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Affiliate Link Building Tips

dennis — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:27:52 +0000

A very important step in rising to the top of the Search Engines, is to have a good link building campaign. Links to your site benefit you in a couple ways.

If that site gets visitors, they will send some traffic your way.
When the search engines see links coming to your site, they will know that there is some value to your site.

Find Quality – The better the link to you site, the greater the impact to your ranking. The reverse of that can work also. If you get a lot of links from bad sites, it can impact you negatively.

Deep Linking- Get the links to the page you want to improve the ranking. If you have a product on your site, get the link to point directly to that, along with the search term being the link text.

Take Your Time – If the search engine sees a site go from 3 links to 3000 links overnight, the engines may think that something is up. Spread it out over time and you will benefit.

There are many ways to get links to your site, and you need to get a campaign going early on.

Link Building Tips and Resources

SEO for Beginners

dennis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:57:46 +0000

If you are just getting started with SEO, it’s important to know the basics first. There are 100s of different factors that go into ranking a website in the search engine, and it can take you years to master them. For those that want to get started now, you can do alot with little effort to greatly improve your rankings.

Most Important SEO Factors

Keywords in the title tag
Keywords in the URL
Keyword in the body
Keyword in anchor text
Keyword in heading tags
Anchor text in inbound links
Inbound links from similar sites, and trusted sites
Have unique content, and update the site frequently

Most Important things to Avoid

Don’t stuff your keywords, or go for too many different keywords
Don’t crosslink, or link to link farms
Avoid stolen and duplicate content
Don’t do doorway pages, invisible text, or cloaking
Don’t have flash for your home page (it can’t be crawled)

A good resource that goes into more detail, and discusses the less important factors can be found below.

15 Minute SEO List – Learn how to SEO
Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist.

Website Templates to Speed Development

dennis — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:34:14 +0000

Most websites are built based on templates. A template is a design that usually includes a header, navigation, body and a footer. These main page components can change throughout a site, but chances are, they are going to look pretty similar. This is accomplished with a template. The look of a website comes from a template. Many people start from scratch, and build their own. Smart people start with something someone else built. There are a number of sites out there that offer Free Website Templates. These are also sometimes called Open Source Website Templates. If you aren’t familiar with open source, it’s another name for Free. Here are a few of my favorite:

If you have a budget for your project, you may want to buy one from a paid template site.

Template Monster

SEO Content Provider

dennis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:56:34 +0000

It can be hard to come up with original content for a website, especially well written, and SEO friendly. Now there is a Members Only program called Article Underground that provides fresh articles on a monthly basis, along with ways to promote those articles or others that you write.

Put the power of content to work for you, with Article Underground.

SEO your site for Affiliate Marketing Success

dennis — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:37:06 +0000

There is a good opportunity for affiliate marketers to partner with companies that don’t have the in house experience, or the willingness to pay a company to do the work for them.Â The hard part these days is finding the products.