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Friday, November 03, 2006

A Social Networking Idea

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The idea of having a list of high PR blogs and MySpace sites to post comments on will benefit users from the LINK BACK

Which makes me wonder - if my blog was suddenly hit by hundreds, if not thousands, of comments, I'd be VERY likely to either delete and block all future comments, set up moderation (with image verification), or even remove the commenting feature completely.

But what if...

The owner of the blog or website or MySpace site
WANTS to host a link back to your site?!

My "Who Is The COOLEST Warrior?" experiment - http://www.CHDinfo.com/coolwarrior/ - is actually one way to achieve this end - and will help anyone who owns a website get some links back.

It is left to your creativity how you use it, but the basic concept is one that can be used on multiple sites - and requires surprisingly little 'programming' (hey, if I could handle it myself, anyone can!)

But the basic concept can be made a LOT more powerful by adding:

- a way to pick from various 'templates' or different 'images' that go along with the 'certificate'

- a 'tell a friend' form included for viral pass-along

- a scrolling list of people who have already added the certificate to their site

- an automated solution to add people who display their certificate to a directory on the owner's site, giving the 'winner' another incentive to host the certificate on their site (it's a reciprocal linking model with a twist)

- a list building module to include with the site

- an 'automated' (or even further simplified) way to insert the 'winner' code to their blog or website (maybe a snippet of code like a link that integrates into the template of their blog automatically and calls in the 'certificate image' when the blog page loads

- a way to keep the 'directory' updated (if the certificate code is removed from a website, it would be taken off the directory after a few days - again, similar to a reciprocal links directory)

So what if...

The program being built will not only identify sites, blogs, MySpace pages and others meeting certain criteria, but also pull the email information from the site (or even use the comment feature to do this), but instead of 'spamming' them with your message, sends out a note like:

"Hey, CONGRATULATIONS. You've just won this awesome award as the COOLEST/FUNNIEST/MOST INTELLIGENT/SMARTEST/WHATEVER-est _____ - click here to claim your award and display this awesome certificate on your blog/website"

If they see your certificate, think it is worth posting on their site, and do it - you've probably got a much longer lasting inbound link from a high PR/traffic site... a link the site owner willingly gives your site!

What do you think?

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