You can obtain top rankings for even very difficult to obtain keywords like ‘make money online’, ‘search engine optimization’ and others, if you only know how. You need to learn to differentiate between the useful information that will boost your rankings and all the crappy time wasters out there, it is as simple as that.

Although SEO is a bit more than just link building, this is a very crucial part of any SEO work on an affiliate site. Having a good ranking means that prospects who type in Google your keywords will find you faster than your competitors, which means they will click on your links, which means they will get to your site, where you will then successfully be able to sell your affiliate product.

There are two types of linking strategies: manual linking and natural linking.

Manual linking is due to your own efforts with other webmasters to get them to link to your sites. It means that you actually had to do something with it, you requested these links.

Natural linking means others link to you because they liked your information, or site, they liked what you are selling, or for any other reasons that do not involved you begging for these links.

Of course, manual linking is much easier than natural linking, since the second is much more difficult to achieve in the first place!

To really rank well for your main keywords in Google (and not only there), you need to artfully apply both types of linking strategies for your site. You need to know how to apply the manual linking, but also how to get those natural links coming your way – and yes, although seemingly impossible, there is a way to get them linking to you without you overtly having anything to do with it!

Josh Spaulding’s Ultimate Link Building Report shows exactly how to achieve this, and much more. For example, it will show you how to achieve 1, 2 and 3 ways links. It will explain you what ‘link baits’ are and demonstrate to you how to guarantee backlinks with them. It will describe you what authority stoppers are and why a Google PR is important (and why it isn’t).

For example, I’m sure you’ve heard a lot already about ‘nofollow’ links. But did  you know that MANY sites are using it these days as a tool to regulate the authority from within their site and it’s best to use a tool like Search Status to highlight these nofollow links, so you know to not waste your times with them? This is only one of the gems Josh is detailing in his TULBR (as he likes to shorten it). Get it now,  you’ll learn lots about SEO and link building for your affiliate marketing site, since, afterall, being on Google’s first page and possibly above the fold (i.e. among the top 5 in the SERPS) is what makes an affiliate become a great affiliate and visible to thousands of people searching for a cure or for your product online!

As a matter of fact, there are some good books, but there’s also a lot of fluff among them. So here I will cover the best ones for you.

One Week Marketing by PotPieGirl

Ok I’m a bit biased here. This is the book that started it all for me in affiliate marketing. If it weren’t for this book, and the easy way it is all laid out so even the newbiest of the newbies can understand, I might have never started in affiliate marketing.
But decide for yourself.

The Super Affiliate Handbook

This is another book that I can honestly recommend. Topics Include Blogging, Market Research, Affiliate Programs, Web Design, Problem Avoidance And So Much More! Just by reading this book you’ll get the most of what you need to get started in affiliate marketing.

Affilorama

Affilorama is something else entirely. It’s not an ebook, but consists of  over 70 hours of video, including lessons, tips and interviews with leading names in the affiliate and online marketing industry. It also has a comprehensive forum which is moderated by real affiliate experts who can answer your questions and give you advice.

I am trying to pick a favorite out of the 3 ebooks I’ve mentioned here but truth be told, I highly recommend all of tem. If you are a beginner or intermediate affiliate marketer you should really read all three, as each brings you another aspect of affiliate marketing that will place you on a higher level from where you were before.

After reading all these recommended e-books then its time to put your learned methods into action!