Donate your links to charity
Over the past few months I’ve written a lot about how search engine optimization works and my Alexa ranking has shot up from 2,394,405 to around 214,000 which is a lot like saying I’ve gone from being in the chess club to the web’s version of a football team but I’d like to raise my profile a little more and for that, I need your help and your links.
What I’m asking for is a recommendation, from your website to mine. Simply a link to one of my articles, an interesting sample, a free download or even a review of what you’ve learnt from my posts over the past several months and you’ll help me achieve my goals.
Google Stats for thisismyurl.com
As of this morning, Google reported that 78 other websites link to me. That’s pretty good but I’d love to see that number five time higher so I’m willing to give away something valuable to me in return for you giving me your link.
My time.
It’s actually the only thing that I have, so here’s the deal; for every new link from a unique domain to my website between now and New Years eve, I will personally donate one hour of my time to a charity or non profit group to help them build a better website, improve their online presence or increase their marketing savvy. I’ll give away free hosting to help their cause, register domains to save them money or assist them with the latest version of WordPress.
If you’d like to participate, simply link from your website, blog or forum to any of my pages. You can also Digg this story or other articles on my site to help increase awareness of the campaign.
Thanks to everybody who’s helping.
Interesting idea….
True to my word from December, I took a look at the results of my new link drive campaign on Google and will be donating 50 hours of my consulting time to various charities and projects.
Thanks to everybody for their support, let’s plan to do it again for the end of 2009!
This is certainly the most original link request I have seen so far. How was the response Chris? I missed this post. By the way the 78 sites that link to you is way off. If you have a PR5 you likely have more like 10,000 + links. Google only shows a sample of links there are actually far more, but they rarely update.
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