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A Couple Things That Worked for Me

by Carl Brown
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If you need a few quality backlinks, here are a couple things I've done.

I now have ONE website that I'm actively making into an authority site.

I've never added the "share this" type buttons until this site. I've been pleasantly surprised to find NATURAL Facebook likes, Tweets and google+ and more on a LOT of my pages. It gives me a good feeling to be rewarded naturally for my efforts without purchasing them. If you haven't already done it, give your visitors the means to share your site naturally. If it's good, THEY WILL.

I also uploaded what I believe to be QUALITY PDFs to DocStoc and a few other document sharing sites. I then used Backpage (easier to use than Craigslist) to link to my DocStoc document. It was indexed in under an HOUR! Backpage is crawled constantly. I think it helped.

I also used Issuu and created a real online magazine complete with a quality photoshop cover. I have 3 or 4 articles in each issue and link to various pages on my site. Google can read those links and indexes them and my "magazine" looks cool!

I've made the decision recently to stop going after the low quality links and start thinking about giving my visitors quality, and a reason to return and share my site. My goal is to produce material that actually EARNS a link or a "share" from my visitors. It seems to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

    My goal is to produce material that actually EARNS a link or a "share" from my visitors. It seems to work.
    Damn right it works. Always has, always will.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    I am getting ready to move into the magazine/pdf issue type thing.. Only thing holding me back is I want to also add sponsors for this as well. I figure why not get paid and produce a few backlinks at the same time.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Good post Carl.

    One thing I never understood here on WF, people act like it's too much work to create good/useful content, it's a lot of work but so is spamming the net with crappy end results.

    I have a few guys that visit my sites that build links for me because they like the content & are trying to help other people on forums that are looking for my type of content (niche downloads). I never pay these guys & never asked them to build links.

    These forum links aren't really for SEO even though they pass link juice, they do deliver a steady flow of targeted niche traffic, which IMO is better than SERP traffic simply because another member recommends my sites. A lot of times traffic will trust a site, If someone else gives the site a good recommendation (guys building niche forum links for free).
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  • Profile picture of the author Warock
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    Always has, always will! Like prlog.org.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Does anyone know If the page impression data on Issuu is legit, If so that's good data to research for niches.

    Example:
    http://issuu.com/chronline/docs/tourism-100423-34b




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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
      I hope so. That's what turned me on to the site. My links on my "magazine" are clickable and it's a great creative outlet. I enjoy spending a little time creating what looks like a legitimate magazine. It's as close as I'll probably ever come to creating a real publication in full color.

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Does anyone know If the page impression data on Issuu is legit, If so that's good data to research for niches.

      Example:
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

        I hope so. That's what turned me on to the site. My links on my "magazine" are clickable and it's a great creative outlet. I enjoy spending a little time creating what looks like a legitimate magazine. It's as close as I'll probably ever come to creating a real publication in full color.

        I'm interested in Issuu but how do you create the magazine, are you using Photoshop to do the mag layouts/graphics? I know you mentioned you did the mag cover in Photoshop, did you also use that for the rest of the mag.?

        Any links/info.?

        I'm more interested in any direct traffic from Issuu than an SEO advantage.

        Thanks,
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        • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          I'm interested in Issuu but how do you create the magazine, are you using Photoshop to do the mag layouts/graphics? I know you mentioned you did the mag cover in Photoshop, did you also use that for the rest of the mag.?

          Any links/info.?

          I'm more interested in any direct traffic from Issuu than an SEO advantage.

          Thanks,
          Me too. I believe the impressions are real and like I said, I love the opportunity to be creative. My first publication was a newsletter using Open Office. It has an easy Export feature to create pdfs.

          I started adding a full color cover because the competition on the site (competition is good) uses full color. I make the cover using photoshop. I do the inside pages with Publisher (Microsoft) and export the whole thing to pdf when I'm done.

          There are some great tutorials on youtube for designing a magazine cover on Photoshop. It's not that hard and you could do it with any image program (layers makes it easier).
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

            Me too. I believe the impressions are real and like I said, I love the opportunity to be creative. My first publication was a newsletter using Open Office. It has an easy Export feature to create pdfs.

            I started adding a full color cover because the competition on the site (competition is good) uses full color. I make the cover using photoshop. I do the inside pages with Publisher (Microsoft) and export the whole thing to pdf when I'm done.

            There are some great tutorials on youtube for designing a magazine cover on Photoshop. It's not that hard and you could do it with any image program (layers makes it easier).

            Awesome, thanks!

            I use both OpenOffice (exporting PDFs) & Photoshop.

