One of the best ways (if not the best) to get your site listed on the first page of the search engines is to increase link popularity for it. But buying links or using automated “link management” services is no longer effective as the search engines have “wised up” to a lot of these systems and practises. This technique no gives you the ability to dominate the first page of the search engines with relative ease. And it works like gangbusters.

As marketers we’re mainly interested in traffic from Google, Yahoo and MSN, and they all use the link popularity of your site to determine how well your will rank and therefore how much traffic it will receive. They also know exactly how to check if you are using automated or “black hat” techniques to get links – and if they think you are, all those links will be ignored and discarded.

So when we launch a site and start to get incoming links, we need to make it as natural as possible. The good news is that is can be very easy if you know how to go about it in a structured way.

There’s nothing wrong with getting hundreds of links in week 1, so long as you keep it up week after week. What I’m going to share here are 4 simple techniques you can start using today to build your link popularity naturally and safely, and with some automation.

These 4 link popularity or link building techniques can be described as:

A new twist on how to increase link popularity with articles. Submitting your site to high PR web directories. A very powerful and highly effective approach to automated natural link growth. How the new “blogging for backlinks” works.

Submitting your site to high PR web directories A new twist on how to increase link popularity with articles How the new “blogging for backlinks” works A very powerful and highly effective approach to automated natural link growth.

Part 1 of my approach involves submitting a unique article to each of the major article directories (listed below) with each article having a link back to my sites home as well as a relevant internal page. The second and really powerful part is I use a new semi-automated system that automatically submits my articles to an ever increasing list of high PR article directories – the currently stands at over 600 separate directory sites, and each one gets a totally unique version of my article.

If you’re familiar with article marketing, you’re no doubt well aware of the benefits of submitting unique articles to directories like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com. But here’s a couple more you may not be aware of that are equally effective – if not more so:

Helium.com BigArticles.com PheedCentral.com EzineArticles.com ArticlesFactory.com SearchWarp.com GoArticles.com

That’s a total of 7 unique articles so far, and all these sites are seen as “authority” sites in the eyes of Google – which means they’ll provide a high value backlink to your site.

Part 2 of this technique is to use a fairly new semi-automated software application called Unique Article Wizard (see below for more details). This application will take a single article and submit it to over 600 separate and unique article directories.

UAW is unique in 2 ways – 1 is that it’s the only application out there than do this, and 2 is well, I’ll come #2 in a minute Unique Article Wizard will submit a unique version of your article to each of over 600 different article directories, all of which are indexed and ranked by Google (and MSN and Yahoo). That means you’ll get over 600 additional backlinks to your site with one simple action, and if your site is brand new, it will get indexed by the search engines in lightening speed – sometimes in a matter of hours.

And the really neat twist is that UAW will submit a completely unique version of your article to each directory. It does this in a way to ensure every article is readable with no gobble-de-gook or machine generated content (see how below). So each of the directories it submits to gets a unique version of your article – not some machine generated or pseudonym replaced mumbo jumbo that no-one would ever want to read.

This in itself is a huge benefit since the top 3 search engines started filtering out duplicate content on the web. This basically means that if you submit the same article to 10, 20 or even hundreds of sites, the search engines will ignore all but the first version of your article it finds – so instead of having hundreds of backlinks from those article sites, you’d be left with just 1. Not so with this software – every link counts.

Parts 2, 3 and 4 of this series will be out soon so watch out for them. Alternatively, to make sure you get immediate notification when they are published, sign up for my free newsletter at Octocat.com where I also share tips and techniques I use in my affiliate marketing business every day.

Affiliate marketer Mike Spencer explains how to increase link popularity of your site and dominate the first page of the search engines. Join Mikes free Affiliate Marketing Tips newsletter for more tips and advice

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