Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could trade equity in a website that I just started in exchange for marketing? I was thinking maybe I could give something like 10% or 15% ownership to someone or some group of people who would in turn be in charge of marketing and making the website big. The website just launched yesterday and I’m not doing too well in getting it out there. I think I need someone with much more experience in marketing and publicizing. Any recommendations would be great. Thanks a lot.
The website by the way is www.polltopia.com, and it’s a site where users can create polls for other people around the world to vote in (sort of similar to yahoo answers, except with polls). You can also view statistics about who voted, including votes by state/country, gender and age group. Commenting on polls is also permitted. The site uses a secret algorithm to ensure that even non-registered users can only vote once (even if they delete their cookies, clear their history, etc.). Thanks again.

Recently, Google released another algorithm update which have drastically decreased the rank for many small business websites, especially those in affiliate marketing. Has anyone also noticed a dramatic increase in their click-through-rates? Even if you did not see your rankings drop…

Well…what Chris (the moderator) has said in the past that backlinking isn’t SEO – how true that is.
Here’s the deal. For the past year, I have seen some of my backlinks take some of my client’s websites to the first page in both competitive and non-competitive niches. However, the last three months, backlinks – especially sig links (where I used to call them my “bread and butter” links) – have not taken any of my client’s websites up in the SERPs. Article marketing, Press Releases, Web 2.0, nothing is working anymore. Sure – I’m getting decent referral traffic – but as far as organic…nothing. I’ve paid other people to backlink to different sites as well for testing purposes – nothing.
I’m here today to say from my tests and others – that backlinking is dead if we want to go about it SEO wise. It can get you some solid referral traffic – but I really don’t believe that backlinks help any sites move up the SERPs.
I believe possibly Google has changed their algorithm – because in the past – backlinking has helped me in the SERPs. That’s no longer the case.
I’ll leave my sig links on like the ones below for referral traffic….
Just wondering if anyone has noticed a difference with their backlinking? Do you believe that it is dead when it comes in boosting your site up in the SERPs?