            I'm defiantly testing this for the direct traffic.

            I still need to research this a lot more, this might be something to use for selling advertising space inside the mag. (assumes the mag is high quality) but I think it might work. I just checked one mag. & think I can get most of the external sites/URLs that have embedded the mag. on their own site. Might be a source for paid advertisers (maybe, maybe not)?
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  • Profile picture of the author Warock
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    Thanks, for your tips... hahaa
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    Thanx Carl, this post was more informative than 95% of the articles I've read on popular blogs and more valuable than 99.9% of the threads on the WF right now.

    One thing I've learnt is the it takes time and hard work but the links, traffic and money will come in due time. It has always been my dream to have just 1 site, and I'm currently working on that site.

    Offering valuable resources and content is a sure-fire way to become a authority in your niche, for example I plan on using certain fiverr gigs and showing the results. Fiverr gigs that deal with making a interesting site, I will never understand why everyone uses Fiverr for fake FB likes and spammy backlinks when you could be using it to build your brand, buying commercial gigs, video promotion, logos,headers for 50 dollars you could build a great site just using fiverr.
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Great tips, Carl!

      If you don't mind me asking, what kind of results have you got from these strategies in terms of ranking your sites and articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It would be cool If Issuu had a way to lock individual pages & let you sell the mag., tease the traffic into buying with the unlocked quality mag. pages.

    Here's an interesting niche (tutorials), you can get a tutorial for most software for free all over the net, do the tutorial yourself & document each individual step in the mag.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It would be cool If Issuu had a way to lock individual pages & let you sell the mag., tease the traffic into buying with the unlocked quality mag. pages.
      Do you know about DesktopAuthor? It's great software that allows you to do that. I created a publication for a friend and uploaded it to one of their own libraries. ebrochures.com is one of their sites where you can upload your work and they allow you to lock your publication after a few pages or a chapter or two. It's a great program, and they do have a following. The problem is you have to download their small (file size) DNL Reader. It hasn't taken off like the pdf format but it's so much better. Their library does get views though (the publication I did for someone is still getting views and it's in the thousands. Definitely worth the effort.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

        Do you know about DesktopAuthor? It's great software that allows you to do that. I created a publication for a friend and uploaded it to one of their own libraries. ebrochures.com is one of their sites where you can upload your work and they allow you to lock your publication after a few pages or a chapter or two. It's a great program, and they do have a following. The problem is you have to download their small (file size) DNL Reader. It hasn't taken off like the pdf format but it's so much better. Their library does get views though (the publication I did for someone is still getting views and it's in the thousands. Definitely worth the effort.

        Thanks,

        I wonder If creating two separate PDFs where one has a few pages removed (locked) with a few blank pages telling the reader to buy the PDF (full version) would work? Google books does this (locks individual pages) for a lot of paid books that you can get from sites like Amazon.

        I'm thinking a person would be more inclined to pay for a quality ebook, If they had proof the ebook was actually worth paying for by reading a few unlocked pages.

        Maybe lock a few of the most important pages, example, If it was an ebook showing a tutorial, lock the most important part of the tutorial on the free version of the PDF.

        I don't like the idea of forcing traffic to download plugins/software, a lot of times it's just a pain for everyone involved, some folks aren't tech savvy, etc..

        I think two versions of the same PDF might work, for selling the PDF. Use Issuu for the traffic, then make the sale from inside the demo PDF.
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  • Profile picture of the author Khushnoodpk
    great knowledge Carl, all these are new for me and helpful for my future projects, thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Found a good example of my last post (two versions of the same PDF).

    It's a 250 page book & only shows 50 pages in the Issuu PDF.

    Bike to Work Book sampler

    Here is the last page on the PDF (page #50).

    Note: Not sure why anyone would need a book for biking to work, lol.





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    • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
      Damn! There really is a lot of potential for advertising if you can develop a lot of views. I hadn't thought of that. That book is loaded with ads.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

        Damn! There really is a lot of potential for advertising if you can develop a lot of views. I hadn't thought of that. That book is loaded with ads.

        Lol, that's what I was saying.

        I was looking at a few random mags. & was seeing a lot of Ads inside the mag. on Issuu.

        I think If a person took their time & created an awesome mag./PDf they could probably target a lot of sites for selling them banner space inside the mag.

        You could probably get away with having multiple sites create a guest post/article/tutorial, sell them on first come, first served for being at the front of the PDF.

        Next, after the ebook is finished, start selling advertising space to another group of same niche sites.

        That has to be the lowest budget idea on Warrior Forum, LMAO!
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