Getting backlinks on a budget

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The Best IM Tools To Start Out With

In order to make money, you really have to spend a little, any businessman could tell you that. Problem is, most of us don't have much money to spend. There are a ton of progams out there that all claim to have everything you need to earn income online and be an internet marketer. Most are absolute rubbish, but a few are true to their word. Problem is, they cost an arm and a leg to get in.

Now I do have adsense on this blog, mostly just to show a good example of how you can easily set up a blogger blog to make money. Other than the adsense advertisements that don't make me any money anyway (because the kind of people who read my blog don't click ads), I seriously suggest looking into the tools I have listed. Yes, I am an affiliate with them, and yes I hope to make a little cash off of your signing up, but these three programs I have advertised here are by far the best bang for your $$$ to get backlinks and I seriously suggest looking into them.

I have already written a post about how to get the most out of your Article Marketing Automation account. That is an incredible system that just blows me away every time I use it. The potential is huge, and once the sites age, you'll have a great system with minimal work. Right now, it takes just a little work to get things going. Running Bookmarking Demon on your pingbacks is a great way to get the link juices flowing. I really recommend Article Marketing Automation. I'd stay on just for the spinner they have, it's great.

Connect Content is another great system. Low cost and well worth the few bucks a month price tag. For the money, you won't find a better deal out there, and since everything is pretty legit, you have very little to worry about.

Finally, I recently joined up with Backlink Solutions. They opened their doors for a short time, and I jumped on the bandwagon. They have a much smaller reach than either of the other systems, but they have a powerful technique for making each link count. Well worth the price if you ask me.

Put together, these three systems cost less than most of the major networks out there. Individually, each is great and can be very useful, but stack them up, use one to promote the other and such... well for less than it would cost you to join LV or TK, you've got yourself pure Internet Marketing gold. That's something any Internet Privateer would be interested in. If you need any help figuring out how to do this, then drop me a comment in the blog and we can talk.

Like what you see? Do me a huge favor and use my links to sign up. You don't have to, but it costs you nothing, and it certainly would help me continue to test out other systems and bring the results back to you.

Oh, and one last note, before you sign up to these services, make sure you know what you are doing and how to use them appropriately. The last thing anybody wants is to get G slapped.

Internet Privateer Out.

Social Bookmarking for SEO

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Social Bookmarking for SEO

Social bookmarking has become a very popular method for sharing and dispersing information on the internet. When it comes to earning income online, social bookmarking can be a fickle beast. It can be a great way to get lots of traffic to your website if you manage to write something that is attractive enough to a broad enough range of people. But in order to get the most from Social bookmarking it takes a bit of work to get set up.

*Disclaimer- There are a good number of very good SEO's who avoid the social bookmarking scene like the plague. To them it is a time waster that would better be spent gathering higher quality backlinks. They are right. Social bookmarking is not for those who are trying to make adsense blogs, for those who want clicks on ads since the traffic you get isn't targeted to your product like it would be in Google. What it is good for is if you are trying to build an email list, or just get overall more traffic to your website and possibly try to create a community. That is the power of social bookmarking.

Pros and Cons of Social Bookmarking

Let me start off by saying that social bookmarking isn't necessarily good for selling things. It's not the best way to get clicks, sales, or signups, nor is it the best way to SEO your site. You aren't getting targeted traffic like what you would get from Google. What it is good for is getting the word out about your content, drawing traffic, and possibly going what is called 'viral' which means your website gets its 15 minutes of fame as thousands upon thousands visit it for a few days. If you have optimized your newsletter signups well, you might manage to get a hefty boost to your email list and rss subscribers.

From an SEO standpoint, a social bookmark backlink is a low quality backlink. They are not ranked very high anymore with Google, and many of the big social bookmarking sites add "nofollow" to the link, so it's not ranked at all with Google. However, there are a number of sites that do follow your links, and it adds a nice diversity to your backlink profile as well.

So, social bookmarking isn't the end-all answer to your SEO needs, but it is one avenue to explore in an overall optimization strategy.

Guide to Social Bookmarking for an SEO

There are literally thousands of SB sites out there. Too many to keep track of, much less post to. The best thing to do is focus on one or two major social bookmarking sites as your core submission sites, and one or two niche social bookmarking sites specific to your niche, and just use an automated or semi-automated bookmarking service to take care of the rest. More on that later.

Building your Core Social Sites

To build your core bookmarking sites and niche bookmarking sites, choose which ones you will focus on first. What you need to do is appear to be an active and participating member of the site. So fill out your profile with details, add a photo (doesn't have to be yours), join a couple groups, and add some friends from those groups. This will make your account appear legit and less like a spam account. Stumbleupon, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, and Propell are all good sites to look into for major general topic social sites.

Once you do that, you can start submitting sites to the network. But don't only submit your own stuff, it will look like self promotion and nobody will pay attention to it. It's much better, with your main social sites, to submit a good variety of different links and websites, intermixing your own stuff in. Comment on other postings and look like an active member. Gradually, once you gain trust and influence in the community you can start focusing more on your own stuff. On the big sites, this grows your network and makes you look legit. On niche social sites, it is very easy to become a big fish in a small pond very fast, you can gain influence over the community and what you submit will be taken seriously.

