-page SEO, you’re left with almost one thing, and that’s building backlinks to your money site so it ranks better and better.

The long introduction:

Nothing new under the sun, and thats the purpose of this post. I think I have not seen anything new in terms of techniques to get ranked. Everyone seems to have a new “groundbreaking discovery and technique that let you dominate Google in 24 hours flat for all your keywords at the push of a button“.

Well, there’s none. Of course the process can be automated with the right softwares or services or anything, but what is done is not new.

What I know works: getting quality backlinks, which means relevant sources, relevant content from authority websites help you get ranked.

That’s why linkwheels got so much success. Now I don’t remember if I posted already about it but here’s the thing: the whole internet is a giant linkwheel. Some people are saying that linkwheels don’t work so well now compared to few months ago.

Well of course, the first linkwheel models suggested the same content, posted on several web 2.0 properties. You can spin the content, the meanings was still the same. I’ve never thought it was really providing value to the visitors to link to another piece of content that was saying the same thing, just rephased.

So then new linkwheel models said you should have related content, each web 2.0 property should target another keyword or the a variation. These web 2.0 sites are still interlinked between each other and also to your site.

Then I’ve seen that you should make a linkwheel, interlinked, but instead of linking to your site, each web 2.0 site links to a central web 2.0 site. This one at the top then links to your site. I think it’s what’s been called a link pyramid, and the most recommended way of creating a linkwheel. You should of course create several link pyramids like this one to have more backlinks to your own site.

Now tell me, if you think about it, what is new? Mmmm… right , nothing. Some guys have sold us eBooks and video training or any kind of course, just to tell us that:

• If you build web 2.0 properties to link to another web 2.0 property, this last one will become stronger.
• Because this web 2.0 property is stronger, the link you place there to your own website is also stronger. Great for SEO and rankings.

Huh… aren’t these just the basics of SEO?

Similar methods involved submitting your article to eZineArticles. Since EZA is an authority site, you should backlink your article so it stays and ranks higher in search engines. And again you get a solid backlink from a strong article page.

This shouldn’t be something to be amazed about. Any page you send backlinks to should rank higher. The better the quality of your backlinks, the better the rankings. It’s been like that since I started internet marketing over 3 years ago, and it was before (how could I learn it if it weren’t).

Now okay, I have to admit, I wasted my time, and money too on such super powerful techniques. The thing is you don’t really look for something new when you’ve been in this business for a little while, but more for a resource you didn’t know.

One of the example is the way to acquire links, like the ones sold in backlink packets. There are thousands of high PR sites that you can leave a profile link on to your money site. I’ve not done that sort of things that much. It does work, still it’s basic, getting backlinks to your page from strong sites.

With time, you find all these processes long and boring, so the money you make has to be reinvested, either in software for automation or/and outsourcing. My real work is finding profitable niches ane keywords, offers that convert well. Then the process is almost always the same.

Here’s what I do: I go to web 2.0 sites to add content and a backlink to my site. Then I drive backlinks to these web 2.0 sites. Impressive right!

No interlinking between each web 2.0 sites, though you could backlink them randomly, by creating another piece of content elsewhere.

Here’s a graphic for better understanding on the right (Click to enlarge). This is a little backlink plan. You can save it to your computer too.

I haven’t added the article directories, but I would write articles to link to my money site as well as web 2.0 sites. I also didn’t included that I would submit the rss feed of the money site, social bookmark it too. You can also ping every new piece of content.

The But for clarity I stopped here, in terms of “linkwheel”, which for me is clearly not one.

That’s the big part of the “work”. You should also vary your backlinks sources and anchor text. So you can for example throw some profile backlinks and info sites links (like whois sites) to have different sources. You can submit a press release about your new site too.

That’s all basic backlink stuff and well enough to get traffic to a niche website. Once you have a clear system in mind you can easily replicate it quickly for many more websites.

I also try to make a website that converts. As an affiliate that means I want most of my visitor to reach the offer page. So my best offer, most recommended product, is at a prominent place, above the fold, on every page.

That’s the conduit method, that I’ve been using from… a very long time. Sure I have my own twist… I change the WordPress theme I use once in a while

But really there’s nothing hard to understand. What is stopping me is procrastination, getting distracted. But once I have the right mindset I can have a full site done in a day or two, this include the promotion too (though I will spread the social bookmarking phase during the week). And once I outsource the content it gets really easy.

You should create systems, instructions and plans of actions for the people you want to ousource the work to. Then just focus on what you like.

That’s about it. Creating a nice website that promote others products. Backlinking with web 2.0 sites, backlinking those web 2.0 sites nd articles too. Submitting the RSS feeds. Blog comments. Ping.

If you target buying keywords, it’s even better.

Say your money site is around a product name, or niche name and internal pages are about products.

Then your web 2.0 properties will each target a buying keyword around a product name, and links to the product page on your site.

I think this post is already long and should come to an end. Basically, don’t go out after something new, except if it’s on something you really are interested in AND that you plan to REALLY implement in your marketing (video marketing for example).

Do the basics, repeat the basics. In terms of SEO, that’s building a well optimized site with proper tags, keywords and relevant terms, content, theme. That’s on-page SEO. As for the off-page SEO, that’s basically building backlinks from a variety of sources, quality backlinks on relevant content ages from authority sites.

Have a great week end.