Is SEO still alive?

I’m active on several SEO forums and I’m also following SEO specialists and newsletters. For more than a year it looks like there’re no new answers to Google’s wave of updates. After the Panda and Penguin updates a lot has changed. Before these updates low quality backlinks started to get less valuable or even dangerous for your website. Everybody was focusing on high quality backlinks in the form of web 2.0. Then the social media  became hot in the land of SEO. After that we’ve seen all kinds of varieties with web 2.0, blog comments, social media, tier 1, 2 or even 3 backlinks. I’ve seen it all end unfortunately I’ve tried it all. Last October  my website networkmarketingnew.com got sandbagged. I’m glad to tell you that it’s back in the search results but it took more than three months. What did I do to get it back in the SERP’s? I added new content to the website and that’s really all you can do. Of course you can’t continue to build offsite backlinks since that’s the reason the website got sandbagged in the first place.

That being said, I have been looking for new ways to continue SEO for this website. Of course I’ve been looking for high quality and save ways to do that. No matter what forum or what newsletter, I really don’t see anything new. So I started wondering, is SEO still alive? Or did Google really find an answer to fight SEO techniques? When you’re reading this blog post and you really have an answer please share. Don’t use this post to leave your backlinks, it’s old and it has been done so it isn’t worth anything anymore and also it’s irritating ;).

Using a link structure

Three months ago I got questions about how to build backlinks. People asked me if I could give examples and methods on how to build high quality backlinks. Over the past few weeks I’ve given you ways to get different kinds of backlinks. If you used them all you have hundreds of high quality backlinks by now and you website should be on the first page for the keywords you want your website to be found on. If not, don’t worry because SEO never ends. There’re much more ways to get your website to the place you want it to be.

No matter if you used video marketing, article marketing, Image links or web 2.0’s, you can make your previous SEO even more powerful using certain link structures. The thing you do is actually the same as what you do for your own website, you will build backlinks for the backlinks you’ve build for your website. Are you still following this? Let me give you an example:

One of the things I wrote about in a previous post was creating mini websites. If you did you probably have a couple of little websites with several pages, pictures, video’s, social media and of course backlinks to your website. these backlinks are high quality. To make them even more high quality you can build some web 2.0’s, some article marketing, Audio links, Image links, video marketing or maybe even another mini website around them. That way you use SEO to make the mini website climb the rankings giving you an even better and higher quality backlink to your website.

Here’s an example of a link structure:

Thought you had done everything to get your website to the first page? Did you think you’re out of options? Try using this structure and maximize your SEO work up until now!

Backlinks from blog comments

Placing comment on blogs offers you a possibility to also leave your website URL behind but there are some things you need to know about blog comments.

Automated blog comments

Like I mentioned before, getting backlinks the easy way means the backlinks you´re getting are worthless. Of course the same goes for blog comments. There´s a lot of software that helps you find relevant blogs and also helps you to make a lot of comments all in one time. One of those programs is Scrapebox. The program itself works great, it has a lot of features and it really does what it says it does. The problem these days is that Google knows what kind of comments are auto generated and also which blogs are relevant or are just there to get backlinks from. That way it´s hard to make sure what kind of backlinks you´re getting. You may think you´re getting a lot of good quality and relevant links but in fact you´re getting all links from spam blogs and your comments are duplicated content. Unfortunately software like Scrapebox won´t help your rankings anymore (even though a lot of people will disagree with me on this).

The way you should use blog commenting

Imagine your website is on the fourth page in the search engine result page for a keyword you want to be found on. When you take a look at the websites above your website, you should look if these websites have a blog or article section. If they do you can try to make a comment. Try to really read the article first and try to make a relevant comment so that the website owner leaves your comment there because it actually contributes to his or her website/post. When you post a comment most of the time you can leave your name (try to use the keyword you prefer), email and your website. Once you comment gets approved your website becomes a backlink and often the name is used as the anchor.

