I don’t get the appeal of Facebook. I really don’t. It looks crappy (like something designed by a teenager) and it’s got the most gawd-awful user interface I’ve come across in a long, long time.

Yet people love it. Go figure.

And people love it so much, they love it more than Google. Yes, folks, it’s official, Facebook gets more traffic than Google. It’s been acknowledged by Google (who are now fighting back with Google+) and Facebook now has a PageRank of 10, equal to that of the almighty Google itself.

Despite hating the whole Facebook “thing”, as an affiliate marketer I can’t ignore. I’ve tried but it just won’t go away.

Providing more free traffic than Google can shake a stick at means Facebook now has to be factored into the affiliate marketing equation and than means building fanpages (yuck!).

Facebook used to use something called FBML. Haven’t got a clue what it stands for (Flippin’ Bloody Marvellous Language?) but it was dropped in favour of iframes. Whoop-de-do. All that happened while I was looking the other way hoping Facebook would be just another flash-in-the-pan fad.

But no, iframes and Facebook are here to stay. Now I couldn’t be arsed spending time building crappy fanpages with Facebook’s tools and their crappy interface. I want a tool that’s going to take the pain out of it so I won’t end up slitting my wrists at the end of the day.

Well, one such tool trundled into my Inbox today.

There’s lots of emails going out about it – it’s called the Income Hybrid 3in1 Software Suite (catchy title, huh?). It’s 47 bucks and you can click the link to get it if you want.

I found there’s a 1-hour webinar on a special page that only a select few are supposed to see but I’m in a crappy mood what with all the Facebook crappiness I’ve been dealing with today that even though I shouldn’t give you the link…
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I’ve previously written about ways to get backlinks to your sites and pages in these posts:

Using Article Marketing To Get Traffic
Unique Article Wizard Review
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
Getting Traffic To Your Sites – Paid Options

…as well as in my free Blog Linking Tactics report.

A couple of days ago I was contacted about a new bit of software available through the Warrior Forum that would find high-PR pages on blogs on which comments could be left to garner high-PR backlinks to my sites. At $9, Backlink Loophole was a steal.

While the software will identify and list high pagerank pages, you still need to manually write and post comments on the pages it finds. So it’s a semi-automated solution. However, finding high-pagerank pages has never been an easy task and Backlink Loophole takes care of that onerous task. You don’t need to go backlink mad. Writing about 5 comments a day should be possible for anyone and won’t take long. The value of the backlinks you get in return will be worth that small investment in time.

You may have read my two previous posts about methods of getting traffic to your sites using free and paid methods. If you haven’t, take a look at them now:

Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Paid Options

Since I wrote those posts, I’ve been investigating a few other paid methods for getting traffic. Let’s face it, if you want top results in getting traffic, you are going to have to pay for them. And one of those methods, even more popular (because it gets results) than in recent years, is article marketing.

So I’ve looked at three such paid services. All have been around for a while, and all have excellent reputations for achieving results.

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