Today we have an exclusive interview with Gary Becks who’s the creator of Automated Backlinks Monthly and Link Juice Maximizer.

1. Can you give us some background on yourself?

I’m a young entrepreneur who resides in Atlanta,Ga. I have been involved with internet marketing for about 2 years now and I love every minute of it!

Prior to beginning my career in internet marketing I owned (and still own) a few music studios in the Atlanta area. Due to the fact that all of my offline business was/is pretty much hands off and I have always been somewhat technically inclined I began browsing the internet for ways to earn an extra income online.

In late 2008 I launched my first website which was monetized via the Google Adsense program and I received my first check not long after, from that point on I have been addicted to Internet Marketing and SEO..

2. How did you first get started in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

For me it was never a hard decision. I knew from day one that I didn’t want to pay for all of my traffic and I wasn’t convinced that traffic from social media would ever convert well, so that left me with only one option; SEO…

In the beginning I launched website after website trying to utilize new methods that I had read about on various forums and in eBooks. In the end most of them failed, but those that were successful were very successful so I stuck with and reinvented those tactics. Looking back I learned everything the hard way but it really did pay off in the end…

3. Please give our readers some background on what your product, service or membership is/are about and how it will help the readers?

At the present time I have two products along with my pal Pat Jackson. The first is Automated Backlinks Monthly… This product or service rather has become very popular in a short period of time and it’s pretty obvious why, it works! It includes a plethora of extremely simple to use bots that will automate the process of profile linking, blog posting, and soon Web 2.0 account creation/posting and Press release submission…

My second offering is Link Juice Maximizer which in my opinion is a one of a kind service that surpasses every other product/service of it’s kind. All real SEO’s know that backlinks won’t count for much if the search engines don’t know that they exist.

What Link Juice Maximizer does is make all of your links count and count for much, much more than they originally would have and it does it all on total auto-pilot. With other products/services you are going either be at the mercy of the Web 2.0 properties that they utilize, have to spend far too much time or money for them to be effective, or they just plain DON’T WORK.

With Link Juice Maximizer we feel that we have addressed all of the problems that other products have and implemented all of the features that they lack…

Check Out Automated Backlinks Monthly => http://winsonyeung.com/ABM

Check Out Link Juice Maximizer => http://winsonyeung.com/LinkJuiceMaxmizer

All of the products that we create and plan to create are helpful to the readers because we always have one thing in mind, to save you time and to make your online business as hands off as possible…

4. How did you come up with the idea for this kind of product, service or membership?

In regards to both of our services they were created out of pure necessity, nothing more… Whenever we have a new product or service in mind the idea for it comes from the fact that it is something that we need to use for our own sites.

From that point it’s mostly a matter of trying to figure out the best way to automate the process of whatever it is that we are trying to do and making it as user friendly as possible. I believe we achieve this very well with all of our products and services…

5. Who is your target market for your product, service or membership site?

The target market for all of our services is anyone who is interested in making money online via SEO and doing so in the most hands off/automated fashion possible. I believe in working smarter as opposed to harder and that is the idea behind all of our products, to help Internet Marketers manage their time better by using our services to automate processes that would take lots of time and manual labor otherwise…

6. What are the 3 important SEO strategies you use to rank for your website?

1.) Keyword Research - This is always a critical step to ranking a website in my humble opinion. Far too many times I have seen people new to IM launch websites targeting keyword phrases that are too competitive for even the most experienced SEO’s to rank for and then 3-6 months down the line wonder why they still aren’t ranking and receiving traffic.

From my experience keyword research is always the first and most important step to ranking websites in Google… The better you are at it the easier everything else becomes…

2.) On Page SEO - It is always a good practice to optimize your website via on page SEO before moving on to building links. This part of the process is always the easiest for me as almost all of my sites are built using wordpress which is very easy to optimize with the use of the proper plugins (some paid, some free) and settings.

3.) Consistent Link Building - Last but definitely not least is link building which is something that should be done consistently and is best to automate whenever possible in my opinion. Link building could very well be the most important part of SEO there is. I say this because you could never rank a website in any mid/high competition niche without a good link building strategy in place but you could more than likely do so with poor on page SEO or keyword research.

7. Can you tell us about the single most important thing SEO mistake you should have avoid in the process of ranking high in the search engine?

Well, one of the first mistakes I made in my online career was attempting to create websites based on keywords or niches that I felt I was actually passionate about. Now I am not saying that there is anything necessarily wrong with this as some people might actually be interested in good converting/low competition niches, but in my case I was making sites without giving thought to whether or not I could rank for my chosen keywords.

For instance, one of my first sites was “wieghtlosscentral.blogspot.com”. It was a huge failure because it would have taken me forever to rank for the term “weight loss”, (something I learned soon after).

Another big mistake I made early on was creating websites with web 2.0 properties as opposed to domains that I owned.. I can’t stress enough how important it is as an Internet Marketer to own all of the properties that you plan to monetize in any way. I used to write tons of Ezine Aticles, HubPages, and had over 30 or 40 Blogger blogs that I relied on. I didn’t realize the err in my ways until the emails started flowing in about what I could and couldn’t do with the sites and accounts started being closed..

I also think that buying every SEO software that I saw because I felt I needed it after reading a hyped up sales copy wasn’t very smart either. I literally have an entire desktop full of software on my laptop that I have never and probably never will use..

8. Anything you want to add on

I am a firm believer in only taking part in business endeavors that I believe I will actually enjoy. Unlike many people who are involved with Internet Marketing and SEO I actually love what I do so it’s not a job for me.. I love learning new techniques to implement into my overall SEO strategy, I love creating and learning to use new SEO software, I love creating a new site from scratch and seeing it go from nothing to the number one spot!

Every day of my online career is a new adventure that I can’t wait to embark upon and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I can think of thousands of easier/better ways to make more money but I doubt I would enjoy or be as passionate about any of them as much as Internet Marketing.

That being said I would like to encourage anyone who reads this and is interested in pursuing a career in Internet Marketing to be sure that it is something that they are genuinely interested in as opposed to something that they are doing solely for the purpose of potential monetary gain. It will be too much like work and in the end you will never really succeed (even if you do make a few bucks) because you will never feel truly free…

Check Out Automated Backlinks Monthly => http://winsonyeung.com/ABM

Check Out Link Juice Maximizer => http://winsonyeung.com/LinkJuiceMaxmizer