When you try to get comments on the website that are high in the search results you get backlinks from pages that have a high ranking in the niche you want to be on the first page for. Personally I believe blog comments are a good way to mix up your backlinks and to get backlinks from relevant websites in the same niche. Using just blog comments I don’t think will do the job, there simply not very high quality on their own.

Mini website with social media

Social media is also very important. When you have a website make sure you also have a Facebook page, Twitter account and a YouTube channel for it. Also make sure you make it easy for visitors to share your website by adding share buttons.

The different kinds of backlinks you’ve created this far can also be shared on social media. Another way is to create little websites and to add a lot of social media to them and also, when the mini websites are finished, spread them on different kinds of social media.

Mini websites

We’ve talked about Web 2.0 properties before. Using these kinds of websites offers you the possibility to build little websites with backlinks to your own website. Instead of just adding one article with 300 to 500 words you can create a website with the following features:

1. Homepage
2. Content page 1 (Information about the subject of your website)
3. Content page 2 (Information about the subject of your website)
4. About Us
5. Testimonials
6. Contact
7. Social Media integration:
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Tumblr
• Email this
• StumbleUpon
• Booksmark this 

When you've finished the mini website you can share it on social media in different ways:

Website links: 

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• StumbleUpon 

Pictures: 

• Instagram 
• Pinterest 

Video:

• Youtube
• Facebook (link)
• Twitter (link)
• Tumblr (link)
• StumbleUpon (link) 

For the mini websites you’ve create you can also use SEO to make them more valuable in the search engines. When there’re more valuable, the backlinks to your URL will be more high quality as well! That’s why this method should really do the trick to get your websites on the first page in the search engines.

Great website to use to build mini websites and social media integration are:

• Blog.com
• Blogger.com
• Wordpress.com
• Jimdo.com
• Webnode.com
• Webs.com

Of course there are a lot more Web 2.0 websites you can use to build mini websites. It takes more work and more time but the quality of the backlink will be very high.

Getting backlinks with uploading Audio files (website list)

Looking at all the ways to get backlinks written about on this blog you’ve probably thought about this one already. When you can get a backlink from a website where you uploaded pictures and/or videos, you can also get backlinks from websites where you upload audio files. You can take pictures yourself or find them on the internet. Videos can be easily created with windows movie maker. Now do you create an audio file? There probably are many ways to create audio files but let me describe the way I did it.

Creating an audio file

Go to ispeech.org and create an account. Login (use free version) and go to ‘enter text’. Fill out the text you want to be spoken in your audio file. I’d recommend to create a file that’s no longer than one minute. You can choose between male and female voices, different dialects and you can also adjust the speed of talking. When you think it sounds ok you can download the audio file in mp3. Now you’ve got just the spoken words. What I did was I used Audacity to add music to the audio file. You can download Audicity here: Audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-win-2.0.1.exe. When you’ve installed the program you can simply import the mp3 with spoken words and ad a music mp3 as well. Make sure both files are the same length so that the full song without the words doesn’t keep running. Also make sure the spoken words and the music are balanced right. Otherwise you won’t hear the words because the music is too loud. You can manage this on the left side of the menu. Than select export and save as .wave file.

Now you have an audio file to upload on the websites given below. Here you can add you URL to your profile and in most cases to the description of the audio file. Good luck! 

• Soundcloud.com
• Yourlisten.com
• Audiofarm.org
• Unsigned.com
• Audioboo.fm
• Tweewoo.com
• Sutros.com
• Muziboo.com
• Purevolume.com
• Last.fm
• Audiosharescript.com
• Musopen.org
• Reverbnation.com
• Sharemyplaylists.com
• Alonetone.com
• Wearehunted.com
• Hypem.com
• Artistserver.com
• Mixcloud.com
• Weloveyoursongs.com
• Mobypicture.com
• Fiql.com
• Chirbit.com
• F3music.com
• Buzznet.com

I think looking at the other methods of getting backlinks this is one of the most unique ways. Therefor this is a very valuable method because not a lot of people use this method. It will definitely mix up your link diversity. 

