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in Copyscape to make sure they don’t pop as duplicate copy when submitted
to sites like EzineArticles.

• ​Commenting on Blogs and Forums ​– This is a common enough trick that
far too few affiliate marketers use to boost their overall performance rates with

backlinks. I have always been a chatty person myself, so it came naturally,
but some people are less than thrilled about putting themselves out there to
hawk a link. For those of you in that boat, sorry folks – this is just too good of
a strategy to ignore. Just make sure you actually read the post and make an
intelligent comment. Contribute to the conversation and don't be a ****head.

Even if the sites you comment on have “No Follow” tags inserted into them,
it’s worth adding your link. In many cases, that link will carry at least some
value. I can’t give you exact numbers, and because of how closed Google is
about their algorithms, I would only be speculating on what works and what
doesn’t, but in my experience, having links from any site is a good thing.

And if you’re on a forum, always have a link in your signature. Most forums
have rules about posting links in the actual post, but you’re free to put
whatever you want in your signature, as long as you contribute valuable
feedback and comments in the rest of the post. We’ll go into forum posting
more later when we discuss how to boost conversion rates and snag ready
buyers.

• ​Trusted Link Building ​– No links are more valuable than the trusted sites
that Google tends to lift above the rest. In this case, I’m talking about .edu and
.gov sites – government run sites that are extremely hard to get back links
from. Luckily for you, there are tools out there that will help you find such
trusted sites that allow commenting or will post your link in a directory of sorts.
These sites will translate to massive traffic later down the line, even if they are
no follow sites.

Link building is pretty much a must­do activity for any site owner. You cannot get
anywhere on the Internet without a few good backlinks to your content. When it
comes to generating traffic, this will be one of those methods that you pretty
much have to use.

Just like everything else with affiliate marketing you must keep up with what's
working today vs. what worked a few years, or even just a few months ago.
Because even simple link building can be potentially dangerous. Let me explain...

In the minds of many, link building is synonymous with spammy, black hat SEO

techniques of years past. But high­quality backlinks still remain the single most
important off­site ranking factor used by the major search engines.