If you haven't read (part 1), please go here: http://www.smartads.info/articles/le/10.html _________________________________________________

TO AUTOMATE OR NOT TO?

For those of you who are trying to figure out if you should use an automated link promoter or just simply doing everything yourself:

Linking softwares are great (not really) I've tried 2 programs myself, and I must say that both attempts were a disaster! Now i'm not saying that eventually that there will be a perfect software out there to promote your link exchange program.

Right now, here are some of problems

- The links that you will find are not relavant to your site's content.

- Some links tend to be "Link Farms" that only harm your search engine performance.

- You'll tend to get millions of porn sites!

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Here's a method that holds very strong when I look for link partners:

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When I find a great resource that has similar content to my site, I will browse through their ENTIRE "Resourceful Links" listed on their site and see if It's a good idea to link to them!

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Here's another method of doing this effectively for best results:

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If you happen to find a great resource, enter their entire "URL" in www.google.com.

What you need to look for is this: "Find web pages that link to www.this-site.com"

The Purpose Martin?

Once you click on "pages that link to that site" you will find sites that already have a great link program related to your site!

Take advantage of linking to all sites listed within that search on google!

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PLEASE TRY TO AUTOMATE YOUR LINK EXCHANGE PROGRAM!

It get's very fustrating for an entrepreneur like me who is trying to have a really good source of link exchanges, especially when I have to e-mail my companies information manually!

Try adding a "Mail Script" that takes link exchange information right from your site! You'll find that more sites will want to link to yours!

Here's an example of what your form should ask:

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1) Full Name: Martin Lemieux

2) WebSite URL: http://www.smartads.info

3) Title: Smartads.Info :: Marketing & Advertising Centre

4) Description: (250 characters or less)

Stealing affiliate sales has become "silent" Internet crime, stealing sales and products from honest guy (or gal) who is trying to grow an Internet business.

I did not think that this crime would affect me, until I noticed that there were 3 times as many downloads of my ebook than there were actual sales. That was a wakeup call that I needed to correct problem or risk losing hundreds of dollars.

The problem was that within my purchase page HTML, download page URL that purchaser would be directed to was posted in HTML script like a sitting duck, saying "Why pay when you can download for free". From HTML text anyone could copy download page URL into their browser and download my product without making a purchase.

Well, this was not good news.

So, I quickly located a program that would mask my download page URL. There are a number of these programs available online, simply go to a search engine and type in "link cloaker" or "affiliate link cloaker". The programs are really very similar. You type in URL that you want to mask.

example:

http//www.myaffiliate.com?ID2345

and program generates a cryptic single line of numbers and letters, which you put into HTML script to replace easy to read URL

example:

The download page URL is now masked and much more difficult for thieves to steal my product.