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I love to get traffic to my Web sites, because in online endeavors, traffic equals money and profits. Of course, a big part of getting traffic is first getting lots of quality oneway backlinks. It usually takes either a lot of time and hard work or a lot of money to get enough links to really make a difference. However, there are a few services on the Net that are affordable and still powerful enough to get good search engine rankings and therefore lots of traffic for your sites.
I have discovered one of those services that is run by someone I am happy to now call my friend, Konrad Braun. Konrad is one of those very rare Individuals that is a true pleasure to do business with. To say that Konrad over delivers on his backinking service is an understatement. He is a real stand-up guy and offers a great serivice.
If you are in a hurry to check out his services and see what they can do for your sites and your bottom line go now and checkout Empire Marketing.
Konrad agreed to let me do an interview and you can find the results below:
Konrad, Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
You bet. Believe it or not, I grew up on a farm in South America (Bolivia to be exact). Ever since the first time I seen a computer (about 12 years ago) I knew I had to get myself one. When I came to Canada, a friend of mine gave me one of his old computers and I would sit on it till 3 in the morning just about every night even though I had to get up 4 hours later to go to school. It took me a couple of years to become more and more familiar with the Internet and here I am today, doing what I love doing, and making a pretty good living doing it.
If you could write one sentence to describe what it takes to be successful and making money online what would it be?
Focus on one thing, take consistent MASSIVE action, and commit to doing what it takes to get the results you desire!
Can you briefly describe your backlinks service?
Yes, backlinks are one of the key elements in the Google ranking algorithm that help a website rank better, and I have set out to create a system that creates backlinks on various web platforms on a consistent basis… be it forums, social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds or other mediums. Customers always asked if I could spread their backlink building campaign out over a longer period of time to avoid any possibility of Google labeling them as spam and the “25+ backlinks a day” service does just that at a very affordable price!
When I approve a new order, it immediately gets submitted to a handful of socialbookmarking sites. After that, I will use my system to build 25 or more successful backlinks to that site – every single day. These backlinks then get uploaded and out comes an RSS feed that gets submitted to about 100 RSS feed sites – every day. Customers can of course track the process by logging in to the customer panel – where they get detailed reports – as well as their very own RSS feed that they can promote where they please! This is the core of the system, but of course there are all kinds of other neat features and more are getting added every week.
How long have you been offering this service?
The whole process started in October of 2009, but here really is no comparison between the service customers got back then and what they are getting now. It has come a LONG ways.
Do you use the same methods on your sites and if so what kind of results have you seen?
Absolutely. The whole idea behind this service was to be able to plug all of my sites into a system that would create quality backlinks on a regular basis… so yes… I totally use this service on my own sites.
The results have been phenomenal. I currently dominate about 3 very competitive and very profitable niches with some of my sites as a direct result of this service!
What makes your service different than other forum links services on the net?
For starters, most forum link building services post spam adds all over the net – oftentimes on not very friendly forums (or should I say, VERY friendly forums). I make every effort to eliminate those kinds of sites and also will never post a spam ad on any website. I always try to make tasteful profile and signature backlinks that appear to be legit to the majority of webmasters.
Secondly, unlike any other service I know of, you will never get hundreds or even thousands of backlinks to your website in one single day followed by no backlinks the following day. I make every effort to make all backlinks appear as natural as possible by only building 25+ backlinks a day – every day!
To take advantage of Konrad’s backlinking service head on over to Empire Marketing and get at least 25 quality backlinks every day of the month.
What would you do to get EDU links? There is a popular belief that EDU links are the holy grail of search engine optimization. Are EDU links really that powerful and is it worth going to a lot of extra effort to get EDU links?
The theory is that Google assigns a lot of authority to websites of colleges and other educational institutions. I don’t think there is any question of whether a link from an authority site is better than a link from a non-authority site. If I had my choice of one link from authority site or 10 links from various non-authority sites I would take the one link any time.
Considering the above statements and speculations the question boils down to whether educational domain sites really carry more authority than other sites. Just like in other areas of life there are very few absolutes in search engine optimization. My opinion is that EDU links on average are actually superior to other links.
There will be some people who will disagree with me primarily because of a statement that one of the Google employees made in early 2008. John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, stated:
I don’t really know if that statement as expressed by John is entirely accurate, but even if it is it still does not dissuade me from pursuing EDU links. Even if Google does not explicitly ascribe more value to EDU links that does not mean that on average EDU links are not more valuable than other links.
I base a lot of my SEO knowledge on my own experimentation and testing. Obviously, I read what the experts say, and take that into consideration. However, I very rarely take those statements as fact unless I have experienced them with my own sites.
I devised a simple test to compare the authority of EDU sites to other sites in general. While it is in no way a scientific test or proof that all EDU sites carry more authority than other sites, it does make it pretty clear that EDU domains are usually authority sites. Here is what I did and you can feel free to try this at home:
I made a list of 10 college sites, 10 corporate sites, and 10.net sites. I tried to balance each list with a mixture of large medium and small organizations. I then visited each site and checked the Google page rank. Obviously page rank is not the only indicator of a sites authority but it is a pretty good one regardless.
What I found was that the small colleges had page ranks of five or six, the midsized colleges six or seven, and the large colleges eight or nine. The.COM and NET sites had about two less page rank than the corresponding EDU sites.
