One Simple Strategy To Generate Ever-Increasing Inbound Links To Your Site

by dh5114
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Fellow Warrior,

we both know inbound links brings traffic to your site. No links, no traffic. And no sales. That's bad for business.

You can generate backlinks by hand. It takes time and effort, but it works. Not smart move, but it works.

You can pay for a service and get your backlinks spread much faster. It's smarter then doing it by hand (time wise), but can get burned by search engines if spread too fast. You can harm your site if not cautious.

Or, you can do what I do...

I use this one strategy to literally guarantee ever-increasing number of inbound links to my sites. And it only takes one-time commitment to do it.

Maybe you have already heard about it and shrugged it off because nobody took the time explaining you how powerful it really is. Not your fault...

Done right, this one strategy will spread links back to your site in a manner search engine loves - organically and exponentially.

I am talking about free reports. Free reports with a twist.

Write short, value packed reports on your topic and let visitors download them for free.

Can be just few pages long. Only make sure reader gets a lot of in-use value from your reports. In-use value reader can easily put into practice.

Put links back to your site on front page, last page and in the footer on every page in your report.

Each report also includes links to affiliate products/services which are in close connection to report's topic. That's how you make money.

Then you make some of those affiliate links brandable, allowing visitors to plug in their affiliate ID. That's how you make report spread wide.

On the last page of each report you instruct the reader how to plug affiliate ID in those affiliate links. Add links to your previous reports if dealing with the same topic.

Here's what will happen:

Once you release your first report, visitors will download it, read it, some will plug their affiliate ID in those links and send it to their lists. Everyone who reads will have a chance to do the same, because you tell them how on the last page.

People you would have no way of reaching otherwise will spread your report far and wide because they get a cut when sale is made through their affiliate link.

On the flip side, you get links leading back to your site spread effortlessly, driving ever-increasing amounts of traffic to your site.

The only tricky part is making your reports valuable enough for people to talk about them spread them. Everything else here is child's play.

Finding affiliate products or services fitting your topic is a simple walk in CB's marketplace. Just look for products with gravity over 50.

Also, don't expect immediate flood of backlinks and traffic from your first report. It will take some time, but it will happen. Be patient and keep writing those reports. Not long and you will start seeing snowball effect caused by your reports.

Collect email addresses from visitors, adding them to your list. This way you'll also have ever-increasing list to send your fresh reports to.

Talking from my own experience, it only takes one super-affiliate to send your report to a list and your web server will have hard time keeping up with traffic flooding your site.

You can make that snowball grow bigger by regularly releasing short, value packed reports with links other can plug their affiliate ID into. Just write them as you would write blog posts, having a special page on your site just for your reports. Each report includes links to your other reports in the same field.

That's how you get links leading back to your site from all over the Internet, almost on autopilot. Want more traffic & sales? Write another report and release it to your now-expanded list, put it on a page with other reports and watch traffic pour in.

With time, you will grow backlinks, those will bring traffic. Sales will happen.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
    I definitely like the idea of viral ebooks, the trick is to create one compelling enough that will catch on.

    But I didn't think links inside a pdf file counted in the SERPS. Are you sure they count as backlinks?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan D
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    Well, thanks for the tip. It would work ok if you think other people are actually going to put /use the PDF. I just kinda doubt that most people will, given the nature of your average affiliate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Darren L Carter
    Hey DH,

    Good idea. When did you first start doing this with a report?

    Peace,
    Darren L Carter
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  • Profile picture of the author pkornmann
    Do you have any numbers for how much extra traffic this generated?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
    Originally Posted by dh5114 View Post

    Fellow Warrior,

    Then you make some of those affiliate links brandable, allowing visitors to plug in their affiliate ID. That's how you make report spread wide.

    On the last page of each report you instruct the reader how to plug affiliate ID in those affiliate links.
    I'm curious. How do you make a report brandable so people can put their own links into the CB links and then protect the footer, front and back page with your links protected. Isn't the whole report editable if you don't protect it? Or is it possible to protect only certain parts of a PDF file?
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  • Profile picture of the author dh5114
    @Tyson Faulkner - The beauty of such reports is, you need not rely on search engines at all. Including links back to your site in the report itself is enough. People click on them because they want more interesting content you've got on your site.

    @Ryan D - That's the tricky part - your reports must be of high in-use value to the reader. Fluffy and fat-full reports won't cut it. But when you actually help people solve problems with your reports, they can recognize real value and some will spread it.

    @pkornmann - it's hard to tell in numbers. My experience is slow and constant growth in traffic and backlinks. The thing is, the more you write such report, the better your writing is. And good writing always ticks the readers, making them act. So they want more of your writing, so they come to your site. If they like it, they will tell others about it...

    @MyInterest - It's not the huge number of backlinks that hurts you, it's the time those backlinks were generated. It looks weird in the eye of search engine to have lots of backlinks generated in short amount of time.
    Good backlinking services take this into account and spread links slowly, so it looks natural enough not to raise red flag.

    @Ryan700 - You only make some links brandable and others normal, non-brandable. This way you always have your affiliate links in every copy of your report no matter how many copies there are. Of course, you have to give affiliates enough links to brand so it's interesting enough for them to spread copy of your report with their affiliate IDs in links.

    Interesting reports generate feedback. This thread just proved my claims. :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
      Originally Posted by Ryan700 View Post

      I'm curious. How do you make a report brandable so people can put their own links into the CB links and then protect the footer, front and back page with your links protected. Isn't the whole report editable if you don't protect it? Or is it possible to protect only certain parts of a PDF file?
      Originally Posted by dh5114 View Post

      @Ryan700 - You only make some links brandable and others normal, non-brandable. This way you always have your affiliate links in every copy of your report no matter how many copies there are. Of course, you have to give affiliates enough links to brand so it's interesting enough for them to spread copy of your report with their affiliate IDs in links.

      Interesting reports generate feedback. This thread just proved my claims. :-)
      That's what I was getting at. How do you make some brandable and protect the links that you don't want people to change?
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  • Profile picture of the author dh5114
    You have your reports in PDF. In 99.99% people won't open your PDF and make changes to it.

    As an author, you use some ebook branding software (usually called signer or tagger) and you 'mark' certain parts of link as brandable. Your visitors also use the same piece of ebook branding software, only they just get the part that allows changing only 'marks' you tagged as brandable.

    Hope this clears it out for you.

    Damir
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    • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
      Originally Posted by dh5114 View Post


      As an author, you use some ebook branding software (usually called signer or tagger) and you 'mark' certain parts of link as brandable.

      Hope this clears it out for you.

      Damir
      Thanks. It does. I was wondering if there is a rebrander software that can be used with my Mac. Everything I have seen was only PC compatible.
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  • Profile picture of the author dh5114
    Neromancer, well said.

    Plus you're not dependent on search engines for traffic.
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