Thursday 5 April 2012

How to get backlinks for blog posts, the smart way


Using the Dumb Approach just
leads to headaches

Unless you are brand new to Internet Marketing you will have probably heard that something like 95% of all websites and blogs created online that are designed to make the owner money, will in fact never earn much if any money at all. And I don't think that there is much co-incidence that the vast majority of website and blog owners use the first approach when trying to work out how to get backlinks for blog posts  which we will call “The Dumb approach”.

When I started out I used to use this approach for the same reason as most people use it which is that they just don't know any better. People hear that you can create a blog and then with a bit of work make money via various sources such as Adsense or Affiliate Marketing or the like. So they set aside some time and once their website/blog content is created they learn they need backlinks to get their website ranked. At which point they spend some money and a whole bunch of time learning about Article Marketing, Blog Commenting, Forum Commenting, Blog Networks and the like. And then they take the Dumb approach. They try and do it all themselves.  

When it comes to Internet Marketing Do It Yourself or D.I.Y is a path that often leads nowhere at great cost to the unfortunate person. And whilst there can be financial costs, the greatest cost is in a resource that is often not valued an accounted for by the unaware and that is TIME. Your time is precious and each minute is a minute you will never get back. There are many important ways to invest your spare time and you will be sacrificing something in order to pursue the activity of creating backlinks. How much would you pay to have an extra five, ten, fifteen hours a week to spend with your family or on leisure activities. Think about it another way; if you have a job you will have an annual leave balance which if you did not use it would be paid out to you. How much money do you sacrifice to have a day or a week off? The people that have realized this start to realize that it is foolish to do it all themselves. So many ascend to the second approach which we will call “The Smarter Approach”.

The Smarter Approach is to outsource the different aspects of getting links to your website. This means finding someone to write content, someone to spin that content, someone to distribute that content, someone to do blog comments etc. So rather than being the general dogsbody, the Internet Marketer promotes themselves to the position of Project Manager. Here they trade some money for some time and thus have a bit more time to plan their backlinking projects. But the thing with this approach is that is still takes a big chunk of time and patience to coordinate each aspect of the backlinking project. Often people will try and do it on the cheap but the old adage of you get what you pay for often comes back to bite them. Articles in broken English will often need to be rewritten, not to mention the stress of finding someone else to do a better job.

Then, after a while trying to work this approach the Internet Marketer learns an important truth. The Internet Marketing world and the rules that govern what is an effective and sensible strategy to get backlinks changes often and many times by a great amount each time. That is because there is essentially one company calling the shots which is Google, and they can do whatever they want so that they make the most money. Recently for instance, they attacked major Blog Networks and rendered them useless which affected millions of people. Why? For better search results apparently and to an extent that is the truth, but they would not do it if it was not profitable for them to do so. What this all means is that unless you are prepared to constantly invest the time to keep up with the latest goings on, the latest methods, the approaches that were fine yesterday but will penalize you today, then you could well end up doing yourself more harm than good. So, assuming that you don't want your life to be completely dominated by your Internet Marketing business, you need to move to the final approach which we will call “The Smartest Approach”.  

Being the Business Owner means
you can take holidays in places
like this when you want

The Smartest Approach involves promoting yourself to the position of “Business Owner”. This means that you hire people who are much better than you at the business of Internet Marketing to take over the entire backlinking project and make you a whole bunch of money. There are SEO companies out there whose very careers and lives are dedicated to knowing the best methods of ranking websites at any given time. If Google coughs let alone does anything of consequence, they know about it. When the proverbial hits the fan they are either ahead of the game or they know exactly what to do about. You want experts doing the legwork whilst any time you focus on the business is spent considering which business systems will make you the most money. That might involve considering what offers convert best, the market research side of things. If you know what keywords will make you a lot of money and you have a team of experts working for you to make that a reality then you are set for life.

So think about what approach you want to take. If you want to be smart and get on the road to financial freedom then head over to BlogTripler.com where I have a team of SEO experts waiting and ready to make you rank on page one of the Google Search Engine Results pages for your best keywords.



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