How important is being number one in Google to anyone nowadays? VERY! With the credit crunch driving our economy in to deeper recession and a rumour depression, advertising budgets are cut to a minimum especially when your a one man operation, do you really have the money to spend when keywords are $22+ a click? I don’t, this is even more important when your starting up. As a professional blogger and seo consultant i see many people wasting capital on when they could be buying more resources such as domains or even taking an extra no-internet holiday in the Carribean.
So what about backlinks? some people say content is king, this is only about 20% of the true story, when trying to make money online its more about how popular an article is than how great an article is. Alright, a shit article will get you know where but how much of google is actually spam? Even spam articles will be listed above you in google that make no sense and are irrevelant but you know what, they have more backlinks and listed higher!
So how do you get more backlinks, it is difficult when your working in an area with no established webmaster or pro blogger community such as uk finance No one will ever link to your blog about finance unless you carry indepth finance articles and since im not an economist it is difficult to find links. So how do you get to number one in google for some terms? Backlinks.. and how do you get them? Blog! Yes have a domain with your main finance or whatever blog running on it and then link from free hosts. Of course you will have to create meaningful content and a lot of it. i would guess a hundred backlinks to your blog will be a start! thats one hundred articles. Is this a lot of work? yes it is but dont be worried, many free blog and hub sites allow you to run your own adsense on their page while they take a cut.
So who do i use? There are hundreds out there online but some of the better ones are listed below.
Squidoo is the child of seth godin where you can create “lens” which are just pages with some extra features
HubPages is similar to squidoo, both allow you to create pages showing off your content and allow you to link to your pages and affiliates.
blogger.com is googles blog website which is just a normal blog and allows you to create many blogs and articles which can help you promote your affiliates and your main blog
Twitter.com if you have a lot of friends on twitter then you can use this to promote your websites and build up backlinks.
Wordpress.com A hosted wordpress site, just like installing on your server with slightly less control but worth it.
Gather.com is slightly different but you can post and share your thoughts
Creating meaningful content on these sites and link them to similar posts on your blog will always warant more click throughs and better search ranking. So consider then rather than just creating spam blogs. its easy to make money online, making a lot is the hard bit!
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