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Sites like MySpace, Squidoo, and EzineArticles seem to have appeared over night and just continue to grow as time progresses. The secret to their growth is User Generated Content. You may not have given this concept much thought up until now, but think about it for a second. How long would it take you to develop your site to the point of having over 100,000 indexed web pages? Even if you are very focused and can create 5 good content pages a day, it will still take you a good 55 years to reach that point.

Basically, you need help to get that big. MySpace boasts having over 100 million members currently. Think about that for a second. Just how much Adsense and other advertising revenue do you think they are making from having their users on their site? Well, in 2005 MySpace had about 26.7 million members and was purchased for about $580 million. (I mentioned this earlier in a previous post, bare with me.) If you take into account the 100 million current members and the fact that companies are valued at assets plus one half their annual income, that puts MySpace at making $4.4 billion annually.

FriendsWin is attempting to compete in the same market, but I think they will go much further since they are paying their members for inviting more members. In either case, User Generated Content offers the ability to create these enormous websites before you are getting seniors discounts at the movies. (Sorry if I offended anyone.) Luckily, there is a software currently in development that will enable you to develop your own User Generated Content pages on your site. You can add it to any html website, plus you can customize the header, left and right panels, footer, ect. to look just like the rest of your site or another site altogether if you wish.

The software is called Content Avalanche for good reason. Imagine the amount of passive income you can generate with this software. With regular content pages that are displaying your Adsense you could pretty much quit your day job if you have one. I estimate from my other websites that you can generate about $200 a month with about 400 indexed content pages and about 300 visitors per day on the average. I am estimating that with proper promotion and about a years worth of growth, you could have about 50,000 indexed content pages on your site. That’s about $25000 a month in Adsense income! Just imagine if you purchased your own advertising management script and sold advertising on your own terms.

If you are interested in adding the power of User Generated Content to your site, then visit www.contentavalanche.org I will do my best to keep you updated with the development of Content Avalanche on the Content Avalanche Updates blog.

Let’s get something straight… Your links need to be relevant to your site if you want them to ever have any SEO value in the first place. Back in the day, Google mainly looked at how many links you had; they didn’t care where your links were coming from. Today; however, things are a little different. Google is not only paying attention to how many links you have, but what types of links they are, where they are coming from, the priority of ranking assigned to your linking partner ect.

In order to successfully build links to your site, you first have to recognize what keyword you are attempting to rank for, then you can begin to work on link building. If you are attempting to target a keyword like “affiliate marketing” then you should link to your site through that keyphrase. This goes for links both on and off of your site. For example, instead of calling your homepage “Home”, call it “Affiliate Marketing” or whatever keyphrase you are targeting.

Use this linking principle throughout all of your article writing efforts and you shouldn’t go wrong. As far as going for true Partner Links, you are going to have to follow a few additional rules. First off, no one is going to want to exchange links with you for a reciprocal link, if your Links or Partners page is not indexed in Google. Therefore; your first challenge is to get your Partners page indexed. This may sound easy, but it may take a bit of work because the GoogleBot knows all about Partners pages.

Your Partner Links should be very relevant to your site, most likely they may even bare some resemblance to your site as well. This will be good as far as indicating relevancy to Google. By now you should have realized that Relevancy is the most important piece of the puzzle.

Another question you may have is, “How many Partner Links do I need for my site?” I have some good news for you here. You do not need very many Partner Links. This may not seem to make any sense at first, but it is actually quite simple. If you put too many links on a page without content, then GoogleBot will believe that the page is a link farm. (Page with just loads of irrelevant links.) Link farms are popular from the early stages of the internet when it didn’t matter what quality of link you had, just that you had a lot of them.

I believe that the magic number is 25. It may have changed plus or minus 2 or 3 from time to time, but the number you want to target is 25 very relevant Partner Links. This will reserve your Partners Page as a page that will be looked at differently by GoogleBot. Additionally, you will benefit from the link relevancy of your reciprocal links that are placed on these pages since they will increase the relevance of your Partners Page itself.

Myspace has grown rapidly thus far and currently has over BLAH members all listed as friends. Sometimes I sit back and imagine how many friends I would have on myspace if I had gotten into it early. Recently I have given the most thought into how much myspace makes on a daily basis just from advertising.

In November 2005, myspace had approximately 26.7 million members shortly after they were purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for $580 million. A business is usually valued at assets plus half of what it makes annually. With server farms not considered, and the fact that they now have about 100 million members, I estimate that they are worth about $2.2 billion. This would mean that they are profiting $4.4 billion per year, or $44 per member annually. What if they shared their profits with their members? What if they split the millions of dollars they profit each month? That would not only boost membership, but also make current members go out looking for more friends.

FriendsWin is just like myspace, but instead of keeping all of the advertising profits to themselves, they share it with the members. For this reason alone, I believe that friends win is going to grow faster and stronger then myspace. Check out their growth on Alexa.com.

Additionally, they offer not only similar features to myspace, but even better tools like Video Dating, Marketing tools, Audio creation, Video Conferencing, and more. Some of these services are expensive from other providers.

I have already signed up as an IMR(Independent Marketing Representative) and you should too. To sign up now for free while it lasts, visit the FriendsWin Signup Page and choose me as your sponsor so that we can build our Super Matrix together.

You can check out my profile when you get the opportunity and easily see how much better than myspace this will be especially since members can get paid for inviting new members.

Check out my review of the FriendsWin social network and if you are interested, I also review the FriendsWin affiliate program on my Recommended Affiliate Programs.