Evil Blog Promotion Techniques

By erigena, published 21st March 2007

Blogger John Chow identifies and discusses a number of “evil blog promotion methods” to increase the popularity of your Blog.

These “crafty methods” involve a range of tactics including exploiting special offers from text-link companies, link trains, and clever viral marketing.

Below is a summary of Chow’s evil (and not so evil) blog promotion techniques.

  • Sponsor a Wordpress Template -
    Sponsoring a Wordpress / Blog Theme - If the theme is popular, you can expect a lot of inbound links by paying for a link in the footer of the template/theme
    (Not really evil, but is good viral marketing).
  • TextLinkAds bonus exploitation - Use the TextLink ads.com Link Buying Starter Kit
    + redeem your $100 coupon for new advertisers. Buy the minimum of $125 of links (for a real cost of $25), and receive a bonus $25 if you are
    a publisher on Text Link Ads and refer yourself.
  • Review for Review - The website ReviewMe sometimes has a 50% coupon code available.
    It is possible to exploit this offer in order to secure a free site review and $25, via some crafty bonus shuffling.
  • The Tech Link Train - Tech Link trains involve adding a blog url to a
    “train” of existing blogs, and encouraging others to take the list, post it on their blog, add to it and pass it on.

Some of these promotional methods are dubious on a number of levels, however undoubtedly employing some of the above techniques could help increase your blog ranking and the number of visitors it receives.

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