Artificial Inseminating Your Blog

Just about the time, you thought that you have heard it all, someone brings up the topic of Artificial Inseminating Your Blog. Now, you might ask yourself what in the heck does "artificial inseminating" have to do with blogging? You may also be asking yourself if this blogger has been kicked one too many times in the head by farm animals! Well, in this case, I hope not!

Now, let's get one thing straight before we start. Artificial inseminating your blog isn't some new sexual fetish, at least I hope not. It is all about manipulating the system by any means to make your blog appear bigger than life. It's actually been around for a very long time and many webmasters called them secrets. Others have called them cheats depending if you take the road to white hat or black hat to build your blog.

- - Now that you have a basic idea of this ridiculous concept, here are some examples of artificial insemination. - -

* Get all of your family and friends to install the Alexa toolbar and visit your blog daily. This inflates your Alexa ranking quite well, but how many of them, in reality, have an interest of what your blog has to say and how many actually take the time to read the article? How many actually leave comments on their own without being instructed to do so?

* Some have ISDN routers which when rebooted get a different IP address assigned to it, sometimes up to 25 or more. You can browse through your web site with the Alexa toolbar and be on the road to success with your Alexa rankings.

* Trick Feedburner so it will report thousands of subscribers. It is a hack where you just simply create an OPML file and add some code. This one, John Chow versus Shoemoney to get the most Feedburner subscribers. It is rumored that the winner used this cheat to win the contest.

* Linking schemes seem to be a favorite. This consists of a group of people exchanging links in a clever linking scheme to manipulate pagerank. There were a lot of phpLD directories, which used a linking scheme to gain popularity votes to improve pagerank. Most of those directories have a big fat zero for pagerank now and lost all of their authority.

Although it is sad to see so many people applying these cheat tricks to their blog, the question you need to ask yourself is why not? If everyone else is doing it and are gaining an upper-hand, why shouldn't you? There are ways to apply these cheats and secrets to your blog while doing so in as little of a manipulative way as possible. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself if it is worth it to use these methods to gain an upper-hand on the competition.

Spunky Jones.

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