This is Karl Sultana. The following is a conversion I did with a customer that purchased my one way links package.

If you did not yet claim your copy of these 300 one way links rush to this topic on the Warrior Forum for details. I been a member of the Warrior Forum from 17th June, 2004. You need to become a member which is free, to view the topic.

This conversion is a great way to understand how backlinks effect rankings AND how many backlinks you need to see rankings...

Customer question: Do you have any specific instruction that come along with this? Do I need to put my URL with my comments in these blogs?

Karl Sultana: Of course, instructions are quite simple.

1) Do not use keywords in the Name field. So just put your full name or your first name.

2) Put then website url in the url field. You can put your homepage in most of the time, but then sometimes link also to your other pages.

3) A comment, read the post a bit first, or at least scan it to see what it's about. Then put a decent comment. Not a one line post.

Customer question: Thank you so much for getting back with me. I am excited to get started. Also, I saw this service on a Squidoo page and wondered if you have seen it and what you think of it? It is http://www.addurl.nu/

Karl Sultana: That service is directory submission service. I suggest another directory submission service, which provides more benefits. It is cheaper and they submit your site to more directories.

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?
TOPIC_ID=252941

You can choose any package, but this is cheaper than the one you provided:

Extreme Traffic Package SIX: $197!
1000 Link Submissions To PR1-PR8 Sites

Customer question: Thanks for getting back with me. So I have been posting to the blogs and putting in my site etc. Not a hard task at all and kind of interesting to see what all the blogs are about. So how quickly can I expect from these links for my site to start moving up in the Search Engine Rankings?

Karl Sultana: That depends on how competition there is for your keywords. But generally, your goal is to get as many links as possible. For improvement in rankings get some links everyday 15-30 backlinks, and you see improvement for sure.

Get links by most common methods:

Link exchanges
Directory submission (do it once)
Article submission

Those three alone will improve your rankings. The more backlinks you get the better. The one way links you got from the blogs helps a ton more to get rankings faster... I never check out my rankings after getting a bunch of one way links. What I do is keep getting backlinks day in day out...

Think of backlinks and rankings like a prescription medicine. You need to take all the prescription to see results. So you need to get many backlinks to improve rankings, and it is impossible to calculate the amount you need.

This is not very important. It's just some technical detail: You still can see a little or a lot improvement in rankings after getting powerful one way links. The time it takes depends how fast search engines count the backlinks. That again depends on other factors such as how good the sites you got links from are. Their pagerank gives you indication how good they are.

BUT to keep it short and to the point, like I said get some backlinks every day. That should be your ultimate goal!

1st Question: What exactly are backlinks?

My reply: I keep it short and straight to the point.

In order for your website to get to the top of the search engines, you need to get backlinks. A backlink is a link to your website from some other website.

In other words: If someone puts a link to your website from his website you have a backlink.

2nd Question: Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I can ask you another question...........I have a website: www.johnlavin.ca which I have paid someone to optimize for the past 3-4 years.

Last year I began to see favourable results (I did 10 real estate transactions off it) however this year I have had zero from it.

I think the fellow doing the optimizing has too many real estate agents on his books, would that make a difference?

My Answer to 2nd Question: 3-4 years of optimization is a lot of time. You can see results within 6 months or less, assuming you did not optimize for the keyword real estate.

May I know the keywords he optimized your website for? That way I can tell you how long it should take you to see results.

I did not understand what you said: "I think the fellow doing the optimizing has too many real estate agents on his books, would that make a difference?"

When you hire someone to do the optimization, you should get a report telling you what keyword he optimized your site for. That way you can check rankings and see if indeed he really is doing a good job or not. Having a bit of knowledge about seo will help you judge the performance of the person you hire.

So if you provide the keywords he optimized your site for, I will be able to check out any progress and many other things.

Reply to My Answer of 2nd Question: Thanks for your reply. The keywords he has optimized are as follows:

house for sale in Mississauga Ontario
listed home for sale in Mississauga
Mississauga real estate agent
Mississauga townhouse
Mississauga townhouse condo
new home Mississauga
new house in Mississauga
new Mississauga condo
resale home Mississauga

He does give me a report each month which does show I'm getting traffic. In the first year I did a couple of transactions from it and that increased in the second to 4-5, last year I did 10 transactions and I had planned to increase that this year but so far have had none at all from the site.

As far as my question: "I think the fellow doing the optimizing has too many real estate agents on his books, would that make a difference?" . He handles quite a number of real estate agents and we are all competing in the same market, he does not optimize the same keywords for all of us, so I'm guessing that the popularity of keywords changes over time, but if another of my competitors has a popular phrase wrapped up I cannot use it.

I hope that is not a confusing answer. There is so much information on SEO out there it is hard to know which is real information and which is nonsense.

My reply back: So you need to know if traffic is decreasing, increasing or approximately the same month after month. You can check through your webhost stats, if they have cpanel. Contact them to find out that.

The problem here is no sales this year compared to previous years. So either traffic decreased or else you changed something on your website and conversion decreased. Maybe you changed homepage web copy...

To understand if the one you hired is doing a good job or no, just keep record of the keywords he has to optimize your site for. And keep record of where you rank for each keyword. Then check next month, see if rankings improved, dropped or are the same.

In cpanel once again, checking out traffic stats of previous years compared to this year. That may show traffic decreased, i.e the reason sales decreased.

One thing about keywords I suggest. Check cpanel to see which one keyword is giving you the most traffic from Google. Then see where you rank for that keyword. If you are not #1 in Google for that, tell the one you hired for seo, to optimize your site for that - to put it #1. It's better than trying to rank for a lot of keywords.

