It’s a short pdf document, only 35 pages long, and inside is some really great information on how to go about getting a ton of high quality backlinks to your site.

The best part though, is the tools that Jack talks about. I can’t tell you what they are here, I promised not to tell his secret, but he did give me a special link to share with you guys that’ll get you the report and access to all of the tools for only $9

The system focuses on getting links from high traffic forums, but it’s not the same old way we’re used to doing it. If you know Jack Duncan, you know he’s way ahead of the curve when it comes to linking strategies.

There’s also a special forum finding tool that you need a password to use that’s included for free on page 18 of the guide. It’s what makes this strategy so easy to implement, and yes, all the tools are free!

I highly recommend you grab this guide now and start using it to get some really high quality backlinks to your site today. It’s a super easy yet super powerful method.

Here’s the link I promised you:

Definitive Guide For Finding High Pagerank Forum Backlinks

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Ever thought how can you get quality back-links for free without having to do a lot of hard work?

So what are quality back-links?

Let’s first decide what exactly are quality back-links so that we will look for certain ways to get them and leave other ways of getting back-links alone. What I have learned in a few years of link building for my sites and blogs is: “Quality back-links are those, which come from a page having same keywords as yours. The page you are getting your links from should never look like being spammed and must be search engine friendly. Make sure it is not included in the robots.txt and is crawled by search engine bots or crawlers on regular basis.”

As now we know what quality back-links are, so lets head towards our main goal which is to get these quality back-links easily and without having to spend a single penny.

1) Ask for them

You must know what sites have similar keywords as your sites, in other words your competitors. In case you don’t know about all of your major competitors, search for them using a search engine. Once you have a list of all of them. Select a few of them to get back-links from. This selection should be done on the basis of quality of their site, incoming links towards their site, PR, traffic and how often they appear in SERPS. Once you have done this, don’t go on and ask them for a link. Do it the other way around. Link to their site from yours. Make sure the page you have put their link on has some good traffic. Let them notice the traffic they are getting from your site. After a week or two, email them for link exchange. I am sure the other webmaster will think at least twice before turning down your request.

2) Establish Related Sites and Blogs

This certainly is the best way to get them in my opinion. Make sure the blogs/sites you create have similar keywords as your main site. The other benefit of doing this is that, once those sites start picking up traffic you can monetize them by placing ads or selling something. As, in this article I am emphasizing on getting back-links for free, so I will recommend creating a free blog on blogger.com rather than setting up a website.

3) Submit to Link Directories

Link directories are easiest way of getting back-links in my opinion. Make sure the directories you select to submit your site are high quality ones. Don’t forget to select a proper category for your site as choosing a proper category will ensure that the back-link is from a related keyword. For instance, if your site is astronomy related, choosing an astronomy category will be the best thing to do.

Make sure you can find some FREE directories. Here is a list of free and quality link directories: http://linkdirs.blogspot.com/2009/04/list-of-free-link-directories.html

4) Article Marketing

I am new to this so can’t really talk about it in depth, but I know people who have gained huge success doing article marketing in terms of back-links and traffic both. All you have to do is write a good informative article and submit it to article directories like EzineArticles.com. In the resource box of the article you place url to your site and thus get back-link and traffic and whenever someone uses your article on their blog/site a new back-link points towards your site. So these were some ways of getting free, easy and quality back-links. All you have to do is spend some time and results are unbelievably good. Try for yourself.

5) And of course, my favorite, Automated Links by NextGenLinks.com!

To learn more about that, take a look at the NextGenLinks.com homepage and be sure to browse through all of the great articles on this blog!

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Link building is about more than just traffic building, it is about gaining ranking on the search engine results so that traffic is organic and sustainable. Outsourcing your link building tasks is becoming very popular but there are a few rules to the game that will keep the business fair, professional and successful.

#1 Long term relationships are good. When establishing a relationship with outsourcers for link building, a long term relationship is best. Building links is a slow process that takes time. This means gathering some great freelancers or an outsourcing company and sticking with them for the long term. Long term relationships also means a common goal and familiarity with the project over time.

