“Am I making use of viral marketing to scale my online business?”

If the answer to that question is ‘no’, then the odds are that you are simply leaving money on the table, and one of the easiest ways to get started is by creating a viral PDF report.

The idea behind creating viral PDF reports is pretty simple; write a short report anywhere from between 5  and 10 pages in length. This report will essentially be created for the purpose of being distributed around the internet for free, and to be effective, the report should contain some type of valuable information on a particular topic. As you’ll be inserting links to your squeeze page inside of the PDF report, you will start to drive free targeted traffic as it gets passed around.

The easiest way to get started is to assemble the information for your report and create a document using This report is then going to be turned into a PDF using OpenOffice. OpenOffice basically a free alternative to Microsof Word that will let you safe your document as a PDF when it is completed.

Keep in mind that inside your PDF report you’ll want to say that it is free to distribute. Also, inside of your report you’ll want to add a link at the end that leads the reader over to your squeeze page, or even have an entire ad that leads to your squeeze page. On your squeeze page, you can then offer the reader the opportunity to sign up for to receive future updates and information.

What I’ve found in the past is that other people will use these reports to build their lists with as a free giveaway offer of their own. They actually give my reports away on their squeeze pages and the readers that click on the link or ad will then end up as a subscriber under my list. I find that these actually end up being some of the highest quality leads you can find because they’ve just read one of my reports, and were interested in what I had to say.

If you distribute enough of these reports they will eventually go viral, and find that you’re seeing them circulating all over the place, generating leads from just about everywhere. The fact that other people are generating new leads for you without any real effort on your part makes this one of my favorite methods of getting new subscribers, and a good viral PDFs can literally reach thousands of people.

While it may seem tempting to fill up the PDF report with links to affiliate offers to make a quick buck or two, it is better in the long run to drive the readers to your squeeze page so that you will have the ability to connect with them on a continuing basis.

Viral PDFs and Reports are one of the best sources to get free targeted traffic (and eventually sales) as the people who found your information useful will be seeking more information from you in the future.

Anyone who is into internet marketing has probably had at least some curiosity about the seo and backlinking gigs offered over at Fiverr. In case you’ve never used or even checked out Fiverr before, Fiverr is a platform that features users who offer any number of different services for $5. There are a huge selection of services in the categories of Social Marketing, Advertising and Business offering buyers a wide variety of seo related gigs.

Much like the sellers on eBay or Amazon, each Fiverr seller is given a rating and you should always take a few seconds to check out the feedback of anyone that you are considering making a purchase from. Fiverr can be pretty hit or miss as far as quality goes, and I would recommend searching for all gigs in general by “Rating” first.

To save you some time, here are is a quick list of 8 Fiverr Seo related gigs that I have tried and would recommend:

Article Submission to 50 High PR Wikis, Including US .Gov Sites:
http://fiverr.com/salmanaslam/submit-your-spun-article-to-50-high-pr-wikis-including-real-us-gov-and-edu-sites

High PR Angela Links from 2.0 Authority Sites:
http://fiverr.com/blboss/create-6-links-from-pr9-authority-sites-dofollow-anchortext-viewable-intext-inurl-verified-different-ips-plus-bonus

25 Diggs, 25 Retweets, 25 Google +, 25 Facebook Likes and 25 Organic StumbleUpon Votes:
http://fiverr.com/anustu/give-your-website-25-digg-plus-25-retweet-plus-25-googleplus-one-plus-25-facebook-like-plus-25-stumble-upon-organic-votes

Manual Submission to 30 PR4-PR8 Social Bookmarking Sites:
http://fiverr.com/tinamoran/create-stunning-amazing-fantastic-buttonslogotextbanner

Submission of 10 Posts/Articles On the Linkvana Blog Network:
http://fiverr.com/rockstar99/submit-10-postsarticles-on-my-linkvana-account

Manual Submission to 22 High Authority PR5-PR8 Social Bookmarking Sites:
http://fiverr.com/ecnarret/manually-submit-your-site-or-blog-to-23-best-social-bookmarking-sites-pr5-to-pr8

