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Well this is a problem isn’t it, for publishers in India, first there is no direct deposit option from adsense, neither it is having the option to send the money to paypal. Only option remains the check which takes aweful lot of time to reach. On top of that now these checks are taking almost a month to get clear, for me atleast.

So, to get one month earnings, you have to wait almost 2 months before it actually lands in your account.

Considering the no. of adsense publishers in India, its high time Google introduced the direct deposit, so that this turn around time decreases to a great extent.

Time and again you will come across some asking about dofollow or nofollow links terminologies. When I came into this website making business, I was on the same boat, wondering what these things meant and how they help a website. So I thought of preparing a q&a to help now that I know some things about links. As this is all personal experience, do correct me if I go wrong somewhere.

What are Backlinks

Backlinks basically tells you about how many websites are linking to your website from theirs. Like if you have website A and someone from website B puts a link on his/her website/blog pointing to your website it is counted as a backlink.

How Do Backlinks Help A Website Or A Blog

This topic is little subjective and different people have different opinions about it. On the whole, if your website has more backlinks, more will be the chances of it fairing better in search engine rankings. But there is one very important thing to note here, the backlinks coming to your website should be mostly from similar niche website, only then they give out their full potential and help your website. So, if you have a mobile related website and you have a link coming from a sports website, it doesn’t add much value to your backlink power(or SEO score) but if you have a link coming from a tech/mobile website, it automatically increases your website credibility.

How Does Google Page Rank(PR) Relates To Backlinks

Google as we know gives out page ranks to websites based on their algorithm, it ranges from 0-10. More the PR rank, better the chances for your website appearing on top pages in search engines(basically Google Search Engine). So, when you have a backlink coming from a PR 5 website, it automatically increases your website search engine credibility or SEO score. And please note that it will also help a lot in increasing your website PR as well.

Site Wide And Home Page Backlink

Site Wide backlink means when you have backlinks coming from a single website, but your link is placed in all the pages of that website. Lets say, your website link is placed in the footer of a website and footer as we know will appear in all the pages for that website. So, you will have multiple backlink coming from that website to you.

Home Page backlink means when you have a backlink coming from a single page of a website, preferably home page.

Which Is Better Site Wide Or Home Page Backlink

This topic is also subjective and everyone has their own opinions about it. Site wide backlink will increase your backlink count, but I dont think it will help much in increasing your PR value, unless all the pages of that website(from where the backlink is coming from) are having PR if their own.

Hence getting a home page backlink is always better. But it always depends on personal choice.

What Are DoFollow And NoFollow Link

When a website places a link on their website, they give out a relational(rel) tag in the html code of that link.
So, when that rel tag stores a value of “Nofollow”, it means that this link will not count as backlink, and doesn’t serve any purpose or add any value to your website in terms of Search Engine Scores.

“Nofollow” basically tells search engine to not to follow the website in the link. For e.g <a href=http://google.com rel=”nofollow”>Google</a></code>

“Dofollow” is actually not a value for the rel tag. It basically means that if you are not including “Nofollow” , its a dofollow backlink. So to get a link counted as backlink, it should be a dofollow, which inturn means that it should not be having a tag “rel = “nofollow” where you backlink is placed.

How To Find Out A Link Is DoFollow Or NoFollow

Its very simple to identify whether a particular link is dofollow or nofollow. Just go to the website where your link is placed, view the html source of that page and check for tag called ” rel=”nofollow” against your link. If its not there, then it means all is good and you have valid backlink to your website.

So basically it will look out like this :

<a href =”http://yourwebsite.com”>Your Website</a>

But if its there, the it will look like this :

<a href =”http://yourwebsite.com” rel=”nofollow”>Your Website</a>

That is all, I hope it helps is some way for people wondering about backlinks. If any queries, suggestions, please let me know through comments.

Ok there is a new trend of scams on the horizons, picking up their victims pretty quickly and its all related to adsense. This story began when adsense stopped accepting crappy sites or fairly new sites to their program and gave the 6 month timer period for any site to get accepted in adsense. So, what so you know, it gave a birth to new type of scams : GET APPROVED IN ADSENSE IN 1 DAY,2DAYS etc crap.

So, I just wanted to warn, people please don’t get sucked in these schemes. These are all scams, there is reason adsense is giving 6 month wait period for new sites. As on the average any new site takes time to get a decent amount of traffic to inturn get a good amount of earnings from adsense. So, please utilize your energy in making you website better rather then falling for those scamsters, people in google are not fools, they will figure it out eventually and you will loose your account.

Special Note For People In India : DON’T DO IT, cause i have seen them replying the most in forum threads where these scams threads gets posted.

