Creating content that is viral is a great way to increase your exposure on the net. One excellent tool used by bloggers for viral linking is the Meme. It was used heavily when I first entered the blogosphere in 2005. Some Memes have been successful in increasing Technorati authority, such as the one spread by DoshDosh. Haven’t had the opportunity to participate in any Memes? Don’t know why you should participate in a Meme? Continue reading to learn about some of the benefits.
Memes are a great way for bloggers to accomplish several things.
1. It’s a great way to find new interesting blogs.
2. It’s a simple way to increase your backlinks.
3. Memes can increase your traffic.
4. They can help in your branding efforts.
5. One may even make some money from the added traffic.
Stephanie from Stop the Ride (a debt reduction blogger and creator of the Make it From Scratch blog carnival) has tagged me. I haven’t participated in one of these in a very long time. I thought it would be a great way to involve the readers of this blog. I welcome everyone to participate, even if I don’t tag you. I can only tag 5 people, so I encourage everyone to copy and paste the Meme and participate even if you weren’t tagged.
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I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!)
It’s real easy!
Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!
The benefits of Viral Linking:
- One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
- Increase your Google PageRank fast
- Attract large volume of new traffic to your site
- Build your community
- Make new friends!
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Link baiting is not evil. Although some bloggers tend to go beyond any ethical considerations in their attempts to enforce as many reciprocal links as possible, the term itself stands for a completely organic nature of the Web – actually, something that has already been here for a while. Traditional link building, used to be bounded with Search Engine Optimization, is now being extended with the aspect of so-called Social Media Optimization – with Digg, StumbleUpon, Netscape, Del.icio.us & Co. on the bandwagon. Driving traffic to your site has become easier, but requires through-out strategies and understanding some basic rules of useful content and effective content marketing.
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The world’s top link building experts get together to provide a single source of never-before revealed link building tips, tricks and strategies.
What happens when you ask some of the world’s foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond!
Over the years of studying and implementing SEO and link building strategies I have found that with all the information readily available, very little of it is actually revealing in any real way. I set out to remedy that. I asked each of the experts below to disclose ONE link building secret that they use and are pretty sure hasn’t ever been made public. The secret could be in the form of a strategy, tactic, way to analyze, a tool that you use (one that is publicly available), etc. I didn’t ask anybody to give away their best secret and asked that they don’t share anything that’s easy and/or likely to be abused by spammers.
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If you want to become an expert you need to start thinking like one. People perceive you as an authority in your field not because you claim you are, but by listening to what you say or reading what you write. From my personal experience, the key seems to be the originality, usefulness and depth of what you have to share. Recently I was very honored to contribute to a link-building project. I wanted to share with you my idea, but more than that, in this blog I like to take extra time to explain the original thought process that helped me come up with the idea in the first place.
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In the SEO industry agencies, experts and even bloggers have adopted a special mode of speech not to say slang that might be misunderstood by outsiders like clients, website visitors or the general public. To help you understand what search engine optimization experts really mean I devised this real glossary of SEO speak:
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Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?
In this article we put the facts straight.
If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, you know about the concept of linkbait. This is content that is so cool or useful or entertaining that people can’t resist linking to it, thus improving your page rank and your position in the search engine results pages. But how do you get the word out about your linkbait?At base, the Internet is one big network – the largest in the world, granted, but still one big network. If you want your linkbait to attract visitors to your web site, you’re going to have to use the network to put it where they can see it. Quite literally, you’re going to have to network.
You don’t necessarily have to put all of your linkbait in places where it can be seen. You can set lures to your linkbait, in a manner of speaking. For instance, you may have engaged in pay-per-click campaigns. Have you considered starting one to promote your linkbait? To take a very basic example, if you put the term “mortgage calculator” into Google you get more than five million hits; you also get eight sponsored results on the right, including one with the words “Mortgage Calculator” as the active link.
I don’t often click on sponsored listings, but if I was thinking about how much home I could afford I wouldn’t have any qualms about clicking on those links. It’s obvious that they’re highly relevant to my search. If you can lure relevant traffic to your web site, there’s every chance that they’ll bookmark your linkbait, pass the link on to friends (after all, most of us have friends with similar interests), and maybe even link to it themselves.
In short, however you get visitors to your site, from whatever source or in whatever venue, once they’re at your site, they’re likely to link to it if you give them what they’re looking for. With a pay per click campaign, you may not have a lot of room in the ad itself, but you can focus it tightly to your linkbait. In this way, searchers will know you’re giving them what they expected.
Finish readhing this article at SEOChat.
I’ve trod the links with many a man,
And played him club for club;
‘Tis scarce a year since I began
And I am still a dub.
But this I’ve noticed as we strayed
Along the bunkered way,
No one with me has ever played
As he did yesterday.
It makes no difference what the drive,
Together as we walk,
Till we up to the ball arrive,
I get the same old talk:
“Today there’s something wrong with me,
Just what I cannot say.
Would you believe I got a three
For this hole–yesterday?”
I see them top and slice a shot,
And fail to follow through,
And with their brassies plough the lot,
The very way I do.
To six and seven their figures run,
And then they sadly say:
“I neither dubbed, nor foozled one
When I played–yesterday.”
I have no yesterdays to count,
No good work to recall;
Each morning sees hope proudly mount,
Each evening sees it fall.
And in the locker room at night,
When men discuss their play,
I hear them and I wish I might
Have seen them–yesterday,
Oh, dear old yesterday! What store
Of joys for men you hold!
I’m sure there is no day that’s more
Remembered or extolled.
I’m off my task myself a bit,
My mind has run astray;
I think, perhaps, I should have writ
These verses–yesterday.
Edgar Guest