#2 Personal relationships are good too! Getting to know a bit more about your outsourcing company, the workers or the owners can prove very beneficial. Talking with the freelancers or outsourcing company on a more personal level will bring them into the circle of friendship that will bond them to the project. The more personally responsible they feel for the businesses growth, the more they will give to your efforts.

#3 Know where the outsourcing company is located. Not every company hired to build backlinks will be located in the United States. This means different holidays and different times of work. Learn these and respect the fact that your 9 to 5 may not be their 9 to 5. On the other hand, link automation software companies will work 24 hours a day to build link to your website pages.

#4 Be clear with what you expect. When you outsource, you have to assume the link builders know nothing about your business. Be clear about your expectations including the Must Dos and the Never Dos. The project guidelines need to be provided in an easily accessible format, possibly a deep page on your website that is not set for bots to crawl. A blog could also be a great place to publish the scope of the project.

#5 Negotiations are always good. Negotiating a price for the link building service may take the most time. You want to get the most for your money, but you also need to be fair to the link builder. There are very low cost services, medium cost services and expensive services. The budget you have set for marketing needs to be long term as link building is not an overnight process. Spending all of the budget on one service that does not build sufficient links is a waste of time and money. Again, link automation is a great way to build links to EVERY page of your website for one, fixed rate.

There is NEVER enough time to work with the promotional side of an online business. Yet, this is one of the most important (if not THE most important) part of a business’s success. Link building is perfect for freelancers, link automation software and outsourced companies. The money spent on building great quality links, over time, will come back many fold in sales and profits in the future when page rank soars and traffic continues building.

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SEO experts agree that internal links, or deep links, play a very important role in the search engine popularity of a website. Think of the internal pages of a websites as the back roads in a city. The cars drive through the main streets very frequently, but that does not mean traffic does not flow to the smaller side roads as well. Internal links provide these “cars” with a new place to visit and love. The same goes for link popularity. The deep pages of a website need to gain backlinks in order to feel a bit of that traffic flow.

SEO Link Building for Trusted Websites

Websites with trusted rankings on the search engines often feel as though they have no need for internal linking, but that is not the case. However, building internal links for trusted websites may be harder than for newbie websites. Being trusted means holding a bit of Internet clout and that clout cannot be thrown around to any and every website on the Internet. Deep links for the trusted website should be scattered lightly to boost that trust.

Established websites may also benefit from navigation structural changes and simplifying the movement through their website. No user should ever get lost in a website without a clear path back to their starting destination. It is also important that all of the website content be accessible with as few clicks as possible. If the reader cannot find your information, they are not going to stick around forever.

The Outbound Link and SEO Link Building

Another misunderstanding between the SEO creators and the website owner is in the value of the outbound link. The search engine bots do not want websites that are full of themselves. What they want are websites that offer great information and links to other sources of complimentary information. There are three main rules to linking out to other websites, always use anchor text that is relevant to your site and theirs, link to content that is similar to your own and choose anchor text words that mirror your website keywords.

Some website owners worry about passing their website popularity through the links. This is often termed Do Follow. The Do Follow attribute has been a confusing trait, but one that can be easily explained. Do Follow means one website is vouching for another. No Follow is the opposite. When link building, it is important to establish only Do Follow links. Why would a search engine give props to a website for linking out to another website they do not trust.

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Many Twitter users update to Twitter and other social networking websites with the same information duplicated. For instance, Twitter and FaceBook can be linked so when a post is published on one it will be duplicated on the other.

Even though there have been debates about duplicate content and search engine ranking, many marketers choose not to duplicate content for fear of the invisible red flag from Google. But, what about duplicate social networking posts?

Personal Versus Professional

Now, the casual social networking user will probably have nothing to worry about. The update about Cindy finally getting her braces off will not include links to a website or business, in most cases. However, the Internet marketer and website business often include links in their posts to website main pages, inner pages and articles used to market a business. If these posts are duplicated, exactly, will the search engine see them as SPAM?

