Everyone needs more links pointing at their webpages.  No matter what anyone else tells you, I am telling you that link building is still the trump card.  If content is king, then link building is god.

If you spend time doing one thing every single day, make it building more backlinks.

Why?

Google’s “natural” link building mantra is something that is becoming increasingly empty in the modern internet world. Where even two years ago good content might be rewarded with a blog post or link to tell others about it, nowadays that does not happen.  The people who used to give you a decent one way backlink and a recommendation are now tweeting and sharing using twitter, facebook, digg and stumbleupon. So your chances of getting a decent amount of quality one way backlinks is diminishing all the time.

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Nothing Beats A Good Old Fashioned Backlink.

Although Google does take increasing notice of the links and interest in a webpage through establishing a popularity concensus, nothing beats a followed backlink with exact anchor text.

I am sure if you have done competitor research for a keyterm you are considering trying to rank for you will have seen a site that demonstrates the power of a few deep links to a site.

Basically they always look the same.  They rank on page one somewhere. When you visit the site you always find the same thing, little relevant content and hardly any mentions of the key term or related search terms, yet there they are. So you take a peek at their backlinks in something like yahoo explorer and you see a few dozen links listed.

Okay so digging a little deeper you fire up http://www.opensiteexplorer.org and you see that most of the pages of their site have a few, maybe just one followed backlink pointing at each page, with the anchor text of that link as the exact search term.

Wow.  So that site is up there purely because of the topical relevance being passed from the anchor text in the links, just a few followed links.

That is why link building is important.

So yes you can submit to social bookmarking sites and listen to the people who tell you to build content and that manual link building will put you in hell, or you can rank well.

Keep building those bridges.

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I am assuming that the 1200+ people who visit this site every day are mostly those who promote websites or products to make money online. So I think we are all basically in the same game.

Predominantly I would think most people reading this, when you strip away the variations on the theme, want to live the dream of passive income.  Is that you?  Is your goal to basically make money online for free?  Do you want to make enough money to lay on the beach while the money ticks in?

Of course you do, but is your dream beach a paradise? Or was the beach you actually reached in reality a dirty, over-crowded local weekender?

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Ask Yourself A Proper Question If You Want Success.

One of the questions you see on various forums is variations of the what is the best way to make money online question. Are you aware that there is no “best” way to make money online,  just as in reality ther is no truly “easy” way to make online cash. There are some ways that are instant and scaleable, but to make serious money nothing is “easy”.  So the goal cannot be simply to make easy money as there is no “best” way of achieving this.

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So What Is The Reality Of Online Marketing?

So this leaves those of us who live in reality rather than fantasy land, with focusing on a niche and a bit of longer-term work. It also makes me ask the question is it possible to truly make money online for free?

What does free actually mean? No financial investment? What about the hundreds of hours you need to invest to learn enough to make the right decisions and develop your online marketing strategy? Is that time free?

What is your reality?  When you divide your net profit this year by the hours you have worked, what is your hourly rate?  So far this year have you lived a decent quality of life with a good work/life balance, or spent 12 hours a day hunched up over the PC, waiting for things to “happen”?

If you feel you are under achieving why are you under achieving? Was the goal unrealistic?  Did knowledge let you down?

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You Need Clarity To Establish Your Online Marketing Reality.

Establishing your reality and where it fits into the reality of attempting to make money online is important.  It is no good convincing yourself that you are doing well when you are not.

You need to look at the bottom line.

Some people are seduced by seeing a few paypal emails drop into their inbox every day.  It is a visual sign they are making money and it can be a buzz, even to the point of an addiction, where the amount and its significance is not important, it is the fact those payments arrive that is proof of success.

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So You Need Your Dreams & Goals To Be Tempered With Some Reality….

The reality is that only a few people truly make a significant living online over a long period of time with consistent good results.  I have had great results, but also mediocre ones.

Some of the things I have developed have bombed, while one has just racked up more than 2000 sales with not a single refund request.  That is a stunning success to me that exceeded my expectations.  However on reflection it took me three months to write and research and another three months of promotion, so my return in monetary terms is probably not that much more than the return from my previous day job over half a year.

What it did give me however was lifestyle choices.

And that works for me.  But what about you? Do you have a clear vision?  Are you taking steps to success?

Perhaps you think I am I being negative?  Is this all easy and I am actually making hard work of it?

