The Viral Links Meme And Link Love To BlogCatalog Readers.

viral links memeStephan Miller Tagged me with this Viral Links Meme. Like Stephan, I'm a little skeptical of this kind of meme where it's really a lot of links thrown around with out a whole lot of value added content to drive it.

Those who know me know that I prefer memes with some qualitative substance to them, but in the spirit of "if you don't test, you can't know" I decided to pass this one along and see what might come to pass. I know a lot of bloggers like these kinds of memes.

The Viral Links Idea

The basic idea behind this kind of meme is that each blogger tagged will add their links to the list and post it to their blog. So if you tag 5 bloggers, and they all post the meme you'll have five inbound links from other blogs. Then on the next round each of the five that they tag will come to 25 more links, and on the third round 125 links, and so on down the line.

Ultimately the math collapses under it's own weight as there are fewer and fewer people who have not already participated, and of course, there is never 100% participation, but still the possibility is there to generate a number of good links back to your blog.

The goal behind this for most participants is the TechnoratiTechnorati is one of the first big blog and feed aggregators authority that can come from so many blogs linking through to you.

The Viral Links List Stephan Passed To Me

These are the inks in the list that I got from Stephan.You didn't make it very easy to copy that list buddy. Had to remove all of the urchin tracking stuff. ;)

  1. The Strategist Note Book
  2. The Classy Life
  3. Agenc Was Here
  4. When Life Becomes a Book
  5. The Haven
  6. The FireWalker
  7. crystrad
  8. nadnuts
  9. ThomasWelcome
  10. Maitri
  11. Dhanosh
  12. Marketing Myself
  13. Brawny Hunk
  14. Motorparasi
  15. Ash
  16. Annette
  17. Super Hero Extraordinare
  18. Everyday should be Christmas
  19. The Gadget Guru tech
  20. Available Light
  21. Dad's Dish
  22. What Goes Under the Sun
  23. One Quart Low
  24. Stephan Miller
  25. Mental Poo
  26. Search for Blogging
  27. BloggerNoob
  28. Dane Morgan
  29. Part Time Blogger
  30. Affiliate Confession
  31. Link Bait Me

And My Additions To The Viral List

I've decided to do something a little different here. I'm going to link to the last five people I see in my BlogCatalog widget right now. It's a nice way to say thanks for reading my blog, and it's a chance to showcase an excellent blogging community for my readers who aren't members there. Finally it's a chance to see if such a random tagging method has any legs as far as getting the tagged blogs to participate. So the last five Blog Catalog Members who read this blog are officially tagged with this meme.

  1. New Media etc
  2. Party Politics
  3. http://sentinews.com
  4. Raising Eli
  5. Habitation of Justice

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Memes are supposed to be

Memes are supposed to be interesting ways of giving back link love. If you follow my url it'd take you to my last meme which in my own opinion wasn't so successful cause I realised that most people who continue memes forget to ping Technorati and thus the linkbacks to come in. I think am rambling too much. Nice post.

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