The trouble with social networking is connectivity. This social network is connected to that social site and that social site is connected to another social network and on and on…

There was once a time when being a member of a social network meant being social, but those times have been replaced with mass updates, link posting and hourly pushes to read this and click here.

There are literally hundreds of social networks out there and if all of them eventually have their posts indexed by major search engines, how will the bots differentiate between the SPAMMERS and the businesses just trying to increase popularity the right way? It could all weigh on duplication.

Retro Indexing or Future Indexing

Another huge question about the indexing of social networking posts is when the indexing will start. If the indexing is retro fitted and all past updates are indexed, it could mean a HUGE shift in the top 10 rank listing for popular keywords.

Just imagine 10,000 or 20,000 posts being indexed from various social networks all containing back links to inner pages of a website. That could be enough to blow up servers with an over abundance of traffic hitting the website.

The Place for Social Networks in the Search Engine Results

Despite the troubles that could result from search engines indexing social network posts, there is a very real need for this integration to occur. When a fierce battle for the top 10 page is being constantly fought, website owners and Internet marketers use every tactic they can to increase traffic.

For the website that has chosen to integrate social networking, that upper hand could fall in their corner. Social networking with links is link building – the search engines just have to catch up.

So, whether or not the duplicate content will count against social networking businesses or not will probably be an issue hidden in the new algorithm for the most popular engines. Until the Tweets, bulletins and updates are indexed, we will just have to continue being social.

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First, let’s talk about what makes an authority site, well… an authority.

An authority site is a site that, among other things:

-Ranks well in the search engines

-Ranks quickly for new keywords and pages

-Is trusted for it’s content

-Is trusted for it’s links and anchor text

-And is spidered almost instantly

Some examples of authority sites would be Squidoo, Facebook, Hubpages, Wordpress.org etc.

Here’s a typical scenario…

A webmaster looking to get a link from an authority site such as Squidoo would, first write a content rich article, then go to Squidoo and create a Lens (a page) and link that page back to the home page of the site they are trying to get ranked.

There are several major mistakes that have been made in this process.

First mistake: Most likely, the keyword or keyword phrase being used in the article, is the main keyword for the site, since the page on the site that is being targeted is the main page or home page.

Second mistake: They are linking directly to the home page of the site.

These are mistakes because: The main keyword of the site is too difficult to rank for, it is most likely too general of a term to bring any qualified traffic, and there’s no link juice on the page to pass on to your home page, even if it is an authority site.

Second, the main page of your site is going to be too general and therefore too difficult to get ranked.

You may be thinking, ok… what if I am targeting a more specific keyword phrase and pointing my Lens to an inner page of my site?

Well, you’re halfway there

Here’s what I do and it works tremendously well.

Write a unique and informative article optimized for a second tier keyword phrase – and by optimized I don’t mean spammy, I mean a very human friendly and readable article. This would be considered a money phrase because it is more targeted and more likely to lead to a sale then a general term. It is also much easier to get ranked for.

Create a Squidoo Lens like before, using the new article and link that article to a Second Tier category or money page on your site that is optimized for that phrase.

Then, and here’s where the magic comes in, write 3 or 4 similar, unique, but much shorter articles optimized for the same keyword phrase and place those on Other Authority sites such as Hubpages or Wordpress and link those articles to your Squidoo Lens.

The chances of that lens now ranking in the top ten on Google for that keyword phrase have just increased at least tenfold!

You can mix and match this strategy to capture more than one spot in the top ten as well.

For example, now write another article optimized for the same keyword phrase as before and place it on a Hubpages page linking again to your Second Tier category or money page.

Then write 3 or 4 shorter article targeting the same keyword phrase and place them on Different Authority sites, one could even be Squidoo, and link those back to your Hubpages page.

Just like with the Squidoo results before, the chances of the Hubpages page ranking in the same top ten as the Squidoo page has just increased tremendously.

So now you have a Squidoo Lens and a Hubpages page both appearing in the top ten results for the same money phrase!

By capturing the first 2-3 spots in the top ten search results, you could easily get 60% of all traffic to the search engine for that phrase!

