Basic SEO Linking Building
Find sites to submit your website to or trade links with. There are many ways to find link trades or websites to submit to. Some are webmaster boards, friends, search engines and directories.

Search Engines are a great place to find sites you can request a trade with or submit to. Try searching for the keyword your site is themed for, like add url+keyword, or submit link+keyword, etc.

Directories are an excellent source to find sites that are in the same niche as your own. Try contacting the owner to get a link trade going.

Create a List
Whenever you do any research for link building, create a list of the sites you find. You have spent valuable time finding these sites; this is time you can save later.

You can create this list in Excel, html or Word. Whatever program you feel comfortable using. I do prefer Excel because I can add notes easily and add new tabs for different niches or unique sites I find.

Filter Your Link Building List
Okay; now I know you are thinking, what the hell is she talking about? Filter my list? Filter it for what? Well filter it for IP’s is the first step. Use IP Report to find out if your list has separate Class C IP’s. IP Report is free to use, and you can find duplicate IP’s easily. There are other ways I’m sure but this site is the one I use.

Organize Your Link Building List
Once you have gone through your list, you can move some trades or links with the same class C IP to the bottom of your list. Why to the bottom? Well this time you probably won’t submit to them, but for another site later on you might use them.

Prioritize your list, submit to all the places that are on different class C IP’s first. Submit to any that you know you will get traffic from as well.

Save Your Link Building List
This list is a time saving tool for you in the future, so save it! Good luck with building your own valuable link building list.

Tips:
Check out the site that you are asking for links from. Make sure they aren’t using any type of script on their links. Directories or top lists that track clicks are usually not worth the time if you are looking for links for SEO purposes. Also, sites that are scripts that spiders can’t index won’t be great for link building purposes. A link with many variables like: http://site.com/script.cgi?variable=this&varaible=that&page=thisone&site=thatone probably isn’t getting indexed so a link on that page to your site probably isn’t going to help you much.

Anchor text for links you are building (you know the external links, the ones that you are getting to link to your site).

Mix the anchor text up! I don’t know how many times a person has asked me why they are sandboxed or how come they have 1,000’s of links to their site but are still on page 10 on Google. My first question to them is usually, “what text are you using in the links to you?” They usually say their keyword phrase. I tell them to vary that, they tell me, “No I heard to use that.” I tell them to vary that. They tell me they don’t think that is it. Then 3-4 weeks later they are still not sure what the problem is. I tell them the same thing I said before. They finally give that a try, and their rankings start to rise. Example, if you are going for Adult Toys, instead of building all your links with the term “adult toys” try varying that with Adult Toy Store, Adult Toy Stores, Sex Toys, Adult Sex Toys, Sex Toy Store, AdultToys, SexToys, etc. (another hint, easy rankings are usually misspelled words and phrases with no spaces!) I usually do 50-60% for my main keyword and vary the other 40-50%.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods or your affiliate system evaluated? Or a button spot in these articles? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

Multiple Class C IP’s Solution
Got Web Host is now open, for hosting that has multiple Class C IP’s and muliple nameservers available. Got Web Host has a unique setup to provide hosting with multiple class c ip’s for anyone looking for this type of service.

Virtual Hosting Packages
There are two virtual hosting packages available.

Virtual Hosting with 5 Class C IP’s
This package includes 5 different class C IP’s and 5 different nameservers. It also includes 2000 MB storage, 20 gig of bandwidth, php, MySQL and more. Click here to find out more on this virtual hosting package.

Virtual Hosting with 10 Class C IP’s
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Dedicated Hosting Package
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Need more space? More bandwidth? No problem, just contact us and we will give you a quote. Go to http://www.gotwebhost.com for more details.

SEO Pre Sale Pages
The other night I was discussing Pre Sale Pages with Aaron Wall from SEO Book. They have been around for awhile. Are they better than just a link? I think so, I have used them on many sites.

It is common in affiliate marketing for affiliates to host pages on their sites which warm up prospective clients prior to selling supplies on another site. If done correctly pre sell pages can have a positive effect on both conversion and SEO.

