Learn How To Build Link Popularity For Higher Traffic and Profits

As an affiliate, it's essential for you to have your own website because of all the advantages of having your very own web property. Building a website is easy. What require more efforts is link building. You need to get hundreds of links pointing back to your webpages.

What is link building and how this will benefit you as an affiliate?

You need to get a lot of link towards your website because of the nature of the Internet. The number of links is one of the numerous elements that search engine use to rank websites.

Here is how it works:

When someone perform a search on Google, Yahoo or MSN, the search engine will return a page of results with the most relevant websites.

To earn money from your website, you need to be on the very first page of results, and the only way to achieve this kind of rankings is link popularity. In fact, the more links you get, the better your rankings. And top position in the search engines can bring thousands of visitors a month to your website.

How to get links pointing back to your website?

Let me tell you something... It's not easy. However, you can get a good amount of links in a relatively short period of time if you are willing to put the work.

You can submit articles to directories. Don't limit your efforts to article directories only, you can also submit to related newsletters in your niche as well. Don't forget ezines (a.k.a electronic magazines).

You need to research those websites on Google and ask them if they would like to receive guest articles from you.

Be sure to include a bio box (also called resource box) at the end of your articles. It's really important because it is the only way for people who read your article to visit your website.

The more articles you submit, the more relevant and original your articles are, the more webmasters will be republish them all over the web. Every time someone add your article on his website, it means a new link back to your site.

This will help you to get more visitors and higher position in Google and other search engine ranking.

Last thing, you should always deliver killer content. Don't make the mistake of building a thin affiliate site for a buck or two. Develop a long term business.