Hey great advice. This might just be what I need at the moment.
I think the bonus links come from blogrolls section of the article directories on the network. I say this because when I tried to customize the article directory (index.php) I put on my website, I saw the following tag under the Blogroll section "~bonuslink~". Maybe this tag gets replaced by links to other members' websites.
By the way, my website is waiting for approval by EAL (EZArticleLink). I have a few questions and will be grateful if you can shed some light on them:
- Will the article directory I install on my website populate articles that aren't related to my niche? For example: Lets say my website is "trainingmydog dot com". Now imagine having articles on finance, fashion, etc. on this website. Will this affect my Google rankings in any way, since the articles aren't related to my niche?
- Once your website is approved by EAL, do you move the link to your article directory to an internal page, rather than keeping it on the home page, so that it's difficult to find for your readers? If so, does EAL ban your website if they find this out?
- Have you ever had a lot of backlinks disappearing, when people close down their websites/article directories? Do this happen often?
- Ok this is more of a speculation rather than a question. Please feel free to ignore it if you feel like. So let's say someone uses EAL to blast articles across the network. After they get a few hundred backlinks from various article directories, they enter their website in Yahoo Site Explorer and view the various directories they are getting backlinks from, Now can't they find out cool niche ideas by looking at those article directories' homepages. Hence, wouldn't putting up an EAL article directory on your website make your niche/idea vulnerable to theft by letting websites that you are linking to, spy on your website? Of course, this can be avoided by never setting up an EAL article directory on your money websites. Have you ever faced this problem of new competitors sprining up when you setup an article directory on your low competition websites?
Once again thanks for writing the original post. Now I just hope that everyone keeps thinking you wrote the original post to make a few bucks. That would mean less competition for all of us who use EAL