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Unlike most internet marketer’s I only build “Nofollow” backlinks. Against the grain isn’t it?

If you don’t know why then you’ve forgotten the reason that you’re building backlinks in the first place. Allow me to remind you. The reason you’re building backlinks is to rank on Google. Why would you want to do that? For high quality website traffic!

In fact who would care about backlinks if it didn’t bring in the visitors? The fact is that TRAFFIC is your bottom line. That’s all you should care about as a webmaster. Your website traffic is what’s going to be paying you. It’s not like Google pays out cash for being a good search result.

What can you do with this information? As of right now, nothing. However, I’m going to teach you exactly how you can build massive amounts of website traffic. By the end of this article you’ll learn how to go from zero to one million visitors!

1. You built a new website. Hopefully the domain name is optimized for goods words you’re targeting and you’re ready for business! You’re all excited and you’re ready to make some money! Until you realize that it’s not as easy as everyone says. Don’t worry 1-px is going to help you!

2. The first thing you need to do is write a link bait article. A link bait article is an interesting article that people just love to link too! What if you’re niche is boring? That’s never an excuse. You can write a link bait article in any niche. For example, one of the niches I target is “Computer Books.” Hard to write for don’t you think? An example of a link bait article would be “Top 5 Greatest Computer Books of all Time.”

Articles like that excite the reader. For some reason people just can’t get enough of them. Which is exactly why you’re going to have to write high quality articles that are link bait. After you’ve got it down then skip on to the next step.

3. When you create a new website your going to be stuck in the sandbox for awhile. Which means Google won’t refer any traffic to your website. That’s exactly why you would be reading this wouldn’t you? You’re not getting any website traffic and you’re worried. Don’t worry I’m going to teach you.

At this point you’re an distrusted source of information to Google. You have absolutely no credibility. Which is why we’re going to have to borrow some from an authority website. Authority websites are the ones that you always see in Google search results. They’re websites like eHow, About, and Wikipedia.

The problem with those websites is you won’t be able to write for them. Luckily, there are a few authority websites that we can write for: Ezinearticles, Hubpages, and Squidoo. For the rest of this article I’m going to recommend Hubpages.

4. Let’s use another example from one of the niches I target known as “Gift for Kids.” What I would do is go onto Amazon and head straight for the best selling lists. I want toys that people are actually buying. If they aren’t buying then how am I going to make any money?

After I’ve found a toy that people are buying it’s time to do some keyword research. I head over to the Google keyword tool to see if people are searching for the product that I’ve found. Typically if the global monthly searches are 2000-10000 that’s a green light.

What you need to do next is head over to the Google search engine then type your keywords in quotation marks. If the competition is less than 100,000 then you’ve just found a winner.

5. Now it’s time to write a Hub that will get on the first page of Google. When I write Hubs I make them extremely high quality. Which means 1000+ words, videos, and pictures. If you need any help writing a high quality article then check out our guide: How to write High Quality Content. Keep in mind that there is a format I use that makes me money and gets me website traffic. When writing the article you should follow this format.

Paragraph 1: This is the introductory paragraph typically 1-2 sentences. It should engage the audience by asking a question. For example, How you like a million dollars? Might keep a visitors attention.

Paragraph 2: This is where you introduce your affiliate link. When you’re dealing with Amazon your most important goal is starting the timer. You want people to click your link to start that 24 hour timer. The way you do that is by offering them an incentive for clicking. For example, tell your visitors that you’ve visited all the major eCommerce websites and found the cheapest price there. Don’t tell them where “there” is though. Finding out is there incentive to click.

The reason we use Amazon is because it’s the most dominate eCommerce website on the internet. Chances are that 99% of your website traffic trusts Amazon. They probably already have an account. Do you think people are going to make an account at your Ma and Pa website they don’t trust? I doubt it.

Paragraph 3: If they’re not interested in buying they can still be useful to you as website traffic. The majority of people who skip the first link are going to be one of the following: 1. A webmaster who knows about affiliate links or 2. Someone who’s not going to buy. All of those can be useful to you. The first visit can link to your articles. The second visitor can bring in revenue from your advertisers. This paragraph needs to introduce your link bait article. Let’s say that I’m targeting the niche I mentioned above and I’m reviewing a toy.

What I would mention in this article is: If you’re shopping for a kid this holiday season then check out some of our reccomendations. We review the hottest and most popular toys that your money can buy. Check out our list of the “Top 100 Toys of All Time.” Usually they’re sold and they click the link.

Parapraph 4: Review the Product

6. After you’ve finished you just added a high quality article to your portfolio. Keep in mind that you want all of the links in your article to be “nofollow.” We’ve already proven in the follow article "How to Rank a New Website" that Google punishes web pages for linking to new content. However, Google won’t punish you at all as long as your links are “nofollow.”

7. If you’ve written a good article then you should see it on the first page of Google over the course of the next three months. Keep in mind that using “nofollow” is like a sacrifice that we made. We chose to use “nofollow” to help the article rank in search.

Once that happens you’ll have an article making your money and bringing in website traffic. The real website traffic comes in when you have hundreds of these articles on the internet. Not only that you’ll also make a lot of money.

