Building Backlinks
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Many people consider building backlinks to a site one of the most important things you can do to help increase search engine rankings. I would say after creating interesting and unique content that this is true. Well really if you build backlinks you don’t have to worry as much about creating unique content. With enough backlinks Google and the other SE’s will still send you traffic.
A lot of people in IM don’t take the time to build up these links and it may be responsible for some people not making very much with their sites or blogs. I have a theory on why this is. First thing building backlinks is a time intensive process and since most people get into IM part time at first then there is just not enough time to build backlinks and create content.
I know this was my problem when I was doing IM just part time. I just did not have time to work on my off page SEO tasks so I let them go. I attribute this failure of mine as the main reason I did not start earning more money earlier in this game.
After I started working on building up some links to my niche sites, that is when I started to see increased traffic and as a result increased revenue.
Lets face it building links is boring. Not only does it take a lot of time, but the actual process of emailing people asking for links, submitting to directories, or social bookmarking is pretty much just boring. Then you have the whole problem that you will keep submitting the same text in all the bookmarks which raises flags at Google.
Well I recently was invited to beta test a program which I wanted to share. I’m not associated with this other than being a beta tester and seeing some great results in just a couple of weeks as a beta tester.
I was invited to try out a new service launching named The Link Juicer and its exactly that.It gives you link juice without you needing to spend hours and hours trying to build links to social sites and other blogs. Its a set it and forget it system.
I’ve been playing around with it on a couple of sites, including the one that I set up for my Hundred Dollar a Day Challenge.( Yes I know I owe you guys an update on my progress there and I promise I will be writing some update posts soon). Well on that blog, I’m up to 50 visitors a day on average with a couple of hundred page views per day. Right now Adsense is about 2 bucks and steadily growing. I’ve done know promotion outside of the link juicer as I wanted to see how the program works for a brand new site. Over all its not bad.
Another cool thing about this system is it allows you to spin your content. So I can create a single campaign and define multiple titles and change the posted content randomly, which makes it look much more natural. Right now I’ve rejumpstarted the traffic on a couple of my other niche blogs and the brand new one for the Hundred Dollar Challenge is starting to take off. The best part about this is I only spent about 30 minutes setting up my campaigns( which you can run 50 of at a time) and then I’ve just enjoyed the traffic.
Right now you can get in the program, but I do think its going to launch soon and from my understanding the first month will be free. This is a pretty good deal to build up hundreds or thousands of backlinks to your site for just 30 minutes time investment.
You can sign up for the their list and they will tell you when you can get your free month. If you are really serious about earning cash on the net and if your traffic is not where you want it, then you will want to give this a try. Sign up for The Link Juicer Trial
100 Dollar a Day Challenge
I was cruising over at the Warrior Forum yesterday and came across this interesting post about Steve Crooks who started a challenge to see if he could take a brand new blog and have it earning 100 dollars a day with Adsense within 3 months. I love to see these types of challenges as they motivate you to succeed. Now whether you make the goal or not its that you actually made a goal. Steve did not make his goal of 100 dollars a day, but he did build a blog that will keep growing and will allow him to generate additional passive income.
I’m reading a book currently by Chris Gardner( he is the guy the the Will Smith movie, “The Pursuit of Happiness” is about). Chris’s latest book is titled start where you are and it has some very good advice. I’m not through with the book yet, but the jist of it is to not be afraid to take chances and use the talents and resources you have to achieve your goals. This is exactly what Steve did with his challenge. He made a public declaration of what he wanted to achieve and then he worked towards it. While some may say he failed because he did not achieve 100 dollars a day. I say he is a winner because he tried.
He got me to thinking perhaps I’ll challenge myself to produce better results than Steve. I discovered a niche last week which has a lot of potential. I have only posted a few articles to the blog I set up and the domain is brand new. This puts me in a position to take the same challenge as Steve, but add my own flavor of promotion and strategy.
This will allow me to do two things. First it allows me to challenge myself to work on this project which is important, because I was recently laid off from my day job and Internet Marketing is my only source of income. While I’m earning enough to pay all my bills and have a little left over, I could always use more and an additional $3 grand a month would come in handy.
I’m not going to reveal this niche, but I will explain my process and provide another niche which could be just as profitable that I’ve found, but have no plans of promoting.
This also gives me something to blog about on this site and perhaps it will help someone learn some new techniques from the process I show with this and how I build blogs to earn money.
Lets start with the awstats from my brand new blog right now. You will see that I only set it up on the 11th which is the same day I registered the domain. right now there are 10 posts on it and I have a list of two hundred post titles which I need to add to the blog before I’m going to be able to reach my goal. And even then its questionable as its really hard to bring a blog from nothing to 3000 dollars in three months or even six months, but I’m going to give it a try. Its not something I’ve ever done, so it will be learning experience for me as well as anyone reading this blog.
Do you Twitter
I have to admit that I’ve pretty much resisted this entire twitter craze going around, but I think I may have been missing out. Every time I went on twitter I was bombarded with people selling this or selling that and I did not see a lot of sense in it.
I see people with 100s of thousands of followers and following just as many people. There is no way you can keep up with all these people so I did not see the point.
Well I broke down a couple of weeks ago and started twittering a good bit on an account I created. I started adding followers and in return they started following me. Well I normally use Live Writer to blog and there is a plugin for it that allows you to send every blog post to twitter. What I found was that people started coming to my blogs from my posts from me telling people about it on Twitter.
I’m not one of these people who push an affiliate program with every tweet. I’m sure these are the people who read some eBook on how to make millions with Twitter and now they are pushing a some money making link every chance they get.
Now if that is your thing, then who am I to judge, but its not the way I would do things. To me Twitter is a networking tool which you can use to build you brand and blog awareness. This may be a longer term approach and I may not get paid a couple of dollars tomorrow for my tweets, but over time using Twitter as a networking and brand building tool will produce more money in the end. I’ve always lived by the motto sacrifice today for tomorrow.
I recently created a twitter account for this blog. If you want to follow my tweets check me out at http://twitter.com/nononsenseIM I still need to create an unique background so I can brand it better, but I’m thinking of getting a new theme for this blog so I was waiting until after I decided on a theme for this and brand the twitter account the same.