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Thats a huge list. Once you take all that under consideration sounds like you'd need a team of people to execute.
Am I right in assuming this is bigger than a one person task?
I would have left a comment on your site but you require a login and I've got way too many as it is. So here it is...
How about adding Arkayne to your list of content distribution sites. Its a content linking engine that provides: widgets, APIs, and portals. You embedd the widget in your page and it links ti with similar content.
For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com
If only there was a way for to make the submissions count for more. Two big things are missing from social media:
1. Relevance
2. Longevity
Sites like Digg (poster child) have too wide an audience to really convert to good readers/users. They generate a ton of traffic and that is their saving grace, but the competition for that traffic is staggering. If youre starting out (audience of this article) then social networking will probably deliver everything you dont want (Daves points) and very little of what you need.
In addition if and when you do get noticed on a big social site you'll get a boat load of traffic in a blink of an eye and then watch it quickly taper off over a few days or hours. The links dont stay up long enough to get anyone established.
I think Daves article could be followed up with some ideas on alternates incorporating relevance and lifespan... how about it Dave?
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Great post but, you forgot content linking tools like Arkayne. Its a widget that links your blog with relevant sites. Not a traffic exchange just a relevance engine.
For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com
I would suggest exploring content linking engines like Arkayne. The widget ananlyzes your blog and compares it to all the other ones it has scanned. It then generates a list of 10 or so pages for each of your pages that are most similar in content.
Its a great tool for getting consistent content relevant links (vs the low CTR traffic mentioned in the article) and it gives you a great starting point for figuring out which sites talk about your topics.
It works fairly well I'm running it on several blogs. At last note the community is up to almost 18K pages. Its free and its customizable.
For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com
I think the end of vertical search will be content linking directly from blogs. People love sites like Digg because it gives them a jump off point into a topic. More and more users arent searching but merely finding a favorite blog and clicking links.
I propose that the next search wont be horizontal or vertical, it will be spiral (meaning out from the center).
Consider SphereIT and Arkayne. Two content linking engines that are the next wave. And no its not traffic exchange its content linking.
You guys should throw in a story about Arkayne. Its in Beta right now but content linking is their core business. Plus they skip the need for RSS and link pages directly using nothing more than a widget.
For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com
I agree, the article seems to be hinting at a simpler time when links were important to users not search engines. Good Job I agree it boils down to linking good content for your users regardless of what the search engines think.
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You may want to try a similar content linking service thats based on relevance vs popularity. Its called Arkayne. I found it to have better CTR than BlogRush because the links are more relevant to what users are reading.
I've asked them to include Arkayne in the next round. I think it falls in this category.
For the Curious: http://www.arkayne.com
Great post, I'm implementing several of these over the next few days.
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Here is the official policy:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736
Google will only penalize sites that try to pass of paid links as valid links. Its not aconspiracy by Google to drive out competition, its an effort to maintain fair and accurate page rank.
Any site can sell links as long as they follow these rules (from link above):
- Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the tag
- Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file
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Finally someone who makes sense vs. riding the hysteria wave. Thanks for this post.
Wow with 27 full paragraph tips I may need this in bathroom reading version. Good article.
For those interested in getting good links for free with no spam or ads try a content linking service like Arkayne.
http://www.arkayne.com
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