The most profitable online activity is…
… building links to your websites that bring you better page rank in the search engines.

The above may not be an exact quote of Scot Standke’s comment, but it’s close. Scot runs a website called NicheADay where you can get a lot of free information about what he considers to be hot niches.  I’ve been receiving his newsletter for a long time.

But, building backlinks is a huge part of getting traffic (visitors) to your website.  Google
considers these a very important part of how they will rank your website in their search engine.  The same is also true of Yahoo, MSN, and any other search engine.  If you have some backlinks on authority sites, you can soon see your web pages showing up in the search engine results

Poor Quality Backlinks Won’t Help You Much

Backlinks from websites with poor Google page rank won’t do you much good. Google ranks pages from 0-10 based on how they see any site as an ”information authority” for a given subject.  So, if your site is about how to use mothballs to keep mosquitoes away, and another site, well regarded by Google, is about methods to control insects, then having a link to your website on that authority site can bring you a lot of visitors

I use Google a lot when talking about page rank, backlinks, keywords, and other SEO subjects because as of March, 2009, Google is used by 72% of all people searching on the Internet.  The other two, of the big 3, Yahoo and MSN share the remaining users, but they are still very important. But, back to backlinks, and how you go about getting high value backlinks pointing to your website.

1. You must focus on an important keyword that searchers are using to find websites that have
   information they need and/or want.  That means you need access to the best Google keyword tool you can afford.  Because keyword selection is the starting point of good search engine optimization (SEO), there is a large supply of keyword tools on the Internet.
2. Now that you’ve got your keyword, you need to discover what sites, among your competitors, are using that keyword.  The easiest way is to simply use Google, Yahoo, MSN, or any other search engine.  Look at page one of their search results.  On that page is where you will find your strongest
   competition.  It’s also where you may find a WEAK competitor that you can replace in the search results.
3. Pick out one of those sites, preferably one in the top 5-6, and learn how many backlinks thay
   have and on which websites those backlinks are located so you can get backlinks there for your site.

If you have gotten this far, it now becomes your job to get backlinks of your own on those same, and other, websites related to your most important keyword.

My three point plan sounds easy, right?  Well, steps 1 and 2 are easy, but it gets a lot tougher digging out the information required in step 3.  That’s where a good search engine optimization tool (SEO tool) comes in.

In my experience, there’s not a single FREE keyword/backlink tool that can do the job without a lot of extra, time consuming effort on your part.  But, there is a tool that I use that makes the job a lot easier.  Not only does Precision Keyword Finder give you a lot of in-depth keyword information, but it also can dig out that priceless information you need about your competition’s backlinks.

For everything that PKF does to help your keyword/backlink research, it is very moderately priced. Last time I checked, it was only $37, including lifetime upgrades, and a 60 day, 100% money back guarantee.

Here’s what the backlink analysis part of Precision Keyword Finder will tell you.

1. Which websites are on Google’s page 1 results for your chosen keyword.
2. What is the page rank of each of the top 10.
3. How many backlinks are reported by Google for each of the top 10 websites.

After choosing one of the top 10 websites to analyze further, you can collect the following.
1. URLs of all the webites reported as having backlinks to the subject site.
2. Whether or not the backlink uses anchor text, and if so, what the text is.
3. The page rank of each of those sites having backlinks to the subject site.
4. Whether the backlink is a DOFOLLOW or a NOFOLLOW.

If you’ve read this far, I’d appreciate a response about both the structure of the report, and if there is something I can add to make it better.

There are 3 critical factors that you must know to get your web site started on the road to ranking on page one of all the major search engines.

The backlinks that you want to get are ones that show up on popular web sites having a Google page rank (PR) of 3 or higher. When you have high value backlinks to your website, the search engines will see them, and know that what you are saying on your site has value to searchers. This is off page search engine optimization (SEO) at its’ best.

So, let’s get into what these three backlink factors are, and how you discover where to find quality PR sites using a backlink checker.

1. Just who is your weakest Google page 1 competition?
2. How many backlinks does this competitor have?
3. On What Websites Are These Backlinks Located?