Click here to read more about Pre Sale Pages.

Multiple Class C IP’s Solution
Preorders are now being taken, for hosting that has multiple Class C IP’s and muliple nameservers available. The hosting company will be setting up the first packages 7-14 days.

Virtual Hosting Packages
There are two virtual adult hosting packages available.

Virtual Hosting with 5 Class C IP’s
This package includes 5 different class C IP’s and 5 different nameservers. It also includes 2000 MB storage, 20 gig of bandwidth, php, MySQL and more. The cost of this package will be $79. Setup fee of $25, but this is waived on all preorders.

Virtual Hosting with 10 Class C IP’s
This package includes 10 different class C IP’s and 10 different nameservers. It also includes 4000 MB of storage, 50 gig of bandwidth, php, MySQL and more. This package will be $129. Setup fee $50 waived on all preorders.

Dedicated Hosting Package
This package includes 50 IP’s on 10 different subnets, 40 GB Harddrive, 200 GB of bandwidth, PHP, MySQL and more. This package will be $249. Setup fee of $150. $50 waived on all preorders. Only $100 setup!

For those interested, these packages will be first come, first served. They will not be instant hosting setup. We take care in making sure the servers are setup with the best SEO Tactics possible. If interested, get your order in now by contacting baddog@pimpspromo.com or goodgirl@adultsem.com. If you require anything special please be sure to include what you need. If you need more than what the packages offer, let us know and we will get you setup.

Host Crowding
In an earlier article on SEO Theories and Fact I went over how Google filters some websites based on host crowding. We know host crowding is a fact. It is stated in Google’s own FAQ’s about their API. You can read about the Automatic Filtering they do here:
http://www.google.com/apis/reference.html#2_3

Now, because they don’t exactly say how they filter for Host Crowding. We can only go with different theories.

SEO Theories on Host Crowding Filter
Some theories are they filter by Class C IP (this is the most popular one). Some are they do it by whois. Another is they do it by nameservers. Some even say by all of them.

Static IP
From my own experiences with Google and their host crowding filter from years ago, it seemed like they did it by IP. So if you shared an IP, all you had to do is get a new static IP for each domain. For the past year, this has not been enough.

I believe they filter somehow by class C. Now don’t panic. It doesn’t mean if you have 10 sites that they are only going to list one based on what the API Faq’s say. They are looking at the results. So if you have 10 different sites, all going after different niches or themes, then you probably have nothing to worry about. However, linking within your own 10 site network probably won’t do much for you (we will get into that more with link building).

Whois or Nameservers
Now this one is interesting. Google recently became an ICANN Accredited Registrar. TDavid mentions this at Make You Go Hmm blog on Google and MSN. This leads me to believe they may in the future add this to their filter, but I don’t believe they do this already. But it sure looks like they may want to learn more so they can. But then again, maybe they will start letting you register domains with them in the future.

Multiple Class C IP Solution
This solution by far isn’t easy to get. It takes either breaking up your domains with many hosting companies, which usually cost more money or finding one that has many servers or many class C’s. This week, I was lucky enough to find a hosting company that has multiple Class C IP’s available. Not only that, they will also have muliple nameservers available.

If you are interested in getting on the priority list, contact baddog@pimpspromo.com or hit him up on ICQ if he is on your list already. Let him know how many Class C IP’s you are looking for and anything else you may require.

As soon as they have the packages setup in the next week or so, I will post the information here for everyone.

If you haven’t read steps 1-5, then you can find them below:
Step 1 - Picking a domain name
Step 2 - Research the niche
Step 3 - Building your site template
Step 4 - Building Your Gallery
Step 5 - Building Picture Pages

Building The Free Part Of Your Adult Website
Again you want to start with the template we already made in the first step. On the first page you should have a warning (depending on your laws) that it is an adult site. If you can put some content up, a picture or thumbs. Even a sexy design. This is your choice. Remember to use Alt tags on any image you link to another part of your website.

