There is an affiliate program I have been a member of for years. I won't name names, but I have been their #1 affiliate 8 years in a row.

During this time I keep sending more and more traffic. But during the last year, despite sending significantly more traffic than the year before my commissions are suddenly off by about 50 percent.

Is it because the traffic suddenly got worse? No.

Is there new competition? Not in the last year, and I do not view that...

There are several methods to get free backlinks to your website.

Backlinks are important for SEO and all backlinks are not created equal. For example, a profile link on a forum is virtually worthless. A contextual link from a CNN story could be worth a mint.

When we are talking about "getting" backlinks that means taking them. We are not talking about posting some "quality" content on our blog and hoping and praying someone likes it enough to link...

I just did a search on Bing for how many auto repair shops are in the US. I got the answer:

43

(Isn't the answer to everything supposed to be 42?)

Search link

Setting aside the absurd answer, this ridiculous result popped up because it was the only page which seemed to match my query and provide an answer.

Looking at other pages, including the results on Google, there are paragraphs like this:

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I am becoming more convinced one of the more important, but overlooked SEO factors is bounce rate.

Bounce rate means a person searches for red acme products on Google. Clicks to your website, either does not find what they are looking for or goes yuck, and hits the back button to click another listings in the search results or do another search.

It only makes sense. Bounce is easily measured by Google. The factor reflects the quality of your website and relevancy of...

I was reading a new Fat Stacks report from Jon Dykstra, his how to build an authority site guide (by the way, his sites make more than $100,000 a month) and I saw this quote:

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