Later In This Post

I’ll Create Your Product For You – Suggest A Script Competition

How I Created A Product In 7 Days and built a list of over 150 people

But First:

How I Got 1000+ Backlinks To My Blog

I checked the total backlinks to my blog today and it had reached 1003.
In the process this boosted my ranking for “Alex Jeffreys” into the top 20 and it’s still going up.
4 weeks ago I was 104th and had 276 backlinks.


I am not doing anything complicated as this is to be research for a beginners SEO ebook.
Anchor text is also important – I have been commenting as ‘Keith Purkiss (Alex Jeffreys Student)’ so other students know who I am, but it does give me Alex Jeffreys in the anchor text and rank me much higher.

The majority of SEO is done via backlinks and anchor text. You can rank for terms that aren’t even on your page, although for competitive keywords you need to do work on the page title, tags, links etc.

Getting 1000+ backlinks isn’t as hard as it sounds, in fact it isn’t hard at all.

The majority of the domains linking to most people’s blog are made by commenting on other blogs, not from people directly linking to you.
Having said that if you do get a link eg in someone’s blogroll that means a link on every page of their blog so for a large blog that’s dozens or even hundreds which is why I said ‘domains linking’ not ‘links’.

Each comment doesn’t just get you one link – check my results. Your appear in recent comments, visitors and various other places depending how the blog is setup.
These links will vary over time.

I have 4 or five link exchanges with colleagues blogs, which as mentioned above results in 100s of links.
I have some from other students who use the widlink widget, and links from 4 or 5 forums that I belong to. Forum signatures can result in 100s of backlinks too depending on how many posts you make and how the forum is setup. Some forums are private and don’t count as search engine’s don’t have access to them.

I also have backlinks from my generator program and also from blogs that have it installed (more about that later in the post).

A lot of my backlinks don’t show up in the results yet so I do expect the total to keep growing.

Summary
1) Make useful comments on other people’s blogs.
2) Exchange Blogroll links with friends and colleagues
3) Link to your blog in Forums.
4) Be creative with other ideas – I used my backlinks script.

UPDATE
A week later and I now have 1533 backlinks without doing anything muc and am 12th for Alex Jeffreys.
A lot of links appear to ‘breed’ ie one blog comment becomes multiple links by being included in archives, searches etc. Also links take time to appear so the number can keep going up even if you do nothing.

To check your backlinks there are many different tools, but I am using Yahoo Site Explorer
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

How I Created A Product In 7 Days and built a list of over 150 people

I already mentioned my Backlinks Generator Script in a previous post, but to sum up it is a simple idea that took less than a week to create including setting up a mini-site.

I have now converted it to use the Butterfly Marketing Script to make it more viral.
Everyone who signs up becomes an affiliate and earns commission from promoting it
If people buy the upsell (which is a customised automatic version of the script)

The point I want to make is that a product does not have to be complicated or take a long time to create and it certainly does not have to be perfect.

I had to improve the instructions after release as people had a job to understand them, and also I changed to the Butterfly Script. This is not essential and I would not recommend it for anyone starting out. I want to use it in the future so decided to try it out now, and feel it was worth while for me.

I’ll Create Your Product For You – Suggest A Script Competition

I am thinking of running a competition where people suggest a script that I could write. The would be open competition is open to everyone.

It should be something fairly simple.
Eg Something that could be added to people blogs and help create traffic.

There should be a free and an upgraded brandable version (which will be given free to all Alex Jeffrey’s students and everyone who posts a comment on this post before 21st August), so that it can be used for a profit pulling platform.

I would like it to be something that benefits everyone.

I am looking for suggestions for the prize (or prizes).
A cash prize is an option, but I would like to do something that is more valuable than cash.

Of course the winner has the upgraded script and I will install it for them.
Also if applicable joint credits on the script and a built in link to their site.

If there’s a PDF instruction sheet, or a free report then the winner would be promoted in that too.

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