Let's imagine your photography blog got itself listed on Alltop.com (that's Guy Kawasaki's Blog Library, so to speak), under "Photography" (http://photography.alltop.com/)
Really? You don't know what this is? Guy Kawasaki was principal in launching Apple. This is a site he founded that features the "Best Of" blogs. Under Photography, he's got Chase Jarvis, Ron Galbraith, Ken Rockwell, Luminous Landscape, Strobist, Joe McNally, and so many others.
Yeah.... and as I mentioned, Joe McNally, and also Rick Sammon, Vincent Laforet, Zack Arias, Neil van Niekirk and others. But what I get from your replies are two things:
1. You don't know about this resource (that's okay) and
2. You wouldn't know how to answer my question (that's okay too).
It's just a jungle of links dude. It's not that big of a deal, but you don't seem to get that. Geez, there has to be 500 links on the face page alone. I wouldn't be dancing a jig just because my link was buried in there. Every single one of the people you mentioned are all about marketing. The site you posted is all about marketing. The only person truly getting any reward from this is the person raking in all the revenue from ads on that site - thus, the reason they are linking such big names.
So, yea, I know a little bit about it... enough to know it's not a big freakin' deal. It's a link corral. Whooptidoo.
amonline wrote:
It's just a jungle of links dude. It's not that big of a deal, but you don't seem to get that. Geez, there has to be 500 links on the face page alone. I wouldn't be dancing a jig just because my link was buried in there. Every single one of the people you mentioned are all about marketing. The site you posted is all about marketing. The only person truly getting any reward from this is the person raking in all the revenue from ads on that site - thus, the reason they are linking such big names.
So, yea, I know a little bit about it... enough to know it's not a big freakin' deal. It's a link corral. Whooptidoo....Show more →
Haven't checked out the site, but hey, if it's one more chance to get your name out there, and isn't costing you a dime, then cool. Maybe it's a brag point to future clients.
If it's a trusted site, it should help a bit with SEO, I think. I'd definitely try to capitalize on it.
This coming from someone who placed in a photo contest, was published in a magazine, and was featured on SMP all in one a few months and still hasn't blogged about it. Fail.
Mike Mahoney wrote:
I was just thinking to myself yesterday that if the internet were to get hit by a meteorite my business would survive very well on referrals.
I was thinking the other day how WOM is the gravy on top of the marketing I do. That even if all my brides ran out of people to refer or all my brides moved on in life beyond weddings to be involved in the next phases of their lives, which they all do eventually - or even if the referrals merely slowed down for a period, I'd still have business coming in on a regular basis because of my marketing.
DB wrote:
If it's a trusted site, it should help a bit with SEO, I think. I'd definitely try to capitalize on it.
Backlinks! Of course! That's a great point, thanks.
danvprod wrote:
I'm assuming this site is better indexed on google than a personal/business site, so Cool?
Ah! And since they list and link the last four or so blog titles, it's a perpetual anchor text set of backlinks being created. Yes, very cool.
So it looks like the consensus is it could be good for SEO and Ranking, but not exactly a prestige by association thing to a prospect. Unless they're way into Apple, maybe.
The reason I originally posted about this is because I see all those names and others on there, which made me wonder if it indeed served as a boost in any measure to all their popularity.
Someone would have to be WAY BEYOND being "Way into Apple" to even know the connection.
And yeah I agree on your evaluation above. IMHO there would be ZERO value in terms of prestige by association with any clients other than fellow photographers. Then again photographers get married too...
