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Cheap Golden Backlinks by Brad Mason, ThePrincipatus.com | Page 1 of 13 Cheap Golden Backlinks How to Find (and Analyse) Good Quality Links On The Cheap By Brad Mason from ThePrincipatus.com Be Pre-eminent In The SERPs Disclaimer: I'm going to be really nice and let you give this ebook away for free if you like, but you're not permitted to sell it and you're not permitted to change it in any way shape or form. Not sure why you'd want to do that, but anyway don't. Thanks!

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By Brad Mason ThePrincipatus.com Learn how to analyse a URL for its SEO quality and see whether or not you want to get a backlink from that site. See where to get these awesome links for as cheap as $1-2. Then score a free $50 worth of credits for buying links with!

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Cheap Golden Backlinks

How to Find (and Analyse) Good Quality Links On The Cheap

By Brad Mason from ThePrincipatus.com

Be Pre-eminent In The SERPs Disclaimer: I'm going to be really nice and let you give this ebook away for free if you like, but you're not permitted to sell it and you're not permitted to change it in any way shape or form. Not sure why you'd want to do that, but anyway don't. Thanks!

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Table Of Contents

Module 1: Google Doesn't Want You To Rank Module 2: My Recommended Source of Links Module 3: Analysis Step 1: Google.com Step 2: Majestic.com Step 3: Moz OpenSiteExplorer.org Module 4: Buying the Links Conclusion

Become an SEO Reseller $300 Trial Month NOTE: This eBook includes an affiliate link for a backlink service called Links Management. If you should purchase $100 worth of links from this service from my affiliate link, we will both earn $50 in free credits to use for buying links. I do not make any money from the affiliate link apart from that, I get paid in links. I also wish to point out that I do not use links from Link Management for my SEO clients, but only on my own personal projects. I maintain a higher standard of quality for my clients as they deserve for their investment.

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Module 1: Google Doesn't Want You To Rank

Buying backlinks is a risky business. Google has put out so much propaganda that sometimes buying backlinks feels like you're buying drugs or something. They make out like anyone who is trying to get search engine traffic to their website is an evil SEO 'Sith Lord' and that you should just write the best content in the world and sit back and wait for people to find it on page ten so they can link to it. Newsflash – that doesn't work. You've got a business to run, and if you want search engine traffic you're going to have to try something else. There's nothing wrong with doing a little SEO. As long as you're not annoying

people with spam, why would there be such a moral high ground against manipulating search engine results? I can understand wanting to keep your website safe for the long run for sure – I also want my websites to be ranking twenty years from now and in that sense I'm as white hat as the next guy. But why would there be a moral issue? Why do so many webmasters look down on you with disgust and contempt for trying to rank your website? Its bizarre. Google doesn't want you to rank your website, because they want you to spend money on Adwords, their advertising platform. SEO and Adwords are direct competitors, its one or the other, so in order to prevent as many people as possible from doing good SEO, Google has taken the liberty to get it in people's minds that SEO is bad, immoral, and dangerous. They've done a fantastic job too, people all over the world believe it. But what they forget is that Google is not the “God of the Internet”,

they are a business. Their number one priority that drives whatever they do, is to make more money.

Of course part of their plan was to offer people a pseudo-SEO that won't threaten Google's business by working well, and then glorifying it as the “righteous and holy SEO”. I know SEO companies

that do this kind of SEO. I've seen their client reports. They can't rank websites to save their life, they're just amazing salesmen! How can they keep a client for years on end without delivering ROI? It boggles my mind, but they do it. I'm simultaenously impressed and disgusted. So as long as you can rank your website well and rank it safely without fear of penalty, whats wrong with buying a few backlinks? I know you agree with me, because you're here reading an ebook about buying links! Tsk tsk, naughty naughty. But its not naughty, on the contrary you've got a business to run and a website to rank - so as long as its safe, you'll do what you can. Amirite? So you have to understand, its not a matter of getting caught or not, its a matter of the quality of the links. There's no “Google Police” roaming the internet snooping on your Paypal account to see

Evil Sith Lord SEO

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whether you spent money on links or not, the penalties are carried out algorithmically. Its not the 'buying' thats bad. Its the link itself thats bad. Google has no idea whether you paid for a link or not, it can only discern that you got a crappy link. Think about that. If you buy a bad quality link then Google will penalise you – but if someone naturally links to you without you knowing and its the same standard of link-quality, you're going to get penalised just the same. Google has no idea whether you purchased it or not, they just know that the link sucks. So you have to be able to analyse a web-page to know whether or not you want a link from there or not. You have to know what you're looking for, and what to avoid. You also need to have access to that kind of information before you pay too, so don't buy a link just because someone told you its a PR7! Thats stupid on so many different levels. Even if you know that PR is dead and no one uses it anymore, don't buy a link just because someone told you its a DA50 or a TF30 or whatever, there's more to it than simple metrics. So the following tutorial is going to help you rank websites on a shoe-string budget, and is great for your Facebook page or LinkedIn profile for example. If you want serious SEO for the big boys, check out ThePrincipatus.com and drop me a line at the Contact Us page. Module 2: My Recommended Source of Links You can buy links anywhere really, but if you look on a forum and someone tells you its a DA50 link but they won't tell you the URL until you pay, thats like buying fruit and veggies from a market that won't let you see the produce until you've paid. The photo of the apple might be great but when you get it you may find worms crawling through it, if you know what I mean. So there are two main pre-requisites I need before I buy a link:

