I came to this little ditty from Jack Humphrey, who’s always on top of all the things the cool bloggers are doing.
Participating in this merry-go-round of sorts is an easy way to get a bunch of backlinks to your website, and what’s more, you get to pick the anchor text of those backlinks. Your “anchor text” is the words that link to your site, and are very important in gaining search engine rank for those words. So if you want people to find your website when they search Google for the words, “red hot mustang” you should always link to your website with those words.
— copy and paste the Reciprocal Review Carousel and instructions below this line —
Reciprocal Review Carousel idea is based on a few simple yet effective link-building and blogging techniques I have learned:
- Build value of the blog by creating a helpful link from within content.
- Provide value to community by doing a review on a blog you personally like.
- Link to YOUR blog has exact anchor text you want and helps you boost Google Rankings.
- No more than 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:
- Andrew Wee writes and podcasts about affiliate marketing at WhoIsAndrewWee.com. He’s an absolute pro at keeping up with tech trends (and how to make moolah from them) as well as getting noticed FAST in the marketing/blogging world . He’s one to watch and follow by example. Reviewed by: Michelle MacPhearson, who likes teaching knuckleheads about Social Marketing Online.
- Peter Lenkefi writes about Web 2.0 marketing strategies at Web2Center.com. He has some killer videos over there you should check out along with a ton of good information on blog marketing and various “new media” promotion tactics. Reviewed by: Link Building Maniac, Jack Humphrey, for the Friday Traffic Report
- 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
- 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
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That’s it. Copy and paste, delete the last review, add a new one and you’re in business. Enjoy the link love!
Michelle,
Thank you for taking part in Carousel! Hopefully it will be a beneficial ride for you.
Alex
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Thats great stuff. Thank You.
thats nice ! but i miss one importen thing :
the text is would be perfect however meaningful is:
the option : “add me to your technorati Fav`s”
Great idea. Thanks again Michelle
July 3, 2007
Pierro, using “add me to your Technorati Fav’s” as your anchor text is, actually, probably not the best move.
First, I doubt people search Google that often for that term. Second, you want your site to rank in the search engines for something that it is about. If you were to end up raking high in the search engines for the phrase “add me to your Technorati Fav’s” people would visit your site and find out that it’s not in english… And that it’s ot about Technorati Favs.
Instead, it looks like you write about social media, blogging and Web 2.0 in German? So you’d want to rank well for the term “social media” in German. That’s who your audience is, that’s the phrase they type into Google to find you.
Thanks Michelle its abosolutely as My favorite character Wiley Coyote would say, “Sheer Genius” keep up the good work. A true web 2.0 master and greetz fly out to you.
Salut
thanks for your Feedback. I do not realy have myself with such hire employed, exactly SEO or stuff like that … i do that just for fun, but more I read in addition - so it becomes more interesting for me …
anyway; in the next days i will start your “copy and past” action.
have a nice time !
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pardon me, but i got some feedback - thats
a little bit the same like spamming !
isn`t it ?
July 7, 2007
No, it’s not spamming because you’re posting on your own site.
If I cut and paste the instructions onto a post, won’t I be posting duplicate content and get spanked by Google?
July 26, 2007
That’s a good question, Kermit. 
But first, people need to understand that the duplicate content “penalty” is an utter myth. The worst that will happen if you have duplicate content is that Google will not index the page, since that content is already in their index. People make it sound like your whole site will be dropped from Google if you copy a few paragraphs from an article distribution site, which is simply not true.
Then, you have to remember that the duplicate content filter looks at the entirety of your webpage. First, your site is designed differently then mine and other sites participating in the Carousel, so Google’s spider will see different content from each of the sites.
Also, you’re only copying and pasting the information in between the red bits. By adding your own entry and conclusion, you’ve padded the directions with unique content. And you’re dropping one site from the list and adding another, which makes every person’s entry different. Finally, in a blog, comments like these provide even more content, making each and every page participating in the carousel very unique.
I hope that explains it a bit - and clears up some misconceptions people have.
-Michelle
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