New Era Affiliate Marketing Blog

Part 1 - Why a link-building program is the best way to increase your free traffic; and how to use new web services

Why building links is the best way to increase your free traffic

One of the best things you can do to build your site’s traffic is to build back links - that is links from other sites back to your own .

That’s because having more links has a double impact on your traffic – it both

* brings you traffic directly – and for free - when a visitor clicks on that link and

* improves your Search Engine ranking. This, in turn – and in time – will bring you more no cost Search Engine traffic

Would there be any exceptions?

Yes – Google does not count duplicate content. However, all the article submission sites make the articles on them available to be copied but only if they are copied unchanged. That means that your article could have a very wide distribution and bring you lots of traffic – but have little impact on your Search Engine ranking

In the same way there are some blog sites that accept outside contribution and have a good Search Engine ranking. If you submit an article to their site with your link, you may not get much traffic from that link but it will improve your PageRank

How can I build links for zero cost ?

You can build links for free

* by contributing your content onto other peoples’ websites
* by joining a Link Exchange program to exchange links with other sites

Posting your content onto other peoples’ websites

There are a number of other peoples’ websites that will not only accept your content – they need it.

* ezinearticles and similar websites – Just google “article submission sites” and you will get pages with lists of article submission sites. Articles are a great way to get lots of links very quickly. As articles are expected to be copied, you can use the same article over and over again without change. Google may not like it but the other search engines are not so fussy.

* Weblogs – Perhaps you think of web logsas your soapbox speech and diary made public on the net. That’s just one type of blog. Wikipedia has a great article that shows the others. For your Affiliate Marketing Business, you need to know that there are a number of blogs that will accept your contributions . Some of them have good Search Engine rankings so the link(s) from your posting on their site back to your site helps your PageRank .

* Squidoo - Squidoo aims to be the no 1 site for word-of-mouth recommendations on the web. When you sing up, you get a single page – or lens – with text recommendations and/or links to videos, online shopping , webpages, blogs, books, or anything else you want. It’s another way to get a link to your site from a high-traffic, high-ranking site

* Hubpages – this site is similar to Squidoo in its setup but the content is a cross between that and an article

* Wikidot – this site will you’re your online business a free, hosted wiki. The great thing about this is that it is collaborative – it is your change to get contributions from other people.

This article is continued on this page of the New Era Affiliate Marketing Information site -

http://www.new-era-affiliate-marketing-information.com/Link-Exchange.html

(and be sure to look in the left margin and check out the Free Stuff page too)

So you’ve put in a huge amount of time building a website
Now you need to get visitors

Paid traffic - Advertising One way you can get them is to advertise for traffic. Google Adwords is far and away the best known service to do this. It is increasingly making use of the same criteria for pricing ads as Search Engines - you’ll need to create a website with quality, unique content to get the best rates. Yahoo, Microsoft and a number of smaller search engines are also in this – and are playing catch-up.Free traffic - Search Engines

Search Engines are the first, best and greatest source of traffic for your site. You submit your site to them using a site map, the engines’ bots visit your site and, soon enough you start getting visitors for free. That’s the theory. In practice, there’s a lot more that you will need to know…
There are a large number of search engines out there but the lessons from Google apply to most of the others and, today, Google is ahead of them.

Why?

Because Google’ business is to give its customers the best possible search experience and results so they keep coming back. That’s how they overtook Yahoo, Alta Vista,  and the others. To do this, Google looks very carefully at the websites it returns in searches to make sure they are the most

• Informative
• Unique (i.e. not duplicate information)
• Relevant
• That the whole site is a good experience for the searcher
• Popular

The New Era Affiliate Marketing Information site has all the informatio, help and tips that you need to give Google the quality content it needs.
Whether or not your business is in affiliate marketing, get this free e-book to get you on your wayGoogle calculates a PageRank for each website. You really can improve your PageRank. 99% of website owners don’t do this– or are using out-of-date techniques that amount to the same thing. That gives you an instant competitive advantage.

Other traffic sources

After Search Engine and Advertising, you can leverage a number of other sources of traffic.

More Free Traffic - New content - your E-zines, newsletter, Articles and Blogs

The keys to increasing your search engine rankings are

• unique content and
• backlinks

So your first job is to continually create new content for your site. As the bots visit, they will notice this

You can recycle each item of content in manyways :-

• Put it on your blog
• Put it in your ezine
• Post it to other blogs with high pageranks
• post it to article sites such as ezinearticles.com

You can post to other blogs and article sites and achieve both your objectives - extra traffic from your links and backlinks to your site from high-PageRank sites; and this will improve your ranking

Yes, you’ll need to rewrite your content each time you post make it unique but a single piece of creative content can go a long way

Free Traffic from links

Building links delivers you both traffic and betterPageRank.

The SBI! Value Exchange page  will give you more info about the
Best Link Exchange program on the net
AND
a Free e-book - Make Your Links Work - (about halfway down the page) in far more detail that I can provide here

Forums

A top way of finding material and answers for your site is to join and participate in forums. Post on them whenever you can – it’s your opportunity to advertise your site to qualified visitors for free.

Email lists

Finally, yet another way of getting in front of qualified visitors for free is mailing lists such as those on Yahoo Groups. You’ll need to evaluate each list for spam, relevance and usefulness of content - or you could start your own

Questions

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