The Affiliate Journey

A really short post today, but a powerful tip.

Everyone knows you need more quality text links with the right anchor text to increase your page(s) rank.

Of course there’s more science to it then just getting a whack of backlinks (Although a lot of IM product developers certainly don’t want us to think that the case).

In this post I’m going to show you how to

• check how many backlinks a competitor has
• Actually view where those backlinks are coming form
• How to steal a few of them for yourself

To do this we’re going to need one plugin that I use for Fire Fox. If you don’t use Fire Fox as your browser I would suggest you at least download it and have it. There are so many great free plugins you can get to help you in your SEO efforts.

The plugin we need today is from Arron Walls SEO BOOK site. It’s called SEO For Fire Fox

Download the Plugin here from SeoBook

You’ll need to restart Fire Fox after the plugin is installed.

2 – Head over to Google

Ok, do a search for your top keyword, or one of your most lucrative key terms for conversion.

NOTE: Most keywords that make money are known not just by you but other savvy marketers so they are often the ones harder to rank for since more then just you is trying to optimize your site around it.

Note below each SERP there is a smaller line of info you want to click on the question mark beside !Y links (this stands for yahoo links).

This will reveal how many links that particular page is showing in Yahoo Site explorer.

A Mention about Yahoo: Why are we using Yahoo to track links? Well truth is Yahoo may not have the majority of Search users but it does have a more upto date visible index of incoming links for sites.

3- Find some Links

Alright. First thing to notice here are sites that appear to have far more links then any other site in the results. Check those first.

When you click on the !Y Links text it will open a new tab or window and bring you to Yahoo where it lists all the links pointing to that page/site.

From there it’s as simple as scouring the links that site has looking for

• Blogs you could place a comment on that they’ve found
• Directories you could submit to
• Potential blogs that could post your content (if you contacted them)
• Sites to trade links with, or setup 3 way link exchanges
• Sites you could potentially Buy text links from

We Internet and Affiliate marketers often try to re-create the wheel sometimes when a simple method like this can often yield 10-20 or even 100 new links depending on your niche, page, and competitors.

SO get out there and get some links! This method is easy to do, set aside maybe 30-60 minutes.

Grab one of your sites, download the SEO for FireFox plugin and go through the steps. See how many links you get in that 60 minutes. If you can grab 5 or more new links then the time was well worth it.

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