Steps to start Affiliate Marketing - Getting Backlinks From Blog Commenting

To start making money with affiliate marketing, you should be using funnels to build your opt-in lists and affiliate marketing sites to increase your chances of attracting as numerous focused prospects as possible. And to maximize your affiliate marketing leads, you may use every possible form of search engine optimization (SEO) on both your weblogs and your squeeze web pages that lead into your affiliate funnels.


These days, quality backlinks from related sites are a major part of off-page SEO, plus they can go a long way towards enhancing your affiliate marketer marketing results by assisting your affiliate weblogs and squeeze 30 niche related blog comment pages rank higher on the search motor results pages (SERPs). As the search engines see it, if related sites in your same niche feel you're worth linking to then there should be some good content on your site, content the engines should be showing on the Search results.

Commenting on other people's weblogs can be a powerful source of quality backlinks if you really know what to watch for. The first step is to find the top 20 or 35 weblogs in your specialized niche. That's not hard to do - just get into your main search phrase implemented by 'blog' in your chosen search engine. Check through the results and find websites that fit your website's topic and appear to be updated regularly.

Following, look for posts that already have comments and use 'View > Page Source' from the top menus to see the coding for the page. Scroll through til you find the, and look for the website link to a commenter's site. By default, WordPress sites add a piece of code to these hyperlinks that says: rel='external nofollow'. This tells the research engines it's an outside link and not to have their spider follow that link. Why WP would be that malicious to commenters is over and above me, and obviously to a number of others as well since there are dozens of plugins available to remove that 'nofollow' attribute.

So from your set of the top weblogs in your niche, immediately disregard any blog still using the 'nofollow' label - just cross them right off your list entirely. Smart affiliates may waste their time with partial results - you want both the possible traffic clicking on your link AND the research engine boost, so only bother with those websites that provide you with both.

Now that you’ve got a set of weblogs that pinpoint your niche and use one of the do-follow plugins, start visiting them and leaving comments regularly. Understand that your goal is both to get traffic from that blog's audience and get another one way link. As such, you have to leave intelligent, relevant comments. Good sites have comment moderation, meaning your comment won't show until it's been approved, and fluff or spam will not be approved so don't waste your time and the time of the blog owner.

The more often you comment on a blog the greater your exposure to their readership, and the greater the probability of them clicking through to check out your weblogs and squeeze pages. Don't use links in your feedback - blogging software will link your username to your URL automatically. Pay out particular attention to weblogs whose comments also connect to your latest blog post and/or your Twitter bank account, as these are bonus values for you.

If the site shows it's using the CommentLuv plugin, likely to see a link with each commenter's last blog post under their comment, using their post's title as the anchor text. Once you isolate the sites by using this plugin, make sure to use your keywords in your blog post before heading over to leave your comments - this ensures your keywords will be part of the point text linking back to your own blog, another SEO benefit from your blog commenting activities.