To take this one step further, now bookmark those 3-4 shorter articles using bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon etc.

No need to worry about being banned from the bookmarking sites because you’re not bookmarking your own site over and over, you’re bookmarking different pages on authority sites.

When you’re finished, why not twitter you’re new pages as well?

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What is Link Automation?

There is very little reference on the Internet to link automation and this could be due to the fact that many people believe automation will hurt a website. On the contrary, link automation works to improve the SERP not hinder it.

Much of the strife surrounding the term “automation” involves the black hat SEO tactics used by companies who promise their clients a number one ranking in Google, or some other search engine, in just a few days. These companies use spam comments and robot article rewriters to push a huge amount of content and links onto the Internet in a short amount of time. Yes, these tactics hurt a website eventually, but link automation does not use these same methods.

Link automation is the process of spreading links throughout the Internet in a safe and effective manner. Article directories like iSnare, for instance, accept promotional articles and pass those article on to other article directories. Users are able to then reprint these articles on their blogs or websites as long as the resource box, with links, is published as well.

While this may seem like a slow method of promotion, let’s take a look at the math involved.

1 Article with 2 Links is published. = 2 Links

That 1 Article with 2 Links is pushed to 9 additional article directories. = 20 Links

On each of those article directories, 10 people choose to republish the 1 Article with 2 Links. = 220 Links

Link automation has grown those initial 2 links to more than 200 links in just a short period of time and this is a very conservative example. Taking the above example into consideration, if link automation was practiced with one article submission every day for a week, the link total could rise to more than 1500 links. Stretch that out to a month and the total links back to your website could number more than 6000.

Link Automation With Software

Nextgenlinks is the only white hat software out there (that we know of) that automates the deep link building process. With only 15 minutes of time spent adding your website to the link automation software, your site will soon be building SEO friendly backlinks slowly but surely (the way the search engines like it!)

The software is set up to work with every page of your website and can be implemented in less time than it takes to write one article for an article directory.

Link automation is the solution to that “Not So Great” page rank. Building more links means building more traffic and that means making more money.

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Success stories on the Internet are hard to come by. The startup time for a new website, minus the content writing, is just a few minutes. With web page and web site builders available through hosting companies, the web entrepreneur has no reason to stop with just one website. No reason, that is, aside from the promotion of the websites.

The Basics to Website Promotion

Traffic to a website is the basic soul of success. Without quality traffic that is sustainable, no website will make it to the successful stage. Traffic brings readers, click throughs, affiliate sales and product orders to the website. This traffic is built from the links on the Internet back to your website.

These readers need to come in droves in order to prove profitable to the website. Just because you have 10,000 readers a day does not mean you will make 10,000 sales. Just like the shopping mall, window shopping is part of the experience which means more traffic will equate to more sales.

Link building is where traffic originates on more than one level. Links can be used directly to access a website, but on a deeper level, they can also be used to build the PR of a website. Once the website appears on the top 10 of a major search engine, the organic traffic will kick in. Organic traffic is rooted in a search that the reader initiates. This means the traffic hitting your website from these search engines is from readers who were looking for your product, service or information when they began their search.

Targeted traffic means higher potential profits. The need for this targeted traffic brings us full circle back to link building and link automation. Building backlinks is about more than just hyper linking to the main page of your site, it is about linking to every page of your site. Paying for this service takes a bit of the pressure off of your back and increases the effectiveness of the link building campaign.

Free Link Building is Just Not the Same

Free link building options are just not as effective as paid link building. The free versions of software or online tools are often more simple versions of the paid link building tools. These simple versions can build some traffic to the website, but not the numbers needed to increase profit in most cases.

This is not to say that an Internet marketer should not utilize a free trial or free subscription before choosing to pay for a service. Sure, the free trial can show you the power of the product, but will fall short of the true potential if the full service is not provided.

Take the backlink, for instance, the Internet search engine bots love backlinks, but the human cannot build these links by the thousands every day. The best link building software will build links over time. Weeks and months into using the software, the steady building of links back to the main and inner pages of the website will prove to increase page rank and traffic to the website. The free trial will fall short of the needed time in most cases.

