Building backlinks is very essential to the success of your affiliate business. If you don't have any traffic to your sites, then more than likely, you won't many sales. The biggest thing is to gain a ton of quality backlinks to your site. Here are 5 basic rules for building backlinks to your affiliate sites for maximum earning potential: Create Your Own Websites- I have seen a few affiliate marketers who would only advertise in forums or webmaster sites instead of working on building their own site. While it is true you can make money by advertising in classified ad sites or forum sites and then building backlinks to these posts, you can actually stand to make more money in the long run by building your own website. It also pays to get a paid domain, as they rank better in the search engines. Use Social Bookmarking/Networking- I have seen a few success stories with social networking and bookmarking that are worth mentioning. One of my friends who needed some extra cash, sold Chanel T-shirts online using Facebook; go figure. The power of social media is starting to trump the search engine method of getting traffic. There are pros and cons to using social media, such as, it can take some time to build up a following, however, the power of selling online is great using this method. Some of my favorite social media sites include Digg and Reddit. Basically, you will be getting traffic from Google (because of the backlink) and from the actual members of the site who often browse through for new story or blog post. Build Backlinks to High Page Rank Sites- There is something called a 'Second Tier' website. Essentially, this is the act of placing your website link onto a page source that has a high page rank, and then building backlinks to that high PR site, instead of linking directly to your main (money site). I have found this to be extremely effective, because you are giving your website a boost, which is needed if it is a fairly new website. I once did an experiment where I place my link on a page rank 7 website, and then built backlinks to this site using article marketing. The results were astounding, and I received a lot of traffic. Go Where 'Dofollow' Is- Dofollow and Nofollow tags are essential to your link building success. 'Dofollow' means that if you place your link on a site, that the search engines will follow your website as well. This is called, 'link juice', and you can get almost immediate results as far as traffic is concerned. Google now has a new policy about link building and now, websites that have the 'dofollow' tag have lost their original page ranking. This has caused webmasters to switch to the 'nofollow' tag in order to preserve their page rank; good for the webmaster, bad news to the common Internet marketer. So, there are less websites out there who have the dofollow tag. Many websites won't even let you place a link at all (such as the classified ad sites), so article marketing is still pretty effective. There are still a good amount of directories who carry the dofollow tag and have a high page rank, such as Goarticles and Amazines. Get one of the best Amazon store building scripts on the web now at Fresh Store Builder For Amazon Associates Script Software
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