When you are looking for “polluted” areas on the web two that immediately leap to mind are travel and real estate. I don’t think that it should come as shock to anyone that searchers are starting looking places other than search engines for information.
Big portals like Travelocity and Orbitz will always get the lions share of the traffic, however there are other ways to get visitors if you look to get people a little earlier in the buying cycle. So how can you get start spamming using social bookmarking and community driven online tools to drive traffic to your websites? Here’s something I recently rediscovered 43Places.com. They are part of the whole “43people” and “43Things” community of sites. In fact once you create a profile on one you create a profile on all of them (check out mine Michael Gray). Here’s a review I made about my recent trip to Chicago. Notice that clean and groovy link back to my site? My review is really for illustrative purposes by I don’t think it’s spam. Notice the placement and wording of my link it’s “natural” enough to make you want to check it out without trying to look like I’m trying to sell you a timeshare.
If you’re looking to start using this technique here are a few tips I’d try:
- Have some pictures
- Be concise (from both attention holding and productivity point of view)
- Have more in depth information on the follow up page
- Don’t write like an infomercial
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Excellent post, and very timely. That’s exactly one of the subjects I’m working on and I’ll give it a try.
I don’t see your post at the “Chicago” link. All I see is a handful of tags, the first being “architechture” (tech-related architecture?).
I just got back form Niagara Falls and took a whole bunch of pics and videos with the intentions of creating little micro-site about the trip.
I think I’ll poke around Flickr, 43Places, myspace and try to use these sites to drive some traffic to my little niche site.
At the very least it will be a fun experiment.
great information,thanks for that.
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