Google Killed Link Building?

No matter what the business is there is always going to be someone that
tries to make it better, faster, easier.

One place you can see the evidence is in the world of SEO.

There are countless methods out there to “beat”  Google or
a secret loophole that some one has discovered.

No one knows for sure exactly what Google looks at to rank sites
but one thing has been true, the more relevant, high quality backlinks
you have pointing to your site the better it will rank.

So there has been every type of program to try and get you automed
backlinks that you can think of, but Google is not dumb it doesn’t
take them long to catch on and render any of these methods useless.

Don’t Put All Your Link Building In One Basket.

A lot of people that use these loops holes or methods that are working right now
will use them exclusively.

Then when Google comes along and makes a change, they are left with
literally nothing over night.

This was seen with the first big Google Slap, then again with the Panda update
and now the what is being called Panda.2

There are a lot of people out there that have been hailing private blog networks
as the ultimate backlink source.

They have put all their link building efforts into using these paid services that
are placing your links on a network of high ranking pages.

These have worked great and were thought to be untraceable by Google.

Well turns out they are.

One of the most popular private blog networks got all the sites in their network
de-indexed.

So just like that, over night everyone that was relying on this service, paying up to
$400 a month or more, have nothing to show for it.

Here is what Build My Rank said on their site about this

On a daily basis, we monitor our domain network to check metrics
like page rank, indexed pages, etc. As with any link-building network,
some de-indexing activity is expected and ours has been within a permissible
range for the past two years. Unfortunately, this morning, our scripts and
manual checks have determined that the overwhelming majority of our network
has been de-indexed (by Google), as of March 19, 2012. In our wildest dreams,
there’s no way we could have imagined this happening.

It had always been BMR’s philosophy that if we did things a bit different from
other networks, we would not only have a better quality service to offer our users,
but a longer life in this fickle industry. Sadly, it appears this was not the case.

 

 Should You Still Do Link Building For Your Sites?

The short answer is … YES!

Back links still play an important factor in your sites rankings. however consider
taking a different approach to your link building strategy.

First of all dont put all of your links in one basket, you want to get several different
types of links from different sources.

Diversity is an important factor that is often over looked, and it helps protect you
in the case that one of the sources gets slapped you are not left with nothing.

Next thing is to stop building links for the sake of building links.

Your link building should be done to get traffic. If you are focussing yoor efforts
on building links that will get you traffic then you win right away.

That’s the ultimate goal anyway isn’t it to get people to your site?

So build links that people will click, and the after effect will be good rankings.

Google does not penalize people for putting out good content in a natural way, every time
there has been an algorithm change those that have been effected the most
are those that are trying to game the system or they have all their eggs in one basket.

Avoid those two things and you will be successful with your link building.

I recently found out about Joseph and Abra Riley’s situation.

If you are not familiar with these two they were the owners of
Forever Concepts Traffic Exchange.

I say they were because the site is no longer around.

Now this is something that in itself isn’t all too uncommon, owners run
into financial troubles and just close up shop and walk away with
what ever they have left.

What is uncommon though is that Joseph and Abra did not just close
shop and take what they could.

In fact they lost the site, but then went and refunded all the payments that they could.

This might sound like to little too late, but the reason all this came about was
due to Josephs health.

They were in the states to see family and friends when Josephs one lung collapsed.

He has now been released from the hospital but is still here in the US in
Sacramento California.

They are currently being housed by the salvation Army and trying to get
back home to Australia.

Which would be enough of a challenge for most people.

But…

Due to Josephs current condition they can not fly.

So here they are stranded in the United States, trying to find a way to
get a ship to Australia,  have lost their
business and instead of just going home decided the right thing to do
was refund the members that made payments to the site.

If you were a member of Forever Concepts before all of this you know
already the kind of caring people they were.

The site was built around people  helping others through donations to
others through Kiva.

These are two people that spent their time and money doing what
they could to help as many as they could.

But now that they are in need, who is going to help them?

Brian Rickert took their paypal email and created this splash page for people to make donations.

These aren’t donations going to help a charity or organization they are going directly to Joseph and Abra’s
paypal account where it can directly benefit them. If you are able to help with a dollar or just by
pointing others to this splash page please do help.

Lets show those that have worked so hard to care that they are cared for and appreciated.

OK now this review may sound biased a bit but it really is because I love this site.  It is going to be hard to hide my enthusiasm as i discuss it because , well it just simply rocks.

