If you have been marketing online for any length of time, then you are probably well aware that performing the seo jobs necessary to gain better search engine rankings completely by hand is very time consuming, mind numbing, and tedious work. Link building is among one of the most undesired activities to be doing when building your online business.

Today though, there are a few services out there that can really help you out. Most of these are either automated or semi-automated. Over the years that I’ve been working online, I have tried a fair chunk of them, and thankfully, the solutions that we have today are far superior than many of the one’s I have tried in the past. Personally, now I’ve settled into a couple of places that I’m very happy with that will continue to perform these types of tasks for me for many years to come.

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Well, just recently the big boys at Google were at it once again. Unfortunately, they slapped and permanently suspended thousands of Google Adwords accounts..yet again. For affiliate marketers who rely of Adwords, many are once again devastated, and also…telling Google to “stick it up their (you know what)” and are turning to PPV to increase web traffic. Hey, and why not? For keywords that Adwords advertisers were paying around $2.00 per click, with PPV you can pay around $0.02. Yes, that is 2 cents!

Thankfully, my Adwords account is fine, and I wasn’t slapped, but, you can bet I’m looking into alternative methods for driving traffic all of the time. After all, traffic and conversion is the name of this game. Without it, affiliate marketers and online business owners do not have a business. It needs to be made the MOST IMPORTANT factor. Well, perhaps it depends on the way conversion is attained..again..against the hype thing. Didn’t I just make a post on that?

Moreover, unlike the money hungry Google, with PPV, you don’t have to worry about quality score, ads, or all of the rest of the BS that Google makes you go through just to so you don’t get slapped. Of course these factors are also necessary to keep your CPC down as well. Yes, there is competition, but far far less, than with Google Adwords.
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