SEO & Affiliate Marketing Training

Aaron Wall discusses how to create linkworthy content every day.

Todd Malicoat discusses four important sources for finding great backlinks.

Explains the benefit of using social networking sites to promote your website.

This video shows an easy way to get backlinks from .edu and .gov sites

Using this technique, he explains that you should register accounts on .edu and .gov forums and make relevant posts using your signature links.

Using search engines, enter
inurl:edu/phpbb inurl:edu/phpbb2 which will bring up .edu forums
inurl:gov/phpbb inurl:edu/phpbb2 which will bring up .gov forums

Wil Reynolds speaks at Affiliate Summit regarding large corporations not making the most out of the SEO options and how affiliates can take advantage of these types of companies.

Tools used in this video:
Google Trends
MSN AdLabs

Suggesions for using a press release to increase your web traffic and links.
Tips for creating a noticable press release

1. Headlines are vital - the most important line of text, this is what people see first!
2. Not advertisements for your site, write a story about a product or history
3. Quotes - a quote makes a story more interesting an adds human touch, don’t be scared to quote yourself.

SEMBasics explains how to evaluate whether a link is worth your time. You need to be efficient with your time to maximize your effectiveness.

Deciding which links can be helpful and hurtful:
Hurtful links: poor quality site, layout, content, drug, gambling, pornography and sites that link to those types of sites. These can damage your reputation and credibility.
Helpful links: related to your site, authority sites, can provide direct traffic

Sage discusses how to check the popularity of your links.

Google - type in url link:http://yourdomain.com
Yahoo - type in url link:http://yourdomain.com
Yahoo Search Site Explorer shows order of importance of links

You will see different results in each of the search engines.

Sage gives an introduction to link building and how to build links to your website. He doesn’t suggest using link farming, buying links, and trading links. He suggests you need something worthwhile for someone to link to. Then go out and ask for links at related sites and ask them to do a link exange.

Network Solutions states these things are important:

Good Content - Search engines are looking for authority (a lot of text) to look reputable. Write an article about each item and be thorough.

Having a lot of Links to your site - You want your anchor text to be the link, talk to friends and ask for links to your site using your keywords.

Title Tags & Meta Tags - Title Tag describes what the site is about, important to have keywords and content focused.