I would love to hear from people through the comments form below.  It’s threaded for discussion and it has commentluv installed so you can get a  linkback to your own site or blog  as well.

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Fiverr is a gold mine.  Forget the stuff you will read and hear that you cannot make a lot of money there.  forget that it is only a net profit of $4 per “gig” you sell on there.

There is one key element of the money making strategy on fiverr.com that people are forgetting.

IT IS SCALEABLE ACROSS LOTS OF CLONE SITES.

What does that mean though?  Basically,  fiverr has generated a ton of clone sites that all do the same thing, exactly the same thing.  The strategy that you use and develop on fiverr can then be used across all of the clone sites.  Just off the top of my head I can name three other fiverr.com clones, tenbux.com, zeerk.com and dealerr.com.  All are built using a clone script that is out there for anyone to buy and use.

So the things that will work on fiverr will work on any fiverr-style site.  Think about that,  not only can you develop a successful strategy but you can then scale it up to cover maybe a dozen almost identical sites.  On each on you sell the same products and services, use the same outsourcing and scaling strategy I outline in my fiverr guide called “fiverr domination” and you rake in the cash.

Most people using fiverr use fiverr. That is it.  By thinking bigger you can employ the same strategy I use to develop a business across several sites.

Click here to read more about and order your copy of fiverr domination.

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There are lots of programs out there that will “ping” your URLs.  Pinging a URL submits it to network services to tell them that the URL has been updated.  This can trigger increased visits to that URL from the googlebot and therefore can help with fast indexing both of your own webpages and pages with your links on (backlink pinging).

So, now you know why you would ping your webpages, or URLs with your links on (pages on which you have created profile links for example), you need to actually ping those backlinks.

One great little website I have found is http://www.pingdevice.com/, which allows you to simply paste in a list of a few hundred URLs and submit them. Ping device then does the work for you.  It is quick, easy and a great way to ping a few URL’s without firing up software.

So next time you need a bit of help to get some of your user-generated backlinks indexed (for example blog comment links or profile links), simply paste the URLs into ping device and away you go.  Although pinging your URLs and backlinks carries no guarantees, it will certainly maximise your chances of getting them indexed.

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The birth of my first child has made me look seriously at the time I spend each day.  In the end I decided to rationalise my entire online business structure so that I can spend as much time with my family as possible, while still satisfying my urge to learn, develop and produce online.

One thing I have done is to get rid of all the “faceless” blogs I maintained.  Instead I have totally re-vamped the original LinkBuilders Bible sales site to create this new blog under it’s domain.

I wanted to get a bit more personal, build more relationships and also to make myself more available to people who would like to discuss link building, SEO or marketing with me. I also wanted to improve the quality of the site, content and interaction.  If you make a living online like me, you will know how easy it is to generate a mass of websites and content that in the end you are not really happy to be associated with.  They are churned out purely to rank and sell.  I don’t really need to rake in the cash as much nowadays and I am bored with endless generation of sites and content, so this new, more personal site, is where I intend to focus my main efforts.

It is also a more central, funneled location for me to market  the quality products I now only produce .  Instead of channeling traffic to dozens of mico sites and blogs, I have just dumped the poorer selling, poor quality ventures and am now purely focusing on my “flag ship” e-products.

So here it is, the completely re-vamped, “magazine” style linkbuilders bible, a place where I will be discussing pretty much anything related to my areas of expertise, as well as area’s I don’t understand!  I hope you enjoy it.

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Why?  Because I have noticed that a lot of the people who are saying these things have either tried and failed with their linkbuilding, or they are forum, blog or site owners who are trying to play down their effectiveness.

So what is the reality?

In my own testing, I have ranked sites using only profile links and followed blog comments and continue to do so.  So they still work for me, but does anyone else agree?

Well, how about Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, will he do as an authority on SEO and linkbuilding?  Yes, I thought you would agree he will.

This is what he posted a week ago:

“On nearly every commercially lucrative search results I pull up these days, I see bad links pushing sites into the top rankings at Google.”

So Rand of SEOmoz agrees with me.  Profile linking and followed  blog commenting still works.

Now I am not suggesting using these types of links exclusively, nor am I saying that they are good or bad links.  Personally I do not subscribe to the opinion that they are offensive to the site owners, as along as you do not make them offensive.  If you comment on a blog with a polite, relevant comment then is that spam regardless of the motivation?  If you  create a profile on a membership site that, amazingly, allows you to create a public profile, is it wrong to put a link in it?