Press Release Submission To Google News Approved Site:
http://fiverr.com/maxcapacity/post-a-press-release-on-a-google-news-approved-site-and-get-it-approved-in-just-minutes

Manual Submission of Your Video to 30+ High Ranking Video Sharing Sites including YouTube, Metacafe and Viddler:
http://fiverr.com/imgenius33/make-a-video-submission-for-you-on-30-high-ranking-most-vizited-video-sharing-sites

As you can see, the preference ordering Seo gigs on Fiverr is to utilize the services of sellers that offer higher quality links that are built manually. Avoid gigs where the seller is offering hundreds of blog comments (usually created with Scrapebox) or profile links (usually created with something like Xrumer). Sellers of these types of links usually will use a list a low-quality sites that have automatic acceptance.

To minimize the risk to your site, especially if it’s relatively new, it’s better to be safe than sorry by focusing on higher quality backlinks rather than sheer quantity. Also, with any or all of these gigs your results may vary depending on your keyword competition, but for $5 any of them are certainly worthwhile especially when combined with a complete overall Seo/backlinking strategy.

As internet marketers we should be not only be focusing on the quality of the backlinks that we are driving to our site(s), but also taking into consideration the aspect of the time spent acquiring backlinks, as well as the monetary investment required. Ideally, I am searching for maximum quality, variety and cost-effectiveness in relation to the time spent on the activity.

While this is by no means a complete list as there are a nearly infinite number of ways to get quality backlinks to your site with little to no money, here are some of the cheap and/or free linkbuilding tools, services and activities that I am personally using at this time:

Linklicious – An extremely effective resource for time spent/cost of service. Before utilizing Linklicious.me I hadn’t realized just how few backlinks were actually getting crawled (and even fewer still that were getting indexed). For a small investment of $14.50 each month in a basic membership, I am able to dramatically speed up the time needed to get all of my main backlinks crawled along with my new posts/content. A great overall value.

High Authority Backlinks – Free to utilize (unless you outsource the content creation), submitting articles to sites like Ezine Articles, Hubpages, The Free Library, Squidoo, Amazines and Odiogo is still an essential activity for creating some high authority backlinks. While this can be somewhat time consuming, or costly if you outsource, it will still end up being money/time extremely well spent.

WP Syndicator Plugin – This is one of my favorite new WordPress premium plugins. The set it and forget it plugin syndicates all of my posts/content to 11 social networking sites including Twitter, Live Journal and Tumblr as an excerpt or short post along with a backlink to my original content. It takes a bit of time initially to create the different profiles across the sites, but for a tool that syndicates your content across high authority sites on 100% auto-pilot for a low one-time cost, the the effort is highly worthwhile. Best practices tip: For an added boost I submit each of my social networking blogs/profile to Linklicious to ensure the new content/links are getting crawled.

Ultra-Spinnable Minis – Ultra Spinnable Minis from The Leading Articles are actually a “lite” version of their Ultra Spinnable Articles premium membership.You’ll receive one 100% Uniquely written, spin-ready article of approximately 475-500 words delivered to your inbox each business day. These articles are available in a variety of different niches and provide unique content for a variety of web properties useful for your different marketing needs, including submission to article directories and web 2.0 sites for backlinking. The cost is $17 per month for 20 articles (about $1.17 per article), and you can create dozens of variations of each of those articles. A great service and highly recommended.

Social Monkee – With a free Social Monkee account you can get up to 25 dofollow social bookmarks every day. As as premium member you have the ability to bookmark up to 3 URLs across 100 social bookmarking sites per day. While it does require a little bit of daily effort to submit the spun titles, description and tags, the ability to get 25 free backlinks (or 300 backlinks with a one-time $47 premium membership) can save you a ton of money over time.

NeoBookmark – NeoBookmark.net lets you bookmark your URLs on more than 1000 social bookmarking sites.I recently signed up for the $10 per month service which gives me 5000 credits each month. As an example 1 credit = submission to one site without captcha. NeoBookmark has an easy to navigate interface that allows you to follow your submissions from your dashboard, as well as view reports and submit new jobs. As with Social Monkee, you will want to take the time to spin your titles and descriptions for maximum effectiveness.

