How to Drive Traffic With Backlinks

One day an aspiring affiliate marketer purchases super affiliate Rosalind Gardner's best selling book   The Super Affiliate Handbook and while reading a reading on the section on how to draw traffic to your affiliate site you come across the term "backlinks". You're like "What Are baclinks?" Well, if you're going to drive traffic  make money  from promoting your affiliate sites through the content on your blog/site you'll have to get acquainted with this term. But be forewarned. Building backlinks is not an overnight flash.. Just like any other enterprise, it takes time to attain backlink glory.. With hardwork and diligence, the traffic,which , hopefully should convert into cash will start flowing to your blog/site.

So What are Backlinks?

Well, backlinks are links that are directed to your website/blog. They're usually links to websites whose content or theme is similar to that of your blog/site. Backlinks are absolutely crucial in that they determine how popular your blog/website is- the higher the number of backllinks you get, the more popular your blog/site. Even more important, search engines such as google give high marks to sites that have quality backlinks and consider these sites more relevant when conduction search queries. When you drive traffic to your blog/site through these backlinks, it gains more press.

Just merely getting quality inbound sites is not enough. Search engines calculate the relevance of your site to the keywords used to search your site  to ascertain the quality of those inbound links. for instance, let's say I have a site about race cars, and I receive a backlink from a blog/site about Ferraris, then that backlink would be more relevant than the backlink from a blog/ website about dog food.  Be forewarned though, if you're thinking of using illegal tactics to achieve inbound links search engines such as google are already ahead of you. No thanks to unscrupulous webmasters using hidden links or automatically generated pages to gather backlinks, search engines have made it doubly difficult for such unscrupulous activity to flourish.

So How do you build backlinks to your website?

Use Comments Section on Your Website/blog

The comments section will be the perfect place to build your backlinks. Every comment made about an rticle on your blog/website helps in building your backlinks. I Did you realize that every comment left on your block serves as a backlink? think about it. The more comments readers make about your article, the more backlinks you build fro your blog/site. It also helps even better when the reader's comments  includes keywords from your  blog/site which, in turn help your blog/site surge up the page rankings.  Make sure to include the most important keywords  in the titles of your articles  to to improve the quality of your  backlinks.

Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is also another effective way of getting backlinks for your blog/site. You find a blog  whose theme and content is similar to yours and then seek permission from the owner of the blog to guest blog on his blog(for want of a better term. Just leave the link at the end of each post and the backlinks and the traffic should start building up.

Article Marketing

If anybody tells you article marketing doesn't work don't listen to them. Article marketing is probably the easiest and cheapest way to get backlinks to your blog/site . Just write articles loaded with keywords similar to those on your blog/site, and submit them to as many article directories as you like. Most importantly, leave the name of your blog/site in the resource box for readers to link back to if you want traffic to head in your blog/site's direction. There are so many article directories out there you could submit your articles to. Article Directories such as ezines.com and articlesbase are quite popular among affiliate marketers.  However, if you want to save yourself the trouble of  submitting your articles manually you may want to consider using automated article submission programs like Article Demon to make the submission process that much faster. If you know next to nothing about article marketing I suggest you purchase the Beginner's Guide to Article Marketing. Once you get the hang of article marketing, you then buy the article demon.


So as you can see backlinks are quite essential to the popularity and health of your blog/sites. They are probably the most important part in your quest to fly up the search engine charts.  With a little bit of hard work and perseverance your blog/site will gets loads of traffic which should convert into cash for your cash register.


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Prosper as an Affiliate Marketer in These Tough Economic Times

As I'm sure you are aware, we're in probably the toughest economic downturn since the Depression. I'm sure some of you have all kinds of crazy thoughts swirling around your brains like "Are my profits going to be wiped away by  derivatives?" and so on. Not to worry, it wont get that far. You can prosper as an affiliate marketer in these tough  But some good news though. Turns out that affiliate marketers have defied the burning flames of the downturn. If anything, the affiliate marketing industry is growing quickly than most people imagined.   Youou can join the growing band of  crisis-immune affiliate marketers if you  apply the following tips.

Focus on Keywords

Keywords  are probably the most important factor for any online business in this crisis. You have to make ranking your keywords as high as possible your primary objective in these tough times. You must re Get started with less competitive(or multi worded) keywords and then work your way down to more popular keywords.Try aiming for top five listing, particularly on Google . Once you succeed you should have no problem ringing  your cash register. For effective keyword research I suggest Rapid Keyword.

