BIG GUNS!

August 28, 2007 Filed Under: 30 Day Challenge

I used to be the platoon leader of a scout platoon in the United States Army. We were equipped with two .50 caliber machine guns, two MK-19 automatic grenade launchers and two TOW missile launchers.

That’s right, tank killing, widow making, game changing MISSILE LAUNCHERS.Thankfully I never had to use them in combat. However, I always had them locked, cocked and ready to rock because you never know when the battle might get to a point where you need to pull out the big guns!

Internet Marketing is like a battle, there is a lot less at stake but it is a battle none-the-less. So having a strong arsenal is very important. So far Ed and Dan have given us some great weapons to use in our quest to reach #1 in google ranking. And yesterday they unleashed the big gun!

Google Alerts have just become my big gun.

Backlinks are a very powerful Web 1.0 technique. In order to achieve and maintain a high ranking in Google you MUST have backlinks to authority sites. The Day 27 training did a very good job of explaining how to do this. It is a slow, tedious process compared to what we’ve learned so far but it is extremely powerful.

It hit me today when I checked my Google Alerts and I saw a Yahoo!Answers question about my niche! I quickly responded to the question with my link attached as a resource…..BAM! A backlink from yahoo! Talk about powerful.

I set my alerts to update me as soon as a question is posted so I can be one of the first responses. So not only am I getting backlinks, I’m generating traffic because everyone who comes after me will see my link. Be cautious though, just like any other Web 2.0 technology, you must participate in the community. I don’t just answer questions about my niche and drop my link in. I answer questions about anything and everything. I even answer niche questions without linking.

I’m not there just to pimp my site, I’m an active member of a fun community.

Look out #1, here I come and I’m packing some serious heat!

Think critically~

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One Response to “BIG GUNS!”

  1. Tyler - List Building Tips on April 11th, 2008 11:51 pm

    Mike — nice post. You have an interesting writing style. Keep post’n.

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