Getting backlinks with uploading images (website list)

When you use your imagination you can come up with a lot of ways to get backlinks form all kinds of websites. I’ve wrote about video marketing, article marketing web 2.0 and classified ads already. Another way to get backlinks is by uploading images to websites like Flickr.com. When fill out your profile information often you can add your website URL. That’s one backlink but you can also add a description to your images and in that description you can add your websites URL as well. Also you can use your keywords/anchors here.

Below you’ll find a list of websites where you can upload images and where you can add backlinks to your own website.

• Pinterest.com
• Web.instagram.com (add pictures bij mobile device)
• Twitpic.com
• Flickr.com
• Imgur.com
• Xanga.com
• Tumblr.com
• Photobucket.com
• Devianart.com
• Istockphoto.com
• 23hq.com
• Fotki.com
• Picturepush.com
• Minus.com
• Comboost.com
• Shutterfly.com
• 500px.xom
• Ipernity.com
• Mobypicture.com
• Dreamstime.com
• Posterous.com
• Imgspark.com
• Picturetrail.com
• Picasaweb.google.com 

Combining this method with other methods like Web 2.0 or article marketing it can be very powerful.

Document Backlink websites (list)

Here´s another one to mix things up. For these kinds of backlinks you use an article in Word, PDF of PowerPoint. You can upload your file on these websites. In the file you can add a backlinks in the text under the keyword/anchor you prefer. Also in the profile you can add a link to your website.

I always write articles about 500 words and I add two or three pictures to make it look good. That way it won’t be deleted just like that (because it might look like spam) and if people actually read it and go to your website from there it looks ok.

Just like with every other high quality backlink strategy I’ve been writing about the last couple of weeks it’s the same with this one, DON’T EVER USE DUPLICATE CONTENT! If you do it won’t be a high quality backlink anymore it will become a dangerous, spam link. Remember, getting backlinks the easy way is never high quality, in fact it can be dangerous. Especially after Google Panda and Penguin updates!

Here’s the list of website you can use to upload your unique articles in Word, PDF or PowerPoint:

• Myebook.com
• Powershow.com
• Docufileshare.com
• Pdfcast.org
• Docstoc.com
• Slideserve.com
• Authorstream.com
• Youscribe.com
• Slideboom.com
• En.calameo.com
• Issuu.com
• Free.yudu.com
• Slideshare.net
• Scribd.com
• Wiziq.com
• Edocr.com
• Docs.google.com
• Wepapers.com
• Keepandshare.com

Now we've got article marketing, Web 2.0, Classified ads, Instant approval links and Video Marketing. Who used all these kinds of backlinks and isn't on the first page in Google yet? That's what I thought, no thanks, I'm here to help.

Classified ads

This week we have something else. We’ve been talking about high quality backlinks a lot but it’s also important mix it up. A websites with only high quality backlinks from all the article marketing websites and/or Web 2.0 websites will look suspicious to Google. In the worst case they’ll drop you in the rankings and you’ll have no visitors and therefor now money.

There are many different kinds of backlinks and one of them are classified ads. What is it and how does it work? The thing you do is you create accounts on the websites below and just start making advertisements for you website or the thing you offer on your website. The websites I’ve given you are complete free and every website offers you an opportunity to add a backlink in your ad as well. Not all the ads will stay forever but for now it’s good for your link diversity and you can allways do it again over six months.

Make sure you use a proper text and don’t forget to add your URL/backlink in the body or sometimes in the field provided specially for your websites address.

Here you go, a list of free classified ad websites:

• Classifiedads.com
• Sellmunity.com
• Usfreeads.com
• Pressmania.com
• Theadnet.com
• Webcosmo.com
• Backpage.com
• Ukclassifieds.co.uk
• Biggestclassifieds.com
• Interking.com 

Now let’s mix things up and crush your competitors in the rankings!

Web 2.0 website (list)

Just like article marketing, Web 2.0 offers you the possibility to get high quality backlinks from different websites using the anchors/keywords you prefer. For example you want to be found when people use the keyword ‘ProfitClicking’. In the article that you use, you can put the backlinks to your website under that keyword. This way you can climb the rankings for the keywords you prefer.

