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What to do if You are Hit with a Google Penalty

The greatest fear of any SEO affiliate is being hit with a Google Penalty, the impact of which can be absolutely fatal for their site and the income they generate. A Google Penalty is applied by the search giant if it believes you have undertaken activity that it deems has been in an attempt to…

Link Building Tactics for Online Gambling Affiliates

In the popular 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” the main character played by Kevin Costner hears a voice from his cornfield that says: “If you build it, he will come.” That may have worked in the magic realism that was that film, but when it comes to growing traffic to a website, you can’t simply…

What Happens Beyond the Link?

This is no news, but link building is still the main way for affiliate marketers to build their search engine presence. And that's even after the recent Google banning of sites being a part of private blog networks (PBNs). However, getting links isn'y always as straightforward as finding the right prospects and then blasting them…

10 Signs Of Linking Over-Optimization

Link building is where the SEO game is won or lost. Unfortunately, having your links over-optimized is easier than you’d think, which can result in an over-optimization penalty. Here are the common bad signs, and how not to let the over-optimization happen: 1. Too Many Exact Match Anchor Texts A good backlink profile can't have…

Why Link Builders Need To Do More Than Just Build Links

There's been quite a commotion regarding Hummingbird - the newest Google search update. At first, SEO experts were worried that it might be another algorithm update, similar to what Google brought upon us with Penguin and Panda. But as it turns out, Hummingbird is nothing like it. Link Building vs. Google Algorithm Updates The initial…

How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google

Leaving Google behind completely isn’t 100% possible, but there are many tools that can make link prospecting more effective. Guest Blogging Communities Sites like MyBlogGuest are a great place to go in search for some sites that are ready to give you a link as soon as today, provided that you can supply them with…

8 Tips To Increase Your Link Building Efficiency

Link building is becoming more difficult with every algorithm update, but  it still is an important element for our sites' online presences. Even if we don't appreciate what Google is doing, we can't stop link building altogether. Here's a list of 8 tips on how to build SEO links and how to be more efficient…

How To Analyze Your Backlinks Once and For All

The main factor responsible for getting you good search engine rankings has been the same for years now...essentially, backlinks are SEO. That's why analyzing the backlinks you already have and identifying new opportunities out there is a crucial activity for your affiliate business. Pick Your Backlinks Tool There are many free tools that you can…

Reciprocation Links and How They Work

There are hundreds of different SEO techniques and methods to get your affiliate site ranked. One of them is reciprocal linking. So, do reciprocal links work? And more importantly, what is a reciprocal link exactly? Reciprocal links - the definition Quite simply, reciprocal linking is a situation where two webmasters agree to link to each…

Do Inbound Links from Link Sellers Spell T-r-o-u-b-l-e?

Links are a critical component of any SEO effort but every since Penguin 1.0 dropped last year, they've been a hit-or-miss proposition at best. Penguin not only smacked down hard on some very common linking practices, it also left SEOs with a lot of unanswered questions about best practice linking. In particular, web publishers have…