One of the biggest problem a lot of people have is coming up with content to use in link building. Building links is a very necessary part of lens building. If you don’t build links to your lens you won’t rank in Google. If you don’t rank in Google you don’t get free traffic. You don’t get free traffic, you don’t make sales.
It all hinges on building or creating enough links pointing at your lens to bring it up in the search results for your keyword.
This can be time consuming, and is my least favorite part. 
There are plenty of free places you can create these links, especially since the advent of all these web 2.0 (user generated content) sites. Let’s look at some:
Free ad blogs:
These are blogs that people run and allow you to put posts on. They make money off of adsense but you get to put links in your content so it’s a win/win.
Here’s some of the free ad blogs I use:
Here’s where it gets tough. You have to write a unique article for each of these sites. While it doesn’t have to be a 500 page article it should be at least 200 words ~ and some have a 250 or more word limit.
If writing is not your thing, this could take a whole day.
Being able to create quality content to add to these sites with your link is key to your success.
There are tools out there, like PLR (private label rights) that you can use to make this process easier, but if you want to make it even easier this is it.
Yeah I know the name is a little hokie, but it comes from Jonathon Leger ~ who I respect and have bought many products and services from. I watched the video of how this thing works last night and even though I haven’t bought and used it (because writing a lot isn’t really that tough for me) I can see that it works, and works very well.
It is basically a template. It has pre-written sentences, and you fill in the blanks with specific words that relate to what you’re writing about. It will auto fill some of the blanks for you based on blanks you’ve already filled in.
You can save your article, and hit refresh and it will create an entirely new article from what you already did in the template.
You have the ability to choose how long of an article you want, the type of article template you want to write, add spinning to the article itself, and so much more.
If writing was an issue for me I would be jumping on this. I’m still debating about it, just because it seriously creates unique 300 word articles in under 5 minutes (more like 3 minutes).
If writing and linking has been your “stuck” point I highly recommend you take a look at the video (it’s 13 minutes long but goes really fast) and see if this might get you over that hump.
Remember… free ad blogs are only the first round of links to build.
There’s also…
blogger blog posts
hubpages
blog posts on your own blog network
Google knol posts
Wetpaint posts
Article directory submissions
In a Web 2.0 world the ability to create unique content is a huge factor. If you can get that part down pat, you’ll be miles ahead of the rest. Once you get the content creation part down building links is easy ~ and once you get the links, well… then comes the traffic!
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The Writers Block Unblocked site does not work. It looks like it works…at first…the first page seems is fine and you can submit articles. But click on any of the links and you are taken to a 404 error page.
well that happens sometimes. There may just be a problem that will be fixed… so check back another time and see if it’s fixed.
I use the best spinner which is also a product by Jonathan Ledger. It is really easy to use and is always being updated with new functions. I really like the feature that tells you how unique your article is, if you are rewriting your content.
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Has anyone used the instant article factory software? I have the best spinner, somehow I cannot become a fan of spinning tool as yet. I still prefer to rewrite quickly. However I would love to hear about this tool as I need to push out more content faster and outsourcing can be expensive.
Hi Ingrid ~ it doesn’t actually use spinning.
It’s a template and you just fill in words ~ then much like UAW it will change it for you automatically when you refresh.
Watch the video and check it out ~ see if it’s something you think would be helpful to you. The video is very thorough, and walks through the whole process of creating an article and unique versions of it.
Thanks a lot..I have been implementing this for sometimes and one of my lenses in on the second page of google.
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