The difference between article marketing and Web 2.0 is that with article marketing it’s just a article with a high quality backlink. With Web 2.0 you can also add pictures, videos, guest books and social media. That way your page gets more features and more value. You can really make a web 2.0 look interesting and you can not only link with a keyword but you can link to you YouTube videos, social media pages or you can add the RSS of your website. For example Blogger is great website to create Web 2.0’s, take a look at the page to see what you can add to the page to make it look like an actual website.

Here’s a list of websites for you to create Web 2.0’s:

• Wordpress.com
• Blog.com
• Blogger.com
• Tumblr.com
• Gather.com
• Livejournal.com
• Zimbio.com
• Blinkweb.com
• Wix.com
• Hubpages.com
• Multiply.com
• Shutterfly.com
• Squidoo.com
• Weebly.com
• Wikia.com
• Wikidot.com
• Wikispaces.com
• Wiki-site.com
• Wetpaint.com
• Webnode.com
• Jimdo.com
• Hpage.com
• Yola.com
• Posterous.com
• Xanga.com
• Quizilla.com
• Webs.com
• Beep.com
• Onsugar.com
• Terapad.com
• Intodit.com
• Bloglines.com
• Tripod.lycos.com
• Typepad.com
• Groups.google.com
• Areavoices.com
• Angelfire.com
• Bravenet.com
• My.opera.com
• Blogsome.com
• Ning.com
• Zoho.com
• Storify.com
• Officelive.com
• Salon.com
• Rediff.com
• Bigadda.com
• Blogspirit.com
• Opendiary.com
• Weblogs.us
• Blog.co.uk
• Diaryland.com
• Sosblog.com
• 21publish.com
• 43things.com
• Buzzle.com
• Blog.de webstarts.com
• Webspawner.com
• Twoday.net
• Moonfruit.com
• Blogreaction.com
• Getjealous.com
• Freeblog.hu
• Journalspace.com
• Soup.io
• Springnote.com
• Travelblog.org
• Ucoz.com
• Tblog.com
• 20six.co.uk
• Blog.ca
• Ever.com
• Zoomgroups.com
• Blog.hr
• Blogdrive.com
• Blogetery.com
• Zoomshare.com
• Snappages.com
• Ohlog.com
• Insanejournal.com
• Soulcast.com
• 350.com
• Alivenotdead.com
• Devhub.com
• Ewebsite.com
• Flixya.com
• Freehostia.com
• Hazblog.com
• Livelogcity.com
• Visualsociety.com
• Webgarden.com
• Blurty.com
• Upsaid.com
• Tabulas.com
• Shoutpost.com
• Thoughts.com
• Blogskinny.com
• Free-conversant.com
• Freeflux.net
• 2itb.com
• Blogge.rs
• Bloggum.com
• Bloghi.com
• Doomby.com
• Flukiest.com
• Fotopages.com
• Freeblogspot.org
• Hipero.com
• Inube.com
• Iseekblog.com
• Myblogsite.com
• Mytripjournal.com
• Mywapblog.com
• Spi-blog.com
• Wallinside.com
• Wikipages.com
• Yousaytoo.com
• Bcz.com
• Blogster.com
• Honmag.com
• Iblog.at
• Spyuser.com
• Weblogplaza.com
• Blogpico.com
• Blogtext.org
• Edublogs.org
• Evood.com
• Publr.com
• Uwcblog.com

When you manage to create web 2.0's from all these websites there's no change you won't by on the first page, that's for sure. Want to make these Web 2.0's even more powerful? Use the same websites to backlink to the properties you've creates, that way they get high quality backlinks as wel. Another secret is the kind of link structure you use to get even higer quality backlinks. Soon I'll write a post about that.

Video Marketing website list

Have you tried everything to build backlinks to your website and are you running out of ideas for new backlinks? Well here we have the answer, video marketing. Not only is a video a powerful marketing instrument, it’s also very easy to spread. I’ve created this list of websites where you can upload a video. Don’t forget to put in a backlink in the profile section and in the description of the video. So if you have a fantastic video, go ahead and share it with the world. Don’t have a video yet? Using windows movie maker is a very easy way to create a nice video in no time.

