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.

Although, you could go about your seo jobs completely free, and there are many products out there that tell you that you can you get all the traffic you want without spending money, I’m going to tell you the reality of this. Yes, it is true, but, be prepared for a LOT of hours of extra work. If there is one bubble that gets burst quite often with new marketers, it’s when they realize just how much work it actually takes to achieve some of the tasks required to be successful online. It’s for this reason, that so many hopeful marketers end up quitting before they’ve really given themselves a chance to succeed.

Brad Callen’s affiliate manager got in touch with me a few weeks ago, and he asked me if I’d like to be a beta tester of Brad’s newest service called SEOLinkVine. I figured, sure, it certainly can’t hurt and I could use it in conjunction with all of the many tools and services that I already use in The IM Advantage.

SEOLinkvine is responsible for getting Brad top search engine rankings for a HIGHLY competitive search term in the EXTREMELY competitive weight loss niche. Brad was able to accomplish this in only a couple of months, and the traffic he is now getting because of that feat being accomplished, is well let’s just say….INSANE!

In the past, I tried a similar service to this called Article Automation from Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay. While I did think it was ok, I will say that with SEOLinkvine I find the setup far easier, and the service and stats we are presented with far superior. I really think Brad has a winner with this one, and I do feel it’s going to be one of the top semi-automated services out there.

SEOLinkvine is basically a HUGE blog network in place, and then, when every new member joins the system many of these clients also add their own blogs to the network as well. This results in the network continuously growing all the time. The result of this, is that for whatever seo term you are trying to rank for, you will be continuously building backlinks to your money pages for that term. This all happens on auto-pilot once you have entered your article into the network, which contains your “anchor text” links in the article itself.

Next, once your article is submitted into the network, it goes out to all of the members who have blogs entered into the system that want free content for their sites. All of these blogs are categorized to make sure you are getting relevant links back to your site.

The result and benefits of this is that you will have links continuously being built, all coming from different IP addresses all across the internet. Which of course, is completely White Hat, and also what Google LOVES to see. In the short time I’ve been testing it out for myself I’m already seeing rankings for some of my targeted terms climb quite rapidly. In fact, I’m already planning on including SEOLinkvine for an upcoming product idea I have been mulling over about “Doing Things Right The First Time”, as part of the proper course of action.

All in all, I’m glad I was contacted by Brad’s affiliate manager, and was able to take part in the beta testing. This in going to be an excellent service for people who really want to get a leg up on their seo jobs.

SEOLinkVine becomes available to the public on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. I know you’ll find it helpful for your seo jobs as well.

The greatest in all you do,
Make Success Yours

Davin

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.

One of the beautiful things that I’m discovering with PPV traffic is that this traffic source doesn’t require any type of ad to be clicked on for the PPV networks to be making their money. Actually, they make more of their money simply just by directing traffic to your pages and offers. Unlike Google, who rely on a click for them to be paid, the PPV networks do not at all. One more cool thing about PPV is that it’s almost like the return of the Google Cash days. You can use direct linking to any site you want. This can be a direct link to an affiliate offer, CPA offer etc. They don’t care if you have pages upon pages of relevant content on your web sites for increasing value to the searcher, or clicker, for improving quality score or any the rest of it.

But, it isn’t without it’s downfalls to increase web traffic. That is what this article is all about, which we will get to in a minute. The information contained in this article will save you literally hundreds of hours of your time, and also hundreds of dollars of your hard earned money.

With the recent slaps at Google, and also, with the release of courses like George Brown’s Traffic Ultimatum, and also Rapid Mass Traffic, PPV is beginning to get a lot of interest out there. It caught my attention as well with both of these courses. Like you, I’m no dummy! If I can be paying TONS less for traffic than what Google is costing people, it’s not a wonder why all of us wouldn’t be interested. These courses are both very eye opening, and I’m very glad I acquired them myself.

That said, here is the real dilemma and problem I’ve found with creating campaigns that will be successful using PPV.

The Problem – Creating Keyword And URL Lists To Increase Web Traffic With PPV Is A Real Headache….

