Getting “interested” or in other words – Targeted Traffic is one of the quests every blogger is on. In fact the tasks of promotion, socializing and link exchanges all concentrate on achieving this one task – Get More Visitors that not only will briefly view your page but become readers.

Your blog content is responcible for retaining the visitors but first you have to get the people to actually see it. There are many ways to get this done and in this post I will describe one method that so far has proven to be very effective…

Another Google Dance has passed and in a weird turn of events my blog is still left without [tag-tec]Page Rank[/tag-tec]. I find it annoying and quite detrimental to my blog development when Google decide to extend their holding pan “especially” for me.

All the page rank tools I used for prediction show my site as predicted with PR5 but its been there for a while and with over 8k incoming links (according to Google webmaster tools) I would except them to be true … so what gives?

Nothing boosts your blog popularity better then other blogs linking back to you. I know because I have participated (and still am) in Viralink exchange. Superb idea that boosted my rankings in Technorati in a matter of days. And I want to build on this idea but do something different and something that will be greatly beneficial for your Google Rankings.

In this strategy we combine the best Web 2.0 communities have to offer with a solid linking strategy and capitalize on our need to share. After all – web 2.0 is all about communities of like-minded individuals sharing what is common and this is simply a chance to make it even more beneficial to your readers by providing valuable resources and getting some targeted viral traffic. If your Business relies on AdSense for revenue , it is essential to have a good linking strategy and this can be used as How to get it implemented on blogs.

Yep, here I go again and perhaps this time I will actually insult people but hey … I think this message is important.

Will your blog be considered a link farm by Google?

You might be surprised by the answer but it also might be too late. If you have participated in Viralink, Viral Tags, Viral Images etc., you might be running dangerously close to that definition. And instead of getting higher ranking – you might actually get penalized by SE. Now let me explain.

I participate in Viralink and still consider it a great way to build your [tag-tec]technorati[/tag-tec] popularity. But I have done it after careful consideration. From my days as webmaster I know that when you create a link building strategy you always build you link pages that they contain no more then 30 links per page. Many reputable sites will simply refuse to exchange links with you if their link is placed on page with more then that number of outgoing links. All this is done to avoid being penalized if search engines decide to label it as “link farm”, I highly suggest you look up the definition on Google.

Now, consider this: Viral tags and other strategies rely on interlinking the participating sites, over a hundred when matrix is full (now is the time you quickly glance over “link farm” definition). Add to that all other outgoing links on your blog to MyBloglog, technorati (if using tags), and other useful offsite services and what do you think your chances are of being marked as “link farm”? I’ll let you re-read the definition and answer it yourself.

But the part I have just described above is not the worst thing you can do. What I have seen recently is that some blogs (couple I have visited had a PR5 and higher) create ONE blog entry and on very same post they participate in Viralink, Viral Tags, Viral image. That can potentially turn into OVER 400 outgoing links just on that post page!

And now is the time for a kill! Do I think you should stop participating in these viral link exchanges? Absolutely not! I have personally participated in Viralink and I think it is a great way to increase your technorati rank and popularity. I have benefited tremendously from the idea and highly recommend you join me!

What to do to avoid penalties? Answer to this one is actually a lot simpler then you might think.

• If you participate in these viral exchanges – dedicate a separate post for each one of them!
• If your blog main page presents summary of the post and not full entry – make sure that the actual links that go with each system go AFTER “more” tag.
• If your blog displays a full post entry – I highly suggest you make sure that your front page does NOT display all these links. Split the post using “more” tag or separate posts entries that they are not shown on any one page together.

Is there any alternative? Yes, good old content text links or one-way links. If your blog popularity important to you and you don’t mind parting with $49, do what I did – purchase 5,000 one-way links coming from content sites while it is still available.

In last few days I have noticed increased number of [tag-tec]comments SPAM[/tag-tec] coming across my site. Right at this moment I was glad I’m using Spam Karma 2 plugin, which kills it 100% and with no effort on my part. Superb plugin for [tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] and I cannot recommend it enough if you are using this blog platform.

But still seeing all the SPAM comments coming in I decided to do a little investigation and discovered that out of 73 spam comments – 65 came on one and very same Article I wrote – “Write Blog Headlines To Explode Article Views And Create Stampede Of Targeted Traffic”. I have to add that I use Google Webmaster tools for sitemap submission and queries tracking alongside with Analytics, so that is what I used for my investigation.

[tag-tec]MyBlogLog[/tag-tec] received its own reiteration of [tag-tec]Gravy Train[/tag-tec] that gained popularity with [tag-tec]technorati[/tag-tec] and swept through bloggin community. I was a bit surprised to discover myself on receiving end of the new train and can only express my thanks to “The Real Estate Schmoozer” for inclusion. You can see the train and possibly participate in it here.

And while looking through the site I have followed on of the links to another site and then another until I run into something cool! A new tool that displays all information related to your site rank – free!