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Establishing inbound links through reciprocal link exchanges is a very effective affiliate marketing promotional and advertising tool.If done correctly, building inbound links can improve your rankings in the search engines by raising your link popularity, increasing your website traffic, and providing a valuable resource for your website customers and visitors.

Here are 15 link exchange tips to get you started:

1. Exchange links with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and/or customers that will be interested in your affiliate products or services.

2. Keep your link title brief and free of long sentences.

3. Try to keep your link description (for your affiliate marketing site/blog) brief (aim for 200 characters or less).

4. Do not capitalize all letters in your link title or description.

5. Do not give the webmaster a deadline on when they should reciprocate. Webmasters are very busy people and it may take from 1 to 60 days or more. Be patient and in the long run you will receive more quality link partners!

6. Never remove a link partner from your site once they have agreed to exchange links with you and placed your link on their site.

7. Do not request link exchanges from sites that are unrelated to your website. For example, if you have a candle website, don’t exchange links with a pharmaceutical website. This will not benefit your customers or visitors and the search engines may penalize your website for this.

8. Let the webmaster know that you have indeed visited their site and explain to them why a reciprocal link exchange with your website would be beneficial.

9. Be sure that your link pages are search engine friendly. Link pages are easier indexed if they have no more than 25 links per page.

10. Complete your website before requesting reciprocal link exchanges. Most webmasters will not link to a site where most of the pages are “under construction”.

11. Do not give misleading information in your link exchange request. Most webmasters are not going to believe it and your request will most likely be ignored. For example, don’t claim that your site receives 100,000 unique visitors a day unless your site really receives that many.

12. It is best to categorize your link partners. For example, you might want to have a home and garden page, a home improvement page, a candles page, etc. This is a much better way or organizing your links for both your visitors and your link partners. If you just have one huge page of links in no order, most webmasters will not approve your link exchange request.

13. Make sure your links page is linked and visible from your affiliate marketing home page.

14. If your site is family friendly, do not add link partners that offer services or products that are not family friendly.

15. Be aware of free-for-all link programs and link farms. These are sites that basically offer nothing but unrelated links and end up collecting and sharing your email address, which results in a lot of unwanted SPAM in your inbox.

The above tips are only a few suggestions on how to build a successful linking campaign. Most importantly, be patient and take your time to find quality link partners that will add a valuable resource and bring targeted traffic to your website.

#1 - Article Marketing - Use Article directories such as www.ezinearticles.com; www.buzzle.com; www.articledashboard.com; www.goarticles.com here’s a huge list but Ezinearticles is the best IMO

****Tip****
If you can justify the cost you can find writers here at DP, http://www.rentacoder.com; http://www.getafreelancer; http://www.need-an-article.com make sure you that you request at least a few samples from your writer and that they can write and speak in the language you want the affiliate marketing articles written in.

#2 - Directory Submissions - And yes the ones that seem to carry the most trust and authority in Googles eyes you usually have to pay for…well Except for http://www.Dmoz.org do not submit to the 5 below unless your site is of high quality.

http://dir.yahoo.com/ $300
http://www.business.com/ $180
http://www.botw.org $99.95
http://www.joeant.com $39.99
http://www.dmoz.org Free, but seems to be a long wait for most people..

Their is also many more directories that you can submit to but most have no editorial guidelines therefore they typically carry little weight in Google..

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If you do submit your site to lots of directories than an easy way to get your listing crawled by Google faster is to bookmark the page that your listing is on….Because most directories will have your listing pretty deep in their site.

#3 - Blog Comments

You can comment on other peoples blogs to get referral traffic and link juice. Great free tool for this is http://www.commentkahuna.com/ you can find dofollow blogs and pretty much automate the process of commenting on blogs….

****Tip****
Make sure you actually read the post and make an intelligent comment…

#4 - Social Luvin

You can use the power of social web 2.0 sites to gain links, traffic and brand trust.

http://www.kaboodle.com - Social shopping, Kaboodle is great for Ecommerce sites…Install toolbar button and your ready to go.

http://www.thisnext.com - Social shopping, This next is great for Ecommerce sites.

http://www.hoobly.com - High PR classified site. Easily add your products and since they have such a high PR your listing will show up in minutes.

http://www.squidoo.com Make pages about your site and add multiple elements such as videos, rss feeds, links, articles etc…

http://www.zimbio.com - Make your own “Wikizine” - Wikizine is basically just a page that everyone can add or edit content…You can add your rss feed and then Zimbio will ping your feed and fetch the content…It’s best to change up the content a little before publishing to Zimbio to avoid any duplicate filters for Google.

http://www.hubpages.com - Make a page, add elements…

These are just a few but of course theirs tons and tons more that almost everyone knows about such as youtube, myspace, facebook, digg etc…heres a huge list.

