Jan 18 2008

Link building methods part 2. – the slave way

At first I wanted to write a looooooooong post about manual link building ways that are free but take a lot of time. But I changed my mind, and here is a short list of link building methods I use:

  • submit your site to link directories
  • comment on blogs with “dofollow”
  • create Squidoo lenses (you can download my free guide about making money with Squidoo lenses here), Hubpages
  • write answers on Yahoo Answers, be a member of Google & Yahoo groups
  • write a press release
  • comment on Squidoo lenses…easy way to get PR 3, PR 4 backlinks :twisted: …(don’t spam, nobody likes spammers)
  • post in forums (it works, believe me :mrgreen: )
  • write articles and submit them to the biggest article directories

You can find an article about 101 link building methods at the Seo Book blog. Although that’s a great list you should also read this list of 65 traffic & link building methods.

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Nov 16 2007

3 powerful ways to cloak affiliate links

If you are an affiliate you can make more sales if your affiliate links are cloaked / hidden etc. I collected 5 ways that can be used to hide your affiliate link. :)

1. HTML: Open Notepad or an html editor software and copy-paste the following:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <meta
http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://www.companyname.com/affiliateID=yourname“>
</HEAD> <BODY></BODY> </HTML>

After pasting the text above into Notepad or the html editor, you need to change the red link to your affiliate link, save the text as html (like: companyname.html) and then upload it to your webhost. After that all you need to do is link in your blogposts to: http://www.myblog.com/companyname.html .

2. Javascript: You need to copy and paste the link below to your website’s html code. :) Of course you need to change the red link to your own affiliate link, and the green link to the promoted company’s link. The trick in this link cloaking method is simple, the code below controls what the web browser’s status bar shows to the visitor. The only problem with the Javascript link cloaking method is that the visitor will be sent to the http://www.companyname.com if the visitor turned off Javascript.

<a href=”http://www.companyname.com/affiliateID=yourname”
onmouseover=”window.status=’http://www.companyname.com‘; return true;”
onmouseout=”window.status=”; return true;”>
Click Here</a>

3. PHP: The shortest method, open Notepad or an html editor, than copy paste the following code into it and save as .php (like companyname.php). Also don’t forget to change the red link to your affiliate link. :)

<?
header(“Location: http://www.companyname.com/affiliateID=yourname“);
?>

Don’t buy expensive link cloaking software, use these methods for free.

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