1. I need to analyse the URL myself first using SEO tools 2. I need to be able to cancel the link at any time if I don't like it

The best place for this kind of link market is Links Management. I can hook you up with a sweet deal: if you sign up through my affiliate link

then when you spend $100 you get another $50 work of credits for free. Not bad, right? $50 free links, score. You know I'm recommending this for the right reasons because if you sign up and spend $100 I also get $50 in free credit to spend on links. I get paid in links, not in money, so you know I'm genuine when I recommend this! (NOTE: I do not use LM links for my clients websites, only for my own personal projects). So click here to sign up and once you've done that, go to the page about buying links. Never allow the staff to choose for you, they choose dodgy expensive links. What I'm about to show you is how to get really good quality ones for dirt cheap – they're under-priced because the seller doesn't understand the value of them. See if you can guess how that works... If you guessed PR0 links, well done! PR is a dead metric, it doesn't mean anything anymore, but many people don't know that. So they're still pricing their links based on PR instead of other more modern metrics such as DA, PA, and TF - Domain Authority, Page Authority, and Trust Flow. I'll

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explain these more later if you haven't heard of them. So go to the filter at the left side of the screen and limit the links to $1 maximum. I don't recommend buying the bigger links available here, stick to what I'm showing you. Its too easy to get burned on a single link, and you won't be getting so much value for your money if you go about it like that. Now, there's more to SEO than the mere purchasing of links, there's talent involved too. If you've got a big budget and can afford the best, check out my services at ThePrincipatus.com. I don't actually send purchased links directly at my clients websites (as I mentioned earlier), I have a much more technical process that will yield much better results. But if you're just looking to get your feet wet a little bit, get your hands dirty learning SEO for yourself, and don't want to commit too much budget, this is the way to go.

Set the filter to a minimum DA and PA. I usually go with about 30 or so for each. Domain Authority measures only the domain, i.e. “Facebook.com”. It

stops after the '.com' (or .net or whatever). Page Authority measures the URL of that exact page. So for example you make a brand new Facebook page, the DA of that page will be 100 and the PA of that page will be 1, because you just made it. In terms of buying links from Link Management, don't go getting PA1 links from high DA URLs, unless you plan on link building to that URL to lift the PA (which would be stupid in this context). Set them both to a minimum, I recommend 30 but its up to you. Set the 'Placement' ratio to about 30% or higher, this is how likely that the link will get placed or not. There's a chance that it won't get placed, so make sure when you buy a link to untick the box that says (and I paraphrase here) “If the link fails, I would like a staff member to replace it with a similar

link”. I had a friend who forgot to untick that box and his link was replaced by LM staff with a link from a porn site. Never. Let. Them. Touch. This is something for you and you alone to take care of!

I recommend (assuming your site is in English) that you untick the box that says “All other

countries”. Its good to stick with the native English speaking sites. If you're hard-pressed to find anything you can always go back and tick it later. Choose a category, a niche. Links are worth way more when they're relevant. It won't be totally dodgy if they're a little irrelevant, its natural for that to happen so they're still great links. For example a plumbing website may link out to an account's website because he recommends their services. However a link will be worth a lot more if its in the same niche, and it will have more SEO value to it. Play around a bit here. If you raised the DA and PA a little high, such as 35 each, there may not be any links left for your target niche, depending on the niche. So you can try both: go for general links that have a higher DA/PA, and go for niche-related links with a little lower DA/PA. Just never go under 15DA/PA, thats your rock bottom. You can also go back and tick “All other countries” if you want to find more

niche-related links.

