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I recently wrote an article in the “Tax Niche”. First I searched for a good product or offer to promote, in this case it was a CPA offer. I then did my keyword research using only free tools like the Adwords External Keyword tool.

The next step was to write the article, of course. Now remember, I’m writing this article specifically for this CPA offer, not for backlinks or to promote one of my sites. That being the case it was short and sweet and left the reader hanging for the solution to their problem. My resource box was simply the last line of the article with my hyperlinked keywords that would send them, through a .info redirect, directly to the offers landing page. Why direct to the landing page? Well, isn’t your article, if written correctly, really a landing page in and of it self? Well, lets save that for another post shall we.

So I submitted my article to EZA, waited for it to go live, then submitted it to GoArticles and Article Base, with different titles and the content rearranged and rewritten just a bit. Wow, works over right, now just wait for those commissions, right?

Wrong! Offer/Niche selection and keyword research is just phase one. Phase two is writing and submitting the article itself. Phase three though is probably the most important phase, at least as important as the first two. What is phase three? Building back links to your articles.

Building Backlinks to Your Articles

Here’s how I go about building back links quickly.

1. Wait for your article to go live on EZA

2. Once its live copy the URL to an open NotePad file

3. Go to Blogger, Wordpress.com and Hubpages.com (hope fully you already have accounts there and you can keep them open in multiple tabs on your browser, it just makes it easier.)

4. Create a blog on Blogger and WordPress.com and a Hub on Hubpages. Just rewrite your original article a little and change the title but keep your main keywords in the title.

5. Link relevant keywords to the url of your EZA live article. Add your main keyword to the blogroll on the side bar, and link that to your EZA article. So now on Blogger and Wordpress.com you now have say 2 links in each article to your EZA article and a link in the sidebar, so that should be six links all together. Do the same on your hubpage, but you won’t be able to put a link on the sidebar since they do not offer that option,so thats two links for your hubpage, so far 8 links from high PR sites are all point to your EZA article. NOTE: You can link to your offer as well, in these Web2.0 blogs.

6. Social Bookmarking: Now this can be a little blackhat but its not that bad. I create three different profiles at sites like Digg, StumbleUpon,Mixx, Reddit and Mister Wongs. I put the links to my live EZA article in each profile as well as links to the Web2.0 Properties I created. So now I have 3 links to my article from each of the five bookmarking services, so that 15 links, plus the 8 I have from the Web 2.0 blogs, so now thats 23 backlinks.

7. Now of course you need to bookmark not only your live EZA article but also the three Web 2.0 blogs you set up, for each profile you have on each bookmarking service.

8. Now go over to Pingomatic.com and ping the following urls

a) Your live EZA Article

b) Your Blogger blog, your Wordpress.com blog and your hub page

c) Each of your 15 social bookmarking profile URLs

9. Continue passively building backlinks by blog commenting over the next few days if you want, the bulk of the work has been done.

It sounds like a lot of work, but once you set up your Web 2.0 accounts and your bookmarking profiles (these two take the most time at first), it really becomes a breeze once you do it a couple of times.

Try it out, see if it works for you, and let me know.