Share The Lurve – Come On Networks & Merchants – Give Affiliates Backlinks
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Come on networks, share the lurve, by giving affiliates backlinks for those who would like them, you’ll be helping them help you! Set up some directory structure on your site.
And merchants can share the lurve with a virtual cyberspace cuddle by rewarding their successful affiliates with a courtesy backlink too.
Refer to this parable and swap out the reference to a freebie gift with a backlink
Lets get all warm & fuzzy inside.
Let me bring up a parable from an earlier blog.
“The story is told that there once was a blind beggar (the merchant or network) who sat beside a road, fingering the rice in his little bowl. He wore only a loin loth and sat in poverty beside the road that stretched nowhere in both directions.
The scarce travellers occasionally gave him a little rice. One day he heard the thunder of a chariot in the distance. It was the grand entourage of the king (the affiliate). This was a moment that had never come before and probably would ever come again. Surely the great king (the affiliate) would stop and give him baskets of rice.
Indeed, the golden chariot of the king (the affiliate) stopped before the poor beggar (the merchant or network). The great one stepped down, and the beggar (the merchant or network) fell before him. Then the sky seemed to fall in.
Give me your rice, please” politely asked the king (the affiliate).
A fearful and hateful scowl masked the face of the beggar (the merchant or network). He reached into his bowl and thrust one grain of rice toward the king (the affiliate).
“Is that all?” said the king (the affiliate).
The beggar (the merchant or network) spat on the ground, cursed and threw the king (the affiliate) one more grain of rice, then got up & walked away in a huff. The great king (the affiliate) then turned, entered his chariot and was gone.
The beggar (the merchant or network), angry, empty & crushed, fingered the remaining rice he had hoarded in this bowl. He felt something hard, different from the rice. He pulled it out … It as one kernel of gold. He then poured out the rest of his rice, caring nothing for it now … He found one other grain of gold.
Had he trusted the king (the affiliate), he could have had a grain of gold for every grain of rice!!!”
So for some merchants & networks (the beggars), think about this Parable. A backlink can go a long way.
Definition of Backlinks
“Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node. Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.” – Wikipedia
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