STEP 1: Before you start deep spying on your competition’s backlinks with any form of backlink checker, you have to know just who your competition is. The simplest test is to find out what page rank Google has given this competitor. Since this is about backlinks, let’s look at the page rank for a web site that has a online backlink checker tool. By using that tool, I learned that the site has a page rank of only 1, but still shows up on Google’s first page, in position 6 as of this writing, for the keyword “backlink checker”.

Wouldn’t it be great if you found such a weak site for your keywords? You better believe it would be. A listing on Google’s first page organic search results is invaluable for your marketing. The nice thing about this first, important step in checking for backlinks is that there are quite a few free backlink checkers online. Just Google the term “page rank checker”, and you will find them.

STEP 2: You will need to get an idea of how many backlinks your competitors have so you know how many you need to compete with them in the off page search engine optimization area.

There are free backlink tools online that will tell you how many backlinks any particular site has. Keep in mind that the results may not be an exact count, but they are close enough to use for your purpose. It’s actually quite amazing to me how many sites with poor page rank, but with lots of off page backlinks, manage to get on Google’s page one for their keyword. If you have a keyword that’s not searched very often, it is fairly easy to do that. Once again, just Google the term “backlink checker” and you will find them.

STEP 3: How Do You Find Out Where Your Competitor’s Backlinks Are? This step is where you will need help that, unfortunately, for good help isn’t free. There is one backlink checker that is a free download, but I didn’t have very useful results with it. Google “tattler”, and you will find it.

The tool I use to learn about backlinks for the keyword “backlink checker” is also a terrific for keyword discovery, and uses Google’s own keyword tool for the best results. You can read more about it by clicking the link in my signature file. But here’s what you can learn if you had the tool I use.

1.Top 10 competitors for your chosen keyword.
2.Clickable URLs so you can take a look at the competition’s web site right from the keyword tool.
3.What the page rank is, and number of backlinks that show up for my competitor. The site I analyzed has 731 backlinks, and you can see the URLs for every one of them, and by double clicking on a URL, you can see if that site is a good place for your backlink too. Just between you and me, most of those backlinks were very poor quality. You can find out for yourself if you use the tool I use.

I bought it (it’s selling for only $37.00 for a limited time, so you better get it ASAP before the price goes up), I use it, I get easy to understand results from it, and I can say without any hesitation that it gives me more information than my copy of Micro Niche Finder, which now sells at discount for $97.00. I also bought Keyword Elite Version 1 a while back. I think I paid around $130.00 for it. It’s a good tool, with lots of features, but there’s a very steep learning curve, and the latest version sells for almost $200.00. So, check out my find here. You won’t regret it.

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Here’s the list of what my best Google keyword tool will tell you for any particular keyword, or for the entire list of keywords that you can import from Google’s keyword tool.

1. Current Monthly Local Search Volume-This number is Google’s search volume for the last complete month.
2. Highest Volume Was In-The month of highest search volume for the past 12 months. If you are selling seasonal products, this is something you MUST know.
3. # of True Competitors-This is how many pages in Google’s Index that have been properly optimized for a particular keyword.
4. # of Results-Total number of pages containing your keyword.
5. # of Advertisers-How many Adwords ads are showing up for your keyword.

Unlike some keyword subscription services that charge you monthly whether you use them or not, these results are pulled directly from the Google Keyword Tool in real time and then processed in ways that give you “true” results.

Here’s more things that my ideal keyword finder can do (and that more expensive programs can’t).

These features help you find the weakest Google page 1 website listed for your chosen keyword. This is the website that you will target so that you can replace it with your own.

1. Create a list of the top 10 websites on Google for your chosen keyword.
2. Check those 10 websites for Page Rank and number of Backlinks. When you find a weak website, one with a page rank of 3 or less and not a lot of backlinks, you have found your target.
3. Find all the sites that have backlinks pointing to your target website and evaluate the page rank for those websites. This tells you the quality of those backlinks.
4. Find which backlinks have your keyword as anchor text. Backlinks without anchor text are virtually useless in Googles’ eyes.

Your job then is to make your website and backlinks better than your weakest competitor in Google’s top 10 organic search results so your site will show up there.

So there you have it. I bought my ideal keyword finder tool, and you can too for a LIMITED TIME ONLY, get Precision Keyword Finder now for JUST $37 with a 60 day 100% money back guarantee.