PRLog – PRLog.org is a free to use press release distribution service that Google seems to pay a good deal of attention to. Take a few minutes to register an account at PRLog and click “Submit Press Release”. You can then create your press release, which can actually be anything from a simple announcement to a brief review or article. You will then have the option to add additional information such as your company profile, tags, etc. PRLog press releases often show up on the first page of Google for your chosen keyword phrase within just a few minutes. This can be a great way to drive quick traffic while also generating some quality backlinks. Keep in mind however that you might not be able to have a backlink with your desired anchor text. In order to add hyperlinks with anchor text you will need to upgrade to their paid service.

My basic approach is to mix my backlinking activities as much as possible, not really worrying too much about whether the backlinks are in my niche or coming from high Page Rank sites. Personally, I have too many other areas of my online business that I need to keep working on like site building and content generation.

There’s a pretty good chance that if you’re reading this blog post right now it’s because you were looking for some information on TrafficWave. I was recently in the same position and after spending the last few years using Aweber as my primary autoresponder. Like many other users I found that as my subscriber list began to really grow, Aweber’s monthly fee continued to increase as well. After doing a bit of research and reading a number of positive reviews, I finally decided that I would try out Trafficwave for myself.

What Is TrafficWave?

TrafficWave is a web-based email autoresponder service. This is a service for Internet marketers who want to build their own email marketing lists, create email campaigns, email newsletters, or simply want to follow up with their prospects. With TrafficWave you can send a series of pre-loaded emails to your list at pre-determined intervals, or broadcast an email to your list at anytime.

One of the best features of Trafficwave is that unlike other autoresponders they have a monthly flat-rate fee no matter how big your list gets. The price is just $17.95 each month, with no long-term contract and the price will not increase as your subscriber list grows. Also, with TrafficWave you not only get unlimited autoresponders, but you have access to the following features, making the system a complete marketing package:

• Free Lead Capture Pages – Instantly create and edit unlimited lead capture pages.

• Unlimited Ad Trackers- Tracking your ads takes all of the guess-work away. Keep updated on which advertisements are most successful.

• WYSIWYG HTML Editor – No experience needed to instantly create polished, professional looking email messages.

• Free FFA Page – Great for generating leads.

• Compensation Plan – Free entry into their 3×10 Matrix structure!

TrafficWave Affiliate Program

One advantage that Trafficwave has over other autoresponders is that besides being able to easily build and maintain your email list, they also have an amazing affiliate program that essentially lets you get paid to build your email marketing lists. This program is completely free to join and offers a 3×10 matrix that pays you on 10 levels deep with 100% up-front commission for the first month.

Here are some of the program’s highlights:

• Fast Track Bonuses- Paid weekly, you’ll receive an instant $17.95 commission bonus for each paid customer that you refer.

• 3 X 10 Matrix Plan – Refer just 3 and TrafficWave is free! For each member on your first level, you receive $6. With just 3 referrals your membership will be paid for.

• Leadership Bonuses – Receive a cash bonus with just 5 personally sponsored members. This bonus doubles when you have 10 personally sponsored members.

• Traffic Sales – Receive 10% of sales from guaranteed traffic.

Some affiliates take advantage of this great program to earn a few extra dollars to help offset the cost of their TrafficWave subscription while others go on to earn substantial monthly commissions by continually referring new members.

Is TrafficWave Worth It?

With its flat-rate price for unlimited email campaigns, useful ad-tracking features and the potential to earn a substantial recurring income by referring others, I would have to say that TrafficWave.net offers a better overall value than any of its competitors.

The bottom line is that list building is by far the most important task you can be doing online and TrafficWave will help you to do that (and much more) at an affordable price.

Try it FREE for 30 days, with ZERO-RISK, and see how Trafficwave works for you.

ArticleRanks is a simple to use article distribution and link building service that places unique versions of your articles onto a large network of public blogs and sites. These sites are hosted on a huge range of different IP classes maximizing the chances that your site will achieve better results in terms of rankings.

