Search Engine Ranking Software?

Okay, so the big question this week seems to be

“How Can I Get Quality Backlinks to My Website?”.

There are a lot of tools and programs around that promise amazing things in terms of backlinks. If you’re looking to improve your search engine ranking over the long term, it’s easy to be tempted by promises of “automation”, “relevant links”, “instant results”, etc.

Should you use Search Engine Ranking Software to automate the process?

In my opinion, it’s difficult (or nearly impossible) to automate quality backlinks to your website by using a software program. Social bookmarking may get your website indexed in the search engines quickly, but the power of social bookmarking is not long term.  For long term success, you need a large number of quality, relevant links back to your site.

I’m happy for someone out there to prove me wrong. But so far, I have only seen positive results from hard work, quality content, and a few little search engine ranking tricks to help me along the way.

“What litte search engine ranking tricks?”, I hear you ask?

I use a 3 phase process instead of Search Engine Ranking software.

STEP ONE – MARKET ANALYSIS & KEYWORD RESEARCH

I use Market Samurai to track my own website’s search engine ranking and the websites I am competing against for a particular keyword phrase. If you click here, you will visit the “Dojo” area of the Noble Samurai website where you can watch videos which explain exactly what this software can do for you – including analyzing the links to your competitors sites! Seriously – you can see what sites link to your competitors, you can then go and get similar backlinks for yourself!

STEP TWO – QUALITY CONTENT

For my affiliate websites, I buy article packs from http://EasyPLR.com – I use these articles to produce high quality, unique content on all my sites. Specifically, I buy a pack of articles, re-write them and publish them as unique articles in the next step in my process. I am always in search of high quality articles and I have never been disappointed with these guys. PLR (Private Label Rights) articles are fantastic because it gives me something to start with. It’s hard work writing interesting articles, and for about $1 each, I get a fabulous head start from EasyPLR – Yes, Please!

STEP THREE – DISTRIBUTE CONTENT

Article Marketing Automation – Once I have a unique article with at least two links back to my website, I submit it using Article Marketing Automation. I use this service to hand spin the article myself (which takes awhile), but I am always pleased with the results. They then publish unique copies of my article on blogs relevant to my topic over a period of time. This is fantastic because it looks natural, the links are relevant to the topic of my site, and I can obtain over 200 relevant backlinks from every article!

This is my 3 phase process which (so far) has eliminated any need for Search Engine Ranking software. I know this is an ongoing process, and new tools and software are released every day.

Is your method of gaining quality backlinks very different from mine?

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please join in the discussion & leave your comment below.

P.S. I have learned almost everything I know about SEO from the guys at AffiliIT. If you’re looking for serious internet marketing training, with no gimmicks and no BS, check it out!