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Free Viral Video Backlinks
2007-12-14

Getting free backlinks from viral videos

Yo! I want to turn out a quick post on a good place to score some easy back links.

 

Here goes:

viralvideochart.com

 

A) They automate backlinking for simply posting a youtube video on your blog. This is so easily automated and abuseable that I get all giddy and fuzzy inside just thinking about it.

 

B) They know jack about HTML (or, most likely, are just as sloppy as I am with coding....) and have therefore buggered their nofollow tags.
    ie:  <a rel="”nofollow”" href="http://www.seocracy.com">

Double quotes on the nofollow attribute = fucked.

 


I discovered this by pure accident when I posted a youtube video a while back.  I've since tested automating a scraper to grab youtube video embed code and put it in a blog post...usually within a week I was credited with a free backlink for each video. Once I erased the video, the link still stays.

 

So, say you were to set up a scraper blog that pulled youtube vids and posted them, and then once you got a ton of links, just 301 the whole thing to your money site. Well...if you were to do that, you'd be pretty darn cool. 

--Rob



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Name: Rob
Comment:

For you comment readers, a tip:

 

Pick the NEWEST youtube videos. Dont pick old classics because viral video wont count links after it already has recorded a given number of them..so pick new releases and go form there.....you'll get a link near the top of the list. 


Name: Jason
Comment:

DOA, Apparently they fixed it as all pages have correct nofollow now.


Name: Rob
Comment:

Are you sure Jason?

 Page:
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/britney_spears__piece_of_me_official_music_video_preview?id=FROQKq4GhwM

Source:

<li>
<a rel="”nofollow”" href="http://mcom225-ahofer.blogspot.com/">http://mcom225-ahofer.blogspot.com/</a> </li>
<li>
<a rel="”nofollow”" href="http://calvin.canalblog.com/">http://calvin.canalblog.com/</a> </li>

 


Name: Jason
Comment: Strange, I checked that page and it still shows correct nofollows.  I tried viewing source in notepad and viewing via firefox using web dev toolbar both the standard and generated options.  All come back as correct nofollows.  Also my seoquake plugin picks them all up as nofollow (slash through them when viewing page).
Name: Rob
Comment:

This is interesting.   Clearly your plugin you use is disregarding the double quotes. I personally dont use a nofollow detection plugin normally,but I just downloaded and installed seo for firefox and it does not show them as valid nofollow....

My opinion? The double quotes would invalidate them as being proper nofollow according to the mores of xhtml.  But that said, I could be wrong.


Name: Jason
Comment:

Maybe I wasn't clear.  I'm not seeing double quotes when I view source.  I tried from IE->notepad, and firefox.  I was just adding that in addition to not seeing the double quotes the plugin also saw them as valid nofollows. 
This is what I see:

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mcom225-ahofer.blogspot.com/">http://mcom225-ahofer.blogspot.com/</a>

Can anyone check this? Quite perplexing. 
Name: Jason
Comment: Hmmmm, just found something. When I highlight the blog list and use view selection source it shows as double quotes.  When I use view source it shows properly.

WTF!
Name: Rob
Comment:

Well, I'll be damned. You're right. When I just view source straight up I see a perfectly formed looking nofollow tag....when I highlight the links and view source, I see the double quotes (I ALWAYS do this view selection source...I hardly ever retrieve full source and dig through it...Im lazy)

 

Well aint that a conundrum wrapped up inside a paradox encased in a riddle?!?! 

 

The View Source Tool (http://www.dan.co.uk/viewsource/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viralvideochart.com%2Fyoutube%2Fbritney_spears__piece_of_me_official_music_video_preview%3Fid%3DFROQKq4GhwM)

Shows this:

<a rel=”nofollow” href="http://www.dailywaste.com/">http://www.dailywaste.com/</a>
 
Now Im REALLY confused.
 
OK, so maybe this isnt the best tip ever...in fact...now Im just more confused then ever...but at least its a surefire way to get some easy backlinks...nofollow or not...
 
lol.... 

 


Name: Jason
Comment:

lol, true that. 

I'm like you and usually use view selection source but I happened to be in IE when I saw the post and just viewed from there.  I'm definately going to investigate this though.  Weird shit like this just eats at me and maybe I'll find something useful in the process...


Name: Rob
Comment:

Well report back!

 

 

*recaptcha: jackoff jennifer

LOL 


Name: Will
Comment: Ahh.  It looks as if they are using "curly quotes".  I've been dealing with these for a while on a site that I'm building, and they are a pain in my ass.  Probably some issues with utf-8 encoding in the source.
Name: Jack Rack
Comment: Well, Eli thinks google is lying about no-follow anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter.  Remember he said that in his interview with Aaron Wall.  I wish he (or you Rob, but I guess you don't agree) would do a post expanding on that theory.
Name: Crimson
Website: http://gamersreviewcorner.com
Comment:

Hello everyone,

I'm a long time reader, first time poster. My question is how exactly do you get the backlink? Do you need to sign up for something or just include that 'powered by' html snipit in with your youtube posts. Thanks in advance! 


Name: Rob
Comment:

Its as simple as grabbing the youtube embed code that comes with every video and just reposting that to your blog.

 

 


Name: Crimson
Comment:

I see,

I guess I'm just confused as to how Viral actually knows they are on your blog, do they just get it through youtube? Sorry I'm new to a lot of this... 


Name: Rob
Comment:

There are any number of ways they can do it. most likely they are using a spider and a ping service to cross reference.

 

Here's what their website says:

We scan several million blogs a day to see which online videos people are talking about the most. We count the number of times each video is linked to and the number of times each video is embedded. Every morning, after we've had a cup of coffee, we publish a list of the 20 videos that generated the most buzz over the previous day. We reckon this is a pretty good yardstick of what's hot and what's not.

At the moment we only look for references to videos on the three most influential video sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video and MySpace.

 


Name: Crimson
Comment:

Oh alright, thanks for clearing that up.  It looks like a few of my blogs are showing up on their site.


Name: Crimson
Comment:

Looks like they fixed it :-(  I tested a few in notepad and they were consistent.


Name: Rob
Comment:

They sure did.

 

There's a lesson here....somewhere...but Im too lazy to blog about it


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