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Module 3: Analysis Now not every link listed here is worth buying! You have to go through each and every one and check them. Open each of the prospect sites in a new tab (ctrl-click), do about 5 at a time to save on memory unless your computer is awesome enough to do 20 at a time without freezing. Now open a new window for your browser, start a few tabs and go to the following websites:

Google.com Majestic.com OpenSiteExplorer.org

Step 1: Google.com I bet you're surprised to see that Google.com is one of the primary tools for domain analysis! This is the most simple step, but also the most important step, which is why I placed it first. Google has a special feature where you can type in more advanced search methods to get what you're looking for. The one we're using today is “site:”, followed by a URL or domain – then Google shows you all the listings for that domain or URL. For example:

You can see here that there are about 594 million results for URLs with 'Google.com' in it. It only makes sense, this is a pretty big website here. Lets try another example:

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Now this cracks me up. It turns out that “ThisIsNotARealWebsite.com” is in fact a real website, and its indexed in Google. How funny is that? Its actually not bad for SEO purposes, judging by the SEO analysis I'll be teaching you soon. If I could be bothered I'd buy it because the backlink profile is not bad, though I wouldn't want to spend more than $10 on it. Now here's a better example of what I was trying to do before, i.e. give an example of a website that isn't indexed in Google:

The reason why this particular site isn't indexed on Google is because it doesn't exist. But what if it does exist? What if it is listed on Links Management and you could buy a link from it, but you get this screen when you search for it on Google? Well as far as Google is concerned, if it isn't indexed, it doesn't exist. If it doesn't exist, its links don't exist either. It won't help you rank at all.

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So thats the first thing to check. Is it indexed? Because even if everything else about it is wonderful, it means nothing if it isn't indexed. No point even looking at Majestic without doing this. I found out the hard way, buying domains that weren't indexed (the same applies to buying links), so I pass on my experience to you so you don't have to suffer in the same way. Step 2: Majestic.com

Formerly MajesticSEO.com, this website is invaluable for SEO. You can get a free account but it's daily quota runs out pretty quickly if you use it for Links Management. Do a Google search for “Majestic group buy” if you want to share an account with others and save some money. You really shouldn't, but meh.

So lets go with the example of ThisIsNotARealWebsite.com, just for kicks. Lets imagine it was listed on Links Management and you could buy a link from the homepage if you should so choose. Majestic gives different URL options and its important to know the difference: Root Domain, Sub Domain, and URL. There's also Path but I confess I don't know what that is, never bothered with it.

ROOT DOMAIN: The root domain is the domain without the “www.” or the “http://”. Its not an

inner page, its just the homepage. “Whatever.com”. SUB DOMAIN: The sub domain, for the most part, is literally just the root domain with “www.”

on the front of it. However it can also refer to actual sub domains, i.e. “mycheapskateblog.wordpress.com”. Basically it means there are two dots – one dot before (whether “www.” or “mycheapskateblog.”) and one dot after (“.com”, “.net” etc). URL: You should know this one. Its the exact URL of the page, with “http://” and everything, even

the slash at the end and the “.html” if there is one. You need to choose whichever is the right one – and by the right one, I mean the one that the link will be on. If you type “thisisnotarealwebsite.com” into your browser's address bar it will redirect to “www.thisisnotarealwebsite.com” because there's only one or the other live on the internet, and in

this case, its the 'www' version. Technically they're different, and one may be better than the other in terms of SEO but in the context of buying links, you have to choose the one thats live. Obviously if you're not buying a homepage link, you need to choose URL. The metrics for a domain may be very good, but the specific inner page where your link will be may well be crap. Now lets look at this:

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We can see a few things here. Firstly, the Trust Flow (TF) is 10, which is the minimum I usually set in looking for links. So thats nice. Total coincidence actually, I started this eBook off not even expecting www.thisisnotarealwebsite.com to be a real website, and here we are.

Then there's the Topical TF (topical, not tropical) which shows the backlinks topic. This is only available in the paid version, but its not absolutely critical to have, so don't worry. Its great to know though, here this has a TTF of 10 for computer-stuff, it'd be a good link for a web design company page. How about that. The Citation Flow (CF) here is not very good. I don't care about CF in and of itself, I'm not like “sweet, thats an awesome CF” or anything – the CF only

matters in relation to the TF. You want as close to a 1:1 ratio as possible, if the CF is several times bigger than the TF, thats bad. Here its two and a half times bigger, which is not awesome – any higher and I wouldn't bother with it – but its good enough to be a benefit to my site and not a damage, so its tolerable.

The diagram on the right shows the relationship with TF and CF. Remember I said you want a 1:1 ratio? In this diagram you want all the purple dots to run along the diagonal line as much as possible, thats the line of 1:1 ratio. Usually though the purple dots run along the bottom, thats not so good. This domain has 1,067 backlinks, but we don't care about that, we care about how many referring

'Tropical' TF

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domains it has, which is only 26. That means those thousand backlinks only come from 26 different sites, many of those sites will have quite a lot of links pointing at www.thisisnotarealwebsite.com. One link from each domain is enough really, once you get three links from a domain, that about all the value you're going to get out of it – think of the Law of Diminishing Returns”, from high school

economics class. But 26 referring domains is still okay, at least if you're only spending $2 on a permanent link. If I was buying the domain I wouldn't spend any more on it than if I was buying a brand new domain, i.e. roughly $10. But this is not a lesson in buying domains. This is the Backlink Breakdown. It shows you what kinds of backlinks there are.

