SEO and PPC marketing. Almost an oxymoron right? SEO is really geared toward ranking higher in the search engines, generating more traffic for certain keywords free. PPC is basically for the people who just want to pay to be on the first page of the search listings. However, what happens when you combine the two?

Many people have different opinions on if you should do SEO for affiliate marketing or not, and if it really matters or not. Personally, I think it matters a great deal. For me, and like everyone else, I want to have the highest quality score I possibly can for all my campaigns. This is easily done by certain strategies and methods when creating the landing page, adgroups, keywords, and ad copies. However, if you throw in a little SEO, and get some back links for your new landing page, your QS will be alot higher.

How do you do this? There are plenty of places where you can buy links. A really popular website is www.textlinkads.com where you can choose the websites in which you would like to place links on. You can also find website owners on popular webmaster forums willing to sell you some links on their site.

But what if you don’t want to pay? Simple, social bookmarking. There are tons of new social bookmarking websites out there that allow you to create an account, and submit a link. Within the link, you can usually add meta tags/keywords relating to your website. Make sure these are really targeted, not extremely broad keywords!

Here is a nice list I found of some of the big social bookmarking websites:

1. 30daytags
2. BlinkBits
3. BlogHop
4. BlogLot
5. BlogMarks
6. BlogMemes
7. BlogPulse
8. BmAccess
9. browsr
10. Fark
11. CiteULike
12. clipclip
13. clipmarks
14. Complore
15. Connectedy
16. Connotea
17. de.lirio.us
18. del.icio.us
19. digg
20. diigo
21. fantacular
22. Feedmarker
23. Feed Me Links
24. Furl
25. Gibeo
26. GoKoDo
27. Google Notebook
28. IceRocket
29. Kaboodle
30. linkaGoGo
31. linkfilter.net
32. linkroll
33. Listible
34. Lookmarks
35. ma.gnolia
36. Netvouz
37. Newsvine
38. openBM
39. RawSugar
40. reddit
41. Rojo
42. Rollyo
43. Scuttle
44. Shadows
45. Simpy
46. Sitetagger
47. Smarking
48. Spurl
49. StumbleUpon
50. taghop
51. TailRank
52. Ticklr
53. unalog
54. Yahoo My Web 2.0
55. yoonoo

Enjoy, and remember anything free is free for a reason. It will take some time to do this manually, and create accounts.

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