Comments on: Dominating SERPs with better link velocity

By: Rob Pitt

Rob Pitt — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:02:34 +0000

Hey very nice blog!! Man .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…

By: 195.ct

195.ct — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:05:56 +0000

All I have to say is WOW! Awesome article. I have been a want to be internet marketer for the last 5 years. I have read countless forum/blog posts, articles, and ebooks about SEO; yet I have never heard the term “link velocity” before reading your post on this blog.

Using this tactic must kill your bandwidth. How much bandwidth does it take to host these images? How much does it cost?

Most people say it is best not to get to many back links too quickly. Because; getting too many links to fast will look spammy in the eyes of search engines. Doing so will place get your site placed in the sandbox.

Was this site a newly built domain or an already established site with off site inbound links? Did this site go into the sandbox then come out after 7-8 months?

What would you recommend are the best sources and services for keeping up with elite, leading edge SEO tactics? So far, on my list: are this blog of coarse, Seo Moz, and Blue Hat SEO. Do you recommend others?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:02:17 +0000

As a bizzare twist of fate, the guy who runs that free-icons website sits next to me and is one of my best friends (:

By: Mr. G

Mr. G — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:15:09 +0000

Oops, my code example was filtered out above – I thought it might convert the tags to htmlentities. But Steve, it’s just the basic HTML code for an image which links to your site (and some relevant alt text), in a textarea so that it is easy for anyone to copy and paste – a random example from the Free Icons site being:

http://www.free-icons.co.uk/getcode.php?dir=Emo/&image=myspace-icons-celebrities80.gif

If you just have a few badges you can make the html code by hand.

By: Mr. G

Mr. G — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:06:03 +0000

Well, Steve, I’m not Mark, but here’s my take on it…

For each image/badge with link you want to get out there you want a “Post this image to your blog/profile/web page – copy this code” and a little textarea containing something like:

a href=”http://www.yoursite.com” rel=”nofollow”

(And some code – javascript? – that selects all that text when you click in the textarea… I shall have to look up how that is done.)

You could do this manually for just a few badges, or programmatically, in PHP or something, for lots of badges. Check out the above-mentioned “Free Icons” site, or any of the various “MySpace glitter” sites, for how they do it.

Other crafty ones – which fall under the category of “widgetbaiting”, I believe – are things like the “IQ test results” that people post to their profile. Of course, everyone is a super-genius according to the test and they’re only too pleased to post the widget to their profile. Or those widgets that claim even the most meagre Blogspot blog is “worth $12,724″ or something.