Comments on: Heated Debate Over Viral Chain Linking

By: Simple Mindz

Simple Mindz — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:46:01 +0000

Sheesh, I was just doing it to have some fun!
Don’t really care about the other things, my blog is moving up in the world at an ok pace

By: Andy Coates

Andy Coates — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:30:39 +0000

Yeah, got the mail, it was lost in the list!
mmmm,,,back to the drawing board it is then.

Andy

By: Carl Pei

Carl Pei — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:23:54 +0000

I don’t think these link (train) schemes are fair to blogs and websites that do not participate. Therefore, I have not participated.

By: Court

Court — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:29:06 +0000

I did! Did you not get me email back?

I thought it was a good solution for people that know how to run cron jobs so I tried it out. You do have to run the cron jobs to make it work though!

I also had to use it on a test site because it doesn’t work well with my WordPress version and the creator doesn’t provide support anymore.

By: Court

Court — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:06:43 +0000

I agree that the viralink post itself could be counted as duplicate content, but only that one post would be affected. I don’t think it would hurt the entire site.

By: Andy Coates

Andy Coates — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:55:21 +0000

A little off subject, did you get my email about the ping plug in i found to fix the problem you were talking about a couple pf days ago?

By: Court

Court — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:21:12 +0000

I noticed it for sure. I don’t think that a lot of people understand what ‘viral’ is exactly. It could have gone forever if people would have done it right! Oh well, it still was spread around like crazy and we all have better rankings.

By: Court

Court — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:16:56 +0000

Ironically right now I’m on page 4 and John is on page 6, lol. He had a server meltdown but I’m sure he’ll be #1 again very soon. Everyone check now while I’m ahead of him because it won’t last for long.

By: Andy Coates

Andy Coates — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:52:40 +0000

I too manually check who I am linking too for content, luckily (touch wood) its been a good ride so far.

What i forgot to mention was some people who joined Viralinks/Viraltags a couple of weeks after it started began emailing and leaving comments on every other blog on the list requesting a link back instead of promoting their own grid.. This completely defeated the object, I’m not sure if anyone else noticed this.

This really has been fun!

By: Founders Cafe

Founders Cafe — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:54:13 +0000

Hey Court, I know you like the train so no argument there

For me, it has done the job I set out for it to do, and that is to take my search terms (Internet Startup Founder, Internet Startup Blog, Internet Startup Entrepreneur) to the top of Google’s SERP. So I am happy that it did do just that even though I know these search terms are not as common as Make Money Online, or similar ones that so many people are gong for. Good luck on passing John Chow on that one there

At the end of the day, ViralTags brought me readers that actually became repeated readers for other contents on my blog, and it also allowed me to discover other interesting blogs (like this one). So ranking raised or not, I call it mission accomplished