So, you want to get your affiliate site ranked, but how many (quality) backlinks do you need to witness any noticeable results? Moreover, what is a quality backlink in the first place? The Quality Of Backlinks Essentially, the higher the PageRank (PR) of the page giving you the backlink and the more relevant it is…
Link building is not a process that can be automated, especially in the post-Penguin SEO landscape. Today's link building best practices are all about targeting quality sites and building relationships. In a recent blog posting on SearchEngineJournal.com titled, Why Link Building Isn’t a Cookie-Cutter Process, blogger Pratik Dholakiya pointed out exactly why putting your link…
Let’s face it... It’s hard to deliver stellar SEO when the amount of competition is so high in our industry. In the same respect, we're not trying to rank for Mesothelioma, Asbestos, or Annuity-- Google's most expensive keywords, where this type of competitive analysis would be impossible. No, we're just gambling affiliates and as such,…
Link building has been seriously under the microscope ever since Google rolled out their Penguin update last year. During that time SEOs have struggled to adjust to the new normal, especially when it comes to commercial link building services. To find out more about the current state of link building services, and whether or not…
Now I know there are many posts around about tools, and a lot of these tools don’t come cheap. They're definitely not going to be within every affiliate’s budget. The end product should have you spending less time researching thus more time outreaching and as a result getting more links meaning better rankings (in theory).…
Performing some kind of backlink research is a very common task in internet marketing, affiliate marketing, or website management in general. The thing is that SEO, whether we like it or now, is and will be one of the main sources of traffic for every website. And if we don’t do our research properly, we…
Before Google's Penguin update savaged turn the SEO world upside down, exchanging, buying and selling links was a common SEO strategy and revenue opportunity. While Penguin definitely put the brakes on a lot of link markets and exchanges, it didn't kill off the practice entirely. But a lot of SEOs are still gun shy about…
In the affiliate marketing business, every single conversion matters. That's why more and more affiliates are using affiliate link cloaking plug-ins and apps; as well as geolocation databases to help defend every hard-fought sale. While some affiliates may shrug off a lost conversion or two as no big deal, experienced partners know better. When you're…
Right, so today the whole SEO and Affiliate industries have been abuzz with news of the Google link disavow tool arriving. A certain SEO (me) even said on a panel in BAC last weekend that he’d be amazed if it ever even arrived. Well, at the time, it was a slight exaggeration, but it definitely…
What's more important for long term link building strategies... title relevancy or domains? That question was posed to the panelists on our recent SEO Roundtable titled, How iGaming Affiliates Can Recover from Google Penguin. More specifically, a CAP reader asked if there would be any value to a great blog post with the term casino…
News in the iGaming and Sports Betting affiliate world moves fast.
Don't miss a beat! Subscribe to the CAP newsletter now.