Again you have the ads to other products, you can adjust the headers and the text links for them. Make them a little different to capture more keywords if you like.

Change the header (H1) text at the top of the page to Welcome them with the keyword in it. Add text content about your niche or theme, with keywords bold, or italic. Link within that text to area’s in your site. Example: This Niche is so hot, check out my Niche Gallery (link niche gallery to your gallery page).

Finally link into your main page or your gallery page.

Sitemap
Create a sitemap and keep it updated. Link to every section and page you put on your domain. If you just build galleries everyday and don’t mess with AVS sites or free sites, making a sitemap and linking to your own galleries, plus listing them again after the warning page, should keep your galleries indexed.

Product Map
If you sell products, like Joe Bucks, then make a product map for your site as well. Link to any pages you build that are just for the products. Also, link to the buy pages. So you have a link directly to your page, but then have a buy product now link as well.

Niche Map
If you have several niches on your domain. Make a map of all your niches, link to each niche. You can even seperate niche maps if you have too many.

Link to every map you build on all your pages. Link back to the main index from all page (which you already did in your template and the head image of your template )

It is always good to link to internal pages within your site. If you can link to every page on every page, then do it. Thinking of it as showing even the most unfamiliar surfer (the dummy that thinks email@emailsite.com is a website), how to find things on your site. If they can find it, a bot can too.

AVS Section
Use the same concepts when building your avs section of your website. If you need a good tutorial for avs sites then check out baddog byte’s. I will most likely do an AVS in the future, but baddog has it covered.

Coming Up - Link Building and More
Soon we will go over link building. Steps to save you time and get you better links. As well as more on host crowding and avoiding Googles duplicate filter.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

We will continue the tutorials throughout the coming weeks. Don’t think I forgot More steps will be coming.

SEO Defined
Many people have different definitions of what exactly search engine optimization is. Today over at Make You Go Hmm, I have posted an article defining SEO. It also takes a deeper look at what search engine optimization includes.

If you want to get ahead with search engine optimization, I highly suggest you get a copy of SEO Book!

SEO Theories and Fact
Many seo theories or questions have been floating around about if your web host, shared IP or static IP can effect your rankings in Google. Many suggest different Class C IP’s can increase your chances of optimizing successfully. But many don’t place in facts with their assumptions.

Experience Fact
A few years back when the first wave of can my website IP effect my Google rankings hit, I decided to try switching some of my websites to their own static IP.

The Effect
Within weeks all sites increased ranking positions or ranked better. Of course, that doesn’t mean these will rank now, since Google has changed and is always changing.

Fact In Print
Google API Facts: Automatic Filtering

When enabled, filtering takes the following actions:

* Near-Duplicate Content Filter = If multiple search results contain identical titles and snippets, then only one of the documents is returned.
* Host Crowding = If multiple results come from the same Web host, then only the first two are returned.

Only the first two will be returned? What does host crowding mean? Are they looking at hosts by IP’s? Or by Class of IP’s? Are they looking at it by name servers? Maybe they are doing a whois on your site? Oh no!!!

Many huff and puff saying no way. Well it is right there in print, they are filtering out somehow. Calling it “Host Crowding". They mention same web host.

What can you do? Well I suggest doing what you are capable or can do to continue getting the traffic you want for your business. Am I saying start setting sites on different hosts? Really that is completely up to you. But if you want to optimize in every way you can, you should. Also to do that you need to figure out what exactly do they mean by “Host Crowding”. The best way to do that, is to make changes, keep a log of what you did and what happens.

Why discount anything that can have an effect on your rankings? If it is an easy fix or a reasonable change, I would do it.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

So you know the domain you are going to use. If you don’t please read Step 1 - Picking A Domain Name.

Researching the niche
In Step 1, you researched some keywords to help you pick out a domain. Now you need to use some of those keywords to find out what websites are listed for them. Check Google, Yahoo and MSN for each of the keywords that you are interested in using.

