It can be done. You just have to be willing to dip your fingers into the gray hat area of seo. With that being said, I don’t find anything wrong with what I’m about to say. Obviously or else I wouldn’t write it, right?
1. You need more than one account on any of the major social bookmarking/networking sites. Namely Youtube, Stumbleupon, and Digg. Let’s focus on those 3 for right now.
2. The reason you need more than one account is so you can give any of your own stories at least one more vote besides the initial one. That gets the ball rolling.
3 Get all of your friends (yes, all 5 of them) to digg, stumble and favorite anything you put out, a story, video, picture, blog post. Get them to leave some kind of half ways smart comment on the viral piece.
4. Here’s the crucial part: Email anyone you have in an email list, and tell them about the post. Get any list of people you can, log into any and all forums, and post the link in there. I run this paid business PR3 directory, but I send out emails to anyone who submits their site, with my affiliate links and new stories.
5. Conclusion: You can’t “buy” or spam your way into being viral, and I’m not promoting that idea. The idea is to send the quality content to as many people as you can in a short amount of time and hope you get some traction from it.
If anyone who might read this wonders how to get more traffic to your site, what ever it may be, you are in the right spot. THE best place to get traffic, and pretty good targeted traffic, for FREE, is Stumbleupon.com
There is a trick to doing it though. Let’s say you have a general adsense site, about aquarium fish. You get some good traffic because you have been doing seo for awhile, and maybe some ppc. But you want a boost in your traffic. So here’s what you do:
- Login to forums.digitalpoint.com (if you don’t have an account, sign up for one)
- Go to the “freebies” forum area.
- Look for people who post something like “Stumble my 2, I’ll stumble all yours”
- Go in and stumble their site (aka : give it a thumbs up)
- Post your urls, and who ever started the thread will stumble your site
You want to go in and review all of your own sites, and try and get others to review your site as well. Reviewing a site on Stumbleupon gives you a do-follow link from a PR2-5 page on stumbleupon. My own stumble page is torkildson.stumbleupon.com, you can add me as a friend.
As this is the first post ever on this blog, it will have to be a good one. I have learned a few things from working at seo.com and while setting up a few totally different and widely varying web sites for clients and friends. Some of my projects include building utahmassage.net by making the main site purely informational, in Cold Fusion, and then I bought another domain, massageutah.net, and made it into a shopping cart where memberships and massage gift certificates could be purchased. Neither of those sites just mentioned are fully operational yet, I just thought I would link to them for some seo benefit. 
My other projects include animenaruto.net, and sellvinylrecords.com, both of which I am hosting for friends of mine on my no limit domain account through hostmonster.
To end this post, (I know there wasn’t much to it) I will be adding a new post every week about one topic/category from this business directory, in which I will try and help anyone who submits their site as a featured link gain more exposure through seo. So start submitting, and I will start writing.