For the longest time I’ve been hearing guru’s talk about using a coffee filter page for ranking new websites. The entire time I just thought it was bologna. If you don’t know what a coffee filter is allow me to explain. It’s when you build a page that links to a new website. Then every article you publish after that links to your page that links to your new website. I didn’t think there was any difference in the scenarios in the picture to the right. I decided to bust out a few experiments to put coffee filters to the test.

Normally when I write an a high quality content ( 1000+ words, pictures, and videos ) they rank good in Google. In fact, the majority of high quality articles that I’ve written have PR2 without ever having to build a backlink. As an experiment I decided to write ten high quality articles for different niche’s. Each of these niche’s were long tail keywords that had very little competition. That way I could easily track rankings.

All of the high quality articles I wrote I linked to a new website that‘s sandboxed. The main article would be published on Squidoo. After I published the article on Squidoo I wrote another article for Ezine. That article wouldn’t have any pictures or videos. The article for Ezine was 800+ words and included a link back to the Squidoo article. To illustrate what I mean take a look at the picture.

In all ten of the experiments the EZINE article ranked higher than my Squidoo article. This mean’s that Google PUNISHES articles for linking to new websites. All of the high quality articles that I wrote were indexed. They were also assigned a PR0.

As an added experiment, I decided to write a third article that links to the Ezine article. This article helped the Ezine article rank higher. This is the normal scenario that you would expect from backlinks.

Notes: Google punishes webpages for linking to new content. Pages that link to pages that link to new content are not punished. Which mean’s coffee filter’s definitely work in theory.

The other day I was researching a niche using a system that I haven’t posted to this website. The system involves using Squidoo. Which means that if 100% URL is taken then I won’t be allowed to use it (Hopefully you know what I‘m talking about).

Usually if the URL is take I always check the page to see if I can “claim” the lens. It’s basically a system for allowing people to use lenses that aren’t being developed.

After looking at the page I was SHOCKED to find out how amateur some people can be. The worst part about this guy is that he featured a biography claiming he was an expert internet marketer. Let me explain to you what he did.

He wrote a WONDERFUL lens that had 2000+ words, included three videos, and ton’s of pictures. The content was amazing. After looking at a lens like that you could only assume he was on the first page of Google. After searching in Google I was shocked at what I found. He wasn’t on the first, second, third, or anywhere to be found.

Automatically I knew why he wasn’t anywhere to be found. I plugged the URL into my Firefox browser and flipped on “Nodofollow.” Not a single Clickbank link had the nofollow tag on it. Immediately I lost all respect for that guy and anyone who makes this mistake. Why?

Even though Google hasn’t stated publicly they penalize web pages for using affiliate links you still have another problem. How many times do you see a Clickbank sales page on the first page of Google? Almost never. Google practically hates them.

They have low quality content, it’s only one page, and theirs tons of duplicate content. Every time you create an affiliate link you’re basically linking to duplicate content. Here’s why when you create an affiliate link it links to website.com/?hop=affiliate. That has the same content as website.com/?hop=affiliate1, website.com/?hop=affiliate2, and website.com/?hop=affiliate3. You get the point.

Linking to bad neighborhoods is one of the reasons that Google penalizes web pages! We’ve just proven that you’re automatically linking to a bad neighborhood every time you link to a Clickbank sales page. It’s just the affiliate system Clickbank uses. On top of that you’re webpage is voting in favor of another page targeting the same keywords.

Notes: If you want to maximize your rankings always put a “Nofollow” attribute on your affiliate links.

I’m tired of all of these “copycat” information that goes around on the internet. The majority of people lack the authority to write original content. Which is why they just grab information from other internet marketers who copy other internet marketers.

In this article I wanted to take out some garbage about building backlinks. In almost every backlink building article you’ll find “post on forums.” I’ll discuss in detail why that’s the worst advice that you’ve ever been given.

The link graph as I understand it is a graph of all the links on the internet that count. I have a single rule when it comes to the link graph. If a webpage isn’t in Google’s index then it’s not in the link graph. Which mean’s it doesn’t count for your Seo right? Absolutely. Take a look at some facts I found out.

Digitalpoint Forums
Pages Indexed: 219,000
Total Pages: 701,930
Percent: 31.2%

The way that total pages was arrived it was by adding all of the posts on every forum. The post then were divided by twenty. I divided by twenty for a few reasons. The first reason is that looking at a “Cached” page of a post Google crawls the content with twenty posts on a page. Since twenty posts can only exist on a single page it would make sense that their could only by a maximum of 701,930 pages with 20 posts on them.

This number was extremely generous for a few reasons. The first reason is that it doesn’t count pages that show the threads like page 1,2,3, infinite. That’s assuming that Google index those pages.

These numbers basically mean that 31.2% of your backlinks on a forum would “count.” That’s assuming that your website is related to the topics on the forum. Keep in mind that you’re dividing the pagerank with nineteen other posts. Of course, that’s if everyone has a link in their signature. Some people even include two links.

