I am not but I assume a lot of them have otehr methods of marketing as well
I think manually submitting to a few is better than automatically submittingn to hundreds.
The problem is most people try affiliate marketing for the internet marketing niche. Move on to something else.
Google is always watching, don't do anything you wouldn't want them to know about. Ultimately they can figure it out if they want.
Link exchanges should be pretty helpful as long as the people you are linking to do not have any fishy websites like duplicate content or...
Don't pay people to submit to directories, better to use that money to write articles so you can submit them to article directories or better yet...
Make sure you use the anchor for the keywords for which you want to rank
Your best bet is to start building links, get your link out in as many avenues as you can.
Do you mean getting ranked higher, or getting indexed. Either way, your best bet is to get links by commenting on blogs forums, submit to social...
I never heard of scrapebox, sounds interesting, there are other services that show you competitors links though, is it the same?
Blog commenting should help, but don't make it your only strategy, try to guest post or find a way to get your link inside the actual post.
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