It’s not always as simple as it sounds. Writing for a blog, I mean. You come up with a great idea, you write the heck out of it in a blog post featuring all of the latest attention-getting tricks… Bold headers, font sizing, lists, images, etc… You spend a solid two hours writing the best post you’ve ever conceived. You come up with what you think is a great headline… “Bringing in More Adsense Profits”. You hit publish, and anxiously wait to see the masses click to your blog.
Three days later, your two-hour article has received exactly fifty hits.
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There’s a new website in the mix. It’s not promising to be Web 2.0. In fact, it’s not promising to be anything. It is, however, undergoing one of the most interesting viral marketing campaigns in the history of online viral marketing. I have absolutely no clue what the site is about… No one does, apparently.
I’ve Googled, searched on MSN, altavista, yahoo, asked people, made several dozen calls about it, and even debated e-mailing a bunch of people and asking around. I’m not going to tell you what their viral marketing campaign is all about… Part of the fun is discovering it for yourself. I will, however, give you a banner, and if you check the link, you can see that I have no tracking code on it, it’s not an affiliate link… it’s just a banner to a website. What that website will be, I don’t know.
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You may have noticed that I’ve – essentially – been missing over the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, I took the time to seperate my political posts into a new blog, MindFyre Politics. With a completely new design, and scope, MindFyre Politics will be a challenge for me. I already have traffic coming in to this website, but the new one is – essentially – starting from scratch.
As such, I’ve decided to take on a bit of an SEO challenge, and attempt link exchanging. I’m going about if through a new web forum set up by the editor of The Blog Herald (Duncan Riley). The forum is called Web Log Empire, and it is dedicated to blog link exchanges.
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Pinyo & Company over at the
GreatNexus Webmaster Blog have started a new series called “Building Inbound Links for Free.”
Part one of the series discusses the fact that building inbound links can be difficult and expensive, these days, and relates the story of a twelve year old boy who obtained page one, position one on all the major search engines (for highly competitive keywords), simply by submitting his site to directories, and having his friends link to him.
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