So what is TE Command Post anyway?

According to the Sales page it will ” Command Your Credits, Control Your Time And Cash in Cool Commissions On Autopilot, All with Push Button Simplicity!”

Wow thats a pretty bold claim, if you ask me so lets see if it lives up to it or if its just marketing hype.

Well first of all the site was created by Paul Kinder and Scott Martin, Now I know Paul is a great marketer, but he also normally delivers on what he promises, so that right there leads me to believe that there may be some validity to these claims. And Scott is a programmer that understands what TE members need so that is another check in the box. So lets go ahead and open it up and see what its all about.

In the following video I walk you through the basic process of how the site works.

OK so as you can see it definitely lives up to the claim of  “Command Your Credits, Control Your Time”  TECommandPost  has already saved me a ton of time and I have just started using it.

So what about the ” Cash in Cool Commissions On Autopilot” part?

Well this part could possibly be a bit misleading. It does leave out one important detail. You actually do have to promote TE Command Post to make this happen. This should be a given when you look at any site that talks about you making money. We have talked before about there being no big red easy button to making money, that there is and always will be some element of work involved.

But if you do promote TE CommandPost, the rewards are bountiful. There are ( like with most sites) upgrades available and the One Time Offers are really hard to resist if you are a serious Traffic Exchange user. And as your referrals join you will be credited with up to 50% commissions on them.

Then the site works like a downline builder as well, all the TE’s that you entered your user id for are now being shown to your downlines, and all those exchanges have upgrade offers as well. There is also the secondary downline builder for usefull tools that any TE member should need and you will also be credited with commissions from any of those sales.

Now , here is the best part, I mentioned above that Paul is a great marketer. When he writes emails people pay attention and often times they click the links and they join.

Well when his emails go out to the members of TE Command Post, they will have your links in them. Depending on your membership level your link go go down 6 levels. That can work out to be a lot of emails with your links and all you had to do was referr a couple of members.

So yes a little bit of work up front is involved, but once you have done that , the Commissions will come rolling in on autopilot.

To wrap up, yes I think TE Command Post does live up to its promises, it will save me a ton of time every week, and I have already started seeing some of those autopilot commissions coming into my TECP account and other sites that are connected. This really is a must have tool for any one using traffic exchanges.

Wow lots of buzz over Affiliate Silver Bullet the last couple of days. There is good reason for that too.
What the site basicly is, is a simple point and click affiliate marketing system, on steroids.

What makes it so powerfull and so simple to use is what they call the “Silver Bullets“.

These Silver Bullets are full marketing campains for some the best converting, best paying clickbank products that are going to be hard coded to you so you can profit from them for a long, long time.

When you log in you will have two options for each bullet. You can either let them host it for you, or you can host it yourself.

I’ll go over both ways but if you are newer and don’t have your own domain, hosting, or aweber account then letting them host  it for you is the easiest and fastest way to get going.

Once you have a little bit of experience, and have some income comming in you should get the above mentioned things and start hosting them yourself, since it gives you more control and puts
people on to your own personal list.

For now though lets take a look at the first option.  If you let them host for you all you have to do is grab one of the two links they provide you. They are both for basically the same page, which is a professionally designed video squeeze page like this one.

The big difference is one has an auto playing video on it and the other has the video on it that doesn’t play unless some one clicks the play button. This is useful if you are promoting using Adwords or any other source that does not allow auto playing video. There’s also a bit of keyword relevant text on these pages too if you do want to use Adwords.

Now all you have to do is grab the provided promo tools and send traffic to your squeeze pages. Don’t worry, even if you have never gotten one vistior to any site before they have you covered. THere is an extensive amount of traffic training inside the members area as well.

This is where the magic happens, once some one fills out the opt in form on your squeeze page they will be taken directly to the sales page of a high converting clickbank product. They will then start receiving an e-zine that tells them more about the product. That sales page and all the follow up emails have your clickbank id hard coded in them, so no matter when they buy it , you will get the commissions.

Like I said simple and easy.

Now if you are ready to build your own list they have made it easy for you too. They give you a campain sharing code so you can import that same e-zine to your own aweber account. You then plug in your list name and download your silver bullet file. It will have a folder to upload to your server and a set of insructions that covers any questions you may have.

Its that easy to have your own hosted professional video squeeze pages up and running and building your list while earning you a handsome clickbank income. If you want you can view a private webinar that Soren from Affiliate Silver Bullet did that shows you exactly how it works by going here!