Click through to these sites and see how they are laid out. What type of words do they use? How much text do they use? How many sites are linking to them? How many pages on this site are indexed?

Search Engine Commands
Some search engine commands can help you with the task of finding out how many backlinks a site has and how many pages are indexed for that site. (backlinks - how many links they have pointing to the site)

Google & MSN Commands
site:domainname.com (shows the pages indexed)
link:domainname.com (shows the sites that link to it)

Yahoo Commands
domain:domainname.com (shows the pages indexed)
linkdomain:domainname.com (shows the sites that link to it)

Evaluate the research
After you know these things, you can decide on what keywords you would like to use. Just realize that if the keyword you are targeting has 25,000 links to it, it may take some time.

I never tell anyone to pick something easier to get. It just shows you how much link building you will need to do. I go for the tough ones, but target the smaller keywords at the same time. We will get to that after we go over building the site.

Remember, if someone tells you that the keyword has too much competition, that you should try something easier, just maybe they don’t want another competitor. How will you know whether or not you can do it if you don’t try?

Research Conclusion
You should now have an idea of how much link building you will need to do. Also, you can see how much content and how many pages most competitors have. You will want to try to get this many on your website. It will give you a good internal link structure. I will go over that when we start building the website.

Domain Name
First part of search engine optimization is your domain. Google doesn’t put much weight on this, but Yahoo still does. So you want to pick a domain that has some keywords in it that matches your niche. If you have a domain, know your niche and don’t really want to build a new domain, then you should skip this article.

Sponsors
First I look at the sponsors paysites. Xpays has many different types of paysites. You will find lesbian, hardcore, movie, gay, blowjob, MILF, teen, goth, etc. Decide which niche you are interested in promoting. This is the theme of your site.

Other sponsors like Joebucks and Adult Friend Finders are add ons. You can build very targeted sites and pages for these sponsors, but they are wonderful for any type of site you have.

Sex Pictures Pass AVS has many categories, I think 43. But go ask baddog, he may know right off the top of his head. So any niche you pick, Sex Pictures Pass should have a matching category for it. If not, baddog will get it made up if he thinks it is needed.

Keywords
To help find some good keywords you can use for your niche and new domain, you might try wordtracker if you have an account. Or you can head over to NicheBot.com (which seems to be down at the moment) and see what you can find. If neither of those work, try Digital Point’s Keyword Tool which is free.

Domain
After you pick your niche and research a little for keywords. Find a domain! Remember not to use any more then 2 hyphens (fuck-me-now). Hyphens are good with Yahoo, okay with Google.

The last thing to think about is the look of the domain name. When you have your site ranked in the top 3 listings on Google, it is nice if the domain name makes the surfer interested. You can get the #3 spot and get more clicks then #1 and #2 if you do your job now.

Domain Examples
Say Google has these sites listed in the 1-3 positions:
hot-blondes-sex.com #1
myfavoriteblondes.com #2
blondesofficialsite.com #3

Which one would you click? I know each person will have their own pick, but most will click that BlondesOfficialSite.com or Blondes-Official-Site.com. There is just something a little more special about the name, something, I don’t know “Official".

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

Today I stopped by Aaron Wall’s blog SEO Book. He has wrote an interesting article on Why Many People Buy Shitty SEO Services. It goes over the problem, facts and alternatives.

Many people would like to do SEO themselves. These people or companies should be reading more about search engine optimization, instead of trying to get a good SEO cheap. It just isn’t going to happen. For those that want to learn, I really suggest you buy Aaron Wall’s SEO book. It is an excellent start for anyone!

Things to think about when looking for Good SEO Services:

If you are buying SEO services for $2,000 or less a month and selling products or services that make you $50 a sale and have an affiliate program that you pay out $30 a sale. How many sales are you really expecting?

If an SEO tells you they can make you $30,000 a month and they are only getting $2000 a month. Do you really believe their services are going to make what they are promising? Think about it, they could be making $18,000 just as an affiliate.

If you are buying PPC traffic and have no organic listings, how much is it worth to you to get that traffic as well?

