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This is a great technique and works good. I use these techniques and i m satisfied with it. Natural links are always good.
These links will be from related niche and your rankings will improve...

Peerfly and maxbounty are good cpa networks.

MNS websites are good for making $10-$20 per month. But instead of concentrating on mns website i started to build authority websites. Takes same amount of time and work to rank on page 1.

Here are the tools i use:

1. Keyword Research: Adwords/ Semrush
2. SEO competition: Market Samurai and Semrush
3. Backlinks: Scrapebox and Senuke

According to me Alexa rank is important. If you are planning to sell your website then start improving alexa rank. Lots of buyers check the alexa rank before buying websites.