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

  1. John Chow - John Chow dot Com
  2. Evil Blog Promotion Ideas - Four "evil" techniques to promote your blog.
  3. Sponsoring a Wordpress Theme - Article discussing whether link building via wordpress themes a good idea.
  4. TextLink ads.com Link Buying Starter Kit - TextLinkads Link Buying Starter Kit
  5. ReviewMe.com - Blog Reviews.
  6. Tech Link trains - Article discussing how Tech link trains work.
  7. best blog promotion techniques - Article covering a large list of blog promotion techniques.
  8. Search Engine Optimisation Ireland - Irish SEO Experts.