For any Business
Nothing in life is free. If it is, it probably isn’t worth it. Organic listings are free, but that is only if you can do the job to get them.

If you can’t do the job, you hire someone. It is that simple. Yes you will have to pay to get those “free listings". But if you hire the right SEO for the job, it will make you a profit. That is what you are looking for right?

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

The next session that I enjoyed was Shopping Search Tatics at Search Engine Strategies. Chris Bowler, Media Director and Search Practice Lead at Itraffic.com,Laura Thieme, President and Founder of Bizresearch and Craig SnyderEVP of Marchex were the speakers.Detlev Johnson, President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum.

I have chosen to go over Mr. Bowler’s part of the session. This was by far one of the best speakers I had heard all day. Probably because it wasn’t as much theory, it was based on a client case. He gave detailed enough facts that you could understand and grasp the shopping engines potential.

Chris Bowler went over a client case “Barrie Pace”. A little about Barrie Pace:

• Barrie Pace offers women’s designer and exclusive career, business-casual, and special occasion fashions

• Sold $23+ Million in apparel online in FY2004

Barrie Pace uses customer email, search engines, online advertising/direct marketing and shopping engines to obtain sales.

Mr. Bowler then went over why you should use shopping engines. This is because you are placing the products in front of shoppers that are already transacting. He also provided this chart on shopping engines:

Source: Nielsen Netratings, October 2004
So far a pretty convincing case to why you should use shopping engines to promote your products.

Mr. Bowler then discussed the shopping engines that Barrie Pace partnered with. These were Amazon, Altura/Catalog City, Froogle, AOL Shopping and Shopping.com.

Next he went over some tips for the shopping engine newbie, these were:

1. Determine your financials
2. Crawl, Walk, Run!
3. Shopping Programs do not run themselves
4. Adjusting your feed is critical (a feed is a data file with your product details, product name, prices, product images all in one file, usually line by line .txt file)
5. Store Feedback is invaluable

Determining your financials questions you should ask yourself and analyze:
What’s your overall budget for shopping?
For Click-over Shopping Engines (pay per click engines):

• What’s an allowable bid price:

By brand?
By product?

For Transactional Shopping Engines (engines that you pay per sale or percentage):

• What’s an allowable commission?

Including returns?
Without returns?
How will returns be handled?

During the Crawl, Walk, Run part of the presentation, Mr. Bowler suggested you start with something easy to setup. Shopping.com he said were the easiest to setup, price and manage. Mr. Bowler stated if you can produce a feed quickly that setup could occur in a few weeks.

Mr. Bowler also suggested that Amazon was one of the hardest to setup. They require 29 forms to be filled out before you can begin. He also said it took 2-3 months to setup with Amazon.

Shopping engines do not run themselves Mr. Bowler now went over this giving more details, like if you choose 4-5 shopping engines to partner with it will take 1-2 hours of staff time a day. This is ongoing. Staff in charge of the shopping engines will have to daily go over the following:

• Monitor feed upload and product display
• Pull-down Store reviews / feedback
• Resolve customer problems
• Track Sales, Fulfillment, Returns

These shopping engines will all need to be monitored and adjustments will need to be made. He gave an example of some items using the same images. When you build a shopping site you can have several choices for size, color, etc. In shopping engines they list the sizes, colors, etc separately. So you have the same image for several items.

Mr. Bowler also provided a snapshot of feedback on Amazon. He stated feedback is invaluable and someone should be reviewing feedback often.

Mr. Bowler ended by giving some tips for succeeding:

1. Track results at the product level
2. Take advantage of operational and customer service emails
3. Shopping sites will buy your brand keywords in search – beware!
4. Advertising – more visibility
5. Partner with the newer engines

Notes: The following is a list of shopping engines that were mentioned during this session:
Yahoo Shopping
Shopping.com
Amazon.com
MSN Shopping
Froogle
MySimon
Nextag
Dealtime
PriceGrabber.com
AOL Shopping
Altura
InStore

Also mentioned were:
Bizrate.com and Resellerratings.com

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

The first meeting I went to for the day was Organic Listing Forum at Search Engine Strategies. Bruce Clay, President of Bruce Clay, LLC and Mike Grehan, CEO of Smart Interactive (and Author of Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide) were the speakers. Detlev Johnson, President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum.

