Many affiliate marketers may hate me after this but you know what? I am tiered of the dishonest affiliates giving us honest affiliate marketers a bad name.

The truth about affiliate marketing reviews is that most of them are made to simply take your money. If you have ever searched for a review on anything at all chances are it was an affiliate marketing review. That review was designed to get you to buy that product regardless of it being good or bad.

Obviously I myself make a living off affiliate marketing and writing affiliate marketing reviews on several different products. But their is a right and wrong way to write reviews. Most affiliate choose to completely lie and make a product sound good when in reality its crap. On top of that sometimes affiliate marketing reviews are created with no personal use of the product being reviewed!.

Its reviews like that that give honest affiliates like myself a bad name. Let me give you an example. Maybe you have heard of the product called “The Work At Home Millionaire”. This product is in my opinion 100% CRAP. I wrote a review and stated my opinion and you know what? My review is on the 1st page for this highly competitive product name. When someone reads my review they see the product is crap and they don’t click on my link and of course I don’t receive a commission. Most affiliate marketers would have changed the review and said that the product was amazing so people would buy through the link and they could earn their commission.

I refuse to write an affiliate marketing review like that I rather be honest and send you to a product that is much better. Why should my commission come from a crappy product instead of from a great product? Honestly I think those type of affiliate marketers are pretty damn stupid. They are losing credibility and scamming someone out of their money for no reason at all.

I warn you. Don’t trust all of the reviews you read and I don’t only mean in the “Make Money” niche because affiliate marketing reviews are everywhere and are often very dishonest.

If you want to read an honest affiliate marketing review look for any review on this site. I have trashed a number of products and when I say something is good it truly is. I hope to develop a reputation as an honest affiliate marketer and refuse to be like the rest of the scammers out there.

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EzineArticles.com already has a high PR of 6 or 7 and if you manage to get more links pointing to your articles, they will be ranked quicker and higher. Basic SEO knowledge.

Here’s how you do it:

Go to your expert author page where all your articles are listed. The URL will look like this:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Author_Name

Right next to the header that says your name and your author status, you will find an RSS icon. All you do is copy the url the icon points to.

Now, you can use the RSS url and submit it to the large number of free RSS directories and you can have 100’s of links pointing to your articles in no time.

This trick works with other directories like Goarticles and even Squidoo so you don’t have to limit yourself to only Ezinearticles.

To get you started here’s a list of some RSS feeds:
55 Active RSS Directories to Help Promote Your Feeds!

Great thing about it is that every new article you create from now on will already have a large amounts of links pointing to it. This way your articles will get picked up very quickly and rank high in Google.

Hopefully this trick proves to be helpful to you in your bum marketing efforts.

Technorati Tags: article links, article marketing, backlinks, building backlinks

There has been a whole lot of hype surrounding this new search engine ranking loophole so I decided to add my own review. The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole claims to allow you to conquer number one rankings in MSN regardless of the competition. I went ahead and bought it myself because of the respect I have for the makers Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly. The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole does work but it isn’t as easy as you may have been led to believe.

Read the full Ultimate Search Engine Loophole Review here

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I just learned about A real cool way to find thousands of dofollow blogs using Google Image Search.

A lot of “dofollow” blogs use a plugin that shows up along with an image badge on their blog.
The default alt tag text for this image is “U Comment I Follow”.
With that said you can simply go to Google Images and search for “U Comment I Follow”,
thousands of results will come back. Most of these results come from blogs that use the
plugin which allows live links to be published in their comments.
You can add keywords to your search to find blogs related to your niche if you type in “u comment” + “marketing” or anything else. This can help you get some extra traffic although it will not effect SEO at all.

You can also search for the image file names themselves.
File names to search:
• ifollowblue.gif,
• ifollowgreen.gif,
• ifollowpink.gif,
• ifollowpurple.gif,
• ifollowltgreen.gif,
• ifolloworange.gif,

This is an extremely powerful secret for anyone who decides to use it wisely. Make sure you don’t spam your comments because that will force the blogger to remove Do follow links and will remove the value of your link. Try asking a question or posting something that contributes to the blog. Also on your name try using a playful variation of your name and your keyword for example “Firstname “affiliate marketing guru” Lastname” this will increase the chances of getting your comments approved and will appear less spammy.

Technorati Tags: Dofollow blogs, link building

Justin has put a lot of hard work into this site but because of his other plans he has now handed all of his hard work down to me.

My name is Ivan and I am young semi successful internet marketer who lives in Miramar Florida. I have been making money online for quite some time now and I love what I do. I don’t know of any other job with as much flexibility as internet marketing. I work when I want and how I want and I answer to know one. I am very passionate about trying to help other people achieve the same freedom and money working online can give you.

