Today I wanted to cover one of the basics of marketing online: Cloaking & Tracking!

Tracking is important so we all know what links get clicked in order to make best use of our advertising resources.

A simple formula of how many visits divided by the number of sales generated also gives us a clear indication of how a sales page is converting, which in turn helps us to target better or know which part of the copy needs changing, or whether we need a better pre-sell page or e-mail.

Likewise, link cloaking is deemed important to stop those commission thieves, or to avoid being classed as spam before our message is even read.

Combining the two usually involves setting up a professional link cloaking script…

And that’s where a lot of folks get lost and confused in the techie world of creating databases and users!

Well today I got the chance to look at a new tool that has all the benefits but none of the negatives of the usual scripts!

Link Supercharger ACTUALLY does what it says on the box!

This script makes you look more professional by allowing you to create those ‘recommends’ links easily in just seconds.

It also has a built-in tracker to see just how many times the link is clicked!

But the BIG one for me is how SIMPLE it is to install!

There are NO databases to create, NO CPanel messing around, NO users to add to databases, NO editing files with PHP, etc.

Just a simple upload of ONE install file and you’re ready to go!

Watch the 90-second video to see how easy it is!

If you’d like to up your game, look far more professional, and know your stats like the gurus do, then this is definitely something to consider!

What’s more, it has one of the cheapest pricings I’ve seen for this type of software, and is fully covered by a 60-day guarantee!

You must see this underground secret software that finds unlimited EDU backlinks & Dofollow backlinks with a push of an button…

Mike is even sharing how he got dozens of clients paying him well over $149/month for backlinks that takes 2 min to find using his software.

You would never have thought of providing a backlink service, but you can use this software not only for your own purpose but to do good for others too. Watch the video for a ‘live’ demo of how Instant Backlink Magic works.

Exclusive! Renowned SEO hotshot Andy Fletcher has just launched a brand new report called Backlink Leverage. With a bit of fast-talking I managed to get myself a pre-release copy, and I’m about to give you a bit of it.

Backlink Leverage is one of Andy’s top backlink building techniques, all written up and presented as an A-B-C simple step-by-step guide.

But like everything Andy does, this goes the extra mile.

It doesn’t just tell you how to build more backlinks…he lays out a method for making those backlinks work harder.

So you’ve not only got more backlinks working for you, they’re also driving LOADS more traffic.

For instance, one thing he talks about is the 4 rules of creating controversy, which is a good way of getting traffic to your blog…

(He’s probably going to be a bit annoyed I spilled this for free, but hey…)

- Have an opinion (reading neutral stuff is boring…but people like to read stuff they agree with and feel compelled to if they don’t!)

- Don’t go overboard (admittedly, this ones fairly obvious—be too offensive, people don’t come back. Andy’s got one neat example of someone who went a *bit* too far…)

- Be outrageous (the trick is to be provocative without crossing the line)

- Inspire passion (there’s a cool case study about a guy Andy works with, and how you could get him so riled up he would be forced to go look at your blog)

Of course, it covers rather more than just that…it’s a whole system to make your content work harder at bringing you backlinks and traffic.

Not just how you syndicate, but WHAT you syndicate.

I know it’s going to completely change the way I do syndication (there was some stuff I was missing that was so simple! I couldn’t believe it when I read it…) and if you’re running a blog I can pretty much guarantee it’s going to rock your world.

Here’s just a few of the other things you’ll find:

- What to syndicate to pull in the maximum amount of traffic into your blog (and I’ll give you a clue—if you’re syndicating the whole article, you’re missing a trick)

- How you can get the most out of your content, and how some companies are already using this trick on you

- The five types of syndication that will let you tap into vast wells of traffic

- How the world’s top copywriters compel their prospects to take action, and how you can do the same thing in your blog posts

Not only that, Andy has found free software you can use for pretty much the whole process, and he shows you where to find it and how to use it, step by step.

Backlink Leverage is available to the public for $37, but just for launch Andy’s made it available as a WSO so you can get it at a massive 70% discount.

This offer’s only going to be around for 3 weeks, so grab it now!

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This powerhouse of a WordPress plugin will give your blog 1000s of quality backlinks…

And to make matters more impressive, Mark Dulisse (the creator) is releasing this at a mind-boggling, limited time, at this price.

Mark does not fool around. He really will double it soon.

This is not some hyped up thingy that you often see. This is a real tool, that gets the job done for you.

It is like having your own SEO outsourcer working for you full time, 24/7, creating high-quality backlinks for you and driving traffic to your sites.

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It can take time to build your presence in the search engines using link-building, and there is often a disconnect between when we make the effort to gain links and when those links begin to pass influence to our site. This can cause us to overlook time-efficient means of getting links as unsuccessful and give up on the idea of link-building as too dark, difficult and confusing. This does not have to be the case, however. We just have to recognize what is important about links and keep track of these important elements for our different link-building methods.

