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Building Links through Widgets
Links, links and links! That’s what everyone is looking for so that they can increase their search engine rankings and traffic. Some people increase their links by purchasing them or even linkbaiting, but why not through widgets?
Widgets have been a hot topic for the last few months because they are a great source of links. Just think about all the blogs that use a flickr widget to show off their pictures. With over 1 million backward links according to Google it shows that widgets have been really effective for flickr.
If you want to increase your backward links through widgets
you have a few options:
- You can create widgets for your website and distribute them. For example, Problogger lets readers put his content on their site through a simple widget.
- Create widgets for popular services such as YouTube, Digg and flickr and distribute them through your website. This can be very effective because these services have large user bases who would love to use your widget. All you have to do is embed a link to your site within every widget.
Do you know of any other unique ways to increase your link popularity?
The Linkbait of Linkbait Articles
For anyone that is looking to catch up on their linkbait reading, Lyndon Antcliff has posted The Enormous Linkbait List that contains a list of more than 65 links to articles on linkbaiting. These articles cover everything from what linkbait is to advanced guides to linkbaiting and more.
This is a great resource for everyone, it doesn’t matter if you are new to linkbaiting or if you’ve been writing viral content for years, there is something in here for you. It is funny because this list of linkbait articles is actually a good linkbait article in of itself.
[via: Search Engine Land]
LinkBaiting and Social Media Marketing Guide
Readers, Andy Hagans has written a great guide on linkbaiting and social media marketing that can be found here. This is a great guide for anyone wanting to learn how to leverage this great link building strategy. It is important to build links using as many strategies as possible and leveraging social media is definitely a great supplement to a holistic link building campaign.
Exploiting Google Filters
Joe Whyte recently wrote a blog post about Google filters and how you can get around them as well as exploit them. It seems it has been creating a lot of controversy because of the point he discusses.
What do you think?
MediaWhiz Appoints New Chief Financial Officer, Director of Marketing
MediaWhiz today announced it has appointed Thomas Lanzetta to Chief Financial Officer and Danay Escanaverino to Director of Marketing. The appointments are a key part of MediaWhiz’s efforts to integrate its multiple business operations as it continues to grow and acquire new companies.
“We are excited to welcome Tom as the new CFO of MediaWhiz. His strong financial management experience will be invaluable as we integrate our multiple divisions and continue to expand over the coming months,” stated Jason Cohen, Co-President, MediaWhiz. “We are also pleased to promote Danay to Director of Marketing. She has been an essential member of our team over the past several years, and in this new role she will greatly assist MediaWhiz as we continue to grow in 2007 and beyond,” stated Yannick Tessier, Co-President, MediaWhiz.
Thomas Lanzetta has over 15 years of financial management experience, including 10 years of experience managing world class internet professional service firms. Mr. Lanzetta was most recently Chief Operating Officer of Agency.com (formerly NASDAQ: ACOM), a leading global internet development and marketing firm. In this role, he was responsible for driving the financial and strategic performance of Agency’s multiple offices worldwide with more than 500 employees. Mr. Lanzetta was also part of a team that managed the company through a successful IPO.
No More Top Diggers List
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has just announced that as of tomorrow they will take down the Top Diggers list in an attempt to slow down the gaming of Digg.
After considerable internal debate and discussion with many of those who make up the Top Digger list, we’ve decided to remove the list beginning tomorrow.
Even though Kevin says that this move was discussed with many Diggers that make up the Top Digger list I expect that this will upset quite a few of the active members. I personally know several people whom are top diggers and I can tell you this as much news to them as it is to you and I.
It is widely known that Digg can be a powerful resource for link building. A story that hits the homepage of Digg can often result in 500-1000 links to that site. This has made Digg very popular within the SEO community and because there are many people who can’t write good enough content to make the homepage they resort to trying gaming the system.
What does this have to do with the story? Well many people have begun offering Top Diggers payment if they will submit their stories and many are even trying to buy powerful Digg accounts. So will this slow it down? I suppose it will a little bit but that comes at the expense of making the core user base of Digg upset. It will still not be hard to find out who the powerful Diggers are either, but it will slow a lot of people down
It will be interesting to see how the community reacts to this news. What do you think, will it upset the Diggers? Will this slow down the gaming of Digg?
[via: Marketing Pilgrim]