WARNING
Monday, July 16th, 2007I have read this post at
http://www.fanaticspace.com/blog/2007/07/15/update-on-viralink-and-viraltags/
and I invite you to do the same:
“After doing a bit of reading about link building I found out something. It won’t come as a surprise to SEO experts, but to us normal folks it can be a shock when you first find out.
VIRAL LINKING COULD DO HARM TO YOUR WEB SITE !
Yep, it surprised me too. It turns out that Google and other search engines may penalize you for taking part in a viral linking campaign. So instead of your site climbing up the search results, it could actually plummet.
Because of this I’m removing ViraLink and ViralTags from this blog. I urge others who’ve taken part to do the same. I hate to do it, because I like seeing my Technorati Authority increase, but I have to. I’ll have to build links the old fashioned way, by improving my site, keeping it updated and making it something worth searching for.”