Just rank the one which is the best keyword, the one which already is giving you the most traffic. Since keep in mind the first three positions in the search engine get almost all the traffic. For one of my sites, I have a ton of keywords, but my sales comes almost all from the ONE keyword that is #1. The others that are #5, #9 etc, do still provide some traffic and some sales every now and then. But the one at #1 position makes the difference.

I would also keep improving my website, maybe next bit is hiring a copywriter for better conversion.

His reply back: Thanks for your informative reply. I have checked with my web people and they do not have cpanel. Is there another way I can check this?

My reply back: You can join Google Analytics for both traffic stats and keyword stats.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

They have tutorials and everything else to get started.

Just had a "hot" conversion with a friend of mine about writing articles to get backlinks.

The biggest challenge is NOT how to submit articles but how to put your fingers on the keyword and start writing an article...

I found a solution.

It's FREE...

It's easy, just fill in the blanks...

It's called, 8 Minute Article Writer.

If you do not want to hire a profession writer. If you do not like writing articles. Either way this is for YOU.

8 Minute Article Writer is a software and it will really take you less than 8 minutes to write an article.

You fill in the blanks and click on a button and it loads an article for you - complete with article title, summary, bio and READY to be submitted to article directories.

You probably already know that submitting articles is ONE of the best methods to get backlinks. If you write one article a day and submit it I truly believe you will see an increase in your rankings quickly.

Just one article a day. You can submit your articles using Article Marketer. They have the biggest list of article directories, your articles will be submitted to over a thousand unique websites.

Their unique service allows you to submit as many articles as you want just by filling ONE submission form only. Can it get better?

I think the answer is a big NO!

I see webmasters using article submission software, manually doing all the submission or spending a ton of time waiting for the software to complete the submission.

That's the old way...

Grab a cup of coffee, use 8 Minute Article Writer to create an article, then go to Article Marketer and fill in one submission form. Sit back and enjoy...

That's how I do it, and how it should be done.

I am very interested, very into the topic of UFO's which has nothing to do with SEO. Unidentified Flying Objects, you heard of them before...

But I bought this book and more or less it has to do with UFO's, even though it's not some ufo story. And if you are thinking what the hell I am doing, let me tell you it's not a book filled with tons of fake ufo photos :)

You need to be obsessed like me to really understand why I go a step further from what most people do - and spend money on that subject.

But I also am very patient. In fact I have to wait like 2-4 weeks or more to get this book.

Why this story has everything to do with SEO?

You see, you need patience too, rankings will not happen overnight... but if you want it bad enough THEN nothing really can stop you from getting it.

You can say the hidden "secret" with seo is to enjoy what you are doing... do not get obsessed with it or you can get frustrated if you don't see results instantly.

KNOW deep down that you are going to get tremendous benefits when you get top rankings.

The primary benefit is website traffic, in other words customers who are going to pull out their wallets and pay YOU money.

The second benefit is low maintenance. You just have to get some backlinks from time to time to maintain your position. For example instead of making 15 link exchanges a day, you make 15 a week only.

Third benefit is popularity... many webmasters will start to email you more frequently and ask you for a link exchange.

Fourth benefit is multiple rankings. When you optimize your website for a particular keyword, usually you will get several keywords ranked at the same time.

When I optimized one of my sites for the keyword noadware spyware cleaner, I got number one position for spyware cleaner and number two position for noadware.

So patience is a virtue my friend.

To your success,

P.S. The fastest way to get high rankings is to automate things you do - like article submission, link exchanges and so on... OutRankSmart (ORS) software automates every step to make it literally a no brainer to make link exchanges.

In a single day you will make more link exchanges than what most people do in an entire month. If you don't believe me read what other people have to say, the testimonials on my site.

Note: I suggest you consider this message as very important. It's from my experience and something I believe can help you if you are currently doing article submission.

Over the years I tried several methods to submit articles. Actually several software, from free ones to paid ones. I was stuck with Instant Article Submitter. It is really good and I still recommend it till this day.

I am always looking for ways to automate things I do, so software was the best thing for me. However recently I tried yet another thing.

Article Marketer service blew me away!

When it comes to article submission their service is what I just started using. Not only that, but even article writing. They also offer article writing service, since I write articles mainly to get one way links from the article submission sites. If I wanted traffic or to appear as an expert in my niche I would have probably wrote my own articles.

But I need a lot of articles, in fact I receive a new article a day. I submit an article a day through Article Marketer service.

You have complete rights on the articles they write for you. You can edit them, or even turn them into a special report (ebook) or put your name as the author of the articles.

I am not affiliate with them, you can check out the service at:
http://www.articlemarketer.com

Now the benefits of their service:

1) Fill in one form and you are done. Semi automatic software will leave you for hours standing in front of your computer manually submitting... they just autofill the forms. Fully automatic software do the job pretty neat too, but you still have to wait for it to finish, which can take hours...

Article Marketer is so fast, so neat - just ONE submission form is all you have to fill in.

2) Their list of article directories where they submit your article is the largest I ever seen - and for a reason. They keep adding new directories to their list. It's huge - thousands of directories. Instant article submitter submits to around 300... while semi automatic software most of them do not submit to more than 300!

Plus if you submitted articles last year and this year they added new directories, they will also submit your old articles to the new directories.

With article submission software, you just get an upgrade so you download the new directories.

You can pay $49.95 every 3 months, some $200 per year or choose the lifetime membership for $400 one time fee. To get articles written as well there are other charges.

But as you can see the value you get is pretty high.

Just test drive their free service to test customer support, get used to your membership area and so on. Then upgrade and forget about article submission - just write an article (or tell them to write for you) and simple use ONE dead easy form to submit it to their list of thousands directories.