Check out the list below:

• Youtube.com
• Dailymotion.com
• Vimeo.com
• Rediff.com
• Metacafe.com
• Tinypic.com
• Myspace.com
• Archive.org
• Break.com
• Mirocommunity.org
• Dailymile.com
• Miloop.com
• Videobash.com
• Dekhona.com
• Soup.io
• Lockerz.com
• Tumblr.com
• Ustream.tv
• Liveleak.com
• En.sevenload.com
• Dalealplay.com
• Livestream.com
• Clipmoon.com
• Posterous.com
• Flixya.com
• Inquber.com
• Videobam.com
• Videofy.me
• Multiply.com
• Livejournal.com
• Dailymile.com
• Weebly.com
• Yola.com
• Xanga.com
• Jimdo.com
• Mefeedia.com
• Capzles.com
• Storify.com
• Nation2.com
• Mag.ma
• Thoughts.com

Never use duplicate content!

I’ve mentioned it before and now I tell you again, never, NEVER use duplicate content! All the ways of creating backlinks to your website using articles are worthless if you just copy the text from existing websites.

First of all, the rule is if getting a backlink is easy, it’s not high quality. Getting a backlink by copying articles from other websites is very easy and therefor the quality of the Web 2.0 or the article marketing you do will be low. No matter how big the articles are or even if you use two or three articles together as one article, Google will know. Every day the internet grows and Google is indexing all that new content every day as well. When it finds new content it also registers when they found it. When they find the same content again and but this time it’s added later than the original it means it’s a copy. For that Google punishes the website with the duplicated content.

So never use duplicate content for your own website but also don’t waste your time on creating articles for Web 2.0’s or article marketing by copying text from other websites. The worst that can happen is that your website gets ‘sandbagged’. This means your website drops or even disappears in the search engine results pages. And when that happens you won’t have any customers anymore and no money as well.

The reason I’m posting about this is that I want to help you climb the search engine result pages and I want to help you get to the first page as well. Using massive low quality link building, automated linkbuilding or duplicate content will make your website disappear. And that’s the opposite of what I want for you. On last tip to make sure Google doesn’t drop your page instead of showing it on the first page is: ‘don’t build to many links in one time. For example the list of Web 2.0 websites and the list of article marketing website I gave you in previous posts will give you a lot of high quality backlinks. Whne you build those all in one day there’s a change Google will look at it as ‘unnatural linkbuilding’. So try to spread the linkbuilding over a couple of days, for example build 5 backlinks per day. We want to build high quality backlinks but with SEO it’s also important to not overdo it.

Article Marketing

There’re a lot of ways for search engine optimization. I always say that the easier it is to get a backlink the lower the quality is. For example there’re websites where you can simply add your website and get a backlink. It’s not bad to add your website to a few of these websites but it’s better to invest in high quality backlinks.

One of the ways to get high quality backlinks is article marketing. It works like this: you or someone writes an article about 500 words or more. Then you go to a website where you can add articles. Often you can earn money with your articles as well because the place ads around the content. Every click on the ads around your article is income for you. But in this case that’s not what it’s about. We want to create backlinks so what we’ll do is write an article about the subject of your website. for example if I want a backlink to this website and I want to use the anchor ´network marketing’ I write an article about that. When I add the article to a website like ezinearticles.com I´ve created a high quality backlink from that high page rank website.

Using keywords as anchors in one of the best ways to get backlinks. When you have a lot of backlinks from articles and keyword like ´network marketing´ your website will show up faster when people search, using those keywords. At the end of the day, that´s what you want with SEO right?