Each speaker gave a presentation for a few minutes and then they went to questions. Here are some of the questions and answers that were given (they are not word for word).

Question: Is it okay to use cloaking technology?
Answer: Yes as long as it is using the same information from your website. But don’t use it to spam keywords.

Question: Which is better to use when naming files or folders, hyphen or underscore?
Answer: All panel members recommended using hyphens not underscores. They said search engines have confirmed that they recognize hyphens as spaces. Underscores are not seen as spaces, the words will be joined to form one word.

Question: How many hyphens are to many hyphens?
Answer: You shouldn’t use more than 2-3. Preferable you shouldn’t use more than 2. Bruce Clay mentioned that he rarely uses them except for words that need to be separated, his example was mensexchange, which he used a hyphen like this mens-exchange. (so nobody would see it as men sex change).

Question: What type of redirect should I use?
Answer: 301 is the only good redirect.

Question: Can older domains be in the sandbox? (Sandbox: newer sites may face the sandbox, which means they are delayed on showing up in the search engine results).
Answer: Domains well-established or older domains do not usually have sandbox.

goodgirl’s tips:
1. For those who have many older domains that you started, but never finished, these would be good domains to use now. If you had some content and it was indexed, it is better than buying a new domain.

2. Preplan your sites. Put as much basic information on a new domain as soon as you can. Let it get indexed, build a few links and then move on to something else. Go back to it in 3-6 months and finish it off and link build some more.

Question: What is the longest filename you should use?
Answer: 12 characters for filenames.

Question: Should I use keyword Meta tags?
Answer: Yahoo still uses keyword Meta tags.

Notes: The following sites were mentioned during this session:

1. IP-Delivery.com, which was mentioned during discussions about domain hijackings.

2. cmsmatrix.com, which was mentioned during discussions on CMS systems. This site will let you know if your CMS can be spidered.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

Ways to take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

I have had a few questions on what you can do to take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs.

SEO Link Builders
It really depends on what you are good at doing. If you just like link building, then you can concentrate on building links into the landing page. So you would link with the affiliate link they give you.

But you have to be really good at building links. This type of affiliate system will be hit by a duplicate filter. You will be bunched with the systems default landing page and other affiliates pages. There can really be only 1 that will rank the best.

SEO Content Builders
Content builders need to find ways to prevent the links being spidered. They want to keep their page ranking in the SERPs instead of the affiliate programs landing page from ranking in the SERPs.

These would be all the things you have learned to stay away from like:
1. Put the link in a flash button
2. JavaScript’s added to the link, like a mouse over.
3. Maybe frames? If you can get part of the frame to be indexed and the part that has your affiliate link not, it might work.
4. Search for the SEO no no’s and see what they suggest you don’t do to your links. Test doing something like that.

How will you know it is working? Well, if currently your affiliate link is ranking higher in the SERPs than your page. Then you will need to watch for your page to start showing up in that spot instead of the affiliate link.

What SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs should think about

SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs can be adjusted to allow affiliates links not to be hit by a duplicate filter. Here are some things they may want to consider.

1. Can we find a way to make each affiliates landing page Unique?
2. Will we need to give affiliates some type of control over the look or text on those landing pages?
3. What legalities can arise from letting affiliates have some customization options for the landing pages?
4. How will any customizations to the landing pages affect conversion ratios?
5. What other ways can we make each affiliates landing pages unique without giving them too much control?

The customization would have to be enough so search engines that have a duplicate filter will not see them as the same page. Is this possible? Right now I think so, but since search engines algorithms change frequently you will need to keep watch on everything.