Wow it’s been a while since posting here. what a poor and neglected site:(

Let’s see if I can do better keeping things a little fresher in here this year. A bit more content, a lot more video, maybe even some controversy? You can help if you want. Have something you want to get off your chest? feel free to drop off an article and I’ll get it published for you.

Have any questions? Don’t forget you can always Ask William

So whats new so far in 2010?

Well yesterday marked the first big TE launch of the year, with ThumbVu hitting the streets with full force and over 1,000 new members in the first 24 hours. They are shooting for 5,000 members in the first week and if the first 24 are any indication they should be able to pull it off.

Also today marks the closing of Paul Kinder and my  TE Christmas. 15 exchanges are giving away a ton of prizes today and there are some killer credit deals available too. But hurry since today is the last day for it.

Other than that there is a lot in the works trying to keep MTP growing and flowing, adding new updates to the 13 deadly books, a few new projects in the works and even more in the planing stages.

2010 is looking to be a great year for a lot of people as a lot of 2009′s hard work surfaces in the form of new products and ideas in the new year. Looking forward to continuing some of the great friendships and partnerships that were formed last year and getting out and making new connections with people this year.

I have little doubt that you are familiar with Jeremy Burns’ PLR
sales if you have been online long.

I just bought his latest package which to my surprise was 10
“Physical Products” all with PLR.

I always love PLR products because there is so much you can do
to make them your own, but this is really taking PLR to a new
level.

These products came with full websites and great squeeze page
videos, there is nothing left out.

http://videodiskgoldmine.com

The cool thing about these PLR products being physical is that
anyone can finally have their own high ticket products to sell
online.

The most important part though is the totally crazy fast action
bonus Jeremy has for the first 175 people. Here is giving away
PLR rights to his 17 disk Camtasia Cash Secrets course totally
free if you act fast.

http://videodiskgoldmine.com

These sales sell out fast but with this fast action bonus you
may already be too late, check this out NOW.

Wow, sunny is a report writing machine, 13deadly list building tragedies launched a week ago and she already has a report out about it.

Now it may seem strange to have a report about a report at first, but I would call it more on an appendix to the report.

You see List Building Tragedies was made to go viral for anyone that chooses to rebrand it.

But I will admit that it was assumed everyone that was downloading it would know what that means.

I’m sure you know what they say about ASSuming , so I’ll spare you, just Like Sunny spared me.

I was about to try explaining Viral Marketing a bit better and how List Building Tragedies tied into it, But Sunny stepped and and did it for me.

Well actually she did it for her but it was exactly what I was looking for, it’s as if she broke into my head and put it all in print for me.

(hopefully she didn’t see some of the more disturbing images while she was in there)

Any way what Sunny ended up with was All About Viral Marketing

Its a quick report that explains how to use an ebook such as 13 Deadly List Building Tragedies to spread your links around the internet like a digital pandemic.

It’s simple to do and once it takes off your inbox will start filling up with downline and payment notifications.

You can download the report directly from HERE, with no opt in reqiured.

And be on the look out for the viral element that Sunny built in to her own report, its super simple but it will amaze you how effective it is.

I have written before about integration marketing , but today I wanted to show you one of the best examples I have seen recently.

Soren Jordanson and the rest of the super surf exchanges are now integrated with Jeff Dedrick’s Viral Ebook Explosion.

To see what I am talking about take a look at this page. There are also ones for the other super surf sites that are available to the Viral Ebook Explosion members.

In case you don’t see what is happening here let me explain. Jeff Dedrick wants new members to his site, so he wants to provide good affiliate tools.

Soren and others want fresh new members joining their exchanges.

So by providing some great exchange specific splash pages like the above they have completed both tasks.

Jeff has some affiliate tools that he can give to his members, and the super surf team have new members coming in from Jeff’s site.

Whats even better though is that these new members are being introduced to good exchanges and provided with good tools, so guess what? They are going to get results and are going to tell others that they have been getting results using traffic exchanges. They are also going to say they are getting results promoting Jeff’s site.

So its good for Jeff and his site, and its great for the traffic exchanges involved and traffic exchanges as a whole.

Once other marketers see how well this is working out for Jeff, don’t you think they might want to do something similar?

So my hats off to Mr. Dedrick, Soren and team for this great lesson on how to effectively use integration marketing.