If you feel that you’ll put in the work to generate traffic to your website if I tell you how to do it then let’s go ahead and talk about how to do it.

First A Question

Before we get started I would first like to ask you a question. Do you want get more traffic to your website by having articles on your website that rank high for certain search phrases? Do you want to get traffic by having your domain home page rank higher? Or do you want to get more traffic by having articles on article sites rank high for search phrases?

No matter which option you choose, all of them relate to ranking a certain page high in the search engines for a particular keyword (the basics of getting more traffic)!

So let’s talk about how to get those pages to rank high.

Now What?

So now you have the url of a keyword optimized article that’s either on your site on an article directory, or you have the url of your keyword optimized. So how do we get it to get this high search engine rankings that brings us the traffic…

…backlinks!

How many of you knew I was going to say that?

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? It means that 20% of the work you do is responsible for 80% of the results you see, and this is very true in producing traffic online. Most of the results that you will see will be due to the backlinks that you see to your pages. Here’s a good scenario of what I mean.

John has his own website and he wants to rank one of the articles on his domain for a good highly searched for keyword. So what John does is he spends week after week giving backlinks to his keyword optimized article so that it will rank for that particular keyword.

Mike takes a different approach. Instead he spends week after week adding new articles to his site and never backlinks any the articles that are already on his site.

After two months of working hard, John has his article in the top spot in Google and it’s averaging him around 100 visitors per day from Google (could be much more if he had done some good keyword research). After two months, Mike has added 100 new articles to his site, but they’re only bringing him about 20 visitors per day since most of them are way down the rankings in Google.

Do you see the importance of backlinking now? I’ll leave it at that.


P.S. Don’t forget that we have a backlinking category.

SEO Of Your Own Site (Long Term Method)

The longer term method of driving traffic to your website is by either getting your main website pages to rank higher in the search engines, or by getting articles on your site to rank higher in the search engines.

You most likely found this article by searching for ways to drive more traffic to your website. This article is designed to rank high for those types of search terms and is a perfect example of this method in practice.

What you can do is you can either add articles to your site that are keyword optimized and try to rank them individually, or you can try to rank your domain home page for a somewhat competitive keyword that brings in good traffic.

To rank these pages, you will want to include the keyword that you want to rank for somewhere on the page a few times. This is important for ranking for the search phrases that you want to rank for.

No matter which option you choose, your rankings will mostly depend on how well you backlink the pages that you want to rank high (more information on backlinking can be found in the backlinking category). You can have the best on-page optimization in the world but it means nothing if you don’t know how to properly backlink.

SEO Of Articles On An Authority Site (Shorter Term Method)

This method will bring quicker results for you. To use this method you will be writing keyword optimized articles as you would in the long term option, but you would put them on an authority site instead of your own. Some authority sites that you can choose between are:

EzineArticles
Squidoo
Hubpages
ArticlesBase

The success that you have with this method is purely dependent on proper backlinking as is the long term option. Ranking any type of webpage in the search engines is mostly dependent on proper backlinking, as long as you have the keywords in the page.

Long-Term Approach

The more long-term but best results approach is to get pages of your website to rank for specific keywords in the search engines. You most likely found this article by doing a search in a search engine for how to get traffic. This is a perfect example of how I’m bringing in traffic to this website and how you can too.

The drawback to this method is that it takes a good bit of time to do. It’s not easy getting articles on your own website to rank for keywords that are going to bring you in good traffic, but if it was easy then everyone would be doing it. If you can keep consistently adding keyword optimized content to your website and backlink that content, then you will begin to see your website traffic rise.

Short Term Approach

The short term approach is to get bursts of traffic from EzineArticles and other popular article directories. When you submit an article to EzineArticles.com you will usually get a burst of traffic to your site from the article that was recently published. Adding an article or two per day to a few good article directories is a good way to keep a constant supply of traffic coming to your website.

Another good approach that you can use to apply the short term and long term methods is to submit keyword optimized articles to EzineArticles for bursts of traffic but then backlink your articles for high placement in the search engines after they are published.

You can take some of the ideas above and change them a little bit to develop your own personal strategy. It’s important to develop a plan of action that is catered to what you do best. Either way, I hope the methods above will help you get on track to get more traffic to your website.

Have you ever set a goal for youself and then never achieved it? I’m sure you have, we all have. We have that type of nature in which we’ll think of something that we want to accomplish and tell ourself that we will but then when it comes time to do the work we won’t do it. Why do we do that to ourselves?

If you truly want to be successful in this business then you have to be persistent and stick to your goals. One of the biggest mistakes that I see is people will being to work on a project or a campaign and then they will give up if they don’t see immediate results. The best thing you can do for your business is to pick a plan of action and to not stray from it. If you’re constantly changing from idea to idea month after month then you will always be at the beginning and you will never get anywhere.

Think about the last project that you gave up on. Do you think things would be differently if you had kept up with that project and hadn’t decided to start the one you’re working on now? Now think about one of the very first projects you started when you first got into affiliate marketing. What if you were still working on that one project? I bet you would be a lot better off right now then you currently are!

So sit down and give it a good though the next time you get bored with your current project and want to change to something else. Think about where you’ll be with it in another month or two if you don’t give up.

An affiliate marketer is someone who is self employed and works independently online from their computer. What they do is they sell other people’s products online for commissions. Most marketers get started by signing up for Clickbank, where the commissions they receive are usually somewhere between $30 and $150 for each sale.

To make a sale as an affiliate, you are given a link which is your “affiliate link”. Each time someone clicks on your affiliate link they are taken to the sales page of the product you are promoting. If they decide to buy the product then you will receive a commission for referring the sale! if you promote a product which pays $50 commission per sale, then you could probably live off of two sales per day.

