How I Got Rich

New Backlink Service

This is just a quick heads up to let you know about a new service called Back Blasts that is close to being launched. It is a montly fee service that builds profile and comment links to your URLs so if you are not into that sort of thing look away now!

I think there is a free trial running which you can find out more on their site. So far I have used it on a couple of sites. I have been pointing the links to some blog posts and Web 2.0 properties that link to my main site and I have seen a rise of a few places on page one for the sites after about a week of use.

It is early days so far but I will report back later once I’ve tried it for a bit longer with a proper review.

• http://backblasts.com/

Free Links with Dripable.com

There are a few sites that are offering free services to help you get a few more links to your sites. So far I’ve tried:

• IM Automator: free social bookmarks
• Social Monkee: another free social bookmarking service
• 24/7 Backlinks: gives you a lump of backlinks each day

You can see the other affiliate marketing tools I use here.

There are some other backlinking services which give you a free trial and Dripable.com is one of them.

Dripable is a new service that has just launched and creates links for your sites from a range of sources such as “blogs, comments, forums, guestbooks, photo galleries, basic comment pages, and everywhere else online”. This is good if you are looking for a diverse backlink profile. You can schedule the number of links to be built each day and it is very easy to setup.

You simply create a new project and then paste in the list of urls you want the links to point at and then in another text box enter the keywords you would like those links to have as anchor text.

As this is a new service which I didn’t know much about I decided to point the links to about 10 Web 2.0 sites which were in turn pointing to my main site. This was instead of pointing them directly to my main site.

I chose two keywords to target. The site I was trying to get a boost in the SERPs was #7 for one keyword and #44 for the second keyword.

Dripable.com Results

Once my 7 day trial was up I was pleased to see my site had moved up one spot for its main keyword to #6 and up 14 spots for the other keyword to #30.

• KW1: #7 to #6
• KW2: #44 to #30

I can’t tell if the links got indexed or stuck at all but I wasn’t really interested in that. I was looking for a movement in the SERPs to show some tangible results that increased my sites rankings and that is what happened.

It is not a massively competitive niche by any means but a jump in the SERPs in seven days is not to be sniffed at. I wish I had longer to test it and see if there will be a further increase but at the moment I am not sure if I can justify the cost, which isn’t loads (from $47 per month), but there are lots of other tools that have caught my attention recently and I’m having a hard time choosing one. When my earning are a bit more consistent I think I will add it to my set of tools but for now I will put it on the wish list.

If you want to try the free 7 day trial of Dripable.com click here today.

If you do try it let me know what results you get as I would like to see some more test data.

Disclaimer: there is a chance I will get an extra 7 days on the trial for writing this piece but what I have written is all true, I swear!

More Free Links

Thanks to a comment from Lee I am now aware of another free linking service called IM Automator.

Once signed up you can submit up to 10 sites a day which each get 15 links.

Like Social Monkee I think this will be a good tool to help get sites indexed and mix up your back link profile a bit.

Its free so is worth a look I think.

Any more sites like this I don’t know about?

Don’t Forget to Check your Links!

One of my main sites hasn’t been doing too well this month.  As the number of visitors were down slightly this month I had shrugged it off as August being a quiet month.  Yesterday I was going through the merchant (Amazon) stats for the site and I discovered some of the items I had been sending people to where out of stock and in a couple of cases the product had been removed completely giving the user a customised ‘page cannot be found’ message.

I quickly checked all the links on that site and spent the whole day updating them so they either pointed to a merchant who had the item in stock or removed the link entirely.  This was pretty time consuming but hopefully it will have been worthwhile.

I guess this highlights the benefit of having a few big sites rather than having to keep track of lots of little sites.  Thankfully I was using a link redirect script so changing the links wasn’t too much hassle as they are all held in one file.  I guess using something like Easy Content Units where links to out of stock items are hidden would’ve saved me some work but this site was build before I started using ECUs.

I better go and check my other sites…

Blogroll and Links Added

I was having a bit of trouble with adding the links widget to this theme in WordPress but have now resolved it.

This means you can now see the links I have added to this blog.  The blogroll contains links to other affiliate marketing blogs I read and there are also links to other sites I have found useful or interesting.

You can find them on the right side of the page a bit further down.