An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

If you’re a member of the Warrior Forum, you probably already know that a WSO is a Warrior Special Offer. If you’re not a member, and you’re doing any kind of Internet Marketing, you need to join, it’s free. Although I would read up on each WSO thoroughly before you part with your money, there are some excellent deals to be had.

I’m not making any money off of these two recommendations, and, as always, I actually bought and use these products. The first is only $7, and the other is a subscription at $5/month, so they’re not exactly expensive. Also, if you’re just starting out in Affiliate Marketing, and are struggling to get traffic to your site(s), these two products will be extremely useful. Even if you do have a bit of experience, I still believe you’ll benefit greatly by having this information available.

The first is called Backlink Bully. It gives detailed information on using high-pagerank sites to use for backlinks. The author, Mark Dickenson, did his research and offers some very good videos that show exactly how to leverage the power of some Web 2.0 sites to boost your site’s rankings. He also goes into using RSS, so it’s not just dropping links.

The second is a monthly service from Angela Edwards. She also puts in a lot of research so you don’t have to. For a mere $5/month, she delivers 30 sites per month where you can drop links to your sites. These aren’t some junky directories or blogs, but high pagerank sites (PR6 up to PR10) that will offer some real value. The first month is free, and I was impressed with the first batch of sites that I received.

I’m not going to give any kind of detailed review here. If you go to the corresponding WSO threads, you’ll see that both of these offerings are very popular, and I don’t remember reading any comments about anyone not being totally satisfied. Both authors monitor their threads daily and are quick to reply to any questions.

Just a quick post on backlinks. Backlinks are a very necessary part of getting your site ranked well with Google, and other search engines. However, don’t just try and make it an instantaneous operation. Just as Google doesn’t like seeing a new site going from no content to thousands of paging instantly, you also shouldn’t go from no links to hundreds in an hour.

There’s resources like SocialMarker.com that will help you to get a large number of backlinks very quickly, some of them ‘Do-Follow’, I would definitely take it slowly.

I had a site that I was wanting to do a test on by getting as many backlinks as I could, as fast as I could. I went from nearly zero backlinks to over a 150 in about an hour or so. Although I did see an increase in traffic very soon after having the additional links, I have no doubt that I would have realized much better results had I obtained the links in a more steady, natural flow.

I don’t have any specific data, but even if you use a tool such as SocialMarker, I wouldn’t be in a rush to get every link right now.

Remember, if you have a quality site with good content that people will want to come back to, the links will happen anyway.

Once you have a site up, one of the biggest obtacles is to get traffic. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of blogs that people put up that never see over a very few visitors because they just sit.

If it’s a blog, or any other site for that matter, that’s updated regularly with fresh content, it will take a while to start seeing a good flow of visitors, but once you’ve submitted the url to the search engines, it will happen.

A good resource for getting backlinks to your site is Michelle MacPhearson’s Social Media Daily Blueprint. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I mention it again because she’s recently updated the content. Just one note…if you’re going to use the methods she advises, I would think about maybe not adding one url to all of the bookmarking sites at the same time. Although I personally don’t have any specific information, I believe Google likes seeing backlinks as it does content…not all at once.

I’m sure there’s some out there that can provide definitive information one way or the other, but when I added one url to nearly every bookmarking site listed, it seemed that it didn’t get the traffic that another site did in which I only added a link here and there. There’s no hard data for this, but the difference was noticeable, but of course these were different niche sites, but both were about the same age with roughly the same amount of content.

After some of things I see though, it’s really a little difficult to try and figure out what the Big G is gonna like or dislike, and by how much.