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To rank your site higher in search engines, most SEO gurus will tell you there are 2 factors that affect site search ranking overall.

• On page factors
• Off page factors

On page factor basically means the keyword organization throughout the web page you wish to rank high for that keywords.

While off page optimization means how many websites that are referencing your site with the keywords you wish to rank.

Now when talk about link building, in the past, people will ask you for link exchange, meaning you go to a relevant website, send an email to webmaster and ask them to link back to you where I have put a link to their site. This strategies work until recently Google officially said in their webmaster guidelines stated stated “excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging (“Link to me and I’ll link to you.”) will negatively impact your search engine ranking. Well what do you mean by excessive? How excessive is excessive. I am not sure but it indicates perhaps link exchange may not have the power as it used to be. I personally don’t exchange links with other webmasters and always look for one way links this will help my sites rank well in search engines and in fact you should always look for one way links as SEO link building strategies, why?

One way links may give more genuine sense then two ways artificial link exchange. Generally if you provide good content on your site, your visitors read, watch it, like it very much and they will put a link back somewhere on their sites or blogs referencing your content. So it is more genuine link in my opinion. However, in reality one way link can be artificially as well. Most of time when I’m building links, I always use forums, article directories and put a link back to my sites in the signature files or bio boxes with the keyword I wish to rank for. For example, if you want to rank for “SEO”, then you will use that keywords in your anchored text when doing linking with other websites.
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on article directories.

This will do the trick all the times. Beside one way and link exchange, there are others link schemes and it is called 3 way links exchange. That one is actually a modified 2 ways link exchange scheme. To explain the concept let’s consider the following diagram:

In the above diagram, we create 3 sites, A, B and C. Then we create a 3 one way links from A to C, C to B and B to A, but C never links back with A nor B links back with C. The idea is always creating one way link between the network. You can further expand the network by creating site D…Z and links the site together in between. I tried once participating in a 3 ways link network and the results were good. Rank top 20 with a non competitive keywords within 3 months. So you may want to try and participate the program yourself with this link($10 dollars discount off the normal price)

OK that’s it for today, later on I’ll show you more link building strategies that I personally used and got great results so stay tuned!

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Remember last time I asked you the fill out a survey and it’s finally out! There are 79 people answer
the questions, and surprisingly 35% of you are interested in list building, leads generation or email marketing, about 23% of you are interested in SEO when I asked about the “the type of traffic generation that most interest you”. I think the most interested topics will be SEO but I was wrong.
It doesn’t matter as I have already written some of articles which shows you how to get more sign ups and building a list. The details results are as follow:

The second I asked was “You are interested what type of Income Generation Method Online”. this one was no surprised. Around 33% of you said affiliate marketing, 28% said Adsense and 25% said Private Label Rights, Master Resale Rights Products and so on.

Thanks for participating the survey! And I will talk more on how to set up an affiliate campaign, list building, seo your adsense sites and lots of more, so stay tuned!

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Last time we’ve show you how to use ListJoe, ViralUrl, TheListAuction to get more sign ups, this time we will cover another strategies that most successful online marketers including Guido, used.

Credit Based Safelist Advertising

In general credit based safelist are safelists evolved to a better level. Safelists basically is a system that allows their member to email each other about their offers at any time. It was the system that most Internet marketers including Mike Filesaime used back perhaps 10 – 15 years ago where the Internet was still a brand new concept to most people. However, safelists members started to realized their inboxes are stuffed with advertisements and the useful information did not get through. Therefore they quickly learned to redirect all these email advertisements to services such as hotmail and never read those emails again!

To solve this problem credit based safelists were born. The system works like safe lists but they have a credit link embedded inside each mailing. For a member to send an email they first have to earn credits. In other words, they have to open the email, read it and click on the credit links before they can send their offers. Surely this is a better version of safelist but still have a problems if a member just open the email, skip all the message body and clicks on the credit links. So why their sign up rate generally aren’t that great.

How to Make Credit Based Safe List Work

Like many of you, I used to think they didn’t work. “No one was going to read those mails!”. Because it is a system looks like safe lists, 100 of 100 mailings per day! That’s just too many! But in fact I was wrong.

The reason I am using them because I learned from Guido Nussbaum on how the credit based safe lists could made you more sign ups when I was involved in Easter Joint Venture Giveaway 2008 as a contributor. (Joint Venture or JV giveaway by the way is a great way to get you more leads that we will cover later in part 5 of our series) and most credit based safelists are free. I want to get more sign up so I listened to Guido and signed up with his list of credit based safe list one by one.

The reasons why people says they don’t work because they were taking a wrong approach. Most people using credit based safelist are probably just started out internet marketing and they don’t have much budget on advertising. So instead of buying something, they want something for free. So to make them work, you will send some free offers to the members instead of your paid one. For instance, “reports that shows the members how one person got 5000 visitors in 6 months on his blog”, “Free step by step video that shows them how to make $2000 per week online”, that type of offers, always I will get some members to sign up my newsletter and get your free gifts. However, The sign up rate will NOT be as great as listjoe, viralurl, thelistauction etc may be 1% overall but the secrets here is to use the most traffic credit based safelists that are listed on TrafficHoopla, a user rating credit based safelist directory.

Credit Based Safelist Directories

As of this report, titled how I got 100 sign up in a week, I used the following credit based safe lists:

http://www.gotSafelist.com
http://www.globalsafelist.com
http://www.adsolutionline.com
http://www.elitesafelist.com
http://www.adtactics.com
http://www.newagemkt.com/safelist
http://the.traffic-secrets.com/
http://www.safelistpro.com/
http://www.freesafelistmailer.com/
http://www.equusafelist.com/
http://www.safelister.com/

Sign up each of them above for free and if you have budget, I recommend you upgrade not just because I got paid but more importantly they give you more benefits like a higher mailing frequencies, (e.g. 2 a day, depends on the safelist system and the upgrade levels you’ve got) a personalization tag and the use of HTML mailing. With a personalization tag, usually you will get more responsive in the mailing and hence more sign ups.

That is for today. For our next series, we will talk about how Joint Venture giveaways made me 100 sign up in a week. so stay tuned!