Once you have been doing many of the basic off site search engine optimization or relevant link building tasks, your search engine optimization efforts you might ultimately hit a saturation point. This evenly depends on your industry, online niche and what type of harvest or air force you place forward your audience. Maybe you will be pleased at this point and maybe you won’t but a blogger outreach program could help you buy a few more really nice links along with generous amounts of targeted website traffic. You have to take it upon yourself to find these link sources but the rewards could very well outweigh the effort.
Unless your business sits in a really obscure industry or niche chances are you have some industry leading blogs that receive very generous amounts of traffic every single day. Take some time and research all the various blogs that exist and place them into a database so you can keep footstep of them. Use tools like Google’s blog search, blog directories and by simply searching for blogs in all the major search engines and see what you come up with. A further way to find fantastic relevant blog posts are on major news websites that evenly have editorial sections and write topics that are relevant to your industry.
When you stay these types of blogs keep an eye out for blog rolls in the blog side bar, this is a fantastic place to find other industry leading blogs specific to your industry. Even if your business is young and just getting started reaching out to some of these blog owners could yield a nice write up you can then use as leverage in your community to instill confidence in possible new clients or customers.
Most blogs and news sites have some sort of contact page and many of them will really have an area where you can submit news on anything related to that blog or industry. Many bloggers are looking for new material to write up on so it doesn’t hurt to just try and reach out to these owners. If you have a product that you wouldn’t mind them doing a product review on that is a fantastic way to get the blog owner to do a nice write up on your product. If you place forward a service just make sure that the blog owner does not place forward the same service because usually they won’t respond to a direct competitor asking for space on their blog. Remember that this is a numbers game so research as many blogs as you can. Those write ups will usually include a link which could help your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts out in a fantastic way along with visibility. This is just a further way to really diversify your link building efforts all while making fantastic new pathways to your website.
Remember as your conduct a blogger outreach, make sure that this is one part of your overall relevant and link building program. Also, don’t overdue any aspect of your link building and remember to follow each search engines webmaster guidelines as well.
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Blogger Outreach Could Get You Some Nice Links
Tuesday, December 29th, 20094 Ways To Hide Affiliate Links
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Affiliate link hijacking is a huge problem, some people will exchange your affiliate URL to their own previous to purchasing a product so they themselves get paid the commission giving them a discounted product.
This problem is far worse if you are promoting to the affiliate marketers crowd as they can spot an affiliate link from 100 yards away! They will just replace your affiliate ID with their own and “hijack” your commissions.
Some people just simply despise the thought that you will make a commission from their buy and will just cut off your affiliate ID at the end of the URL. If you don’t take steps to try and hide your affiliate links from hijackers, then you will carry on losing commissions.
Using a redirect php script
This is an simple practice to implement, all you have to do is make a single php file that includes a small piece of code, so if you are trying to promote www-yourID.merchID.hop.clickbank-net then you way make a blank page called, say, http://discounts.php that just contains the redirect script, so the actual link you promote would be www-yoursite-com/discounts.
Unfortunately this practice does have one drawback, some affiliate merchant links will still be visible in the browser address bar, it works fantastic with clickbank harvest.
Using .htaccess to hide links.
This is works very much the same as the one above apart from you don’t need to use any scripts, you just need to add a line of code to your .htaccess file.
As with the redirect script above, just make a blank page and upload it to your server, then add the following line of code to your .htaccess file.
Unfortunately this has the same drawbacks as the redirect script method, your affiliate link may still be visible on the merchants site in the browser address bar.
Using a zero-frame to cloak links.
This is the cloaking practice I use most evenly to hide affiliate links.
Using this method makes it look as if you are sending people to a page on YOUR site, even your URL will be still be visible in the address bar unlike the above cloaking techniques, people will reckon they are still on your site but they are really viewing the merchants site.
You simply make a page as mentioned above and insert a few lines of code, I also add a title meta tag to fit the description of the product I’m selling.
But, you MUST test your link previous to promoting it! This practice can effect the tracking on some sites, so make sure that you will be getting credit for all the traffic you send their way.
How to hide links in a browser.
This practice is used on your website so that when a name hovers over a link, they don’t see the actual destination link in their browser status bar.
So if your actual link was www-affiliateproduct-com/uglyaffiliatelink?123 they would only see http://www.yoursite.com in their browser.
So there you have it, 4 simple ways to hide or cloak your affiliate links, using these techniques will certainly increase your sales and reduce link hijacking.
If you aren’t using any techniques to hide your affiliate links then I can guarantee that you are losing affiliate commissions! You must protect yourself from these hijackers, the harder you make it for people to recognise an affiliate link, the more commission you will make.