SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Domain Names

I have been doing SEO for quite some time already and I have managed to rank some of my sites on the first page of the search engine results page.  I am not claiming that I am an expert when it comes to SEO  and if you are one of the gurus out there, I will be happy if you could add some of your tips on how to do link building.

One basic off page optimization is link building.  It is important to have links for the reason that major search engines gauge the value of your site thru these links.   Link building is one way to make your site earn points .  One link that points to your site is considered a point.  It will also depend on the “quality” of the links that points to your site.

Just a quick note:

• Be sure to balance both quality and quantity links pointing to your site
• The links coming from a site that is related to your post or website is much more valuable than links that are not
• Link farms are frowned upon search engines, be sure not to be included on one of the farms
• If there are two many links on one page, it might be tagged as a link farm
• Do internal linking, this is considered as points too, but do not overdo it
• Have some related posts plugins for your blogs
• Map your links carefully
• Engage yourself and your site with link exchange or reciprocal linking
• Use proper anchor text for your link
• DO deep linking - do not just make links pointing to your homepage, but also to some of your deep pages
• Links have different values
• Balance do follow links to your no follow links

That is all I can think of right now, I will update my bullet list if ever I have the chance.  If you can add some, write it below on the comment section and I will add it to the list.

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Why would one redirect a link?  There area few number of reasons.  One would be affiliate link theft.  Bad boys will see your affiliate link and then replace it with theirs, making the sale thus, them having the commission.  Another would be the simplicty of the link.  It matters when your links are shown like this:

http://mydomainname.com/offer.php

rather than having an affiliate link like

http://mydomain.com/?offer=123aff

or something to that effect.  If you were the reader, what link would you click? And so on and so forth.

Now, Here is one quick tip on how to redirect your affiliate link using php.  No programming required, and we can actually do this in one minute.

First off,  you will be needing:

1. notepad application
2. access to your ftp
3. the affiliate link

Ready?

1. Open notepad and copy this line

<?php
header(’Location: http://your-affiliate-link-here.com’);
?>

Wherein you replace http://your-affiliate-link-here.com with the actual affiliate link you want to hide.

2. Save it as php with any filename you want. example is ORDER.PHP

3. log in to your ftp, accessing your domain name root -/public_html

4. Create your directory: Here are some familiar directory names for your convenience, but you can actually use any directory name you wish.

• /go
• /goto
• /recommends
• /loves
• /presents

5. upload your .php, in our example - ORDER.php

6. Check your link if it really redirects, usually its http://your-domain-name.com/go/order.php

Your all  set, being conservative myself, I should have written at the title “under 5 minutes,” but really, one can do it under 2 minutes. Congratulations on your new beautified redirected link

photocredit: techimo.com

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It is great news that Clickbank is accepting Philippine Affiliates and Vendors.  This post is some kind of late when it comes to the news but what I want to share with this post is on how to actually earn from Clickbank.

A couple of friends of mine asked me on what is Clickbank and how to earn from it.  Now here is a brief information on Clickbank Philippines and how to earn from it.

Clickbank is an online retail outlet that caters to both product vendors and affiliates.  It claims that they have 10,000 digital products and 100,000 affiliates within their system.  In simpler terms, vendors signed in their products with Clickbank for a fee and affiliates try to market these digital products throughout the web.  It is actually a win-win-win (if there is such term) situation to the 3 parties.  Clickbank gets paid by the sign in product fee, vendors get more sales, and affiliates get commissions from their marketing efforts.

How to earn from Clickbank Philippines:

Vendors - If you have digital products like ebooks, softwares, scripts and the like, you should sign up for clickbank and let their affiliates market your product.

Affiliates - sign up with Clickbank Philippines and pick on thousands of digital products to promote, apply seo on it, go ppc, ppv and/or email marketing and rake commissions for every sale that you get from your hoplink. (hoplink is an url assigned for every affiliate. It is unique for every affiliate member)

Affiliate Marketing is one of the best method on how to earn online.  One of the most rewarding actually.  Once you know the know how of this money making method,  you will be grateful that you have entered this kind of business.

So go ahead and sign up now on Clickbank and earn money online.

if you have any other questions, suggestions and even reactions, you can leave your comments below.

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