Reciprocal Review Carousel
TheSpot-er on June 24th, 2007Nothing 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.
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Reciprocal Review Carousel idea is based on few simple and yet effective link-building and bloggin techniques I have learned:
- Build value of the blog by creating a link from within content.
- Provide a value to community by doing a review on blog you personally like.
- Link to YOUR blog has exact anchor text you want and helps you boost Google Rankings.
- No more then 30 outbound links from any page to prevent penalties for link farming.
- Viral effect of the link – as more bloggers participate, link to your blog with YOUR anchor text, coming from quality content post will spread.
Here is How to participate:
- Copy the entire text between the specified lines.
- Create a post on your site and put at least one paragraph explaining how you joined the Reciprocal Review Carousel.
- Paste the text you copied into your post.
- Remove the Bottom Review and At the Top add your own review with a link to a site reviewed, at least 2 sentences about the site and a note – Reviewed by: Your Anchor Text. Link your anchor text to your site. Here is an example:
WordPress Web 2.0 Guide is a blog providing very useful information on building your very own Web 2.0 portal based on WordPress. Detailed instructions and howto guides make it possible for anyone to create a sparkling and engaging blog and join the community of like-minded individuals. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-er
Sites Reviewed:
- Andy-Coates.com is an original creator of Viralink concept and a blog publishing information on Magic, Personal development and blog development. I have found a wealth of information on getting your blog noticed and generating the traffic for free. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Guide
- FitForFreedom is well-established blog where you can find multitude of information on achieving financial freedom. Blog is run by Marco Righter and his writing style greatly adds to the value of information he provides. Reviewed by: Alex
- Friday Traffic Report run by Jack Humphrey is all about most effective Web 2.0 promotion of your site, link building and proper monetization. One blog I read on daily bases and highly recommend. Reviewed by: Alex
- Secure Your PC For Internet blog run by Colin and provides essential information everyone accessing internet should know. Identity theft is becoming more and more of an issue and by visiting his blog you can minimize the risk of being compromised. Reviewed by: Alex
- VI-SU blog is all about WordPress, AdSense, SEO and Internet Marketing. Although mostly written in German I have found that using Google translate is worth the effort for his posts. Reviewed by: Alex
- Home With Heather is a great informative blog targeting WAHM (Work At Home Moms) and run by … you guessed it – Heather Masson. Information on what works for her in Internet Business written is very easy to read and comes from her personal experience. Reviewed by: Alex
- A Copywriter’s Blues blog published by Alex Badalic, a veteran of advertising turned musician gives you great food for soul. I have found some nice old videos of Johnny Cash performance and he has a lot more of vintage videos to satisfy fans. Reviewed by: Alex
- Did You Smell That blog authored by one of the veterans on network marketing filled with business ideas you can use. David Ledoux is well known and respected in online community and now he makes his experience available via blog posts. Reviewed by: Alex
- Best Damn Blog run by Richard Wing is all about Internet Marketing. Your visit will be rewarded by honest reviews, freebies and information you need to succeed in this cut-throat business without sacrificing your integrity. Reviewed by: Alex
- PlugIM Blog is a support portal for a new post voting system and a contender that has gained popularity among bloggers. Active community that lets you promote your blog and spread your message. Reviewed by: Alex
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Since I have started the Carousel I didn’t add the link to my blog from each review to avoid multiple links to my site from single location. Feel free to join the carousel and please add reviews to the sites you like. Once you have provided review about the site – let them know, and perhaps they will join the carousel. You will be surprised how fast your rank will grow and this time so will the Google Page Ranking. It is your chance to get viral traffic to your blog.
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.”
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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 Colin!
Enjoy - it is simple common sense combined with power of community.
Alex
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
Thanks Andy,
Hopefully you decide to join the carousel, although this is all on volunteer base.
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.
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!
Have I been reviewed? Hey, Alex, thaks a lot!
Alex
Sure thing. Feel free to join the Carousel.
Alex
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
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the review and adding me to the Reciprocal Review Carousel. Great idea, we all need to work together.
I’ll be joining the carousel in Thursday’s post, so you’ll get a link back then.
Have an awesome week,
Heather
Heather,
Thanks for comment and your decision to participate. You have a great blog and I love your writing style, so I meant every word in my review
Alex
Just a quick thanks to everyone who already took part
We are gaining momentum and I’m seeing idea is getting awesome implementation and more and more great reviews are added as Carousel rolls!
Thanks everybody!
Alex
Hey, what a cool idea! I love the synergy of it, and the giver’s gain angle. It works!
…jp
Hi Alex,
It sure is gaining momentum and I’m sure with everyone’s combined implementation it will turn into a real rollercoaster, I know mine is picking up speed from many different sources and the response is amazing.
Thank you my friend, I’m so glad I jumped on this one.
cotojo
Thanks guys!
It sure is rolling, am seeing people from all kinds of blogs in 3rd and already 4th generation of the roll
And what is most importantly - it is all quality blogs so far!
Great to see how people come together.
Alex
HI, do you want to exchange links ? http://gold-speculator.blogspot.com/
you would place a link of my site in you link area and I would do the same, I would be very thankfull, I love your site !
Jmus,
You can join the Carousel but I’m not exchanging links at this point. I do appreciate the kind comment and interest. However I do provide a blog with top commenters which is a fully SE enabled links.
That is one way currently available to get a link from my blog.
Alex
My site - http://www.sexandgaming.com - has nothing to do with marketing. I like the idea but not sure if I can participate as I do not feel subject of marketing will be of interest to my visitors. Can I add other reviews that would be more appropriate for by visitors?
Lia,
Yes, as I have stated in Q & A. Idea is free for use. Feel free to expand on it using your niche. I’m sure that many people on the list perhaps wouldn’t want a links from those niches … no offense but if you do use it - you can reference my blog but please don’t provide a live link.
Alex
Let’s say I’m just a not-so-smart guy. Can anyone put in 1-2 phrases the essence? Because I missed it and can’t put the pieces together. Thanks alot.
OK, I’ll try …
You copy the text as outlined above, remove one bottom review and at the top add your own. You review site you like and as such provide a value to your readers. In “reviewed by” you include YOUR Keywords and link it to your blog.
Post it on your blog and invite your readers and bloggers friends to participate. More people will copy it from your site - better you will rank as they will in turn add their reviews and so on … and from each your link will be on your Keywords as such improving Google PR, until it goes enough generations for your review to dissapear (changing content that is so important for Google ranking).
I have already seen this carousel in a stage where the original list of reviews on this page is not even present, meaning it is at least 10th generation of bloggers (viral effect) participating.
Alex
Thank you, Alex. I really appreciate you taking the time to write the explanation for me. Thank you once again!
No Problem, Enjoy Daniel!
Hey Alex,
I’ve been away for a bit. Just wanted to stop in and say hello and thank you.
Between joining this carousel and a stumbleupon exchange that I’m also involved with my traffic is really making me smile!
My tech authority has more than doubled and my traffic so far this month has already more than doubled what I did all of June (which I has already pleased with as it was my best month).
Very worthwhile to get involved
OK off to do some posting…
ttys,
Heather
Thanks Heather!
It is nice to know that I was able to help someone
Alex
Guys, thanks for taking the part!
I’m still seeing this Carousel rolling and glad it helps people.
Alex