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MySpace was the first social network to really hit the mainstream. After a few years, FaceBook came into the picture and took social networking to a new level. Mobile applications for cell phones for each of these social networks broadened the gap between MySpace and FaceBook. FaceBook was touted as being more user friendly from a mobile point of view.

In regards to backlinking, mobile users were now able to use these mobile applications to share their favorite websites and articles without ever logging into their desktops or laptops. How is that for building backlinks?

With the rise in social marketing running parallel to social networking, Twitter was the next big website partner. With Twitter, users could share links more quickly and efficiently with their fellow Twitterers via Tweets. These small snippets of information were easy to create and brought back the need for a strong call to action. But, just like MySpace, is there a better Twitter on the horizon that will be released in time for the indexing of microblogs? Have you ever heard of Yahoo Meme?

Yahoo Meme is being called the Twitter clone, but with a few changes that could make all the difference to social marketers. Among these changes is the way the social network allows comments. In order for a comment to be posted, the story needs to be reposted to your feed. This means every comment is a repost of the original story. Unlike Twitter, users do not have to “follow” a user in order to comment. For the social marketer, this leads to increased visibility among people they are not currently associated with.

The service also allowed for sharing videos and MP3 files. This is great for the marketer who utilizes YouTube and podcasts as part of their marketing campaign. The more viewers and listeners, the more leads that media could establish.

There are cons to the Yahoo Meme service, which could be the reason it has yet to go live in the United States. The service does not have security measures which means every post is public. An API has not yet been established either, which means third party applications are not currently being developed. This could drive the service back a bit unless they establish an API soon and get the developers working on empowering the newest social giant.

Yahoo Meme is not currently available in the United States for public use but is being privately tested by invited guests. If Google Caffeine increases the validity of microblogging backlinks, Yahoo Meme could be poised to take over the Twitter everyone knows and loves. If not, it will provide an additional social networking source for gaining backlinks. The power of social media is just beginning.

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SMO utilizes the power of people to drive traffic to a website. At the conception of the Internet, only businesses had the money and computer power to build and host websites. Today, it takes literally five minutes to build a website and only a few more to upload some PLR content. These cookie cutter websites are not going to rank in the Google or Yahoo top 10, but they represent how easy it is to build a generic website out of nothing.

The real gold in website building today is SMO. With the popularity of FaceBook, Twitter and other social networks, the webmaster or business needs to ensure their content can be readily shared easily. the SHARE button can be added quickly to website content, but is your content worthy of being shared?

The Pro of SMO is the Con

The power of user generated content is developing rapidly, but with that growth is the need to deliver content that search engines love and the user will want to share with their friends and family. How can both be accomplished?

Description – The description posted just above the article is the first line of site for the search engine bots and the reader. This small paragraph needs to include the relevant keyword and attract the reader to read on. The reason this section is so very important is the fact that when the article is published to a social network, it is usually the snippet that is included for others to read. If they like the description, they will click through to your website.

The articles shared on social networks are not indexed by search engines, but that does not mean they don’t count as a backlink (considering a new definition for the word). The article is linking back to your website and with search engine advances soon could be considered a viable backlink. What happens when the Google algorithm decides to include social links? Will your website be ready?

Questions to Ask Yourself and Your Website

In an effort to better understand how SMO can help a website, ask yourself these simple questions.

1) Where can I find people who are interested in my niche?

2) Where is sharing a link considered a GREAT thing?

3) What is the most popular form of communication online right now?

The answers to all of these questions is the social network. Building a brand online when there are millions of daily active viewers who sign on just to read what other people are doing is the right choice for today’s Internet.

I Don’t Have the Time to Backlink with SMO

There are usually fewer hours in the day than the marketer needs to establish the “right” number of backlinks and as we all know, quality backlinks take time. Link building services are changing and expanding to include social media and networks. Help is there for those who find another marketing avenue just too time consuming.

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