The key is that to make it look as natural as possible, its better if there's more variety. Its good that some of the links are images, that looks natural – however there are no deleted links, and no nofollow links – that looks weird. 1000 backlinks and not one of them is nofollow? Suspicious stuff, looks like spam. But hey, for $2, beggars can't be choosers, its still okay. If you were looking at a more expensive link that would be more of an issue.

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Now here we come to the most important graph that you get with Majestic – the Anchor Text Profile. The anchor text is the text of a link thats shown on the page.

This is great. Look, just about all the anchor texts are innocent looking – probably because no one was trying to rank it for anything, which is great – it doesn't just look natural, it is natural. Thats what we want here. It seems that heaps of people like myself were teaching some skill online and found it logical to refer to their examples as “thisisnotarealwebsite.com” and so when someone

actually registered the domain, it already had these backlinks. That is so funny. But the point I'm illustrating is that they're not using their primary keywords over and over again – its all 'naked' URLs, and generic anchor texts like “visit homepage”. This is very good, it means

there's no Penguin penalty.

Nothing to see here, boys...

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Here's an extreme example of the penguin penalty from hell:

I can't say the URL or the anchor texts, but I can say that the 98% there is the primary keyword for which it was trying to rank (it was a longtail, too). It looks like someone was doing SEO back in 2012, back when that kind of thing worked! Nowadays you want your primary keyword to be so few in number that its hidden among the “Other Anchor Text”. So I would not want a link from this

domain pointing at my site, it would cause more damage than harm. If a keyword, especially a long-tail (i.e. a long, specific keyword) would be more than about 10-20%, that would be kind of suspicious, like someone has been using spam software. But URLs, generic “click here” type anchors, and brand-name anchors (i.e. “The Principatus”) can get away

with a lot more. Also remember if there's hardly any backlinks, say, 20, than 50% is only 10. Its not going to get penalised for 10 backlinks, I assure you. Step 3: Moz OpenSiteExplorer.org I don't have much to say about this, just check that the DA and PA are in fact what the Link Management dashboard said it was. You don't really even need the site open, you can use the Moz Bar, I have a Chrome extension for it and it tells you the DA and PA. Majestic has a Chrome extension too, but it doesn't show you all the important stuff so its still good to have the Majestic page open.

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Module 4: Buying the Links This is a pretty short section of the ebook, there's not much to say. Its pretty self-explanatory really. Firstly I want to re-emphasize what I mentioned in the beginning – don't let the LM staff choose you links for you, untick the box that says “Replace denied links with similar links (selected by

SEO specialist)”. Don't let them touch your links with their grubby fingers, pretty much. Choose your own links. Secondly, you need to stagger your links, and by that I mean “Gradual Purchase”. Let them drip-feed the links through, you don't want 20 links on the same day and then nothing for a month. I won't waste your time by explaining how to do it, there's a video on the website explaining it all. Last of all, Links Management gives you some space to write text before and after your actual link (as well as what your link anchor text will be). Use it all. Its better to have a long parapgraph then a small sentence. Don't use your keyword for your LM links, use 'click here', 'click this link' -type generic stuff that I mentioned when I was talking about Majestic anchor-text profiles. If you really need to use a keyword-based anchor text, only do it once, and make it count. Get a decent link for that. Conclusion So there you have it folks! All you need to learn how to buy great links for your site. This is a great option for when you've just got one website you're trying to rank and you want to do it on minimum budget. I hope you enjoyed the eBook, if you want a video tutorial I did of the same concept you can pick it up for $5 here. I have to warn you though, this is not the kind of SEO that someone would pay thousands of dollars a month for. Its more the kind of SEO that you'd spend on your blog, Facebook page or LinkedIn profile, for example. I can't teach you the big stuff, those are my trade secrets – but I can share with you the little stuff as an hors-d'oeuvre to give you a taste for it. Become an SEO Reseller If you're a web designer I don't recommend doing this for your clients and calling it an SEO package, especially if you're new to the whole process. Even if you're not making mistakes, the niche may well be more competitive than you realise and you may not be able to get impressive results without putting in more money and effort than it is worth. My method here is for a $100/month budget, not a $1,000/month budget! If you want to deliver the best SEO to your clients, why not resell my SEO? We'll split the profits 60/40, 60% for me and 40% for you. All you have to do is pitch it to your client and let me handle it from there. Contact me and we can come to some arrangement. $300 Trial Month If you're still not sure about how well I can rank (even after this epic lesson I just gave you for free) I offer a one month trial package for $300, commitment free. If after the month is over you like it, you can carry on for the normal price. If you want to stop you can. This is a great opportunity for you (maybe a bit too generous on my part) to see the results you need to see that gives you the peace of heart you need to become my client or resell my services to your own clients.