Except I’ll burst your bubble right now and tell you the link isn’t followed. But it can still generate some traffic and perhaps some links will come from that. This technique has been out there for a while, this is just the first time I’ve had it be successful for me, hence the post at this late date.
Yesterday I was reading an article on CNN.com entitled Poll: GOP image goes from bad to worse. I then went to my politics blog and posted asking why are Republicans so unpopular these days? Within a few hours I noticed something happening that hadn’t ever happened before, which was that I was getting multiple comments on this blog post. That’s unusual for this blog, because it’s a new blog and nobody reads it other than one friend of mine. So I checked my stats and I had received about 60 visitors during the day to the page, and they were coming from the CNN page I had linked to.
Now it’s not there anymore, and I can’t link to another page as an example since that page will probably also change before you read this, but on many CNN stories there is a link at the bottom saying “From the Blogs”. If you expand the link, it will show you links to three blogs, along with snippets of what is on those blogs. You can then click through to the actual blog. These links are no-followed, but as I’ve found out, they can generate some traffic. About 100 unique visitors in my case. If you check the source of the page and search for “clearlydeparted” you’ll still find the link to my blog in the code.
However, time is of the essence. Apparently you have to post quickly after the original article is posted to have a shot at being one of the blogs that gets a link back. Which means you may want to sign up for the CNN feed so you can be Johnny-on-the-spot and post quickly.
You can also do this with TechCrunch.com.
So you just created a normanl html link within your post to the CNN post, and they picked up that link and returned a one temporarily? Or did you have to do anything fancy with your link?
I do have my blogs set to ping sites when I link to them, so I’m assuming that’s how they know the link exists. But other than that nothing special.
Interesting how you got traffic back from a no follow link but traffic is traffic.
Good information to think about for sure.
Nice tips,.. I think its depend on our article,.. if our article interesting to anyone it will make a response
INTERESTIGN I wonder if you put some bb code or html code with forces a do-follow if that would work….
Is this still applicable and relevant?
Another way to get a link would be to create a really useful newsworthy link bait or content.
It totally depend on the article you wrote because with out a nice article no cnn readers will read your blog posts..