I still wouldn’t stand on my head to get EDU links, but if I had a fairly easy way to get those links I would go for it. Well, it just so happens that I do know a fairly easy (and free) method of getting EDU links. On the other hand it is actually harder to get links from high page rank corporate and network sites.
If you register for my free newsletter you will get a report that explains in detail how to get free EDU links. This report usually sells for $27, but I have obtained the rights to provide it for free to my subscribers. Please note if you already subscribe to my newsletter you either already have this free report or receive it shortly there is no need to subscribe again.
Are you shopping for link building services? Do you know how to sort out the bad from the good services? Do you want to be sure you get effective link building services that will not do more harm than good?
The first thing you need to do is learn a little about link building yourself before you go shopping. You don’t need to be a link building expert, but you need to understand how the process works to be an informed buyer. You can learn what you need to know right here on this site. You may want to read these posts if you are not already familiar with these topics:
You should now have a pretty good understanding of the kinds of linking and the benefits of one way links to your site. Let’s start by listing some of the things you should avoid in link building services.
FFA Sites and Link Farms – These don’t work, at least not long term and participating in them can actually harm your website rankings. FFA is short for “free for all” and are sites with thousands and thousands of links with no real content. Link farms are similar and the search engines may penalize your rankings if you have a lot of links from these types of sites.
Comment Spam – Posting relevant comments on blogs is a valid link building tactic, but posting junk comments just to get links is useless. Unfortunately, there are services out there that use comment spam as their primary strategy.
Reciprocal Links – There is noting wrong with recipricol links, but if you get nothing but recipricol (or two way links) you are not getting a lot of milage out of your links. Two way links help a little but you really need one way links to get good search engine rankings. Some link building services concentrate only in getting two way links and if those are used they should be only part of your
link strategy.
Buying Links – Google hates sites that sell links and sites that buy them. If you buy links, especially high page rank links you risk the wrath og Google. Even beyond the risk of being punished by Google buying links is by nature a very short term tactic. When you buy links you are paying for them every month and as the bills add up as some point you are going to want to stop paying for them. When you stop paying you abruptly lose the links.
We have covered what to avoid when looking for link building services. In the next article we will take a looks at the positive aspects and what you really want to get out of this kind of service.
When it comes to determining keyword competition – backlinks are king. You can only do so much with on-page SEO and the site owners who are really competing for search engine ranking will probably have fairly well optimized pages. That means that analyzing keyword competition really comes down to analyzing backlinks.
Remember that backlinks, especially keyword anchored backlinks, account for the most weight in the way the search engines rank pages. That is why you need to analyze backlinks if you really want to know if you can compete for a particular keyword phrase.
The “traditional” way to estimate competition is to search for the phrase in quotes, but that is just a quick and dirty way to get some kind of idea of how much competition you have. It doesn’t really tell you how hard it will be to take a top spot in the SERPs (search engine result pages).
The best way to gauge your competition for a top position is to do backlinks analysis on the pages that are currently in the positions you want to overtake. You do that by using Yahoo Site Explorer.
So, how do you go about determining keyword competition with Yahoo Site Explorer?
Please note: I would only do this for your primary keyword unless you have backlinks analysis software to make it less time consuming. The method that follows works very well, but it does take a lot of time to do right.
First you want to be clear on what you are looking for.
You want to know how many backlinks your top ranked competition has and ultimately how many keyword anchored backlinks they have — that is the time consuming part.
Here is what you do step by step assuming it is Google rankings that you are targeting:
Search for your keyword phrase (without quotes) on Google. We are checking for Google ranking, but we will actually use Yahoo to analyze backlinks. Google is very stingy on backlinks information and only shows you a fraction of the results. Yahoo Site Explorer gives you most of the backlinks in their database.
Either copy and paste the URLs of the top pages into notepad or just keep this browser window open and open a new one to use Yahoo site explorer.
I would start with the number 10 result. It will be the easiest to research because it will probably have the smallest number of backlinks. This will also tell you if you have a good chance of getting on to page one.
Copy and paste the URL of the site into Yahoo site explorer. When Yahoo displays the results click on the “inlinks” button and then select “except from this domain” from the show inlinks drop-down. This will tell you how many backlinks that page has. If it is just a few you are done checking that site and you can be pretty sure you can beat it.
If the site has a thousands of backlinks you don’t know if you can beat it (easily) or not but if the domain, folder or file name does not contain the keyword phrase you probably can. The way to know for sure is to analyze the links to the page for anchor text which no one in their right mind would do manually for thousands of links.
There are some free tools on the Web that try to automate the above process, but the ones I have tried have too many drawbacks to really be useful.
The only tool I’ve tried for analyzing backlinks that can recommend is not free, but the cost is minimal for the time it can save you. You not only save time in checking backlinks, you also save the time you would have spent building sites that you will never be able to get ranked well because they have thousands of keyword anchored backlinks.
You will also be amazed at how many sites with thousands of backlinks only have a few, and sometimes, no keyword anchored backlinks. These sites are easy to beat, but you would never know it without good analysis of their backlinks. I have found some real profitable keywords this way that everyone else ignored.
My keyword competition analysis took of choice is WebComp Analyst by Jonathan Leger. The software lets you do in minutes what would take you hours, if not days to do manually. WebComp Analyst is also a very good keyword research and suggestion tool.
I’ve used subscription based tools and I own a couple other big name keyword tools, but WebComp Analyst it the only one I continue to use and the only one that effectively analyzes backlinks. It is easy and it works to save me time and make me money.
