Link Building Is Hard Work But Necessary!

As far as i know nobody enjoys build­ing links! There is a cer­tain 9 to 5 feel­ing about it– the repet­i­tive­ness, the feel­ing that you should be doing some­thing more con­struc­tive with your time, and the per­sonal rejec­tion you feel when some­one doesn’t reply. You are at work and don’t you know it.

Build­ing links is tough and never more so than in the early days when you have no exchange cap­i­tal ie. you have two web­sites that are PR F*ck all and it feels you cant give your links away. For­tu­nately this feel­ing will pass, how quickly depends on your approach.

If you are smart and you have used a ‘mapped approach’ to your site build­ing your link exchanges will get eas­ier quickly, and maybe even to the point where you no longer have to hunt good exchanges down, you are now the prey (in this par­tic­u­lar exam­ple that’s a good thing). If you are less smart (like me which is prob­a­bly why i didn’t use the term stu­pid) you will have niche web­sites all over the place and the orig­i­nal prob­lems will con­tinue for some time longer. Just one rea­son you shouldn’t spread your­self too thin.

In my expe­ri­ence it is at this point (basi­cally the sec­ond hur­dle after build­ing the web­site) that most affil­i­ates will give up and move onto some­thing else. Oth­ers will just watch their stats daily in the hope that as the web­site ages the traf­fic will come — sorry amigo this aint going to happen.

Affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing in my expe­ri­ence has to be a long term ven­ture and i am per­son­ally pleased that it is, if it was pos­si­ble to cre­ate a suc­cess story overnight every­body would be doing it and the com­pe­ti­tion would be way too tough. Link build­ing is hard because you are doing some­thing for tomor­row and not only that you have no idea as to what affect it will have anyway.

When i began affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing the whole link exchange con­cept to me was alien and it was hard to believe that it would make any dif­fer­ence any­way– only after you have suc­cess­fully imple­mented a link build­ing strat­egy over a period of time do you realize/believe what a huge effect it can have.

My advice is to get over the fact that you are going to have to work for your money by cre­at­ing con­tent and build­ing links, it is the only way to carve out a suc­cess­ful long term career in affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing.  This is not an alter­na­tive to work IT IS WORK and you will have to work hard  to make it a success.

Maybe once it is an over­whelm­ing suc­cess you can sit with your feet up and pay oth­ers to do what you had done, but until then.….…(fill in the blank).…..you know what you gotta do!