Semi-Automatic Bookmarking submission

Now, once you have started to build up your core sites, you can start to use a automatic/semi-automatic system to get your link on the rest. I like http://socialposter.com/ personally. It has a list of over 70 sites, an option to select only the sites that allow dofollow, and if you select "Frame Submit" it makes everything easy and much faster than doing it without the help.

You will need to go in and sign up individually to each of those services. It is a one-off, if tedious, project that will reap rewards.

When using that to submit, make sure you vary the titles, descriptions, and tags that you enter in. You don't want all the titles to look the same since that would quickly be flagged as Spam from google. You want it to look like 70 different people submitted a page to 70 different services. Although be sure to include the keywords you are targeting, it may be a low quality link, but it's still a link.

Social bookmarking this way is free to do, the only thing it costs is time.

Automated Submission

Social Poster offers a program to download that will submit automatically to 120ish websites. I have not tested that though. The reason being is there is a far superior, if more expensive program called Bookmarking Demon. It automates the submission to hundreds of social sites, randomly crawls your websites and submits articles, and it also automatically injects submissions from other popular sites to effectively cloak your own self submissions. It's almost untrackable and very effective at social bookmarking. It's got a hefty price tag, but is worth it if you want to get hundreds of low quality links.

Social Bookmarking for SEO Step by Step

1. First focus you efforts on 1 or two major sites, and one or two niche social sites
2. Start off being active- Join groups, comment, add friends
3. Don't just self promote at first, submit lots of different kinds of links
4. When submitting to multiple services, vary the titles and descriptions (always include a keyword)
5. Decide which is more valuable to you, your time or your money, and choose either an automated system or a semi-automated system

If done correctly, then you should develop a decent portfolio of deeplink backlinks to your websites, and have a steady increase in traffic as well.

Getting the Most Out of AMA

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Getting The Most Out of Article Marketing Automation

As you know, I'm a huge supporter of the AMA system. I haven't yet signed up for the PLRpro system that is part of the bigger picture, but their project green button looks very promising and if I manage to juice up my online income a little more I will for sure be signing up with them just to see what it's all about.

But for now, I want to share a few tips and tricks with you about getting the most out of the AMA system.

See, AMA is amazing, let me first make that clear. It is worth twice what they charge (but i hope they don't double their fees). With this system you can have unique, quality, optimized, and anchored content sent out to the whole network. You can receive it as well. But because of the nature of the beast, your posts are going out to some very low PR web pages, if they have any PR at all.. a good portion aren't even spidered yet. But don't let that frustrate you! Every challenge is an opportunity to profit in disguise.

Booster Articles

What I do to fix this, is I have a few general "booster articles" that I allow me to put in a broad range of anchor text and still be mostly relevant. When I start getting my article out there on websites, I check some of the links manually.

Some questions I ask are:

• Do they have PR?
• Are they indexed?
• Is the site gonna be there for a while?

If the answer is yes, then I change the anchors in some of my booster articles to throw out some links to 1-3 of those articles, letting them run in the system for a while. Thus you are driving links to those articles, boosting their PR, giving them more juice to give to you. Just be sure that the anchor text you are giving the booster articles aren't KW's in direct competition with your own. Also, make sure your booster articles are VERY rewritten. Like 300+%. It's better to spend a little more time and make a good article that will stay fresh in the system for a long time. Non fresh articles are like 3 day old fish. They stink.

Post articles linking to your site. Send out links to posted articles. Boost PR of links coming to you. Reap the rewards. It's the three tier system, entirely through AMA.

Creating a niche blog

This wasn't completely my idea originally. I got it off a good friends Make Money Online website: Lost Ball in High Weeds.

What you do is add a general site to the network and watch what kind of articles you get on the site. Once you get a good number of articles, check out what the majority are about. If you get a ton of articles on one subtopic, then you've got yourself a niche blog in the making. Go through and optimize the blog. Delete the off topic posts (this may not be totally kosher with AMA...), add some backlinks, and you've got yourself an instant, minimal work, targeted niche blog. Throw on an Ebay store or whatever you want and watch the profits roll in.

There are more tricks I could share with you, but I'm in a rush right now and I have to go. What are your favorite AMA tricks?

Make money online with Secrets to link building

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Link Building Techniques That Will Make You Online Profit

Making money online is all about getting traffic to your blog. The best way, for lots of reasons, to get traffic to your blog is by getting backlinks. Link building is as important as writing content. In the last article I wrote I told you the secrets of how to write articles to obtain backlinks. I hope you checked out the offer to sign up to AMA for free. They are an amazing resource for link building. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

At this point, if you are totally new to the world of the internet (it's a series of tubes...), profiting online, link building, SEO, blogging, or making websites then you probably are "wondering what exactly is a backlink?" If this is you then let me explain- a backlink is a LINK that points BACK to your website. You will see lots of backlinks all the time on my blog. Most of them point back to my own site, so don't bother clicking on them. Or do... I don't really care.

