When you start building links to your sites in the Forever Affiliate program one of the milestone points is reaching 50 referring domains to your site as viewed by the search engines. It seemed like it was taking forever to get there, but I finally broke 50 referring domains on Site A.

This backlink report was generated using the free service at ahrefs.com.

So at this point if you chose a niche that is super focused, the course mentions that you might find yourself on page one of Google for some of your longtail keyword phrases already. I’m on page two for a handful of terms with this particular site. I’m going to sprinkle in a few stronger links and see what happens over the next two weeks.
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So here we are. I’m right in the middle of Phase 2 in Forever Affiliate, which includes some slow link building and the beginning of site promotion.

Site A is showing some ranking improvements and moving up nicely, little trickles of traffic coming in already are nice to see.

Site B has a little more difficult competition so it’s not getting as much as quickly, but I was expecting that to be the case. I like a challenge, so I’m ready for it.

This particular phase of the process requires one of the most difficult things to find on the internet – patience. [Read more...]