There are many reason that Affiliate Programs should take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems. But there are also reasons Affiliates may need to be cautious of them. If the affiliate doesn’t understand linking or the effects of search engine algorithms then they may need some help from an Affiliate Manager.

Semi-SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs

These are programs that are getting hit by the duplicate filter but are not getting the advantages of PR transferring to the pages. These systems should look to see if they could use Mod Rewrite to become truly SEO Friendly.

They should also be able to prepare affiliates for this. With custom landing pages and a good Affiliate Manager to help affiliates with linking or customizing.

Feel free to come ask me questions or make comments. I would love to discuss this and the different degrees of this happening.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

Want to drastically improve your income with affiliate programs? Learn what affiliate linking SEO strategies can help. Find out exactly what you should do to take control of your traffic.

So you are marketing affiliate programs and other ad revenue programs. Is the Rebound Effect making your shots a slam dunk or is your shot a brick? Are you even in the paint?

You have done everything you can to make your site rank high in the SERPs and your site is getting good traffic. But are you losing sales and you do not even know it? Could the affiliate program you are promoting be a traffic leak?

For about a year and a half I have been watching the changes in Search Engine Algorithms and how they are changing how your affiliate program or ad revenue links rank. Take some time to read this article and learn what to look for and what you can do to take control of your traffic to increase your ROI.

Some of the things we will go over so you can see the Rebound Effect are:

• Are you losing Google PageRank to your Affiliate Program? (PR Transfer – The “Brick” – linking to affiliate systems that gain PR from you, why it can be bad and why it can be good)
• Is your Google PageRank fluxing back and forth to the Affiliate Program? (PR Bounce – “In The Paint” – the affiliate system doesn’t index well so your PR tries to forward to them but doesn’t)
• Are you losing sales because of the Affiliate Program’s tracking system?
• Ways to improve your control of PR Transfer or PR Bounce. Start creating a “Slam Dunk”. (Slam Dunk – learning how to take advantage of how each affiliate system tracks so you can keep or gain sales from it)
• Things to look for so you know if the Rebound Effect is helping you get a “Slam Dunk” or keeping your shots from being nothing but bricks. Maybe something went wrong but you now have a “free throw”. Learn how to take advantage of your linking methods.
• How this also works in “Ecommerce SEO”. If you own an online store and link to products with tracking codes, then this will show you how to evaluate your linking tactics.

Ok some of you might be thinking it doesn’t really matter, if my site ranks high then I know I’m not losing sales. Really? If your sure, well then you can skip reading this article. But before you go, lets look at some things that might be causing you to lose.

Affiliate Program Reviews

Now first, I’m not saying AT ALL that the Affiliate Program on any of these examples are doing anything wrong or are bad in any way. Also I cannot say that an affiliate system doesn’t have a good SEO. A good SEO that evaluates this and does things in their favor creating a “Technical Foul” against their affiliates or if their SEO is working in the affiliates favor. Honestly some Search Engine Marketers may not even take things this far when evaluating Affiliate Programs. (Technical Foul - an affiliate program that works knowingly to gain PR from affiliates AND set themselves up to rank higher than affiliates).

What I’m really saying is Search Engine Algorithms change and there are things you as an affiliate can do. Also some affiliate systems may want to change how they do things or offer different ways for affiliates to link to them. I know many Affiliate Programs go out of their way to make sure there are many ways for an affiliate to promote their sites.

The “Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs

Now lets get started, I just put the term “MILF” in Google. And who comes up first? When you look you will see that MILFHunter.com does. Below it, you will see a link with code in it. And right below that you will see another link that says, “more results from www.milfhunter.com”. *See screenshot below.

Now lets click more results under the second link that is titled “Milf Hunter” So we can evaluate exactly what is happening. When you click the link you will see more links that are a part of the milfhunter.com website. *See the screenshot below.

Interesting that id=marcoola is higher then milfhunter.com. Why is that? Does marcoola have more weight with Google then milfhunter.com does? Can he or she (marcoola) do anything to change his or her rank? Should they? There are things they can do to make sure they get ranked higher. If they change the way they link to this sponsor they can rank #1 for that term instead of the sponsor. They will have to evaluate how they are linking to that site. They will have to come up with a better way to structure the links so they can rank higher.