Here is a useful list of website for you to get backlinks from use the article marketing method:

• Ezinearticles.com
• Goarticles.com
• Articlesnatch.com
• Articledashboard.com
• Pubarticles.com
• Articlerich.com
• Sooperarticles.com
• Articlealley.com
• Articles.submityourarticle.com
• Isnare.com
• Streetarticles.com
• Gather.com
• Azinemark.com
• Articletrader.com
• Earticlesonline.com
• Amazines.com
• Thefreelibrary.com
• Articlecity.com
• Ideamarketers.com
• Articlesfactory.com
• Articlebase.com
• Squidoo.com
• Articleclick.com
• Selfgrowth.com
• Abcarticledirectory.com
• Articlecube.com
• Brighthub.com
• Artipot.com
• Hubpages.com
• Articles.cofares.net

Eliminate your competition and get high quality backlinks from these websites.

Website content

I contacted Invendy today, the company that’s creating my website and they said things are going well. They asked me what I wanted to put on my website. Now that’s a good question. The first thing I can think of is the home page. There has to be a text on there that will make people want to look further, or better, sign up right away. There for I order an article about 1000 words that has to make customers want to know more about my network marketing business opportunities. I think I’ll also add a video and social media on the first page. That way it looks more ‘alive’ than just plain text.

Also a contact page is very important and every website has them. I think about putting up an ‘About me’ page as well. Maybe I can link to this blog so people can read about my story with MLM.

It’s important to have a lot of articles on your website. This is one of the onsite optimization aspects. The bigger a website is the more value it has to Google. There for I have to add some kind of blog. This blog is like a diary for me and that’s also the reason why I think this is valuable to others. I don’t think this will be interesting to also put on a professional website. I was thinking of an article page instead of a blog for my new website. When I think of someone who will find my website, I think about what he or she would like to see there. I think it’s interesting to read about building your network marketing business. I don’t know what I’ll put on there but I was thinking about subjects like these: 

• Building a website
• Network Marketing & Internet Marketing
• Social Media
• Pro’s and con’s
• MLM vs Pyramide
• Search Engine Optimization 

These are some subjects that might be interesting. For each subject I can write several articles. For example for SEO I can write fifty articles If I have to.

Another thing that can convince people that Global Domains International or Rolution is a great business opportunity is testimonials. I know I find it interesting to read stories from other people instead of just the sales page on a website that wants you to sign to their business.

I’m also thinking about putting up a forum. I think it can be a great feature to talk to each other that way. People can help each other and the can also learn and share ideas and experiences. For now this is pretty much it. The guys over at Invendy agreed with me so let’s get it done.

The power of Linkwheels

I’ve talked about linkwheels a couple of times before. I’m writing about it in this post because it seems very important. Backlinks from linkwheels are very high quality and you can create them yourself for free.

The idea of a linkwheel is that you create pages with unique content about the subject you want a backlinks from. You can write the articles yourself and upload/copy them to the website. The first article you use is the center of the linkwheel. For example you can use Squidoo.com. This is website where you can write about all kinds of different subjects. In the text you can add your the link to your website. To create a nice page I’d recommend to add some pictures and maybe a video to the website.

Let’s say you put three pages around the first page. For example you can use Intodit.com, Hubpages.com and Wikia.com. On these pages you write an article as well but this time you put a backlink to the first page, the center of the linkwheel instead of to your website. this way the center of the linkwheel becomes more important and the backlink you get from there will be high quality. On those page you can also use pictures and a video to make the pages look ‘human’ or ‘handmade’. There’s software that creates a lot of pages at the same time. The articles will not be unique this way and the pictures and the video will be all over the place. So to make sure it all looks like people actually created it instead of a program make sure it all looks fantastic.

In the image below you can see an example of a linkwheel:



The kind of pages you can use for linkwheels are web 2.0 property sites, wiki sites or website to create your own free websites. These websites are also social media sites, you can follow and connect to others who write about the same or other relevant subjects. By joining others your pages and articles will be found easier and that’s good for your main site.

Your website needs one or five linkwheels in to dominate the competition. Remember, this is one of the most powerful SEO tools to get high in the rankings. You must have this and now you know how to do it yourself. I’m proud the share this information with you on this blog. Looking back this blog is starting to contain a lot of useful SEO information for everyone who wants to make money with their website.