With PPV campaigns you are not only bidding on keywords, but, you are also bidding on competitors and closely related url’s for your traffic.

You can find all of these url’s manually using Google, MSN, Yahoo, and also sites like Quantcast. But, it’s very time consuming. You also want to be drilling down even further. In Quantcast they also have a section called “Audience Also Likes” and also an affinity number attached to it. To really get as much traffic as you can, and to also kick your competitors to the curb, we want to be drilling down, and finding as many url’s that are related as possible.

The more url’s and keyword combinations you are bidding on, the far less competition you have, which also, translates into paying far less for your traffic. Knowing, and doing this alone, is enough to have most of your competition scratching their heads as to why you are getting far more traffic than them. The thing is, there are some special little tricks that you need to know, that most competitors do not.

For instance…

When you are bidding on keywords PPV sites will rely on certain modifiers which can give you far more traffic. Things such as *,+,-,_,&,%20,/, and =. Also, modifiers in domains maybe .,/,* as well. I realize that probably looks pretty confusing. But, the reality is that certain search engines and networks use these modifiers in the “search keyword” strings. So if you have, and are using these exact modifiers in your keywords and url structures, you will be literally stealing a lot traffic from your competitors since most of them are not using them, or, they simply do not know the importance of it.

Also, just as in some fully scaled out PPC campaigns, you also want to be using misspellings of keywords, demographic data before or after certain keyword phrases etc. There is more to it than that, but, this is merely a blog article, and to do a full scale explanation would be like writing a mini book!

While I had some exceptional keyword tools already in my arsenal of tools, I found that to really scale out PPV campaigns more effectively, I still wanted and required something more that would save me a LOT of time. For without a tool such as this, it would literally take hundreds of hours of work to do some of this work required.

Thankfully, I found two such tools that are EXCELLENT for helping in this regard. One of them is very low cost, and one, is completely free.

The first tool, I found quite by accident really. That said, I’m very happy I found it indeed. Have you ever heard of Speed PPC? If you know anything about Adwords, I’m sure you have.

You see, I wasn’t actually looking for an Adwords tool. I was looking for some great keyword tools, but, with what I found, I literally saved myself hundreds of dollars on not only Keyword tools, but, I also got a tool that functions just like Speed PPC for a fraction of the cost.

Essentially, it’s 11 tools in one. It has 10 built in keyword manipulator tools built right inside of it, plus, another tool that works exactly like Speed PPC.

Speed PPC is for creating hundreds or thousands of PPC adds all at the same time. In PPC, to be the most effective, you want to be targetting “one keyword”, “per adgroup”, and each of them targetting exact, phrase, and broad match individually. No small task! But, for getting the most bang for your buck in PPC campaigns it’s absolutely essential.

It’s for this reason that Speed PPC was originally developed. The problem with Speed PPC though, is that it’s very expensive for most people to attain. See here…Speed PPC. But, please don’t buy it…it’s merely for demonstration purposes.

As you can see, it’s not cheap, and that’s without all of the keyword tools built in.

The tool I found to increase web traffic and use for building PPV keyword lists is called PPCKeywordToolz. It contains the 10 keyword tools, plus the tool that does exactly what Speed PPC does.

This personally saved me hundreds of dollars…pretty nice. PPC Keyword Toolz

The second tool for pulling out all the stops for building large PPV list is completely FREE. This is another extremely helpful tool that will save you many hours in scoping out different url’s to be targeting in your PPV keyword campaigns. It was built by Matt Harward, and he had it built for this exact reason. He is a PPV marketer himself, and he needed a solution to all of the tedious hours he’d been spending rounding out his campaigns to make them much more effective.

It’s called Laser URL. There seems to be a bit of a glitch with the top of Matt’s blog, but, if you scroll down, you will find the download, and also the training videos on the page as well.

Well, thankfully, this was a case where some research to increase web traffic and find the proper tools really paid off. I started my investigation yesterday morning, and a few hours later..I’d found some excellent tools which will save hundreds of hours of time, and also…a LOT of money!

I hope you found this helpful for yourself as well….

Take care of yourself, and all the best!

Davin