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How to get backlinks that work for SEO, and avoid wasting time on those that do not.

Getting backlinks to a website that work for SEO ranking has become increasingly difficult. Methods that worked yesterday don’t work anymore, simply because they didn’t comply with what search engines want. We’ll see a method that still works, because it does comply.

There are a lot of people competing for search engine traffic. This article reveals how you can get a big head start for your blog or cause enough backlinking to get a small affiliate site in front page search engine results for reasonably competitive keywords (this is an essential part of the online affiliate marketing plan).

Without backlinks, it is simply impossible to be seen on search engines!

The latest trend is (was) using social bookmarking sites to get backlinks needed for SEO. People bought software that automatically posts links on those sites.

Supposedly this will get them tons of “high PR backlinks that will skyrocket their search engine rankings“.

If you haven’t heard of rel=’external nofollow’, then it is about time you did. When that tag is added to a link, it instructs search engine robots not to take the link into account in the evaluation of the destination page’s page rank.

For SEO, that link is useless. Actually there is a debate going on on whether it is entirely useless or just close to useless.  In any case, it is a lot less worthwhile than a “dofollow” link.

And guess what? That tag is on the outgoing links of 95% of social bookmarking sites (as well as blogs). It used to work, it doesn’t anymore.

Previously it was all about ezine and article directories. But for that, one link required either an article or a spin off of an existing article. 100 backlinks required a solid week’s work that way. Millions of self-promoting, shallow articles later, article directory links have been seriously downgraded by search engine algorithms.

Before that, webmasters depended on online directories. Now most people know about link juice. Or just how little one link weighs when it is part of a list of dozens of outgoing links on the same page. If you don’t know, well that page’s authority is divided by the number of outgoing links. If it is a PR 5 page, that link will still be valuable. But chances are those pages are filled up and your listings will end up on pages 2,3 or higher, and the PR there isn’t the same.

It isn’t the website’s home page PR that counts, but the page your link is on.

That page is likely to be “not ranked by Google”.

The kind of links Search Engines want.

Have you been messing up your backlinking strategy? That’s OK, back to square one. It’s all right, square 1 is underrated!

We’ll see how to do that quickly, rather painlessly, and, this time, efficiently.

Links are considered, especially by Google, like referrals. If someone links to you, that means they consider your content to be good quality, and they put their reputation on the line in the process because their readers will judge them on the content they link to.

When a webpage includes a (dofollow) link to your site, it uses up some of it’s authority capital (link juice again), which is measured by Google and translates into that page’s PR.

Any link that doesn’t follow that logic has, or someday will be downgraded by search engine algorithms. Article directories are mostly filled with drivel. Directories are link farms. FFA’s were worse. They weren’t meant to last.

That is also why it is very hard to get legitimate high PR links toward a new website (or blog). Why?

Most new sites and blogs are left idle after a month. Do you imagine Seth Godin linking to a blog that then shuts down (meaning he is left with a dead link on his blog)?

Even if your content is excellent, he will prefer that you pay your dues a little longer first, just to be safe. After all if you are new online (or your blog is new, making it look like you are new online), then you could turn out being someone he doesn’t want to be associated to. He might consider associating himself to you later, once you’ve been around long enough and revealed enough about your identity, and built some authority of your own.

So what do we do?

We forget about Seth Godin (just an example of top online authority figures in general) for a while, and we concentrate on PR zero backlinks.

But you need hundreds of those. And all the backlinking everyone uses doesn’t work (rel=’external nofollow’), link farms (directories), …

 So, how?

There are several examples of my backlinking strategy on this very blog which is why it is a PR2 and has, according to bizinformation.org, 1820 backlinks.

Games! Or, more exactly, submitting software to software sites. There are thousands of them. Submit a program to a few dozen and it spreads. Many freeware sites take software from other sites and add them to their catalog on their own. And when they do, they typically create an author page and a product page for each software from the same author.  Most of them link to your site on one or both of these pages… With dofollow links.

This example you can easily replicate as many times as you want (one for each affiliate site, blog or content site you would like to give a boost to). It only takes about an hour to set up and is enough to get first page rankings for reasonably competitive keywords.

It complies with what search engines want because it provides actual value (the better the games, and the more relevant to your site’s theme, the more the added value).

Use my software to create as many game titles as you need!

Creating a software title is fun and worthwhile, but creating one per site would require a large investment in time or outsourcing. For many, even one application is simply too daunting a task!

You can use my software to quickly create a new unique, fun and relevant gaming package for each new site you create, each having separate author accounts. This is very easy to do with submission software like Robosoft (it can be used for free for 30 days).

One per site is enough for SEO. Most links come from author pages so adding new titles doesn’t do much good, only a few product pages will link back. Creating large amounts for each site would be useless, and could be seen as spamming!

I do have several software titles here, but it isn’t with backlinking in mind.

One software submission is enough to get an affiliate site set up to have, give or take, 1000-2000 visits a month for low to medium competition keyphrases. That can reasonably generate 10-20 sales, and make $500-1000 a month in passive income. Naturally results will vary according to commissions per sale, conversion rates, demand and competition but this is a reasonable goal. You need to apply basic on-site SEO rules that you can learn about pretty much anywhere. The hard part is off-site SEO, or backlinks.

It works best if the company name you choose contains the targeted keyphrase. Many (although not all) of the software sites will use it as anchor text for the link to your site. Some will use the program’s name, so having keywords in the program name helps too.

Find a few freeware Flash games that fit with your site. Create the package (that part takes about 10 minutes). Submit it to software sites with automated software like Robosoft from Rudenko.com. Create a new company profile, with one software per profile, for each affiliate site (again, keywords have to be reasonably competitive – you won’t rank on the first page for “weight loss” or “make money online”).

I have two such sites running, and more projects underway!

You can buy the software I use to create these packages for just $50!

Reasons to buy it now:

• It is a great way to thank me for all the great stuff on this site
• I keep changing my mind about the price. $50 is the low range because it is probably the last simple way to get affiliate sites ranked well and generating a few hundred dollars in passive sales each month, or give a big boost to a blog (we saw what happened to directories, social bookmarking…)
• Backlinks take some time to get a site indexed and moving up rankings (typically a few weeks). The sooner you start, the better!
• I don’t plan on selling many. There are obvious reasons for this: too many people doing the same thing generally leads to it not working anymore.
• 380 freeware games included! You can also find freeware Flash game files online but these will save you time and make it much easier to make a relevant game package (one that fits each site and gives them extra value for your readers).

Click here to buy it now, it is truly a great investment! 

Imagine how long it takes to get 100-300 backlinks to your site, and get it up to a PR2 ranking. A year? Two? For affiliate sites, it usually never happens! 

You will be able to:

Get as many affiliate sites as you want the backlinking it needs to rank well on reasonably competitive keywords (by adding its own unique game software and its own company profile on software sites that link back).

Give a good head start to blogs or content sites.

Add to your user experience by providing fun games that match your site’s theme for online play or download.

That’s it! At this point the backlinking part of the online affiliate marketing plan is pretty much covered.

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