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How to get 1
Million Hits Without the Search Engines
by Jack Humphrey
http://power-linking-profits.com
I love to show people how they can actually get up to 1 million hits
per month
using reciprocal links. People are doing it right now all over the web
and have
the live server log files to prove it. And you probably are thinking,
“Yeah
they are on top of the search engine lists! Actually, top listing on
the search
engines is not the cause of their hits! It’s a side-effect.
Reciprocal links alone put them in the Million-a-Month Club. Reciprocal
links,
good ones, can do much more for you than any search engine ever will.
Wow Jack, that’s a bold statement, got anything to back that
up?
How about the server logs of people getting over a million hits per
month who
did nothing more than seek out link partners and ONLY submitted to each
major
search engine ONCE? Would that convince you?
Well check it out. Here are two sites that use reciprocal linking
almost
exclusively with all other forms of advertising bringing in a
relatively
negligible amount of traffic. When looking at their live server log
files, pay
attention to the following things:
1.) Qualified traffic from reciprocal links.
Look at the Refers Report and check the section labeled '/'. Underneath
you
will find which links and search engines are sending these websites
traffic.)
Search engine traffic to the sites’ Link Directory pages.
In the Refers Report, find the headings that start with /links/, with
the name
of the Link Directory pages directory after. Search engines send lots
of
traffic to these pages. These pages were never submitted to the search
engines!
Example 1: CTEX CD Replication holds the
number one keyword placement on
Yahoo for "CD replication." How did they get there? Link popularity!
Check out their live server log files at:
http://www.ctexinc.com/stats/index.html
Example 2: Toolady.com is a website that
has been using reciprocal links
for a long time and her web site traffic was generated completely
reciprocal
links! In four months it became one of the most heavily trafficked bird
web
sites on the internet. No other form of marketing was done. Check out
her
server log files here:
http://toolady.com/reports/log_bird.html
So you tell me, are search engines the almighty savior you thought they
were a
minute ago?
Relevance of Your Links
Relevance has a lot to do with how a search engine robot will treat you
nowadays. That's why I always talk about the importance of building a
link list
or "theme index" for your site (call it a reciprocal link exchange)
that closely resembles the topics or products you deal with in your
site. (But
not those, of course, in direct competition to you.)
Now the FFA and Link Farm people are going to be mad at me, but this is
the
truth!
Here's a test. If I fail it you may publicly scorn me!
Go to any FFA page on the web and look for Yahoo.com. Try Amazon.com,
or
CocaCola.com... There must be TONS of their links on FFA pages -
EVERYBODY
knows those guys! Go ahead and check it out, I'll be here when you get
back!
Glad you're back - how many links did you find? None? Yikes!
Now go to Altavista.com and type link:yahoo.com in the search window.
What
happened? Well, I just did it and it said: We found 6,670,578 results.
(By the
way, don't you love how the search engine will report millions of links
just
like it reports none? Doesn't it seem like they would be like "WOW, six
million links!!!")
That's 6,670,578 links pointing to Yahoo.com!!
And not a single one from a link farm. Now don't go getting ideas in
your head
about getting 6 million links. You don't need that many to flood your
site with
enough traffic to keep you selling widgets, or informing the public on
the
effects on the ozone layer from methane gas produced by cattle. (What?
hey its
late, that was the best example I could come up with! How do I know
what you’re
into?)
No, you need far fewer links than that to get 1,000,000 hits a month.
And, with
a million hits a month, how many methane gas-to-oxygen converters do
you think
you could sell to farmers to mount on the backs of their cows to
protect the
ozone layer? I'd say at least a whole heap!
There is automation software out there that people are using to
drastically
optimize their link lists and I highly recommend checking them out. The
best
and first of its kind can be found at webmastertraffictools.com.
This software has a fully functioning demo that will spider the web,
set up
your link directory, AND upload it to your server. It also does a
mail-merge
function to personalize all your link requests to other webmasters and
mails
for you. All in the DEMO version!
You CAN do all this manually, but it is highly recommended that you at
least
check out the automation software demo above to see what the best of
the best
webmasters are using to get those million hits per month.
(Author’s note: It has not yet been proven whether methane
produced by cow
emissions affects the ozone layer. Example above is fictional.)
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Jack Humphrey is the Author of "Power linking 2: Evolution"
which hit the net this week to rave reviews. Grab your copy
before your competition does at http://power-linking-profits.com
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