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Its best to use unique, original, never before published content on your pages that you build and use 3 or more affiliate marketing keywords in your title of your page..Link to your pages you build too…..Also some pages that you build will allow you to add rss feeds…Add them…You can build a squidoo page and add the rss feeds from your other squidoo pages, hubpages, article feeds, blogs etc….

#5 - Make a link bait page

Like above in this list their are two link bait pages…The first is a list of article directories and the other is a list of social sites….as you can see it works because I linked to them…

You can compile a useful report in your niche like the Top 15 worst celebrity plastic surgery procedures. Or Top 20 bloggers. Or hottest women online. Do something different, useful, funny, sexy in your niche and people will link to it naturally.

Of course their are many, many more ways for you to build traffic and links but hey this is a top 5 list ….You want more tips, techniques then just grab my free book which is absolutely 100% free, no strings attached.

Stuff I recently did to some new websites, and seen a huge increase from Yahoo.

1. Internal Linking
I have used some within the page, and at the footer. Make sure put to this on every page possible.

2. Backlinks from different sources.
International directories are great or with different languages. Articles!!!! Make sure to post the article on your blogpage first before submitting it elsewhere.

3. Use long Anchor Text Keywords for your affiliate marketing site or blog

4. Blog frequently ON YOUR WEBSITE.
Try to put the affiliate marketing blog on your homepage, and use internal linking to spread the juice to other pages. Your domain should be like a pyramid. The top domain being at the top, and the less important further down. Submit your blog, and make sure to ping it! Spiderbots love fresh content so don’t make your website stale!

5. Stop using some many images that makes your webpage load in minutes instead of seconds. Spiderbots are like US Navy Seals….they go in AND they immediately come out. They go into a building and all they see is pictures. What do you think they’re going to do? Nothing here….LET’S GO! If they find countless cabinets of info, they’ll start spending more time trying to acquire info.

6. Use the link command on YOUR page and your Competitor’s page.
Look at the all the links, and you will see a pattern with the top links. They’re usually some type of blogs with high PR rankings. Gee I wonder where you should spend more time at/on?

7. Sometimes it’s always good to leave your best articles ON YOUR PAGE.
I have noticed that many ppl are taking content from my page, and giving me a full dofollow link with my content. If you save your best content for ezine, they’ll just a link to ezine. This will benefit you in the long run.

8. If you’re going to blog comment (to put a backlink) make sure to do it in a highly ranked/highly visited/do follow blogs. Most spiderbots visit it, and they’re more than likely to see your site. What website is a good website to leave your ’spam’ link? Try tmz You will notice fast results from yahoo/google. Don’t get banned from there now.

Every single affiliate marketer want to raise the PR (page rank) of their sites and this is not something “NEW”. Here are some opinions of how you can achieve that goal, they are all based on the experience that most of these marketers:

On Question Like: “what should i do to raise the PR and make more keywords top?”

1. You need a lot of websites linking to you basically…and the higher PR of the pages linking to you and the more relevant they are the better!

2. I would suggest you focus more on your rankings in SERP. Optimize onpage (titles, headers, meta, keywords, etc.) and the do offpage though quality link building (using your keywords as anchor texts). Some ways to build links:

If you really want to build PR, search for “dofollow” blogs and participate relevantly and always be on-topic. Also building links to higher PR sites similar to your niche would also help.

3. It isn’t about the PR. It is about how well you optimize it..

4. The only way you can raise your PR fast is to do a bunch of stuff before Google publishes new PR data. You’d have to do it close enough that it feels fast, but not too close Google doesn’t crawl your new links in time.

5. submit your site to list of directories.

