February 5, 2012

Building Backlinks

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

Using Scrapers to your advantage.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then I’m sure you saw the keyword spam I wrote yesterday. I mainly did it for a test. This blog has always been a target of splog scraping blogs. I get content syndicated all the time and for the most part I ignore it. I know a lot of people complain about the practice of this all the time and while yes it is annoying and the spammers get a little of your content for free. At least that has been my experience, if they took the entire article then I would get perturbed, but for a sentence or two I’m not going to spend my time chasing them down, especially when they leave me a link.

Well lately the spammers have left me along and have not been grabbing my content at all. Then the other day when I posted my ten steps to better Adsense earnnings they jumped all over me. And when I say jumped my Askimet filter filled up. One tihng I noticed is some of the sites that linked to that post where not of the make money type splog. I had Weight Loss splogs, Golf Tip splogs and a host of others. Well it occurred to me, since they are going to do this anyway how can make them work for me. So I set down and started thinking of all the keywords I could think of and I wrote my keyword filled post. Well what do you think happened. They jumped all over me again.

From the two posts, I gained 32 backlinks to my blog, now these are not great links and I would be surprised if I every got a visitor because of them, but they did kick my technorati authority up three points and lowered my rank 6K spots. Now this is not something I would do a lot, but its interesting that a technique such as this could be used to trick the spammers into working a little for you. Afterall they are going to steal your content anyway, you might as well get a little something back.

***Update**** I need to do a little update to my figures above. Since they liked this post too, I’ve gained 9 more backlinks and Technorati jumped another 7 Authority points with another 8K jump in blog spot.  If I could get a couple of you readers to write  a post and link to this one, then I could break 100 in Authority now. Hint Hint :-)

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1000 EC Entrecard Contest Winners

Well thanks to everyone who participated in the 1000 Entrecard Credits up for grabs contest. There where quite a few entries and I personally think the contest was a success. I’ve gained several backlinks as a result of this contest and I’ve seen a jump in traffic and my Technorati authority.

 

Overall, I feel good about giving away the credits to the following participants.

1st Place — Nick Throlson wins the 500 credit prize.

2nd Place –  Andy wins the 300 credit prize.

3rd Place — Quwen Quiola Qyiz wins the 200 Credit Prize.

Winners where chosen at random by placing their respected entries in a bucket and drawing out the three names. I’ll be sending out the credits right after I publish this post.

Thanks again to everyone that participated and I will be adding links to everyone’s blogs on my resources page in a couple of days. I need to spend some time with the family since its Christmas so I won’t have time to update the page until later on in the week. Don’t know why I decided to end a contest on Christmas Eve. That was pretty stupid of me, but it was still smart to hold the contest. :-)

Merry Christmas to everyone and I’m sure I will be holding more of these type contests in the future. Might even cough up some real money for prizes.

 

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