7 Deadly Link Building Mistakes That Work at Home Business Owners Make

By Ron J Hirsu

If you have your own work at home business, you know the importance of having a website and a presence on the internet. However, you must generate traffic and let readers find you on the internet. You must make sure your website appear on the search engine in your respective keywords and niche. You can achieve it through link building.

Link building for search engine optimization is now an important activity in any work at home online business. Bear in mind that back links can give a website a high page rank which equate to more traffic and more money. Sadly, most of us misunderstand this method thinking that all back links are good links.

Unless you want to be non-competitive, link-building cannot be avoided. It is not time to be lazy and wait for other sites to contact you, it can take forever.

Learn the 7 deadly linkage building mistakes you must avoid at all costs.

Warning!

Failing to abide them can cause your website being blacklisted or banned by Google.

1st Deadly Mistake — Avoid Non-Indexed Sites

Building your links is a tedious work but if done correctly, it can help your business tremendously in the long run. Avoid wasting your time by connecting to non-indexed sites.

2nd Deadly Mistake — Avoid Mass Linkage Packages

This is an unscrupulous way. These packages usually spam other networks or blast ads to classified directories. It is the same as buying spam email lists.

3rd Deadly Mistake — Connecting To Non Niche Relevant and Related Sites

Random links from old sites or unrelated websites makes your site unimportant. Be selective. A natural linking is very important. People go to the internet to search for information and unless you can give readers what they want, sooner or later, you will stop getting visitors.

4th Deadly Mistake — Get Links From Big Link Exchange Networks

Link farms offer you a strategy that encourages you do an exchange with other websites in their network. They make you believe it is a win-win situation. This is also known as reciprocal links and it does not work anymore. In fact it can actually hurt your website.

5th Deadly Mistake — Never Buy Links

No doubt a high page rank website can help your business and website. However, there are networks out there who are selling the chance for a linkage to a high page rank website. Avoid them like a plaque. If you are caught trading links, your website can be penalized.

6th Deadly Mistake — You Do Not Use Anchor Text

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Link Building Strategies – Here Are Three Proven Link Building Strategies That Work!

By Thor D. Rosberg

In a moment you will soon discover my five link building strategies but first, let’s start off with the basics of link building. In essence, link building is about leaving your “mark” on the web for spiders to crawl and pass link juice or index new and old sites, whichever comes first that is.

You probably know this but if you didn’t then I’m happy you passed by here because many strategies are a complete waste of time and money, right?

Of course it is!

So without further delay, here are my five proven platforms for creating quality backlinks:

Article directories

Article directories are great for building links because of their page ranks and they are also loved by google, some of them anyways. Now I would just like to say that not all article directories are great for link building, but the one that stands out is the one I’m using right now and that is Ezinearticles.

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Make Money Online – Top 7 Free Tips

By Angela Booth

Want to make money online? In these tough economic times, having an extra income can make all the difference to you and your family. Let’s look at the top seven free tips to help you to make some cash today.

1. Make Your First Dollar: Do Something for Someone

Many people want to start off making money online by spending money: they buy   any product which purports to teach them the “easy” skills they need.

However, chances are that you already have skills. What can you do that people would pay for? Perhaps you have writing, design, or other skills which other people need.

Advertise your skills, and make your first dollar online.

2. Invest Your Earnings in Your Own Domain

Once you’ve made your first dollar or two online, invest your earnings and buy your own domain name. Buy hosting too. Your own website is your hub on the web. Your site doesn’t need to be complicated, but you do need your own space where you can post reviews.

3. Create a Blog on Your Own Domain

Now you’ve got your own domain and hosting, create a blog. There’s lots of information online which tells you how to do this.

4. Write Reviews of Affiliate Products Which Sell

There are millions of affiliate products which you can sell online. Find products about which you’re enthusiastic, and preferably which you know well. Join the affiliate programs for those products.

Write reviews of a couple of products — make the reviews honest, informative, and entertaining. For extra credit, post video reviews.

5. Write Articles for Free Traffic

Now you’ve written your reviews, promote them. Write articles for the article directories and direct the links to your reviews.

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