I have a goal of reaching a six figure income by the year 2010. I will be using a lot of different programs and strategies on my way to a six figure income and through my trials and errors you will learn what works and what doesn’t.

I hope to gain the trust of all visitors to my site by being brutally honest in every review and by providing helpful info whenever possible.

I will be making a lot of improvements to this site including design, interaction, navigation, etc. Since I am focusing on improving the site please let me know what you would like to see on the site and what you dislike about the site as it is now.

Please sign up to the left to stay updated with this blog and all the future updates. I strongly suggest you sign up with my mailing list since I will be giving away a lot of valuble info and bonuses in the future.

Feel free to ask me any questions you may have using the contact link at the bottom of the page.

-Ivan

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Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to get that Pagerank 5 website to provide a link back to your new website? Not only could it drive quality traffic to your site, but it would also provide a great backlink for the search engines to find. Unfortunately, unless your website is truly groundbreaking, it is unlikely that a big website will be eager to just give you a link on their main page. Their webspace is too valuable to be giving free links that provide little return benefit for them.

Given this all to common dilemma, a market has been created for the buying and selling of text links. There are many different places online that will allow you to buy links on high-quality websites and they all usually work a little differently. The most common way for these link marketplaces to work is that you pay a set amount and receive a link for a certain period of time, like $5 for a month or something similar. As you would expect, the higher the Pagerank of the website and the higher the traffic, the more expensive the link will be.

I realize that at first glance, this tactic seems to be very appealing for a startup website owner. Buying a prominent link could really put your site on the map! Before you run off and start buying links, however, realize that this method of linkbuilding is considered by many to be in the realm of the “black hat” SEO tactics. Matt Cutt’s of Google has been very clear in his opinion on link buying….he doesn’t like it. Neither does Google apparently. If Google is able to tell that a website is selling links, it will sometimes penalize that website and anyone who has bought links there also. I’m not telling you this to scare you away from this tactic, but it is something that you need to consider and be aware of when buying web links.

Now that I’ve gotten my little disclaimer out of the way, let me say that I do not believe buying links to be a bad thing in most cases. People buy and sell advertising every day, and link buying can be looked at as form of advertising. There are some webmasters that do sell links that are clearly not providing any benefit for their readers, but the majority are shown just as advertisements would be. The major difference is that advertisements generally include a “nofollow” link attribute and do not pass Pagerank to your website.

If you do believe that buying text or other links would be beneficial to your website, here are a few guidelines for you to keep in mind when shopping for links.

Domain Age: Generally speaking, the older a domain is, the more favorably the search engines will view it. When considering websites, use a tool such as archive.org to see how long the website has been in existence. Try to get links from the websites that have been active for the longest period of time.

Relavance of Website: Make sure that the website providing the link is relevant to the page you are linking to. A link from a completely unrelated website will not do much good in terms of your search engine rankings and Pagerank.

Placement: If you are purchasing a link that will be on only one page of a website, make sure that page has the Pagerank and other attributes that you are paying for. If the main page of a website is PR 5, but your link is on a PR 0 page, you won’t get much benefit.

Number of Backlinks: It is also helpful to research the number of backlinks that the website has from other sites. This will be shown to some extent in the Pagerank of the website, but PR is not updated all that often and can be inaccurate. A website with more backlinks pointing to it is a better candidate for purchase than one with fewer backlinks.

There are others things to consider as well, but they are more obvious. I certainly hope that you consider the Pagerank and quality of any website that you are buying a link from. Also be sure that the links are not “nofollow” links, as these will provide your website with very little benefit. It is rare that you will receive much traffic from users clicking on the link itself. Most of the benefit you are buying relates to SEO and improving the Pagerank of your website.

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If you want to see where your blog ranks in terms of power and following, here are a couple of websites that you might find interesting:

1. SeoMOZ Trifecta- Trifecta comes up with your blog’s score by estimating several factors including:

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Have you ever gone to a website and wondered how in the world it got that Google Pagerank of 4 that your Google Toolbar is showing? Well, chances are, it didn’t. Rogue webmasters have found ways to fake a website’s Pagerank and fool the toolbar. This trick is especially common with scam artists that sell websites by making the buyer think that it has a higher PR than it really does.

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Technorati Tags: 301 redirects, fake pagerank, pagerank, pagerank checker

One thing that I read a lot of people asking about is how to increase the rate at which Google will crawl your website. The higher that your Google crawl rate, the more important Google thinks your website is. That said, all you have to do to increase the crawl rate is to increase the importance of your website, right? Well, yes, but here are a few more actions that you can take to try and get your site crawled more often.

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Ann Smarty over at SearchEngineJournal.com has posted another great article that covers the ins and outs of the most popular blog search engines. She does a really impressive job of detailing each website and giving you all the information you need to help you decide where to focus your blog searches. You can read Ann’s blog search engine reviews here

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