Link Love shall spread like a Virus
After an exposure to the “Link Love” virus at Design Sojourn, I got infected and became a vector. An infected blog generally shows the symptoms of an acute outbreak of hyperlinks and a detectable rise in the blog’s Technorati rankings. The virus affects typically Z-list blogs and there are currently no known cure. Please refrain from reading this post to avoid infection.
You have entered, looking for an infection. Here’s how.
What YOU can do is simply create a new post on your blog, but CUT AND PASTE the list I have below, and then ADD any blogs you feel aren’t getting their due either. It can be 1 blog, or a hundred(or none if you simply want to repost the same list), but the idea is, find those great blogs that, for whatever reason, you feel aren’t getting their due, link-wise.
Then after you leave your post, the next blogger will do the same thing, cut and paste YOUR list, and add THEIR blogs to the list, then repost it. Add the same instructions in your post that the next blogger should cut and paste YOUR list, and add any blogs they feel should be on it to THEIR list. The list will get increasingly long, and all the blogs will get a sort of reverse “pyramid-affect” of link-love.
Now, for the outbreak of hyperlinks. I shall observe my Technorati rankings over the next few days.
The original list from the Viral Garden
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Bob Sutton
Brian’s list at Design Sojourn
BubbleDesign
Accure’s Carpark
Uzyn
Sparklette
Cuteable
Design East
Design Milk
Design Asides
Fugly Designs
Geekette
Gem Sty
i-Eye
Bjorn Lee
IDAsia.org
Niblettes
Pluit Solutions
reBang
sgEntrepreneurs
Signs and Wonders
Wifi Cat
Sumajin Blog
Technogad
The Foo Logs
Uniquely the Epitome
Aen Direct
This is mine. Give me some link love too!
nineteeneightythree
JC Olsen
DaggerBlack
Stolen
Pajatti
Pink Tentacle
Sensual Sophia
CiBaiLang
spfdesign.blog
UPDATE! 2 weeks passed and the list has grown reasonably well. Here’s a huge list sorted alphabetically, credits goes to Cat from Designers Who Blog. There are some several duplicates as my original list is one of the early ones.
AENDirect
Africa Unchained
A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects
aialone
akira media design
amblingsfromaglasshalffull
Being Peter Kim
Bellingham Real Estate blog
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Beyond Madison Avenue
bizandbuzz
bizsolutionsplus
Blog Till You Drop!
Bob Sutton
brainbasedbiz
brainbasedbusiness
brandcurve
Branding & Marketing
Branding Strategy Insider
brandsizzle
Bullshitobserver
Buzz Canuck
Buzzoodle
christine kane
Chuan Zhi
CKs Blog
Cobalt Paladin
Community Guy
Constant Change
Conversation Agent
Converstations
CrapHammer
Creative Think
Critical Fluff
Customers Rock!
Daphne Loo
darrenbarefoot.com
Design Sojourn
Diva Marketing
Dmitry Linkov
Drew’s Marketing Minute
eSoup
esoup
expresswhatwasonceinexpressible
Flooring the Consumer
Frozen Puck
Funny Business
gDiapers
Get Shouty!
Golden Practices
Gratisvibes
Hee-Haw Marketing
hypocritical
Inside the Marketing Mind
instigator blog
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
John Wagner
Kinetic Ideas
Lih Shin
Linda Chua
Logic + Emotion
MapleLeaf 2.0
Mac’s Money blog
Marketing Hipster
Marketing Nirvana
marketingminute
Masey.com
metaverse
Mindblob
More than a living
moviemarketingmadness
Multi-Cult Classics
New Millenium PR
NewsPaperGrl
Nick Rice
Nofi.org
Note to CMO:
On Influence & Automation
One Reader at a Time
Open The Dialogue
OTOInsights
Own Your Brand!
owrightbetweentheeyes
Pardon My French
Perspective
PigWisdom.com
Popcorn n Roses
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Presentation Zen
rebang
Roger C. Parker Design to Sell Blog
russell davies
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Sek Ling
Servant of Chaos
Shimmer
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Small Surfaces
SMogger Social Media Blog
Social Media on the fly
Soloride
somewhereovertherainbow
steves2cents
strategicdesignmarketing&brandingthoughts
Successful Blog
Success Creeations
Sweska
Tell Ten Friends
That’s Great Marketing!
The Branding Blog
The Copywriting Maven
the curious shopper
The Emerging Brand
The Engaging Brand
The Frager Factor
The Instigator Blog
The Marketing Minute
The New PR
The Qualitative Research Blog
The Sartorialist
think positive
thoughtsphilosophies.com
trizoko
Troy Worman’s Blog
Two Hat Marketing
U-Fong
Unconventional Thinking
UZYN.com
Viaspire
We’re not wired right
Whippleworld
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Woolgathering
Word Sell
Work, in Plain English
Working at Home on the Internet
Writing, Clear and Simple
Xiao Luo
youalreadyknowthisstuff
Posting comment, please wait…
DT on Dec 15, 06 – 7:48 pm
hahaha Love thy neighbour as they say!
Aen on Dec 15, 06 – 7:51 pm
Let the epidemic begin!
Anne Simons on Dec 17, 06 – 1:01 am
you’ve got one more! Thanks for the link.
Anne
Aen on Dec 17, 06 – 2:41 am
Hi Anne. Looks like you’ve been infected. :)
Thanks for the link!
Marc on Dec 17, 06 – 3:59 pm
Thank you! I look forward to reading more on your blog.
Aen on Dec 18, 06 – 12:16 am
Hi Marc! I hope my blog will be interesting enough. Appreciate the Link Love from you too!
Aen on Dec 24, 06 – 5:59 am
Wow I got a total of 24 extra links and still counting from this meme and my Technorati Ranking gone from 300,000 to 87,000 .
Started this blog/site slightly more than a month ago and my ranking has gone up more than a million units. I hope this meme don’t die out so fast!
Robyn McMaster on Dec 30, 06 – 5:53 am
Aen, thanks for including the longer list, ’cause I’m in that one! And, yes, I love what this has done to my Technotati Score, too. Gives us all a chance to move up in the world. Happy New Year to you.
Aen on Dec 30, 06 – 6:47 am
Hi Robyn. Nice warm blog you have. I thought updating our lists could get the multiplication going and give the meme an extra oomph. There are plenty of good links in the latest that deserves to be mentioned, like yours.
Jack Hayhow on Jan 03, 07 – 4:19 am
Aen, thanks for the link to pigwisdom.com
Aen on Jan 04, 07 – 3:08 am
Hey Jack. Thanks for dropping by. Happy New Year!
Chris Kieff on Jan 06, 07 – 7:52 am
“Never underestimate the power of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. Indeed, it’s all that ever have.”
by Margaret Mead
The Z-list is the embodiment of this quote. Thanks for adding us.
Thanks,
Chris
http://www.msco.com/blog
written by Mark Stevens the author of:
YOUR MARKETING SUCKS
Aen on Jan 06, 07 – 10:27 am
Hi Chris, for one moment I thought your comment’s a trackback.
Nice post and nice marketing resource you have. I’ll need it.