The Project?

How about you set yourself up with a little old sensual sex blog and then task yourself with trying to acquire as much popularity as you can possibly achieve within you peer group. With just one constraint, your blog should contain no sidebar reciprocal linkage, your only form of self promotion; comments.

Quite a task you may say but I it happens. What a fantastic phenomenon. The blogger has no sidebar links but is linked-to all over the blog world.

How? You may well ask. This blogger is very shrewd. They know that flattery is the best policy when it comes to winning over the unsuspecting blogger. A few effusive and lengthy comments and BINGO! Instant sidebar linkage. However, sometimes in their eagerness to spread the word I have noted that the comment can sometimes bear no relation to the post it is attached to. Even more spookily the blogger often refers back to a post on their own blog which, goodness me!, just happens to describe something similar to this post but is so much “hotter”.
Indeed this particular blogger is so busy keeping up with the number of bloggers new and old that they seem to operate a comment rota. Within days of a new blog appearing they are consumed by this insatiable being. It reminds me very much of the “Borg” from Star Trek. “You will be assimilated!”

I’m not sure quite why anyone, who clearly knows how to link back to their peers would do this. I can only surmise that this blogger is undertaking a social experiment to see just how far they can go without putting out one link to anyone.

I’m not exactly up on the whole linkage thing but I’m sure that Google will eventually reward this ingenuity. So everyone who has linked to this particular blogger shouldn’t be surprised by the bloggers increased search engine ranking, or maybe they’re planning a book launch? Book promotion is quite the thing at the moment within the blog world but I will cover that one later.