BlackHat360

A lot of networks these days don’t allow direct linking (forced clicks as they like to call them). They want to see the source of your traffic, and beyond that, it needs to be a legit source of traffic. This can be a problem if you have less than clean sources for your traffic. A lot of networks no longer accept myspace, facebook, or craigslist traffic for example. So, how can we quickly and easily get around that?

Landing Pages!

The concept is simple enough:

traffic source ——>Landing Page——–>Affiliate offer

The biggest problem is time. If we are promoting 100 new offers with dozens of products each, it would take weeks if not months to build decent landing pages. This is where a piece of software called Landing Page Builder comes in. With LPB we setup our landing page domain then import a csv that contains all of our product info. This includes descriptions, prices, affiliate url’s, product name, and images. The software has a built in token mapper which allows us to map the csv columns to tokens that we can use in our templates.

Here we can manage and view the mapped tokens:

So, next we need to setup a template. We need something that is simple and to the point. We want everything to lead the person to click through to our affiliate product without scaring them off. Use phrases like “more info” or “read reviews”, even “compare prices” instead of “Buy Now”. People shy away from clicking buy now links, and our goal here is to get the visitor onto the merchants site so we set our cookie and have the opportunity to sell the product. So, we create our template with that in mind and insert our tokens using the built in template editor.

Now, the true power of this software comes out. The software is all dynamic, meaning the landing pages are generated on the fly. You don’t need to build 10,000 pages, you just create your template and upload the csv. Now you have 10,000 Landing Pages created in a matter of a few minutes each with a url like domain.com/product-keyword.

So, how do we filter our traffic through these landing pages? Easy, we just send it all to the main index page of the domain. domain.com in our example. The software analyzes the referrer string to find out what the user was searching for, it then generates a Landing Page with that products info and of course links for the user to click through to the affilaite page. The affiliate or cpa network now sees the landing page as the referrer and your traffic is 100 percent legit. On top of that, your EPC goes through the roof because you have prequalified the visitors to the affiliates offers. The pages all exist and can be requested, so everything looks fine. If you prefer you can also redirect your traffic to a particular page if you prefer that over the dynamic system. If the network allows it you can even use a double meta refresh to blank the referrer, masking the source of your traffic completely.

You can get Landing Page Builder here You can even get a 10 percent discount using the following coupon code: BHLPB10

I’ve been quite busy for the past week or so, but that hasn’t stopped me from tracking results. There are 10 main key phrases that I consider vital for my traffic. As of this morning I am on the first page of Google for all 10. One of the more popular phrases has 54 million results and is quite competitive, so I have to say i’m quite pleased about that. Traffic is up, subscribers are up, and i’m ranking for all of the phrases I need at this point. Now that i’ve seen the results, all I need to do is target a few dozen other phrases and take things to the next level. Stay tuned.

In case you missed it, this is a multi part series about Link Exchange. You can get caught up to speed on the details and setup here: Link Exchange

For the rest of you, lets dive into the numbers. This is now the 4th day of use. I am still running without a link throttle and averaging 16-18,000 link views per hour. Let’s take a look at the screenshot:

 I have of course removed the link ur’s and the keywords i’m targeting. We can see a tremendous number of google link views which really seems to be translating into increased 

indexing and higher rankings. The domain is now pretty much 100 percent indexed, and as the following image will show, the traffic has really increased. Rankings for nearly all of my target keywords are now showing up on the first page of Google with several in the number 1 position. Now, we all know Google is important, but hardly the only  game in town. Lets take a look at Yahoo and MSN/Live. Yahoo at the start of this was showing 0 pages indexed. We simply didn’t show up. As of today, we have 71 pages indexed and  show 506 incoming links. Quite impressive, and even more impressive is the fact that we now rank in Yahoo for two of our most important target keyword phrases. In fact, today we received our first human traffic from yahoo for our main target phrase.  I expected Yahoo to take several weeks, but the sheer linking power of LE seems to be reducing that expected lag. As for msn, the same starting scenario with us having 0 pages indexed just last week. Today, we see 29 indexed pages. Definitely an impressive start for only being 4 days in. 

Next we will take a look at the most important data. The analytics:

As we can see from the graph, it’s quite the increase over our starting point. Recall that we were averaging 0-2 searches per day. Yesterday we had 98 incoming hits from search engines, and in fact we had several new members register as a result. 

That’s about all for today. Expect another update on Monday as we follow the progress