Search Engine Optimization Secrets: How to Backlink Your Site Effectively on HubPages!!

Hi! I am fairly new to affiliate marketing but I know my place here and know I can start earning extra money online here and there on this competitive web. I'll start by giving you a little background about me. I learned about affiliate marketing a couple of weeks ago, but I have dove right into everything there is to know about it. I am one of those people that is easily inspired, and once I get into something I want to rise to the top immediately. I realized quick that when it comes to affiliate marketing and search engine optimization the competition is fierce and it takes a lot of dedication, hard work, and most of all time. Fortunately I have a good amount of that. I have already set up a site about earning internet money which is actually about affiliate marketing, and since you're on this page I'm guessing you have too, but if you haven't that's ok, you can still learn some things. Here are what I believe should be the steps, in order to achieve a site that is on its way to being successfully optimized for Google.

Step 1: Submit your URL to Google. If you are like me and you have just made your site, it probably isn't indexed yet. If this is the case you need to go to Google.com/AddURL, and add your site. Once your site is submitted you are probably going to end up waiting a while unless you go to step 2.

Step 2: Now a couple of months ago you might have been able to waddle your way over to Digg.com or Mixx.com, but these websites have recently implemented new policies that make the submitted links "nofollow". Nofollow is HTML code telling Google and other search engines with webcrawlers to ignore the link posted on popular sites like this. Unfortunately a link that would once have been able to get your site indexed fairly fast is now not even crawled by Google's crawler bot. See, the idea is that popular sites, like Digg, HubPages, and tons of others are crawled very often. Since they are crawled often if you had a link on one of the pages contained in one of the sites, Google would see the link and end up on your site, and have it indexed. But unfortunately with this new policy of "nofollow" this makes this that much tougher. Now that gives you another mission. The search for "dofollow" sites, or sites that have links that are actually recognized by Google's crawler bot becomes necessary. These sites can be hard to find and are getting fewer and far between but I have found one that may help you out.

Step 3: HubPages CAN be a dofollow site but it has an asterisk. In order for it to be dofollow for you you need a hub score of 75 or over. There are many other hubs that are dedicated to telling you how you can do this so I won't get into it.

Step 4: Write, write write! Write lots and lots of articles pertaining to the information on your site. There are many article directories but one that I know that is dofollow (for now) is Ezine Articles. You can write and submit articles to them and link your site in the body of the article. But be careful, there are limitations. Make sure your links (I think you can have up to two) are in the bottom half of the article. Also make sure you don't make your title in all caps or something douche-baggy like that (yes I made that mistake). And of course make sure what you submit is all original, and belongs to you. I have read that they do not accept PLR articles either so be careful with that.

Ok, this should basically be your starting plan when it comes to off page search engine optimization strategies. I hope this helps. Remember Follow or be FLOGGED. Just kidding, but seriously. And feel free to leave a comment on how you are doing in your affiliate marketing endeavor. Thanks. Once again my site is Earn Money Through the Internet.