Reciprocal Review Carousel
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.
Update: To answer several questions I have received in email.
Q: Do I have to do the review of the site that reviewed me?
A: Absolutely Not! It is entirely up to you what sites do you review. Reciprocal part of this Carousel is in the part where reviewer creates a link to HIS or HER own blog using anchor text that fits the reviewer the most. It is actually most beneficial to review other blogs you might like and invite them to join the carousel. Main idea is not to only build links but to actually provide value to our readers by sharing sites we like.
Q: How many sites can I add?
A: It is up to you and I only request that you do not remove more then one from previous carousel. It will work best if each of us remove just one bottom review and adds one at the top. Using this method it creates most organic, changing content. But nobody is limited to removing JUST the bottom. If you look through the list and find one blog that simply don’t fit the theme of your blog – remove it. I don’t mind if you even remove my own blog, its all part of the game and as long as we continue to provide value to our readers and have changing (rotating) content we avoid penalties. On how many reviews to have – I wouldn’t recommend more then 10 for a simple reason. 10 reviews = 20 links, plus a link back to a site that invited you to participate and other links you already have on your blog. Our goal is to create the least amount of outgoing links, combined with value and avoid blame for being link-farmers.
Q: How fast will my technorati rank and Google PR will grow?
A: I have no clue! It will mainly depend on your efforts. Invite your friends Bloggers to join the carousel and use copy/paste from your blog. More people participate – better you rank. Here is a quote from Dave Ledoux: “Does it work? My Technorati ranking improved by over 2000 in the last 36 hours because of this.”
Update 10/14/10: All links removed due to most of them being dead or leading to BANNED sites. Avoid this strategy! It seemed as good idea at the time but ultimately damaging to you blog.
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Thanks Colin!
Enjoy – it is simple common sense combined with power of community.
Alex
Hi Alex,
Reciprocal Review Carousel looks like an interesting twist on link-building and I’m sure that it will become a very valuable resource beneficial to all who use it.
I’ll give this one a try and see how it goes.
Thank you my friend, have a great day.
cotojo
Thanks Andy,
Hopefully you decide to join the carousel, although this is all on volunteer base.
Hi Alex, thanks for the heads up! This s a nice idea,very innovative, you got some great blogs on the list there too!
All the best
Andy
Hi Alex,
thanks for listing my blog in the review carousel. Nice idea and I will jump onto the carousel in a few days as well. Just not right now as I don’t want to oversaturate my postings with things like Viralink, ViralTags, Bloglines List etc.
BTW, a great idea was linking to clickbank. As far as I saw several people copied it without changing. Good way to spread affiliate links.
Have I been reviewed? Hey, Alex, thaks a lot!
Alex
Sure thing. Feel free to join the Carousel.
Alex
Tornsten,
That was unfortunate effect and not intentional move. I use aLinks module which auto-inserts my links on specific keywords. It is a set and forget system over which I don’t have much control. I have actually had created an extra paragraph before the copy/paste to remove couple I knew would show-up.
Just added more text to ensure that all cb links moved outside of the text.
Yes, I know aLinks plugin and use it as well on another blog. It does some great job for adding links to some specified keywords.
I don’t mind that you are linking to clickbank ads. Just it is funny that some people use it without changing. Something like copy, paste and forget.
So I guess it would be even a good way to get some additional affiliate links around.
Tosten,
I agree – it will be but I didn’t realize that those links will not be removed. I know I personally check these things before making post so I assumed others will do same.
Thanks for comments and heads-up!
Hey Alex, just let me find out the correct way. Both my blogs are very target-specific and to do so I must fid out how. No prroblems with blog that deal with similar matters, but I wouln’t like to go OT…
Alex
Sure I fully understand. Perhaps this will help. Add reviews to your favorite blogs that directly relate to your niche and at same time don’t compete with you.
Instead of posting full post on your front page present just an excerpt – use a tag after introduction to the Carousel and move most of the content into post details page.
Hope this helps
Alex
Thanks for the tip. I beleve the first review vill be yours (in a week or so)!
Alex
No problem – hopefully it will benefit your blog. Quality linking is one of the most important things you can do to help improve your blog popularity. After reviewing multiple options I have came up with this idea that combines few crucial points that rely on changing content (review rotation), anchor text for backlink defined by reviewer (Google PR), links come from within the actual content (no more then 30 outgoing links at the time) and not link farm and perhaps most importantly – reciprocal effect (viral).
We are all people and reciprocate is a natural form of gratitude expression
I am very aware of it, that’s how I achieved my first page on Google’s Italian dataceted for the keyword “copywriter” and PR4, but I want to do much better… And yes, it’s my policy to always reciprocate!
I didn’t knew the limit of 30 liks at the time. Good to know…
Alex