Keep in Touch with Potential Customers

Keeping in touch with potential customers  is absolutely critical. Make use of your autoresponder  to send messages to your customers and establish relationships with them. In so doing, you build a huge contact list of these customers who should have subscribed to your newsletter on your affiliate website. You can achieve this goal through social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. These sites, in a way also act as autoresponders and list builders as they create opportunities for list building. But if you are looking for a traditional autoresponder, try GetResponse.

 Hit on Residual Income

Residual income will come in handy for you in these difficult times. Make one sale and you get paid as long as that customer continues to patronize your product. Now how is that for regular cash flow?  Even better it frees up time for you to go on vacation and other things that you otherwise never had time to do. If you have. When you get back, you can concentrate on promoting your product while the cash register continues to ring. I know of someone who is making residual income from his first sale that he made five years ago. Go figure. If you are looking for affiliate directories that have affiliate programs with residual incomes, I suggest affiliateseeking.com, and affiliateguides.com

Hook Up with the experts. 

If you're just getting started with  Affiliate Marketing,especially in this economic downturn, you need to hook up with the experts. You need to seek out those who've been there and done all that and learn how  they got started and what tactics they employed to be successful in their businesses.  I suggest you sign up for Alan Gardyne's Affiliate marketing newsletter on his associate programs.com forum. He is one of the heavyweights of the affiliate marketing industry. I really learnt a lot  from his newsletter. Another affiliate marketer you definitely want to learn from is Rosalind Gardner. Her best selling  book Super Affiliate Handbook  breaks it down in simple English how she got started and uses real life examples including her own affiliates sites as illustrations of how to succeed in affiliate marketing and much more.


So, it's possible to prosper as an affiliate marketer in these hard times. you just need to be smart by following the above suggestions.. Do that and you should be laughing all the way to the bank

How To Succeed in Affiliate Marketing without a website?

You've been reading about affiliate marketing and you're like 'yea I think I can do this.' But there is one hiccup! You dont have a website. Then you go ' oh oh!' I dont know the first thing about website design; Maybe this is not for me!' You can succeed in Affiliate Marketing without a website. Not to worry! you can make it as an non-website owning affiliate. Rember that  all you have to do as an affiliate marketer is to refer prospective customers to the merchant website and get paid commissions(lucrative ones) every time  the merchant makes a sale. Here are few suggestions as to how to succeed in affiliate marketing without a website.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing is rapidly becoming the most popular form of marketing a  product. And you dont need a website to do this. Just get together emails from your visitors and then email to them  information that is relevant to the products and affiliate programs and other solutions. The . Just send medium-sized text ads  and dont forget to include your affiliate link because it's the only means by which your customers can get to your merchant's website. Most important, the information that you send must beneficial to them. If you're looking for reliable email marketing services to subscribe to I suggest GetResponse, and Listwire. Click on the banner below.

Promote Your Affiliate Product offline
< Most people dont realize this but promoting your product offline is just as effective as promoting it online. You could promote your product on media such as brochures, classified ads and flyers. Classified ads tend to have better conversions compared to the other two as they are more targeted and  the response rate is a lot higher.

Create A Free e-Book
Writing a free e-book could be the best thing you could ever do to promote your affiliate product. So long as the content is of benefit to your readers, they'll keep coming back for more. Just make sure that the e-book's content is relevant to the affiliate product you are promoting. Most importantly, refer your readers to your merchant's website by adding your affiliate link to the site.


Write Ezine Articles
Writing ezine articles is another fantastic  method of promoting your affiliate product if you dont have a website. Just choose an article directory such as www.ezinearticles.com and write articles to support your affiliate product. The more articles you write, the more visitors you will get and hopefully they start buying your product which means commissions for you. Make sure 

Affiliate Marketing Forums 
Forums are a popular platform for affiliate marketers with no websites. With the affiliate marketing forums you you post comments  on issues relating to affiliate marketing. the whole idea is to help people with problems marketing their affiliate products. the more  help you provide with your resposnes, the more interested forum members will get in your product, and most likely, that interest will translate into sales for you too. Just make sure you post your affiliate link is  in your signature option.

Social Media
Social Media is exploding like a rash. Affiliate marketers are taking full advantage of the fast rise of Twitter Facebook. This will definitely work for soem of you who dont own webssites. Anytime you post articles at any of the article directories, you post the links on facebook and twitter. Once you do that, expect a lot of traffic to your articles.


To conclude, It's possible to succeed in Affiliate Marketing without a website. Just like your website- owning brethren, refer prospective customers to your merchant's website  using your affiliate link, using the above suggestions and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

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