New trend: Link building through mini-reviews

While reading Jack Humphrey’s blog (one of the few blogs I read religiously), I stumbled upon a very neat idea called a “reciprocal review carousel”. This cool new concept was developed by a very smart marketer called Alex Sysoef and if used wisely, it has the potential of building your link popularity by generating a great number of incoming links to your blog.

The idea is simple: Getting a group of related blogs to link back to your blog and reciprocating… through short reviews. Here are the instructions on how to join:

— Copy and paste the Reciprocal Review Carousel and instructions below this line —

Reciprocal Review Carousel idea is based on a few simple yet effective link-building and blogging techniques I have learned:

• Build value of the blog by creating a helpful link from within content.
• Provide value to community by doing a review on a blog you personally like.
• Link to YOUR blog has exact anchor text you want and helps you boost Google Rankings.
• No more than 30 outbound links from any page to prevent penalties for link farming.
• Viral effect of the link – as more bloggers participate, link to your blog with YOUR anchor text, coming from quality content post will spread.

Here is how to participate:

• Copy the entire text between the specified lines.
• Create a post on your site and put at least one paragraph explaining how you joined the Reciprocal Review Carousel.
• Paste the text you copied into your post.
• Remove the Bottom Review and At the Top add your own review with a link to a site reviewed, at least 2 sentences about the site and a note – Reviewed by: Your Anchor Text. Link your anchor text to your site. Here is an example:

WordPress Web 2.0 Guide is a blog providing very useful information on building your very own Web 2.0 portal based on WordPress. Detailed instructions and howto guides make it possible for anyone to create a sparkling and engaging blog and join the community of like-minded individuals. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-er

Reviewed Sites:

• MindTweaks is a place to explore, discuss, review, disect, over-analyze and make fun of ways to fine-tune human thought processes, moods, emotions, creativity, and the like. Not as extreme as a brain-hack, a mind-tweak still holds the great ability to produce a positive mindshift in you. Reviewed by: Web Copywriting expert and blogging enthusiast Miguel Alvarez, for Copywriting.com

• Peter Lenkefi writes about Web 2.0 marketing strategies at Web2Center.com. He has some killer videos over there you should check out along with a ton of good information on blog marketing and various "new media" promotion tactics. Reviewed by: Link Building Maniac, Jack Humphrey, for the Friday Traffic Report
• Andy-Coates.com is an original creator of Viralink concept and a blog publishing information on Magic, Personal development and blog development. I have found a wealth of information on getting your blog noticed and generating the traffic for free. Reviewed by: WordPress Web 2.0 Guide

• FitForFreedom is well-established blog where you can find multitude of information on achieving financial freedom. Blog is run by Marco Righter and his writing style greatly adds to the value of information he provides. Reviewed by: Alex
• Secure Your PC For Internet blog run by Colin and provides essential information everyone accessing internet should know. Identity theft is becoming more and more of an issue and by visiting his blog you can minimize the risk of being compromised. Reviewed by: Alex
• VI-SU blog is all about WordPress, AdSense, SEO and Internet Marketing. Although mostly written in German I have found that using Google translate is worth the effort for his posts. Reviewed by: Alex
• Home With Heather is a great informative blog targeting WAHM (Work At Home Moms) and run by … you guessed it – Heather Masson. Information on what works for her in Internet Business written is very easy to read and comes from her personal experience. Reviewed by: Alex
• A Copywriter’s Blues blog published by Alex Badalic, a veteran of advertising turned musician gives you great food for soul. I have found some nice old videos of Johnny Cash performance and he has a lot more of vintage videos to satisfy fans. Reviewed by: Alex
• Did You Smell That blog authored by one of the veterans on network marketing filled with business ideas you can use. David Ledoux is well known and respected in online community and now he makes his experience available via blog posts. Reviewed by: Alex
• Best Damn Blog run by Richard Wing is all about Internet Marketing. Your visit will be rewarded by honest reviews, freebies and information you need to succeed in this cut-throat business without sacrificing your integrity. Reviewed by: Alex

— Copy and paste the Reciprocal Review Carousel and instructions above this line —

So to recap… Just write an introductory paragraph on your blog about how and where you found the carousel (Copywriting.com), copy and paste the carousel (including the “Copy and Paste” instruction lines), add a review to a blog you like to the top of the list and a link to your blog in the “Reviewed by” line and delete the bottom review. Then just publish your post and voilá – watch your traffic grow.

It will be interesting to see how many people join this cool new trend (and how many copy-cats try to dupe it). So please leave a comment on this post if you’re joining the carousel from this website – I’m really interested in keeping tabs on the results this new concept can generate!