Just want to consult you on your support sites. I have tried making them but I have it difficult to range them. How long tail are your support sites and what kind of competition they faced such that they can be ranked without backlinks?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

Really like the blog. I’m looking for fellow JT students to review a bloggers guide I’ve just written – would you oblige?

Enjoy the journey.

Mandy

First thank you for the great info on back linking. Everyone has different suggestions and different opinions, it can really get confusing on what not to do and what to do. I do agree that content, truth and integrity are key!

Second congrats on the pregnancy. My little one is 2 and a half now. Is this your first? When I was pregnant I had no idea, plus I got gestational diabetes. Make sure you eat low gi food and definitely keep your stress levels down. I got GD from not eating right and working too much in a high stress environment. It can happen to anyone. Take time out and try to take a small walk everyday. Bubba will love it.

Another thing to consider is hypnobirthing. Excellent technique to know around birth time. Really relaxing and really prepares you for bubba. I recommend that to everyone. Learning hypnobirthing helped my GD levels so I didn’t have to take insulin in the last trimester, plus I was able to have a natural birth.

The classes at the hospitals teach you jack nothing! Other good DVD’s are “Happiest Baby on the block” by Harvey Karp. Absolutely brilliant!!!!!!! Teaches you how to settle bubba cause trust me this stuff doesn’t come naturally to some as to others. I didn’t even know how to change a nappy! Every new mum should watch this one. The maternal nurses teach you jack nothing in hospital as well when you have bubba. I was only in hospital for 2 days and sent home with new bubba and no idea what to do!!

Other good DVD’s are “Dunstan Baby Language” Absolutely brilliant!! Bubbas do have their own language and this stuff works!!!!!! And the “Mum to Mum” series, really great basic advise on them too!

I know your blog is about IM but I just thought I would share Bubba stuff. When I had my bubba I didn’t know anything and didn’t have a great support network, I learnt everything from the DVD’s because most people wont tell you squat!

If you have any Q’s let me know, happy to help, plus having a bubba is the best!!!!

Good Luck! And enjoy!

Jacinta

I love all stuff Google and you certainly have provided that i have always been interested in backlinks and the power of them..

Great post..

TTFN….Ed.

Really good stuff. I especially like the way you say up front (well at the end) that you don’t bookmark or submit to RSS feeds anymore. I have long thought that the true way to get traffic is to do something WELL – and stick at it – like articles. So relieved you said that and also that you are still making money!

Congrats on the pregnancy – morning sickness only lasts first trimester apparently – altho’ my twins never read that book and mine lasted til they were born!

Cheers!

P.S. Congrats on the baby as well!

Don’t forget to teach him or her young about the wonders of making money online.

I just wanted to say a thank you for giving me a little more motivation to go after some Chrimbo traffic from Amazon. I wrote about a product, got some backlinks and ta da.

$440 dollars and 259 items ordered so far this month. Not a bad bit of extra cash for 7 days and I am glad you motivated me to go a little more product specific.

Any more motivational posts are welcome, especially if they add to the coffers like your Amazon posts did.

As a slightly shameless plug try out my article site. As it is all human reviewed we are seeing some very good SERPS results for peoples articles posted. Give it a try you won’t be disappointed. We only take unique articles though, nothing posted elsewhere. I think this is definitely the future of getting backlinks.

I don’t know if you have noticed but more article directories are going down the pan recently. Google seems to really be tightening up on duplicate and spammy content and hardly any articles seem to even get indexed on anything apart from ezine, and that is because all articles are human edited there.

Hubpages seems to be for it too. I am glad I gave up on them as they would never do-follow my links.

Regarding places to get backlinks, everyone should try Devhub. You can put all your own affiliate codes in and they rank like a dream. I have lost count of the number of single page sites I have ranked for good keywords on there just by doing a few do-follow socialbookmarks.

Regards authority sites in your comments, I think we are all going to start doing more of these in the future as our main money makers. I have definitely noticed that these are being much more favored regardless of the number of backlinks. I even think it may be time to not build too many more sites and try to get content on a handful of sites each and every day and backlinks to every single post written on them.