Thanks in advance.

Chad

I certainly hope to start posting a lot more again right away. I’ve got a lot of great material from my case study to share.

You’re right, link building is a continual process. But in the case in this experiment it’s internal link building which is automatic if you continue to blog.

External link building is also a continual process for sure because your ranking is always in competition with everyone else trying to rank and if they’re link building and you’re not then you’re eventually in trouble.

One thing to keep in mind is that once you reach a certain point with the campaign income you can outsource your link building. There are companies around the world where you can get a full-time link builder for under $700/month. If your websites can convert the traffic then it’s not hard to cover this expense and much more.

At the time of this comment “learn affiliate marketing” is ranking this blog #42 like you said, and the other keyword “affiliate marketing course: is ranking the blog #18.

I haven’t been doing much external building for “learn affiliate marketing” lately mostly because my squidoo lens is already ranking #1 for this keyword and I funnel a lot of that traffic through to my course and blog.

cheers,
todd

This experiment has shown me that building link is a continual process.

No worries and nothing to forgive, it’s an excellent question.

The posts certainly matter a lot and I do want to link build to them and have them rank for sure, but not using the links at the bottom of the posts as shown in this experiment.

The reason is that because I’m adding these links to the template the same links will appear at the bottom of every post. At most I would only want to have maybe 3 keyword links at the bottom so this means I’d only be able to link to at most 3 posts in my blog. The question would become “which 3 posts?”,

Another issue with linking to posts is what happens if in 2 months I have 3 different posts I’d rather point to to help rank? Do I change the template and break all the link juice I’ve built for the last 3 posts?

So rather than trying to use this technique to rank 3 posts it’s better to use it to rank for the keywords that pertain to your blog as a whole rather than just 3 posts which might have their own specific and more targeted keywords.

This doesn’t replace trying to rank your posts, it’s just a technique to rank your blog as a whole for it’s primary keywords. Your posts will often likely have more specific keywords that you would want to use other link building techniques for.

For instance, within the “content” of certain posts it’s a good idea to link to other posts in your blog that are relevant. This is more appropriate internal linking strategy for blog posts.

One other thing I should mention is that depending on your situation you may want to link to your squeeze page if you have one instead of your blog home page.

For instance if your squeeze page is to sell something and your blog is just to drive traffic to the squeeze page then you probably want the squeeze page to rank rather than the blog home page.

In my case my squeeze page is a sign-up for my FREE course so I’m not selling anything and I’m not making any direct money from the course. The primary purpose for my free course and for my blog is to build a following rather than selling something directly. Since my purpose it so build following I want my blog to rank first because I want to build momentum for the blog and have people join me on the various social sites like twitter etc.

I hope that clears it up a bit.
thanks for the question Carrick.

cheers,
todd

cheers

Please forgive my ignorance, why do we care if our Home page ranks in Google? Is it not the post that matters (I assume this is where you have your valuable content, and affiliate links?)?

Is it that you want the general home page for the blog to rank, rather than specific posts so that visitors start nagivating from the home page in order to get the full experience of your blog? Perhaps I just don’t understand the structure of a blog (or the purpose for that structure, maybe)…?…

Hopefully, that’s not a dumb question.

Thanks in advance,
Carrick

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I’m pumped but I’m not quite getting it. Is what you’re referring to the

“Topics: SEO, link building” bit after the 2.0 options?

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