Today I created a new video showing you four ways to use SEO for getting backlinks to your websites. This is the first video in the series of freebies. If you’re not a subscriber, nows the time to subscribe while this training series is free.

Just send an email to: netwoozy@aweber.com or fill in the form on the right. Confirm your subscription. The welcome letter has a link to the video and the resources I mention in the video.

Enjoy!

Chrisi

Everyone is hungry for the easy route to success. But for those of you who are seeking help, remember that there is a price to pay for SEO skills, tallents and yes, TRADE SECRETS.

If you begin to search for how to drive traffic to your website or blog, whatever type of Internet business you have, you are going to get a huge amount of information. So much information is going to be crap that it will overwhelm you.

First one person will tell you one type of SEO tactic, then that tactic will lead you to another type of technique and somewhere along the line you’ll purchase some software, an ebook, and join some newsletters.

Next thing you know you’ve got these “guru’s” telling you to buy this program and that program and so forth.

This will cost you hundreds of hours, YEARS of stress and thousands of dollars. In fact, a newsletter owner thinks of you as their personal ATM where they can withdraw money by hitting you up with their latest offer any time they need or want it.

So, lets see… what is the lesson here?

Do not expect people to reveal their “trade secrets” without a heafty price.  Think of the value of your own time. Would your time be better spent paying an expert to work their own SEO magic for your website/blog, or is your time better spent saving money to DIY?

Within my blog I will give you the most for your freebie buck. I offer honest content with my own personal experiences added in. What I can’t reveal to you is all that I have learned and developed over the past 12 years of research and struggle to understand search engine optimization.

If you seek some personal 1 on 1 advice, I can help. I offer SEO services to fit your personal situation. Email me at chrisi@netwoozy.com if you’d like a quote.

Please post a comment … Spam is automatically deleted. Make it relevant and something to cheer me up would be really nice.

White Hat – Legal and approved ways to increase your search engine optimization.
Black Hat – Underground sneaky and most times ilegal methods to boost your search engine rankings.
Organic SEO – This is traffic sent to your site through the search engine results.

There are many ways to gain traffic to our  online website, blog or Web 2.0 page. The best way of course would be that which costs us nothing.  This is my preferred method of driving traffic to my site. Plus, when it is free, testing is not as vital as it is when you pay for traffic. I tend to be quite lazy when it comes to testing so free is best for me.

There are two ways of obtaining organic search engine traffic. One is through learning what makes search engines like Google “want” to rank your site high for the keyword search terms you know will drive targeted traffic to your site.

This would be white hat and it is the best way most rewarding and long lasting way to do it. Many people who use black hat methods may disagree, but these are the same people who have to work extremely hard at hidding their footprints and ilegal ways from Google, who actively seeks out and bans, removes and pretty must distroys these black hat methods within a short period of time of their being created and released to the public.

Let’s consider the difference between black hat and white hat.

Financial: Black hat methods are not long standing. They most often require the purchase of software that will not work for the long term.  The software created is most times never released until it has become less effective for the creator. For the creator of these methods obtains the most value from it only as long as it remains hidden.

It is harder to hide once the public learns of it.

Therefore, to continue in your trek to outwit Google’s constantly changing algorythems, you will need to constantly update your black hat software and the methods they use.

Domain Longevity – When you use black hat methods, you leave a footprint. At some point in time this footprint becomes readable by Google (or other SE’s) and then it is only a matter of time before your domain is banned or removed from the search engine results.

This is why people who use these methods are constantly creating new domains.

So, it costs money and time to build these types of websites and blogs. They do not have a very long lifespan. Is it worth it?

Let’s consider White Hat method.

What hat methods last forever. Yes, they need to be adjusted, but there are a few rules that never change.

Rule 1. Websites and blogs that offer a good experience for the visitor are always going to do well over time because this is the goal of the top search engines. To provide excellent search results to their users. This will never change.

Rule 2. Obtaining quality backlinks from other related websites, blogs and Web 2.0 sites/pages/media. This too will never change. The more your site provides good results for the user, the more referrals you will receive from outside sources.

Rule 3. Rule 1 and Rule 2 will never change.

So, the money you invest in building your sites will be a wise investment because if the content is of good quality, your site will eventually pay for itself through monitization of your content.

Backlinks. The time you invest in obtaining good quality backlinks will pay off as long as they are “quality” backlinks. Not link farms, linking schemes and othe such rubbish.

The bottom line here is that both black and white hat methods require an investment of your time and money. Why invest your money and time where it will soon die out? Why not invest it where it will last and grow?

Now then… there are short cuts that are healthy and legal. These will be discussed shortly.

You can obtain a nice quality backlink by commenting here because this is a do-follow blog. For posting rules see my article on Keywordluv.