There are a number of factors that can affect the quality of a link-building campaign, and it is important that you can analyze your links in a way that will enable you to get as many of the links that give you the best return. Furthermore, there are hundreds of different methods of link-building, and you should be aware of how long it takes to get a link using each of these methods, how much it costs, and how much value you get from each of these different sources in order that you can get to where you want to go as quickly as possible.

Lets take a look at the factors that affect the cost and value of links, and although I can’t provide you with a simple piece of analytics software to help you account for each of your links, I can give you a few ideas that will help you track what is most important and get a more accurate picture of what you should be doing more of.

Cost & Value:

In order to run a successful link-building campaign, it is important to have a means of analyzing the cost and value of your links over time. Without it, you won’t be able to focus on the link-building methods that give your site and your business the greatest return.

There are a number of ways of doing this that will depend upon the way you work, but here are a few things that you might like to take into account:

Cost per link:

• What has it cost to get this link in terms of domain registration and hosting?
• What did it cost to research this particular link in terms of tools, subscriptions and staff time?
• Is this link still being indexed after any given period (six months, a year)?
• What are the costs of keeping the link indexed over time (juicers, pumpers, etc.)?

Over time, we should be looking to get as many links for as cheaply as possible. In order to do that, it is important to keep track of the costs associated with link-building. There are many different methods of link-building, and each of them involve different amounts of time and infrastructure.

A round of directory submissions might not take long, but they might not get into the index or remain in the Google index over time. Links from web 2.0 sites like Hubpages, by contrast, won’t cost anything in terms of hosting, but it will take time for someone to write the Hub and to maintain it in order for the link to be able to pass influence. Finally, it might take a long time to get a guest post on a good blog, and it might take time to prepare a relevant article that interests the audience, but the influence should keep your link in the index for many years to come.

When evaluating links, we can’t just get hung up on the cost of a link; however, as we might limit ourselves to going after the cheapest links from places with little PageRank. We also need to have a means of taking into account the value of links from any given source.

Value per link:

The value of a link is what it gives you in return for the time and money you have spent getting it. This value depends upon the quality of the link. This quality is ultimately determined by its ability to improve your search engine rankings. There are a number of factors that can affect the ability of a link to do these, and here are a few questions that you can ask in order to help you assess these factors:

• What is the page rank of the domain you are getting a link from?
• How many other outbound links are on the page that links to your site?
• How many links are coming into the page & domain that you are getting links from?
• How many links are coming into the page & domain from different domains?
• When was & how often is the page that is linking to you cached?
• How long does the page that links to yours stay in the index?
• Does the anchor text of your link relate to your keyword?
• Is the domain linking to yours relevant to your website?

Not all links are born equal. Although it’s great to get a link from anywhere, Google’s corporate information tells us that links are analyzed like votes in a democratic ranking system. As well as just counting the number of votes:

“PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value.”

One useful way to work out the quality of your links is to analyze their PageRank. This is not easy to do as Google’s PageRank toolbar is infamously out-of-date and can sometimes be very misleading. Yet there are other ways of analyzing the importance of a page! SEOmoz has a toolbar that gives its own analysis of the importance of any web page by analyzing the number and quality of inbound links from different, unique domains. This can serve as a useful comparison with the Google toolbar. There are other factors, too.

When the infamous Google algorithm was originally created, it used the idea of a ‘wondering drunk’, suggesting that a web surfer starting from any given point has an 85% chance of continuing. The influence of each link of that page is 85% of the influence of the page divided by the number of links (so, if there are 100 links on the page, it’s 85% divided by 100).

Although the Google algorithm changes over time, there is a lot of sense in this and it is possible to see that the more links on a given page, the less value is passed along each link. In this way, a link from a page with a PageRank of 5 from a page with 10 outbound links will be 10 times as valuable as a link from a PageRank 5 page with 100 outbound links. This can cause a great difference in how you decide to invest your time as it might seem worthwhile to pay for links from directories or sites that have a high PageRank until you realize that many of these places have hundreds of outbound links that cause the influence of that page to leak away.

Taking the ‘wondering drunk’ theory further, this is an argument for getting more links into any articles that you post on other websites. If you manage to get one link into an article on a page with 9 other links, your link is worth 1/10 of the influence available on that page. If you get 2 links into that article, however, your links will get 1/5 of the value available.

Other factors that can affect the value of a link to your website are the relevance of the site that is linking to yours and the anchor text of your link. A link to your website that contains the anchor text ‘www.yoursite.com’ won’t help your ranking for the keyword ‘blue widget’ as much as a link that contains the anchor text ‘blue widget’.

Conclusion

Although link-building can take time and effort, and the results from link-building can take an even greater amount of time to show (it’s not as easy to get a sense of the cost and value of your links as it is to pull information out of Google Analytics) keeping track of the cost and value of each of your link-building efforts can help you to make better decisions about which link-building methods give your business the best long-term value.