High quality vs low quality backlinks

With my new website on the way I’m trying to find out as much as possible about search engine optimization. The good news is that I think there’re a lot of possibilities to get backlinks to your website. The bad news is that I don’t know what kind of backlinks are the best.

Low quality

There’s a lot of software that you can purchase to create hundreds or thousands of backlinks in one day or spread over numerous days. Now this is an important difference. Search engines find it strange if a website gets one thousand backlinks in one day and I understand that. So if you’re using software like that you have to be careful.

I also read that Google is constantly changing to get better results. There for backlinks that are great one day can be worthless or maybe even dangerous for your website the other. That leads me to the conclusion that you should not focus on one kind of backlinks so that if Google changes it’s algorithms your website won’t drop in the rankings. I think it doesn’t matter if it are high or low quality backlinks but I think it’s important to mix it up. Of course I would go for more high quality than low quality backlinks.

High quality

Backlinks that are in a unique text under a relevant anchor are high quality backlinks. Also links from website that are high in Google already are very high quality. So getting backlinks from websites that are on the first page where you want your website to end up are fantastic. It’s hard to get these often but it’s worth the try.

One of the ways to get backlinks in a text under a relevant anchor is creating web 2.0 properties, wiki’s or blogs. You have to write a unique article and you can create the pages yourself for free. When you create more of these pages that link to each other they call it a linkwheel. In one of my next posts I’ll write about it because this seems to be a powerful method.

Like I said, I think you should focus on high quality links but to mix it up with low quality should be a problem. I think it’s also important to see what Google’s doing and to follow their updates. That way you know what you should or shouldn’t be doing.

Use Tags page for free backlinks

Onother website I came across is tagspage.com. It’s very easy to get a backlink from this website. Just press ‘add tag’ or ‘free tag #1, #2, #3 or #4. Then select ‘exclusive starting at only $ 1,-‘ or ‘free’. Then you can enter a tag.

Use the keyword you want to be found on. In previous posts we’ve explain how important it is to use the right keywords. To refresh your memory here’s a short explanation:

The Google Keyword Tool can be used to see how people use curtain keywords when they’re searching the internet. When you have a website about Global Domains International you want your website to be found when people use these words to find information or maybe they want to sign up. Either way your website should come up. Using the Keyword Tool can show you how many times people use a word. For example people look for ‘Global domains international’ 6600 times a month. Sometimes people forget the s and their for ‘Global Domain International’ is also used 1000 times a month. When you use both of these keywords and you end up at the first page in Google you can get over 7000 visitors a month for free to your website.

Now that you know why keywords and backlinks are so important again you understand that using the right keywords on tagspage.com can help you get found for the words you want people to find your website.

Getting backlinks is easy?

I’ve been looking for ways to get backlinks to my existing websites. Also I’m going to make a list of ways to get backlinks for my new website. I’ll be sharing these links with you on this blog so keep following me.

One of the things a cam across was Social Monkee. In previous post I described what kind of backlinks there are and these backlinks are social bookmarks. I’ve tried it and it’s very easy to use. You can sign up for free here. Just fill out the form and confirm you email. When you’re logged in go to Submit URL and create a title. You can create different titles by using this spin method:

{Getting backlinks is easy|Get your easy backlinks|Free backlinks for all} 

With this method you can spin the title. It can also be used to spin your keywords and your text. After the title you have to fill in your URL. Social Monkee checks if the URL is unique and then you go to the text. Just write a short text about the website and/or the subject you’re referring to. Use the spinning code as well, it’s better to use different sentences than twenty five times the same text.

After that you can add some keywords and you have to choose a category. When you’ve filled out everything you press Preview & Submit and within 24 hours you’ll have 25 free social bookmarks to your website. You can use the free 25 social bookmarks every 24 hours for different websites. Of course the first thing you do is building the backlinks to your own website. after that you can also use the tool to create the backlinks to other websites that refer to your website. that way those website get more backlinks as well and they’ll go up in the rankings. The backlink you’re getting from those website will be more valuable for your website.