Notes: If you want a maximum of 31.2% of your links to count and then have the pagerank of that page be divided amongst 20-40 other links post on forums for backlinks. (This doesn’t take into consideration any other reason’s people might post on forums)

I’m sure you’ve heard all the professionals talking about “High quality” articles, “High Quality” content, and “High Quality” backlinks. They never once explained what those things are. That’s mostly because they don’t know what their talking about.

Here’s the facts about high quality content from my own experience. When I first started as an internet marketer I would write “250” word articles to build backlinks to my website. I thought the more “250” word articles I had pointing at my website the higher I would rank.

The problem with this was that those “250” word articles would almost immediately be dropped from the link graph. Which mean’s they wouldn’t help my rankings at all. In fact Google didn’t even index any of those articles. I ended up wasting hours of my time writing those junky articles that wouldn’t even count.

Over time I discovered what high quality content is and I realized how much it could help my pocketbook. For example, the first time I put up the website 1-px.com it was given a pagerank of 1 within three months. That was the shortest time that I’ve ever spent in the sandbox. I did this through building high quality backlinks to my articles.

If you want to actually start ranking in Google and make money then you’re going to have to write high quality content. The truth is that there is only a few things that Google can use to determine if a article is high quality.

The few factors are the most obvious ones. The first test is the amount of backlinks to an article. If an article has a lot of backlinks then Google thinks it’s a high quality article. The second is the content of the article itself.

Googlebots are pretty much dumb and can only go off of a few things. For example, how many words are in your article. I write 1000+ word articles that are ALWAYS given a high pagerank without ever having to build a single backlink. The second thing I do is include at least 3 pictures in my articles. The third thing to do is link to your other articles. For example, one niche I write for is “Gift For Kids.”

What I would do is write a 400 word article on my website with at least one picture. I would then write a Len’s on the same subject of the article on my website. Let’s say I wrote an article on “Legos” I would write a high quality article on Squidoo about Legos. Then when I’m building links to my main page targeting the keywords “Gift For Kids.” I would write a high quality article that points to my main page. That article will also point to my Lego article and a few others.

The goal is to create a network of links. That way your building POWERFUL backlinks to your website. Believe me this system of backlink building works. Before you’ll notice it working it could take up to three months. That’s only because it takes a while for Google to rank a page.

Notes: High quality content has 1000+ words, pictures, and videos. The majority of the time high quality content ranks extremely good in Google. High quality content as has an easier time getting indexed and remaining in the link graph.

As an experiment I wanted to test a new system I decided to call Red Steel. What I did was set up a Hubpage account and wrote approximately 50 articles.

The goal was to see how much money I would make over an entire year with those articles. The only SEO that I did was some keyword research, 100% title, 100% H1, and text throughout the body.

I wrote each article with at least 500 words and I included at least one picture in each article. I didn’t build any backlinks to any of the articles.

Results: $200

I made approximately $200 in an entire year from 50 articles. Imagine if I decided to write 1000 articles. Of course, I’m almost certain that those results could have been improved if I built backlinks.

Surprisingly I managed to get a few articles on the front page for keywords being searched 1000 times a month. Here’s the system that I used with details.

1. I chose an authority website like Hubpages to create some web 2.0 property. The idea was that authority websites are given priority for first page placement. Authority websites are the ones that you see all the time on the first page. They’re websites like Wikipedia, Ehow, and About.Which is exactly why I decided to choose an authority website to write my articles for. Authority websites that you can write for are Hubpages, Squidoo, and Ezinearticles.

2. I went to the Amazon website to find products that we’re actually selling. This step was extremely important if you want to make money. Sometimes I see people choose products that just aren’t selling. Luckily Amazon compiles a bunch of data on the best selling products.

After finding a product I checked to see if I could create that page 100% Url in Hubpages. If I couldn’t then I would just choose another product from the best selling list.

If I could then I would check with the Google keyword tool. I would check to see how many Global monthly searches the product had. If it had 2000+ then I would write an article about that product.

3. I wrote an article with 100% keyword title, 100% keyword h1, at least one picture, and keywords throughout the entire body. I would include a affiliate link with the nofollow attribute in this first paragraph. Usually I would tell them that they could find additional reviews if they clicked the link.

The idea was to just get the timer started on people. If people we’re looking for products to buy then I had a good chance that they would buy within twenty-four hours on Amazon.

That’s pretty much everything about this system. It’s what I would consider a lazy man system. Results with it could be improved by writing longer articles and building backlinks.

I’m not talking about cheap duplicate content on article directories. I’m talking about 1000+ word articles that are not indexed by Google. Sound good?

All you have to do is find ebooks with the appropriate rights that are not indexed by Google. Keep in mind that Google does crawl .PDF files. Which is why you have to find a squeeze page or a membership website. Membership websites offering free ebooks isn’t hard to find.

You have to find membership websites that require login because Google won’t be able to index the pages only available to members. Squeeze pages are a similar scenario.

Keep in mind that you will have some competition. I’ve looked for ebooks before finding people already published them on their websites. If you can find a website very low in ranks that doesn’t get any traffic you’ve got a gold mine.

Set up a blog on Blogger then publish those articles with backlinks to your website. You’ll see your website raise in ranks in no time.