How Does ArticleRanks Work?

The ArticleRanks system is comprised of thousands of blogs and websites. One of the best features of their system is that the network is comprised mostly of domains submitted by its users. This ensures that ArticleRanks maintains a diverse network of sites for link-building purposes.

All of your articles are drip fed onto on sites that are topic-themed, ensuring that you are receiving the highest quality links and clickthrough rates. Basically, all you need to do is to write your article and then their content assistor to deliver unique versions to every single site.

ArticleRank Plans

Currently, ArticleRanks offers users three types of accounts – you can choose between Free, Starter, or Pro. Which plan you choose will depend on your link building needs.

1. Free Account: The positive thing about a free account is that you can try ArticleRanks before committing any money. As a free member you will have the ability to submit articles onto the network, but you will have to do so by either buying or earning credits. Each article submission “costs” 2 credits. You can earn credits by adding sites to the network and getting articles published on your sites. You can then use those credits for submitting your own articles to the network. With this account you can promote up to 5 domains.

2. Starter Monthly Account: The Starter account is a very reasonable at only $39.99 per month and with this account you can promote up to 10 domains at a time. You don’t have to add a blog (although you can if you want to) and you can submit an unlimited amount of articles each month. It also includes a number of other features like distribution of articles via FTP and Email, distribution of articles to social sites, building bookmarks into distributed articles and a price freeze guarantee.

3. Pro Monthly Account: This plan runs $89.99 per month. With this account you will have the same features as with the Starter account, but the biggest differences are that you have the ability to submit your articles to 3 top level categories instead of 1 and you will be able to promote an unlimited number of domains. These benefits are great if you have a large number of different sites to promote. Other benefits include the submission of spun updates to Twitter and Facebook accounts, priority distributions, and unlimited domains per live articles.

Quick Recap

• ArticleRanks is free to join

• Submit unique articles to a huge network of user submitted sites

• Earn credits to submit articles by adding sites to the system or pay a small monthly fee

• Spin your articles manually or with their content assister

• Get links on a huge range of different IP classes

Is ArticleRanks Worth It?

Yes, it’s priced low enough and has a constantly growing network that can move your site move up in the rankings. All of the articles that I have submitted with their service have ended up on a number of different sites and I have tested to ensure that a good number of those articles and links have been indexed.

For me personally, ArticleRanks is an important part of my daily link building routine. The most important factor in my mind for joining any blog network is the quality of the network and ArticleRanks has one of the better ones out there.

While the Pro Package might be a little pricy for some, it is well worth it if have a large number of sites to promote. The Starter Monthly Account is the plan that I currently use and is probably a good place for most people to get started.

Get started for free with ArticleRanks now.

Social Monkee is one of the few totally free backlink builders that actually works well. The service will automatically build backlinks by submitting your content a wide variety of social bookmarking sites all over the web.  I have found the service effective and recommend it highly.

Developed by one of my favorite internet marketers Colin Klinkert, Social Monkee lets you quickly and easily create 25 FREE backlinks every day.  Over a period of a month this adds up to over 750 backlinks – all for free. If you upgrade to the premium version this number increases to 9,000 backlinks every month, for life!

Social Monkee has also developed a Firefox plugin that allows you to submit your content to social bookmarking sites quickly and easily from one source.

Social Monkee Free Account

For anyone looking for a free backlinking system that is about as easy as it gets, Social Monkee couldn’t be easier. As a free member you will have the ability to submit one URL for backlinking once per day. In all, SocialMonkee will give you 25 backlinks from it’s own private network of more than 100 sites. That’s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 each month.

Their service allows for spinnable content, which keeps duplicate information from being posted across thousands of social bookmarking accounts and possibly incurring search engine penalties to your site(s). As a free, easy to use option Social Monkee can be a great tool to combine with your other backlinking methods.

Social Monkee Premium Account

If you want to go beyond the free 25 unique backlinks per day, you will need to upgrade to a Premium or Elite account. As a Premium member, you can submit 3 URLs to 100 sites everyday – that’s a total of 2,100 backlinks every week, 9,000 every month!