Getting backlinks

I’m a member of several SEO forums like Wickedfire, Warriorforum and Blackhatworld. My favorite is Wickedfire, it looks the most professional and the people there really know what they’re talking about. Right now I’m reading a lot about SEO (I know getting rich easy isn’t the way network marketing works!). There’re a lot of ways on how to build your website but there’re even more things that you can do from outside your website.

Building backlinks seems to be very important. When people tell you about a good restaurant you my consider going there. It’s same with websites. When other websites refer to your website search engines see that as if your website has something valuable. With a lot of references, also known as backlinks your website will climb the rankings.

Not all backlinks are the same. There is a difference in quality. For example a backlink from a website about a totally different subject or a backlink from a website that allows you to create it easily is low quality. A backlink in a unique text under a word that has to do with your website is high quality. Also links from websites that don’t have a lot of other links to other websites has more value than links from website that are full of outgoing links.

In the SEO forums I read about:

• Social Bookmarks 
• Wiki links 
• Linkwheels 
• Article marketing 
• Forum links 
• Minisites 

I don’t know what all these services mean but I’ll find out shortly and I’ll write about In my next posts.

My website’s price

Well, I’ve talked to my guys over at Invendy and they gave me a price for building a website in the niche I want. To develop the layout, put it in a Wordpress system, do the proper keyword research and providing the website with articles it would cost me a little under $ 1000,-. That a lot of money but to be honest I was prepared for twice as much. Now the question is will do it? When I started with network marketing I didn’t plan to invest these kinds of money. Actually GDI and Rolution offer you the opportunity to build a business and an income for just $ 10,- or $ 13,- a month. Now it’s not just that anymore.

On the other hand, how am I going to get customers and build my company without a proper website? I’m confused. I want this and I really think I’m on to something here but it’s starting to look like a serious business. If I wanted to invest this kind of money I would never go for a network marketing opportunity.

I asked them how long it would take for me to get to the first page for the keywords ‘Global Domains International’. They told me it was a very competitive niche but within six months it should be possible. Of course getting there wasn’t free as well.

To make a long story short, I asked them to make me an offer for building the website and getting it to the first page in Google for ‘Global Domains International’. They told me they we’re willing to help me with the SEO part and they didn’t necessarily want a profit out of it. Last night I received their offer. For $ 900,- they would build my website including the keyword research and articles and also a free SEO package came with it. I had a cup of coffee and thought about it and an hour ago I called them to say I agree with the price and they could start the process.

I’m excited but also I’m a bit worried/confused if I’m doing the right thing here. Now there’s a lot of money invested and I really want to see that back. Is this the way to become one of the big boys in network marketing? Am I doing the right thing here? Is this what makes the difference between success and failure in MLM? Who knows, for now I’m focusing on learning more about search engine optimization.

Building the website

I think I’m really on to something! I’m learning a lot from the two guys over at Invendy. Now that they’ve explained to me that keyword research is the first really important thing to do I feel like I missed that step when I sign up with Global Domains International. They say it’s impossible to get to the first page in Google when you’ve chosen the wrong name but I disagree. I read on forums like Wickedfire that it is possible and when I search the web I see all kinds of names and urls on the first age.

However the change of getting on that first page is bigger when I have the wright name. With the right name I mean a name that is often used when searching the internet. That way my website will be found a lot of times and that means a lot of visitors.

They also told me that building a website using a standard website builder isn’t the best way to build a website. The reason for that is that Google can’t read the website because of the different frames often used in website building programs/software. They looked at my current website and they confirm it was the case.

After hearing this I had mixed feelings to be honest. I sign with GDI, they offer free website building but in reality it allows you to build a worthless website. They also told me that a website should be running on Wordpress. When I logged into my account last night I saw that GDI provides plugins for Wordpress. I also read that they are providing this because people where requesting this for the same reasons I have at this time.

Maybe it’s time for me to ask how much it would be to create a real and professional website. Or maybe it’s time to quit? No, not yet.