I know that this sounds like one of those “too easy to be true type things”, and the honest truth is that it’s not as easy as it sounds. Getting people to actually click on your affiliate link is the hardest part in the process. But this does not mean that you can’t be making a full time income after a few months of hard work.

I know someone who made their very first sale on July 6, 2009. Four months later on October 31, 2009 they were excited to see that they had hit the $5,000 mark for the month. This was all income from affiliate marketing on Clickbank. Of course these results are not typical at all, but it goes to show what is really possible if you work hard enough for something.

So if you’re looking for a real residual income opportunity to earn residual income, then I would highly recommend that you look into affiliate marketing.

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.

To generate wealth online through affiliate marketing you must first sign up for an affiliate network. One of the most popular ones is Clickbank. After you’ve signed up you will be able to browse through the list of products that you can promote.

All of the products on Clickbank are all information products which means they can be downloaded right online. For this reason the commissions for these products are very high, usually between 40% and 70%. Most products sell for around $47 so you can expect about $25 for each sale for an average product. The commissions can range though from as low as $10 to as high as $150.

After you’ve chosen a product to promote you will receive an affiliate link. The affiliate link is what you will use to get your sales. Anyone who clicks on your affiliate link will be taken to the sales page of the product you’re promoting, if they buy the product then you will get the commission.

The real trick to build wealth online through affiliate marketing is to get people to click on your affiliate link. There are many different ways to get people to click on your affiliate link but that is a whole other topic. I hope that you will find affiliate marketing to be a great way to generate wealth online.

The one that I like the best involves using a redirect from a top level domain and article directories, preferably EzineArticles. To perform this type of super affiliate marketing strategy, you’re going to want to buy a domain name. The name should preferably be something either related to the product you’re promoting, or something neutral such as, “yourname.com”.

After you have bought a domain name and have it set up with your hosting account, you’re then going to want to go into your hosting account and switch the domain to redirect to your affiliate link. This way when you visit your domain name, it automatically redirects you to your affiliate link sales page. The option to redirect your domain can be found somewhere in your hosting account.

After you have your domain set up, now the only thing you need to do is drive traffic to the domain. I’ve found that the easiest way to drive traffic to a webpage it is by writing articles for EzineArticles. Make sure that the articles you write are done with good keyword optimization. I won’t go into the whole keyword research standpoint because that’s a whole another topic.

If you don’t like the super affiliate marketing strategy listed above then another option, which is probably one of your best, involves building up your own mailing list. I’m sure that you’ve heard this many times before but it’s very true that a mailing list is probably the best way to become a super affiliate. When you have a mailing list, all you simply need to do is send out an e-mail with an affiliate link and you’ll usually see some sales.

If you do decide that it’s time to start building a mailing list than the last way to do that is by creating a squeeze page with opt-in bait. For your squeeze page to be effective, you must have an opt-in bait that is simply irresistible. You have to think about exactly what your market wants, and give it to them.

You can drive traffic to your squeeze page by submitting articles to article directories just like you would for the first strategy. There are many other ways to drive traffic to a squeeze page and an affiliate offer including the use of forums, web 2.0 properties, blogs, your own website, etc…

I hope either of the two super affiliate marketing strategies above will help you to learn how to become a super affiliate. The real thing that separates the super affiliates from the regular affiliates is the amount of effort they put into their work. Are you really putting as much effort into your affiliate marketing efforts as you should be? The first part of the equation is having a solid plan, which is laid out above. The second part to the equation is actually putting in the time and effort to make the plan work.

Good luck in your marketing efforts!

Here are 5 email marketing strategies to help you out.

1. Give your readers value. – This has to be the most important thing you must remember when implementing your email marketing strategy. You have to build up trust with your reader, give them a reason to be subscribed to your list. They probably already have enough junk in their inbox, give them something of value that will not only keep them subscribed but will make them open all of the emails they receive from you.

2. Have killer subject lines. – No one is going to open your email if it’s the same old boring subject line, so spice it up a bit. Include the most important information first, and also be sure to include a sense of urgency so that they feel the must open the email right away.

3. Involve your readers. - Every now and then send out an email asking for their opinion on certain things. Set up a poll and ask your readers to make a vote on the poll and to also leave a comment. This will increase your reader response and activity.

4. More information, less promotion. - Only send out a promotional email after every two or three information emails. You want to keep your readers happy and subscribed with emails that are actually helping them in whatever niche it is. Give back to them since they’re helping to make you money.

5. Proofread every email as a subscriber. – Read over every email before you send it out, but pretend that you’re a subscriber receiving the email. Did the subject line catch your attention? Was the email really worth opening up and reading? Be sure to put yourself in your readers shoes… would you want to be on your own list?

I hope these email marketing strategies will be helpful to you and your email list.

The legitimate work at home job that I’m referring to is affiliate marketing. An affiliate marketer is someone who sells other people’s products online for a commission. Most affiliate marketers like to pick downloadable products. Since it costs almost nothing for someone to download the product, the owner of the product will usually give a high commission. You can usually make between $30 and $150 per sale for some of these items.

Getting into affiliate marketing is very easy by signing up for an affiliate network. The one that I like to use is ClickBank.com. After signing up you are then able to browse through the marketplace and choose a product to promote. It is best to choose a product that interest you, because it is hard to promote something that you do not find interesting.

After you’ve chosen a product you will receive what is called an “affiliate link”. An affiliate link is how you make your commission. When you click on your affiliate link it will take you to the sales page of the product you’re promoting. If someone buys the product after finding the product through your affiliate link, then you will get the commission for the sale! There are other types of legitimate work from home jobs, but I find this type of work to be the best return for the amount of work you must put in.