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Viral Recommendation Carousel

Written by Neil Galloway

One of my new favourite blogs is MarcoRichter.net. He has lots of good tips and I wrote a review of MarcoRichter recently on my own site.

One of his recent ideas is a carousel for linking out to other blogs that you like and keeping blogs from other people's lists in the main list. I tried this one before with a RSS signup post called Feed My Feed that is what gave me my initial injection of RSS readers.

Please join in if you want and I would appreciate a link back here saying where you found the article at.

So here we go.

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Why this will work

It provides value through personal recommendations
Links to your blog with linktext of your choice
Backlinks come from within a dedicated content about your blog
Rotating content will prevent it from penalties from search engines
It is viral - more participants means greater effect

How it works
Simply follow these few steps to make this one working for you:

Create a new post on your blog and start it with a few words about how you came into this carousel.
Copy and paste the entire text between the red lines
Check if all links are working after copy and paste
Remove the very last recommendation from the list
Add a recommendation of a blog you love to the top of the list with at least 2-3 sentences about why you love to read this blog and add a little note, that you recommend this together with a link to your blog. Here is an example:

ThoughtsFromMyLife.com is a blog I love to read on a daily basis. It provides information about blogging, finance, photography, travel, computers, and other interesting topics. From detailed how-to articles to some detailed analysis on your credit card reward points, Neil covers a wide variety of information that applies to day to day life. Recommended by: Neil Galloway

Blogs I recommend because I love to read them daily:

Blogging Fingers - run by Matt Jones. He is a 18 year old from England who has already built and sold a blog for $1,000 within 3 months. He has a lot of tips and recommendations for bloggers and seems a lot old then his age. Recommended by: Neil Galloway
bloggingtips.com - More than 10 authors contribute interesting blogging topics to this site. If you want to stay updated on what´s hot in the blogosphere, this blog is a must read. Recommended by: Marco Richter
bluejar.com - run by Sarah Pacopac does more than blogging topics and goes out to browser relates issues and also provides some design and affiliate marketing information. Recommended by: Marco Richter
OneMansGoal.com - run by Bryan Clark is a good stop for bloggers wanting to learn more about generating visitors for their own blogs. He adds some time management topics for those among us looking for optimization of their daily routine. Recommended by: Marco Richter
topsecretblogger.com - This one is a completely community driven project. Everyone is invited to sign up and write a post on the blog. Many contest will be attracting other bloggers to come in and join the project. I think this will become even more influential in the future, it´s definitely worth taking a closer look. Recommended by: Marco Richter
probloggersmatrix.com - Mark´s blog is well-established and concentrates on topics about the relationship between bloggers and their readers. His posts are often titled as questions, what helps starting a conversation with the audience. Recommended by: Marco Richter
jtpratt.com - run by John Pratt is a quite new blog about blogging mistakes and how to avoid them. John has been running websites for more than 10 years, so he knows about the hard way to learn from mistakes. Recommended by: Marco Richter

This carousel has been started by Marco Richter on viral linkbuilding - the basic concept is a slightly adjusted version of Alex Sysoef´s reciprocal review carousel.

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2 Comments

Marco Richter Says:
2007-10-25 12:27:41
Neil, great that you´d jumped on it. Now get it going viral to make it work for you.

Cheers
Marco
www.marcorichter.net

JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes Says:
2007-10-26 07:47:16
Glad to see you hop on board! Hopefully we'll get a bunch of others on as well!