6. Choose quality link partners, minimize reciprocal linking and prioritize One-way links and also Create new, unique & fresh content

7. You get better PR by having a good quality site. Content is the most imporant, next is back links.

8. Page rank has little impact on your actual rankings. It could be possible that there are some SEO errors which might be suppressing your SEO rankings.Make sure you do not have any duplicate content on your website, and add quality back links towards your website.

9. Seriously, I vote that the next person who says “get more backlinks” without explaining the types of backlinks worth getting should end up with their genitals stuck in their ears.

That’s the answer. Build something that others feel is worth sharing with others.

10. How to get your pr higher is like playing English snooker…easy to start playing with…impossible to master. Also don’t forget that your site may have billions of backlinks, but if the majority of them have nofollow tag (you can be sure that will happen, specially backlinks from high pr sites) its really a hopeless quest. For me Pr is just an illusion to make google even more rich…

11. PR is not a solution for increasing your SERP.

12. normally I submit to the directories and comment some blog.

13. I personally think PR is totally about smoke and mirrors, think about it. Google is probably one of the most secretive orgs in the world when it comes to anything remotely SEO. So why then do they provide a nice tool in google toolbar to show their score of a website? I think its purely to take peoples eyes off google’s real algorithms. Google does a fine job of creating mass dilusions

One side comment, not truly on topic but worth mentioning, stay clear of buying links, google is getting hotter and hotter on it. And if you are selling marketing space, links, banner spots or similar, make **** sure you put NOFOLLOW attribute on the page or links themselves or google WILL penalise your page or site.

14. create a sitemap in webdirectory

15. I support statements about qulaity content - there are lots of examples were a low PR site outranks high pr site on some of the keyword based on its knowledge (size and quality of the content) on particular keyword.

Straight to the topic - fastest way to drive pr is increase traffic to the site. The more traffic the higher the pr

16. My websites have over 300 pages of high quality video tutorials, the ranking were dropped from PR5 to PR4, PR3…… finally to PR0 about 6 months ago. When my websites have only about 30 pages, the ranking was PR5 about two years ago. The more contents I added, the lowest PR will result.

I think PR has no any relationship with content. Even websites with only a few pages with normal contents have PR3 or PR4. Why my websites with 300 pages with different contents will be penalized to PR0?

17. on page SEO and a couple of links does wonders for SERP ranking

18. Backlinks are the key. But also use anchor text in the backlinks.

The word ‘Google’ is the anchor text, substitute that for keywords that you think others might use to bring your site up in the results.

19. Okay since PR is really an issue for the OP, you could also try participating in dofollow forums, blogs, or submitting to directories, etc. Their value is very low but they sum up. Overtime those pages you participate in or submitted to might have higher PR in the future.

You can also look for expired domains with PR and buy it.

20. Hi
Now PR is a favorite topic of mine

With regards to building backlinks, sticking to things like article submission and commenting in related blogs [pay attention to the titles of the posts you are commenting on are good practice

Let’s face it - the SEO process is something really difficult, having in mind that you have to use some specific methods like content writing, link building, well site structuring and others. But in a long term this will give you great results, talking about good SE positions as well as targeted visits on your site, blog, directory, portal or whatever you are managing online.

In these thoughts there are contests made just to see who is the best in this field and what kind of methods he or she use to get proper results. Such a thing is the Seocontest2008, a big SEO contest where SEO gurus fight on the SEs - first place takes the award - as simple as that. In the Seocontest2008 webmasters put all they know and have as web resources to make it happen - getting fresh content and valuable links are the main two things that will force the SE positions of their web sites. Mainly Google is the field, where the fight is getting focus on.

Most of these people don’t do it for the money, but for the glory and we really like that, don’t we? Seocontest2008 is not just another SEO contest, where the best will take first place, it is a networking as well. Why?! Because webmasters will give the best of them in order to show that team working is the better solution, which is learned in business schools at the same time.

Seocontest2008 is also a place where ordinary webmasters improve their skills and become partners in future projects as well. Some of you will get this as a joke, but this kind of experience make people, who work in this more closed one to each other. As we mentioned it: the team working is the key of every business.

Finally, We at WhiskyBeach.com Blog - Affiliate Marketing Blog wish good luck to those, who take part of this Seocontest2008 and want to tell: Let’s the best SEOs win it. Also you can visit: Webmaster World Blog - to get some more info about the SEO Process.