Successful Affiliate Marketer

If you’re reading this then I’m sure you know how important it is to get backlinks so I won’t get into the importance of getting them. I do want to say though that you should try to strive for position one for whatever keyword you’re targeting. There is not much of a difference between the amount of traffic that positions 2-10 get, but position 1 usually receives about 40%-60% of the traffic that a keyword generates. That’s a big increase compared to about 10% at position 2.

So how do we get the backlinks to get to position one? Well if you already know what anchor text is then you should go ahead and skip down to where we list the types of ways you can get the backlinks. If you don’t know what anchor text in then it’s imperative that you read the next paragraph.

Know What Anchor Text Is?

An anchor text is the text of a backlink. For example, the blue text in the image is a backlink for this site that is on another website. It is helping the main page of this site to rank for the term “successful affiliate marketer”. All backlinks, no matter what the anchor text is, will help a webpage rank higher for any term it’s ranking for, but backlinks with specific anchor text will help it to rank even higher for the certain text of the backlink.





For these reasons it is important to try to use specific anchor text that is relative to the keywords you’re trying to rank for.

Now that I’ve explained all that, let’s look at some of the things that we can do to get backlinks to our webpages.

Article Directories

You probably already know this one, but it’s still an effective way for getting backlinks. Article directories are a great way to get backlinks to your site and it is simple to do too. You simply write a short article and submit it to some of the top article directories with two links back to two different webpages of your choice.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is another great way to get a good quality backlink and even some extra traffic. To get blog comment backlinks, just simply go to Google and type in the name of your niche plus the word “blog”. Go through the results and find some blogs that allow you to leave comments. When you leave your comment leave a link back to one of your webpages. The real trick behind doing this is to make sure that your comment doesn’t look spammy and actually provides value.

Forum Posting

If you’re already part of a forum that you post regularly too, a simple thing you can do is to go into your account and make your signature a link back to one of your webpages. This is a great way to easily get a backlink from wherever you have already posted in the forum. If you’re not part of any forums then I suggest you become a member at some that are related to the pages you want to backlink. After you have posted a few times then change your signature to include your backlink. Most forums also usually have a spot where you can put your homepage in your profile and it will give you a backlink to your homepage.


These are just a few of the ways to get backlinks to your webpages. I hope that you have learned how to get backlinks, and the importance of getting a top position in the search engines.

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