This is my first update regarding mine affiliate marketing Journey. My target was to make atleast 2 sales in first month. But i fell one short and was able to make only one sale. That’s understandable as I was neck deep in studying on how things go around in Affiliate Marketing and didn’t got much time to put some of the learnings into play. But this month is seriously unforgivable, this month I have to atleast 10 sales with 1 from past month.

So, 11 sales in total, thats my minimum for this month.

Some statistics for June:

Offers Promoted : 3 excluding one Lead offer
Money Spent On Advertising : 60$ all on media buying, no ppc marketing involved.
Total Sales Made : 1
Money Earned : $80
Total Profit : $20

Well I am not at all impressed with the results and have to gear up for this month and to have some good amount of sales to increase the profits.

Why I am sharing the details, well if you(reader) are also new to affiliate marketing, join me in the journey we can help each other to grow. And if you (reader) are already a established affiliate marketer I would really appreciate, if some tips and tricks of the trade can shared .

UPDATE : No more earnings updates until I have something to show some respectful amount

If you have been to sitepoint or digital point market place, there is a trend going on where people are mostly bidding or buying websites which are having some sorts of auto pilot business. Means you buy it and forget it and the money will keep coming in.

But in this age of SEO and people fighting for search engine rankings, does that make sense. I mean its good you are on first page of google for something but if that’s site is an autopilot and you competitor wants to take your ranking, it will be pretty easy for him/her to do it. To be honest, he/she can even throw you out of the first page with some good link building and SEO.

So, if you are buying an auto pilot website then please keep a plan on what to do when your site rankings starts going down the drain. Google is not much fond of static websites, if you get my drift.

Have a blog or website and struggling to drive traffic to it, well watch the excellent video from Yaro Starak.

As mentioned earlier its my first stint of affiliate marketing and I have been reading a lot and I mean a “LOT”. And believe me when i say, people are doing all kinds of crazy stuff to get more sales, more clicks, traffic.

The line between black hat,white hat, grey hat is kind of thin here. I won’t be naming anyone but one thing is sure, it is little difficult to compete with these guys. Its not like you won’t be successful even after doing all your hard work, you certainly will but it will take “TIME” cos seriously, as you are going by the book of rules.

Book of rules will stand for the usual stuff like if you want to promote a offer then :
1. Choose a niche you want to work on.
2. Prepare Landing pages
3.Write articles,submit to article directories and wait for them to get accepted.
4. Do some PPC marketing
5. Find some long tail keywords for your niche and try to capitalize on that.
6. Wait for results to pour in.

The dark side

1.Choose around 100 niche
2. Buy a vps server.
3. Scrape everything related to your niche from websites, feeds and what not, store it in database.
4. Modify the content here and there with a script obviously like replacing some common used words with their synonyms.
5. Put the offers in the content you are promoting.
6. Run a script and set up 100’s of wordpress blogs for eah keyword in your niche with the content stored in database you earlier scraped.
7. And let the money flow

So, what do we understand from this is that, results will be instant in the “dark side” steps and probably you will have to wait for results in the white hat techniques.

Well which side to choose??? In my personal opinion, you should do a mix of both, some white some dark and see what works for you. And also it depends on upto which extent you are ready to go to have success in affiliate marketing.

Well its my strategy, might not appeal to all. If you are into affiliate marketing and specially a newbie in that like me, you will notice that each n every niche your pick up is already filled to its core. Which “SHOULD” make you think how will I earn money in between all these super affiliates who are churning out thousands dollar sales in one day and completely taken over affiliate marketing.

To be honest I myself have to figure it out YET. The only way I came up with is rather difficult to figure that out. I took 2 of the most difficult niche to work on.  Both niches are extremely saturated and utterly competitive.

So, I am putting all my efforts into both to make money. The learning from here is that, if I am able to make “some” monye in these 2 niches, I will be able to compete better in other niches which are not that crowded.

Its all part of learning the Affiliate marketing world and my way of dealing with it .

One thing i have learned from my almost 3 weeks of affiliate marketing experience is that you can win in this game if you automate your stuff as much as possible. Manual work in affiliate marketing means loss of profits. So automate or outsource you can and concentrate only on getting some good niches for your self.

I will be glad to share all I did in automation, when it actually starts working for me as well, otherwise I will look like a douche bag about sharing stuff which I didn’t even test.

If you are into making online business, you have to be ahead all times from others and automate stuff as much as possible. This is where wordpress plugins comes in, most of them are free and they make your life easy.

So, do check out the post from blogperfume where they listed 45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging