Recently, I set up a new affiliate website and added it to my Traffic-Bug account as usual to start generating backlinks. Then I realised it was coming up to Christmas so I wanted to grab some quality, relevant backlinks as quickly as possible. The method I always use to accomplish this is by blog commenting.

My only advice here is to keep your comments relevant and whenever possible, informative and not just “great post” “thanks” etc. If you add value then the blog owner will approve your comment and give you a backlink. But that is just a single backlink, if you can discover a relevant blog that’s maybe not too popular (i.e. it doesn’t receive tens of comments a day) and it utilises a widget that shows the last 5 or, even better, 10 comments in a sidebar widget then you will get multiple backlinks from that one blog as your comment/link will appear in the sidebar of every page on that particular blog! As those pages get indexed by the search engines, so does your link. Read the rest of this entry

After that shameless plug from Alan about Traffic Bug, I thought I’d just add my 2 cents worth. Like Alan, according to the Traffic Bug panel, I have saved 4882 minutes by using the software. Freeing up time to research and build more niche sites, write for this blog and take time out with my family and friends.  Between us, we have saved a mind numbing, 10502 minutes. Which equates to 175 hours, or 7x 24 hour days of grunt work, which definitely helps us to work SMARTER!.

Once you have had your sites in Traffic Bug for a few months, you will notice that the status of some of them will change to “Idle” which means they have been submitted to all the currently available social bookmarking sites and directories that Traffic Bug use. Now if you think that is the end, think again, a huge seo benefit of backlinks is having them to deeper locations in your site and not just the homepage. Read the rest of this entry