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Getting good backlinks to your website will help to increase the overall search engine rank of your website. There are lots of well known ways to get backlinks, including article marketing, directory submission and link exchange, but this task focuses on getting backlinks from websites that have a high page rank.

Okay, so we have the basics out of the way. Now, let’s take a look at the thing that pretty much makes or breaks sites in hyper competitive niches. This is where the big money is made – in getting quality, trusted site backlinks. Google has always been a stickler for backlinks. Pretty much all their algorithms are based on getting people to link to your site, using those links as votes of a sort. If someone likes your content, they link to it – simple enough. But, actually getting people to create those links can be tough. Here are some tips to make your job easier.

#1 Article Marketing – An old and favorite tool of many affiliate marketers (and all super affiliates) is article marketing. This is as basic as it gets. Essentially, you write content articles, submit them to directories like Ezine Articles or Article Dashboard. They publish your articles for free, getting the traffic that comes with them (and the ad revenue) and you get a free resource box with a backlink to your site. If other site owners want to republish your article, they can do so if that link remains in place. It’s a simple, easy way to get links and traffic. The goal to article marketing is to provide content that is useful, search engine friendly and that the article directories are going to want to utilize. You’d be surprised how many good backlinks you can get from this simple strategy. The bottom line is that article marketing still works.

Select 4 of the article directories from the list below that you have not yet completed your profile

and add some information about yourself and include a link back to your website with your

keywords using html code where allowed. In each case view your Profile to check that it looks ok and

that the links work.

Ezine Articles - Login and click on “Profile Manager” / “Edit Author Bio”. Complete the form and bear

in mind you cannot use html in this bio section.

GoArticles - Click on Submit Articles and login and it takes you straight to Your Profile section. You

can add html in the uthor Bio section

ArticlesBase - Login and click on “Manage Authors”. You will see you have the option to complete

both a short and a long Bio. You can include html in both of them.

Articles Factory - Login and click on “Profile”. Insert your main keyword phrase as the “Title” for your

website. Note that the Brief Bio does not allow the use of html.

SearchWarp - Login and click on “Edit Your Bio”. Be sure to read the instructions. You are allowed 2

html links in your Bio. Highlight your keywords and click on the chain icon to add your url.

Idea Marketers – Login and click on “Edit” under “Update your Profile/Resource Box”. Complete the

form and you can add html to your Author’s Bio. Under “Manage Account” click on “View Profile”.

#2. Squidoo or Hub Pages – Very similar to article marketing, you’ll place free content on these hub style sites. Because they are so loaded down with backlinks, interlinking pages, and categories, these sites will often rank very well in Google and are extremely easy to setup. The backlink values will vary,

but there is no good reason not to have a Squidoo Lens and Hub Page for every site you create.

#3. AM Automation - This is a tool that helps you link up with more than 10,000 blogs that let you post directly to them in your niche of choice. In short, you can get easy, topic related backlinks without breaking any terms of service and without having to pay through the nose for them. It’s a simple tool that many top affiliates have been using for quite some time now. The difference here is that you’ll need to work on writing “spinnable” articles. This means that every line you write will have three different versions. These versions can then be alternated so that you can have multiple versions of an article spun out to create new content for hundreds of sites. It also works very well for article directory submissions; though you should be wary and check all spun articles in Copyscape to make sure they don’t pop as duplicate copy when submitted to sites like EzineArticles.

#4.  Commenting on Blogs and Forums – This is a common enough trick that far too few affiliate marketers use to boost their overall performance rates with backlinks. I have always been a chatty person myself, so it came naturally, but some people are less than thrilled about putting themselves out there to hawk a link. For those of you in that boat, sorry folks – this is just too good of a strategy to ignore. Just make sure you actually read the post and make an intelligent comment. Contribute to the conversation and don't be a ****head. Even if the sites you comment on have “No Follow” tags inserted into them, it’s worth adding your link. In many cases, that link will carry at least some value. I can’t give you exact numbers, and because of how closed Google is about their algorithms, I would only be speculating on what works and what doesn’t, but in my experience, having links from any site is a good thing.

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And if you’re on a forum, always have a link in your signature. Most forums have rules about posting links in the actual post, but you’re free to put whatever you want in your signature, as long as you contribute valuable feedback and comments in the rest of the post. We’ll go into forum posting

more later when we discuss how to boost conversion rates and snag ready buyers.

#5.  Trusted Link Building – No links are more valuable than the trusted sites that Google tends to lift above the rest. In this case, I’m talking about .edu and  .gov sites – government run sites that are extremely hard to get back links from. Luckily for you, there are tools out there that will help you find such trusted sites that allow commenting or will post your link in a directory of sorts. These sites will translate to massive traffic later down the line, even if they are no follow sites. Link building is pretty much a must-do activity for any site owner. You cannot get anywhere on the Internet without a few good backlinks to your content. When it comes to generating traffic, this will be one of those methods that you pretty much have to use.

Just like everything else with affiliate marketing you must keep up with what's working today vs. what worked a few years, or even just a few months ago. Because even simple link building can be potentially dangerous. Let me explain… In the minds of many, link building is synonymous with spammy, black hat SEO techniques of years past. But high-quality backlinks still remain the single most important off-site ranking factor used by the major search engines. Google (and its competitors on a lessor scale) continually change the rules that affect where your site is ranked in the search engines so it’s simply not possible to indiscriminately build links to a site and expect ranking. If you do that without knowing what you're doing you risk a painful site ranking penalty.