Golden Goose Marketing

Learning affiliate marketing is never easy.  That’s why it’s crucial that you learn to focus on small skills in a specific area.  In this case, we’ll talk about link building.  Admittedly, this is a complex topic of its own, but we’re going to focus on the most basic elements that every affiliate should know.

• Check out your competitors’ links.  Use the Yahoo! Site Explorer or the link: command at Yahoo.com and you can get a great list of up to 1000 of each competitors’ inbound links.  From there, just contact the relevant sites and ask for a link, too.
• Create content that would be highly linkable. Reference materials are especially good for this.  Just add a useful reference section on another part of your site, then contact quality sites that would be interested in that material.  For example, a section of kid-friendly history resources would be of interest to many schools and libraries.
• Submit to quality directories. Don’t waste your time on submitting to thousands of directories.  Instead, submit to the quality, human-edited directories and then get on with your life.
• Comment or create content on social media and blog sites with dofollow links.  Use the SearchStatus plugin to figure out which links are followed and which links are nofollow, then focus your efforts on the sites that do not use nofollow tags.

Any other good linking tips?  It’s a complex area, and there’s always room for more ideas!