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6/06/2007


Viralink Experiment

I saw this over at Bob Meets World, and thought it was worth a try.

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Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog or website and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same! You also may want to change or edit the first few paragraphs, and the last paragraph to suit your blogging style.

Viralink

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When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from this blog will also link to your site!

Rules
No Porn Sites
One link per person only! (do not hog the viralink!)
DO NOT change or tamper with other individual url's
Enjoy!

Here are how the numbers add up, I will use the term saturation to describe the spread of the Viralink with Zero being your blog 1 being 1 link down, 2 being 2 links down and so on.

Saturation - Backlinks

0 - 0
1 - 3
2 - 12
3 - 39
4 - 93
5 - 336
6 - 1065
7 - 3252
8 - 9813
9 - 29,496
10 - 88,545

The above numbers rely on 3 people copying and pasting the Viralink onto their blog and that being replicated 3 times continuously 10 times. The best strategy with this is to start early and tell all of your blog and online friends!

Updated: 6/18/07

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5 Comment(s):

great! just added you too to my viralink.

By Blogger Novice Blogger, at 6/06/2007 8:40 PM  
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Hi,

I have improved Andy's Viralink idea by coming up with a way to use your anchor text of choice.
This should go just as viral but you will benefit from anchor text instead of just a star *. Please
check my post "Improving
your ranking and Google PR with ViralTags".

Jimmy

By Anonymous Founders Cafe, at 6/07/2007 2:16 AM  
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c0ol idea*

By Blogger BillyWarhol, at 6/13/2007 12:03 AM  
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I have added you to my ViralTags post and would appreciate a link back. The post is located @ http://lifeisrisky.com/viraltag-experiment/ and anchor text should be "LifeIsRisky.Com". Thanks!

By Anonymous Susan, at 7/04/2007 9:00 PM  
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I like this idea, but to bad you don't have a bunch of stars with legal bloggers on it. That would be cool.

My concern is if you copy all the stars, you might end up linking to sites you don't agree with.

Too bad there isn't some way of knowing what the sites are, without having to visit 120 sites.

Do you know any legal viralinks out there?

By Blogger FacingTheSharks, at 8/30/2007 9:59 PM  
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