To me no.  That is what a profile is for…for you to add a profile and links in the places they allow you to place links.

As for blog commenting, of course the morons still submit automated “good post boys, bookmarked.  Viagra” but these rarely get through and its just a waste of everyone’s time.   But if you visit a blog and you ADD VALUE to that post with a relevant comment, regardless of your motivation for doing so, then is there harm in that?  Of course not, unless you subscribe to Google’s whiter-than-white “build it and they will come” mentality (which incidentally even well-respected SEO’s like Gray Wolf are now questioning) then you will be clicking away from this post right now.

So in terms of one way backlinks, profile links and blog commenting do still add value.  If you are believing the dis-information, then you are only hurting your own rankings.  Your link building strategy should be “whole of world”, and like it or not, the rest of the the world is still ranking above you because they use profile links and blog commenting as part of a fully developed strategy for their link building.

If the experts are telling you that sites are ranking for “spammy” links, then unless you run a church website, why are you not still using these link building methods? A successful site will have a good mix of a few big links, under-pinned with lots of less powerful ones.  By leaving this to chance, ie, by hoping someone will link to you, then you are only hurting yourself.

Forget relevancy,  ignore the propaganda.  Just build links.

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There are two types of “SEO”.  On-page and off-page.

On-page is all the things you can alter on your site, such as title tags and content.  Actually, those two cover most of what you can affect on-page.

There is another term, off-page optimization.  This is basically linkbuilding and traffic generation.

However, do not fall into the trap of calling it “optimization”.

There is no such thing as off-page optimization.

Why?

Quite simply, because you cannot optimise what you do not control.  You can build links to try to influence your search engine position, and you can try to generate traffic to your site.  But you cannot control those things or their outcome.

It covers things such as building topical relevancy through anchor text links and it can cover such things as your site becoming seen as a topical authority, a “hub” site.  However, it is not optimization, you are not optimizing anything.

So what is it?

It is marketing.  It is trying to weigh the odds in your favour.  It is trying to build strength to your content.

It is not optimization!

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So how do they do it?  Simply, you visit a free website/blog provider, such as Weebly, you created an account and set-up your site.  You then created a load of articles stuffed with context-relevant text and your keywords plus a backlink to your site, and saved them.  You then “span” those articles through an article spinner to create endless variations to create endless sites.

You then got a bit of linkjuice from that site and a chance of it ranking for your longtail keywords if you also took the time to build up its trust with some linkbuilding.  This is where the linkwheel came in as all you did was to link each site you created to the next, to create links to the sites at the same time.

And it worked.

…but it doesn’t now, not as well.  Google can spot these sites a mile off unless they are good, and the site hosts have clamped down so that they do not get slapped by Google for being spam sites.

However, you CAN still get some linkjuice and some traffic from free sites, ut you need to make them work harder.

Create your sites using unique, or very well crafted spun articles.  Make sure that there is plenty of quality, relevant, readable content there so you do not get the site deleted.

Then build lots and lots of decent back links to it.

It takes time.  But the reward is the site will index in its own right, giving you a trickle of traffic, and the links to your site will carry some actual weight.

So the message is to use generated content, but make it better quality, build links to it on an ongoing basis, and don’t ever link them together to make a “linkwheel”, it will wreck your work as soon as Google spots the linking pattern.

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Cahoola.com is an advertising exchange network.  you join free, create up to 10 ad variations and then add a snippet of code to your own site.  You earn cllick credits for the ads on your own site, and these click credits mean your own adverts appear across the network.

So Cahoola is like pay per click text advertising, but without paying anything!

The ads you display on your site are almost identical to google adsense ones, so if you have ever used google adsense on your site then you will be familiar with this method.  I am now using cahoola ads on this site.

If you have a website then I recommend you join the free ad exchange.  It takes just a few minutes to add the ad display code to your own webpages and to add your own adverts to the network.  Its free targeted traffic, which as you will know is gold dust.

On top of that, anyone you refer to cahoola will earn you 50% cash commission on  any click credits they purchase in their account, AND you get 25% of any click credits they earn through the ad exchange for your own account.

So its a great way to get more targeted traffic AND makes some cash.  I have referred 12 people through this site in a week, and already have $43 in my referral balance – not bad going!

Highly recommended.

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