As I try to avoid any services that that require me to sign up for a monthly subscription, a Social Monkee premium account is available for a reasonable one-time payment of $47. However, you can also be automatically upgraded to premium status if you refer 12 persons that sign up for a free account. With a premium account you will have access to a free link report and an RSS feed of all of your backlinks to get them indexed faster.

Social Monkee Elite Account

With a Social Monkee Elite account you will have the ability to get 150 backlinks 3 times daily, Auto-Pinging of your backlinks, and the ability to schedule Up to 45 Submissions at once. That’s up to 2 weeks worth of daily submissions! Elite members also are able to earn 40% commissions on all Elite Referrals through Clickbank.

Quick Recap

• Social Monkee is FREE to join

• No experience needed

• Free Account allows you to build 25 backlinks EVERY DAY

• Premium Account allows you to build 300 backlinks EVERY DAY

• Sites are on UNIQUE C-Class IP addresses/domains

• Dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pages and posts

• Improved search engine indexing, rankings, and increased traffic

Closing Thoughts

We all know that creating a variety of different kinds of backlinks is the key to an effective overall backlinking strategy. Social Monkee allows you to create 25 backlinks to your website for free, every day. When upgrading to a Premium account, it’s only onetime payment of $47 (or refer 12 people) and you’ll be able to get an impressive 100 backlinks to 3 URLs a day.

One of the features about Social Monkee that I particularly like ithat they provide RSS feeds of all the links they build for you.  You can then take these feeds and regularly ping them to the RSS aggregator sites.

I’ve also found that Social Monkee especially helpful for quickly firing off a large number of backlinks to your Web 2.0 properties including Hubpages, EZineArticles, Squidoo Lenses, etc.

Become a member of Social Monkee now while it is still free!

While there are a number of different ways to make money online including article marketing, social media marketing, PPC (Pay Per Click), etc, there are two main ways that I recommend to get started making money online:

1. Make Money With Affiliate Marketing: This means choosing the best affiliate programs or offers with high conversion rates. This would include joining the affiliate programs of popular sites like eBay, Amazon, Clickbank and Google Adsense.

2. Make Money With PTC (Paid To Click) Sites: A PTC site is a website that pays its members for the ads they click and view, on a daily basis. Popular and trusted PTC sites include Neobux, Clixsense and GetBuxToday.

I have written a fairly comprehensive guide to earning money with PTC Sites and you can download it for free here.

Getting Started

With either of these methods there are only three things that you need to get started making money: A domain name, a web hosting account and an autoresponder.

Domain Name

To get started the first thing that I would recommend is to register a domain name. I personally use Godaddy. I would suggest using a registrar that is separate from your hosting company. The reason that I recommend keeping your hosting and domain registrar separate is so that you can switch to a new hosting company easily if you ever find a better deal on a hosting package.

Web Hosting

Next, you will want to go to Hostgator and get a basic web hosting account. You will want to get a plan that will allow you to have an unlimited number of domains, and this should cost you around $5.00 per month. I use WordPress as the content management system for all of my sites, and if you purchase your hosting account through Hostgator, it’s really easy to set up. Just go to the “Fantastico” link on your control panel and create a new WordPress install

If you are working on a really tight budget, you can get started by using a site like Weebly to create a website for free. As soon as you can afford it however I would recommend paying the few extra dollars each month for hosting and you can have full control of your site with no banners or ads.

Autoresponders

What exactly is an an autoresponder? Basically, it is a program that enables you to automatically send emails to people (your leads). Now an autoresponder will not compose emails for you and it doesn’t involve spam or sending unsolicited email. What it will do is allow you to set up a sequence of pre-written emails that are sent out to the prospects in your database at regular, frequent intervals.

The importance of having a reliable autoresponder cannot be underestimated. As you go along in your internet marketing career, you will hear all of the internet marketing gurus tell you that the money is in the list. There is a good reason for this. Online marketing specialists know this to be a fact: The more prospects (leads) that you have on your mailing list that are interested in your products or services, the more sales you will make.