Summary

COST PER LINK:

• What has it cost to get this link in terms of domain registration and hosting?
• What did it cost to research this particular link in terms of tools, subscriptions and staff time?
• Is this link still being indexed after any given period (six months, a year)?
• What are the costs of keeping the link indexed over time (juicers, pumpers, etc)?

VALUE PER LINK:

• What is the page rank of the domain you are getting a link from?
• How many other outbound links are on the page that links to your site?
• How many links are coming into the page and domain that you are getting links from?
• How long does the page that links to yours stay in the index?
• Does the anchor text of your link relate to your keyword?
• Is the domain linking to yours relevant to your website?

Extracted from StomperNet SEO Intelligence Report, August 26, 2011.

Auto Backlink Bomb is a killer at creating backlinks to your site, which translates to more incoming traffic. How? It is basically a forum profile link submitter. With it you can register into forums which run on MyBB, SMF, Elgg and Expression Engine as well as the PhPfox platform. It already comes with some links built in for you (about 1500 links in total), but with the software you also get a link finder for scraping links from the above forum types, as well as a good guide on using it and a HubPages comment poster.

Who has ever thought of forum backlinks? You may have heard of search engine backlinks, comment backlinks etc., and having diverse types of backlinks surely help. Once you create a standard profile with ABB, the software will place a short bio and include a keyword (anchor text) link back to your site. So the whole concept is an automated way of building another type of backlink to your sites.

For such an effective software, ABB:

* is only available for a one-time payment
* has lifetime updates
* creates thousands of profile backlinks all on autopilot!

Are you tired of spending hours building backlinks to your site with few to no results? Do you get annoyed when you see your pages down search engine rankings?

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Links are important. You know that. They are critical for getting your website traffic, and getting it ranked higher in search results.

Leslie Rohde has been THE king of linking for a long time. Much of what I learned about SEO came from Leslie years ago. He’s old school, but the thing is “old school” matures like vintage wine…and lots of people listen to his advice…the latest being here (first module is FREE).

He and Dan Theis (another old-school gangster) have just opened up a 12-week program, including some exclusive software. So as you learn the methods, you can immediately implement them in their custom-built software.

PLUS, the whole thing is flexible enough to give access to groups of outsourcers so they can do the “busy work” for you…

Here’s what you’ll get in the first module:

1. Why Links Matter. (And why they always will.)
2. Understanding Google PageRank. (Because almost NO ONE does.)
3. Why Linking Schemes Fail. (This video MIGHT Save Your Site.)
4. Users Are the Future. (And they’re the ONLY future, too.)
5. Don’t Think About the Link. (Sounds backwards, but it’s TRUE!)

That’s a LOT of content, right? Just follow the link to watch ALL FIVE video lessons!

Hundreds of people have already put their trust in Dan and Les and their Link Liberation program, and you can see EXACTLY what they are seeing, right now. You won’t spend a dime, and there are no strings attached.

I think that’s pretty cool of them, don’t you? But it won’t be available forever, so please act fast if you’re interested.

Obama, Bush who cares…I want TRAFFIC!

What if the government could send traffic or at least TONS of link juice to your websites?

They will, but you have to know where to look and what to ask. Here is a list of the “Authority Codes”.

Getting your links on super popular and respected .EDU and .GOV sites are usually seen as IMPOSSIBLE to get until now…

With the Authority Codes it’s easy and the codes are FREE so don’t wait a second. Do it now…

Just one of these powerful links could move your site on Google, Yahoo or Bing by as much as 100 positions OVERNIGHT!

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Much has been said about getting backlinks via SEO, reciprocal linkings or content and blog submissions, but what’s the formula for getting them through forums?

First, why use forums to get backlinks?

Consider your other options to get fast backlinks:

- Link farms (highly dangerous, in my opinion!)
- Paid link services (which could get you banned by Google)
- Commenting on blogs (usually moderated and not allowed)
- Article Distribution (good if you have time and money)
- Video Distribution (good if you are handy with a camera)
- and others…

Other options tend to be expensive, like getting a membership in a content distribution network for blogs, or cumbersome.

This leaves just one area that is relatively untouched: Forums.

With forums you can add a link to your site in your signature line.

The advantages of using forums are:

- no cost, usually
- ability to change your link any time
- is unlikely to be moderated off
- Google will continually index your backlink

The downside is:

- forum owners HATE comment spam, and if you attract their attention, then your account will be banned! There goes your backlinks too.

In my opinion, the GOOD outweighs the BAD far and wide, because ocne you learn how to avoid looking like a marketer, then you are an accepted person in their community.

Got it?

The BEST PART is that there are some high quality forums that are GOV and EDU domains, and this means that you can be highly rewarded by Google if you have backlinks from these sites.

Here’s a short report to help you get valuable backlinks the EASY way, so that you don’t get BANNED.