“The Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate System Tips

Some things an affiliate or publisher of ads might do to improve their results with a system that can be indexed by SERP’s:

• Link with the same tracking code on all your sites. This way you are always pushing the same page. This method works best with someone that can gain weight above the main domain they are promoting. I have done this. But be warned, at times the main domain appears below your link in SERP’s, so you still may lose some sales to the main affiliate program. But you can make your affiliate link be the highest PR for that system and rank well for it. (*See next example) Good for Link Builders.
• Link with a mouse over or something that prevents a spider from indexing the link you are promoting. This method works well if you are promoting your pages more then the actually affiliate program. Good for Content Builders.

“The Brick” with Strong PR Transfer

This next example I put in the term “smooth snatches”.

As you can see the tracking link ranks high for this term. Also if you go to this link: http://smoothsnatches.com/cf_16758_A you will notice it has PR. Now what does this mean to both the Affiliate and the Affiliate Program? The Affiliate System wins because they are gaining some PR from this affiliate. Is the affiliate winning? Well that all depends on that affiliate. This type of tracking is great for an affiliate that can build many links but doesn’t want to build much content. They can put all their time into building just links and gain PR and rank in SERP’s. But to the affiliate that wants to have the traffic on their own domain and doesn’t want to lose PR, they may want to adjust their linking structure.

“The Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate System the Good and the Bad

Also here is another problem, most affiliate systems ask for your URL when you sign up. Some require the click to come from your URL. If the click is going straight from a search engine to the affiliate systems landing page you will be losing sales. Ask the affiliate program you are promoting if they required the traffic to come from the domain you submitted to them. Or look in their faqs to find out if they mention this.

Now, if you find out that where the click comes from doesn’t matter. Then here is another plus to think about. If you can rank high on SERP’s with a keyword and they go straight to that landing page. That is one less click your traffic has to take for you to make the sale. Another big plus is you can concentrate more on link building with good “anchor text”. (Anchor Text - the keyword or keywords you use in the hyperlink that appears on the page instead of the hyperlink).

“In The Paint” Not so SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

For affiliate tracking systems that do not do well in SERP’s. You can usually link the same way you always have. But remember Algorithms change all the time and search engines are trying to index sites better. You need to be aware of how your sites and linking structure is working for you.

Getting The “Slam Dunk” Some things to look at when evaluating an Affiliate Program or Ad Network:

• Are the links being indexed? Try using the site: command on Google to see what type of links are coming up in the SERPs. Like MILFHunter.com above, site:milfhunter.com milf (term you want to see the rankings for).
• Are they showing PageRank?
• What do you do to gain Search Engine traffic? Do you build links? Do you build content?
• How do you feel about losing a little PR?
• Do you want more control over your traffic?
• How is duplicate content coming into play with this affiliate system?
• Is the system willing to work with you or add some things that will help your landing page be a little more targeted or Unique?
• Have they already made adjustments to their affiliate tracking system that will allow you to have Unique content?

After that, you need to decide how to structure your links or sites to take advantage of how the affiliate tracking system works. Really this includes any tracking system that you use for contextual ads, ad networks, e-commerce stores, and more.

The Grand Slam, Oops Wrong Game..

I could go on about many other things to evaluate or do when you promote affiliate programs. But this has become a pretty long article, so I will try to continue to provide tips and articles in my adult seo blog.

I will continue this series of seo tips with the following:

• finding out what type of linking you should do
• what type of affiliate programs will work for you
• examples of what type of affiliate systems link builders should promote
• what type content builders should promote.

But if you want to learn more in the meantime you should really check out SEO Book. It is the ONLY SEO BOOK I recommend to employees that should know some SEO, programmers, webmasters, anyone that wants to know more about SEO and text content providers.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by Tanya Martin aka goodgirl from Adult Search Engine Marketing. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

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