13 June 2007 ~ 26 Comments

Viral Tags – Do they work?

My buddy Marzie asked me to participate in this little exercise known as viral tagging. Perhaps you’ve already seen it making its rounds on the internet. I guess its purpose is to help you increase backlinks to your blog. The first thing I thought when I first heard about viral tagging is that you’d be receiving backlinks that aren’t necessarily within your niche. However since I pretty much blog about anything here as opposed to my comic site which has a pretty obvious niche, I decided to give it a try and see what happens. If you’d like to also give it a try, simply follow the instructions below.

The original matrix is here.

UPDATE: I am no longer actively participating in viral tagging as it’s just become far too time consuming. This however does not mean I’ve removed any links to sites that linked back to me. I’ve moved all reciprocal links to my categorized link directory. If I continue to receive backlinks from others participating in viral tagging I will reciprocate and place their link in my directory :)

26 Responses to “Viral Tags – Do they work?”

  1. Mariuca 13 June 2007 at 3:02 am Permalink

    Welcome Mike, it feels great to have a good friend like u in the matrix :) Have I also mentioned how smart, cute and talented you are? LOL! Have a great day! :)

  2. Mike 13 June 2007 at 3:17 am Permalink

    Haha…well shucks :oops: You are far too kind :D

  3. Bobby Revell 13 June 2007 at 3:33 am Permalink

    Hey Mike, welcome aboard! Only one mistake on the matrix. Your host tag
    web comic artist must be copied and pasted over one of the “viraltags” at the bottom. It’s great to meet you :)

  4. Mike 13 June 2007 at 3:39 am Permalink

    It’s in there somewhere…lol. The instructions just said to copy your URL over “one of the Viral Tags”, so I just copied it over the first blank one I found. It didn’t mention anything about the bottom but if I should be at the bottom I can put it there instead :P

    Nice to meet you as well :)

  5. Bobby Revell 13 June 2007 at 3:47 am Permalink

    I see it!!! LOL, I’ve been looking at these charts for too many hours. Maybe it be time for beddie-bye. Thanks:)

  6. Mike 13 June 2007 at 4:47 am Permalink

    Haha…I should be in bed. I’m blogging on fumes right now ;P

  7. Melissa 13 June 2007 at 3:13 pm Permalink

    I’d try that but the list seems a tad long, if it works though let me know and I’ll deffinately try it :P

  8. Mike 13 June 2007 at 4:24 pm Permalink

    I’ve gotten 6 or 7 new backlinks from it so far :) We’ll see how many more who are on the list actually update theirs to include my site.

  9. Jenny 14 June 2007 at 12:40 am Permalink

    I saw something like this (I even bookmarked it) but it was little stars instead.

  10. Mike 14 June 2007 at 1:41 am Permalink

    That’s how I first started seeing it as well. Doing it this way you apparently get to attach keywords of your choice to the link. I’ve picked up at least 16 new backlinks so far :P

  11. Nihal 14 June 2007 at 10:23 am Permalink

    Hi there.

    I’ve just joined the Viral Tag Link and your site is listed on my page. Hope you would reciprocate this back.

    Thanks in advance.

  12. Nihal 15 June 2007 at 1:26 am Permalink

    Hi Mike!

    Thanks for that inclusion. Keep up the good work at your site and all the best, my friend.

  13. Mariuca 16 June 2007 at 2:24 am Permalink

    Hi Mike, great job! Check my post for new links. I was a bit concerned about the Google “intervention” too, but for now am just enjoying the ride.

    PS. Pls change Malaysian Stocks Inc to Mariuca for me, thanks! :)

  14. Mike 16 June 2007 at 2:34 am Permalink

    Don’t suppose you could let me know which link are new ones? :P I’ve been going so cross-eyed with these tags since I started it the other day…hehe.

    Consider the change done…in a minute or two ;)

  15. Mariuca 16 June 2007 at 6:09 am Permalink

    Hey Mike, anything after yours would be the new ones, but double check just in case!

  16. Barrett Laurie 16 June 2007 at 2:13 pm Permalink

    Hey there, i just added the viral link martix to my page and I was hoping you would return the favor! Thanks for the add!

  17. Mike 16 June 2007 at 2:41 pm Permalink

    Added :)

  18. Silki 18 June 2007 at 2:11 pm Permalink

    Hi,
    I have added you to the four blogs of mine.

    Could you please add my four blogs to the mesh.

    Regards.
    Silki

  19. Kassper 19 June 2007 at 7:27 pm Permalink

    I have added you to my list on both of my sites, can you please add them to your list?

  20. Silki 26 June 2007 at 1:24 am Permalink

    Hi,
    I just linked you here in my blog.

    Host Tag: Sexy Celebrity

    Could you please link me back.
    Thanks.

  21. Bucky 19 July 2007 at 12:48 pm Permalink

    Hey Mike,

    Just thought you might want to see what the updated list looks like.

    I wouldn’t hesitate to say that there are over 1000 links in it.

  22. Mike 19 July 2007 at 2:12 pm Permalink

    You might want to be careful with that, Bucky. I decided to stop doing it because I have a feeling Google may penalize bloggers for having large lists of links on one page like that…or in one post. I decided to instead break everything up on my links page into a link directory. There’s a great plugin that lets you create a link directory. Of course at the moment I can’t remember the name of it, but if you’re interested I’ll look up the name and URL for ya :)

    The biggest burden to setting it up is of course entering all those links into the directory. i took me nearly an entire day to do it…lol.

  23. Bucky 19 July 2007 at 2:41 pm Permalink

    It would probably take a week to organize all of these into directories….it’s an exhaustive list.


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