Link Building Guide Part 8 – Kaboodle

Welcome to the 8th part of the Earners Blog Link Building Masterclass, this particular technique is great for getting deep links into individual products that you’re selling on shopping or affiliate sites, it’s also great for driving traffic & potential buyers to the products on your site (outside of search engines).

Before I begin, hat tip to Ruck over at Cash Tactics for taking this technique a step further & sending traffic direct to affiliate offers on Kaboodle, it’d be interesting to see some stats on how well this method works for generating affiliate income. However, I always prefer, if possible, sending as much traffic to my own sites.

Why?

Well if they’re not on my site then I’ve got no way of getting them signed up to my product mailing list (which = $$$ down the track).

Kaboodle is more or less a Social shopping website. It allows users (& merchants) to add products via a link on your Browser Toolbar to the sytem, you can also create favourites, lists & wishlists, which are all viewable to the public. You can see what other people are buying & even make friends with people who have similar buying interests.

More & more people are now using Kaboodle to shop & find deals on certain products, & since the content is user generated they can often come across some mighty fine deals (that wouldn’t normally be found on paid shopping comparison websites).

This technique is pretty simple, we’re going to create some lists on Kaboodle relating to some products on one of our Ebay Affiliate Websites. Or if you’re a merchant with physical stock or dropshipping stock you can start by adding products from your Ecommerce Store.

Signup

Signup is fairly easy, make sure & add as many descriptive tags to your user profile as possible. This helps you profile get indexed much quicker & gives it a bit more SEO weight.

Once you’re done grab the “Add to Kaboodle” Bookmark for your Toolbar.

Adding Products

Ok so now that I’m done I’ll add 10-15 products from the DJ Gear site I originally used in my Ebay Website Example. You can see the finished list here at my Kaboodle Studio Equipment Page.

When adding products try to add as many tags as you can to the listing, this gets you heaps more exposure for searches & also gets your product listed on more pages.

I could sit here all night & add hundreds of products, therefore having deep links into individual products on my site. This should really help with trying to rank those products that are buried quite deep in your sites & it should also help you increase rankings for the products you currently rank well for.

Indexing & Ranking

You’ll notice that each product page links back to the original website.

It’s hard to say how well Kaboodle helps with ranking, I’ve certainly seen it help many more of my pages out of the supplemental index & into the main index. So I guess you could say that’s a big help with ranking.

Secondly I’ve also seen the Kaboodle Product pages get indexed in Google in a matter of minutes, which is a strong indicator of an authority site.

Everyone is Happy

You’re getting links & traffic to your site, Kaboodle is growing their product database & growing their search engine traffic by having new ranges of products & product pages constantly.

You only have to look at the Alexa graph to show how much traffic all this user generated content is driving to their site: