Evil Blog Promotion Techniques
By erigena, published 22nd March 2007
Blogger John Chow [1] identifies and discusses a number of "evil blog promotion methods" [2] to increase the popularity of your Blog.
These "crafty methods" involve a range of tactics including exploiting special offers from text-link companies, link trains, and clever viral marketing.
Below is a summary of Chow’s evil (and not so evil) blog promotion techniques.
- Sponsor a Wordpress Theme[3] - If the theme is popular, you can expect a lot of inbound links by paying for a link in the footer of the template/theme (Not really evil, but is good viral marketing).
- TextLinkAds bonus exploitation - Use the TextLink ads.com Link Buying Starter Kit[4] + redeem your $100 coupon for new advertisers. Buy the minimum of $125 of links (for a real cost of $25), and receive a bonus $25 if you are a publisher on Text Link Ads and refer yourself.
- Review for Review - The website ReviewMe.com [5] sometimes has a 50% coupon code available. It is possible to exploit this offer in order to secure a free site review and $25, via some crafty bonus shuffling.
- The Tech Link Train - Tech Link trains [6] involve adding a blog url to a "train" of existing blogs, and encouraging others to take the list, post it on their blog, add to it and pass it on.
Some of these promotional methods are dubious on a number of levels, however undoubtedly employing some of the above techniques could help increase your blog ranking and the number of visitors it receives.
Resources
- John Chow - John Chow dot Com
- Evil Blog Promotion Ideas - Four "evil" techniques to promote your blog.
- Sponsoring a Wordpress Theme - Article discussing whether link building via wordpress themes a good idea.
- TextLink ads.com Link Buying Starter Kit - TextLinkads Link Buying Starter Kit
- ReviewMe.com - Blog Reviews.
- Tech Link trains - Article discussing how Tech link trains work.
- best blog promotion techniques - Article covering a large list of blog promotion techniques.
- Search Engine Optimisation Ireland - Irish SEO Experts.