See, the more backlinks you have, the higher Google puts you in their search engine for the text that is in the backlink. This is called link building So if you have 1,000,000 backlinks for 'Click Here' then you will be the king whenever somebody searches for 'Click Here.' Too bad your blog has nothing to do with clicking... or here... So, based on this "logic" one can clearly see that if your website is about puppies, then you want a lot of backlinks that have 'puppies' as an anchor. If you don't know what anchor text is, read my post about how to write an article online. If you can get 1,000,000 backlinks for puppies, well then you are in Google puppie business so to speak. That's a very soft cuddly place to be.

Now, the next question on all of you Online Privateer's minds is: I want to make lots and lots of money online, so- How do I get lots and lots of backlinks?

Good question. It deserves a good answer. Everybody wants to know the secret to good link building. There are thousands of answers out there for how to get backlinks, most of them legit and worth persuing. And honestly, I'm not here to repeat them. They will say things like social media, writing articles, commenting on others blogs, guest posts, blah blah blah blah. Sure all of those ways work. Sure you can get some decent backlinks from doing it that way. Sure you will probably die of old age or boredom, or worse: give up on trying to earn money online by doing it this way.

I'm not gonna recycle the same old crap. I'm gonna share some real secrets with you.

Secrets to Link Building 301

Secret #1- Make money online with onsite backlinks
Use your own blog to give yourself targeted backlinks. You'll notice that I do this shamelessly. The only reason I write such ridiculously long blog posts is so that I can jam more keywords and backlinks into the body of each post. More backlinks means more juice with search engines.

A good rule of thumb is that to only link to yourself once every 150 words or so. Also, don't link to the same page with the same anchor text more than once. You can link to the same page with different anchor text with no consequences, but otherwise it gets flagged as spam and gives you no juice at all. We like juice.

Secret #2- Earn profit online with deeplinks
Don't just link to your main page. You've got tons of content on your site (right?) link to those pages as well with targeted backlinks. These are called "Deep Links." Oooh. Now class, we like deep links. Give all your pages and posts some linky love. This will help get those pages noticed and juiced up by the G-meister.

Secret #3- Rake In Online Income with dofollow link building
If you insist on commenting on others blogs, then you might want to focus on blogs that have the plugin called "Commentluv" and/or "Keywordluv" enabled. Even better are the blogs that have these as well as "Dofollow" on their comments. Commentluv takes one of your posts from your RSS feed and adds it to the bottom of your comment. Keywordluv lets you link to your website in the name field of the comments with a keyword. Typing something like "Roy @ Motorized Wheel Chairs" gets you a backlink for... Motorized Wheel Chairs!

Because I'm such a nice guy, here is a huge list of dofollow blogs that help you earn money online.

I'm a fan of this plugin for the simple reason that it's ingeneious and very community building. It attracts people to comment on your blog as well, if that is something you care about. So I think everybody should share a little Commentluv.

Although let me be frank with you, these links aren't worth much. They rarely are relevant, and google devalues links in comments as well. So they are better than nothing, but not by much. I really recommend the ConnectContent program as a very low cost alternative. I can vouch for the effectiveness and ease of use this program offers. It's almost to easy to get backlinks with them. (see the next secret for more reasons why it is good)

Secret #4- Earn Consistent Income Online with more backlinks
Join a link exchange network. Not one of those sites where you buy links and get paid to put their links in your posts. Although this currently works, the big G-bomber no likey no mucho. So I will only promote G-Kosher things here. Usually.

What link exchange networks am I talking about then? Well, I already gave you a SWEET tip with AMA. Now I'm going to give away my next secret weapon- ConnectContent. This network is an exclusive network designed specifically to get and share backlinks in a totally legal kosher and whitehat way. That's all I'm going to say about that.

Secret #5- Become rich online with even more Relevant and One Way Links
When will these secrets stop! Actually, this is the last one. Unless I think of another one. If you really want to become rich and make money online, then start a blog. Start another blog. Start another blog. Aaaand, start another blog. You get it? If you have 5 blogs, then you have five resources that you can build up to give and share excellent links with each other. The more sites you run, the more relevant, and one way backlinks you can offer.

Notice I said relevant, and one way. Relevant because it's important that the links not be out of place in the post they are in. (Like the vinyl fencing link up top) A links relevency is almost more important than the PR of the page its located. One way because a one way link is better than a recipricol link. Recipricol links are when you say I'll link yours if you link mine. They are better than nothing, but not as good as a one way link. Now if you have only 3 websites, you then link them together so they form a triangle, one linking to the other to the other to the other. That way all three sites are linked together with relevant one way links. However be wary of services on the net that do this sort of thing for a fee. Check out this 3waylinks.net review to see why.

Remember, link building is like caring for a bonsai tree. It takes time and lots and lots of patience. I'll write an article on this later, but it takes an average of two months or more for any link you manage to get to even start giving you credit.

Ok, that's it for tonight kids. Now, go forth my internet privateers and Earn Income Online (with backlinks)!