SEO is an important part of viral marketing and link building is a vital ingredience of any SEO activity.

This article outlines how to use CV (curriculum vitae) communities for “demi-evil” back-linking purposes:

SEO Kung Fu: Using CVs for linkbuilding-purposes.

Back in the day, things were quite simple – you had your blog, and that was about it. Enter social media: micro-blogging this, aggregating that… it can get quite annoying to keep track of every single posting.

Smart bloggers plan ahead and schedule their virtual appearances. Wouldn’t it be great if there was one central hub for cross-scheduling posts on different platforms like twitter, WordPress, TumblR and so on? Luckily there is, and even though postlater asks for a monthly fee, the service is definitely worth the money:

PostLater.com.

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Little green men detest wind power – or so it seems. At least that’s the only valid explanation for the inhabitants of the English village of Conisholme, where a wind turbine sustained damage last week.

All earth-bound theories prove to be wrong, so it’s them aliens again – why are the trying so hard to force us into nuclear power anyways?

Truemors :: Aliens Hate Wind Power: UFO Destroys Turbine.

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There’s great hardware and there’s not-so-great consumer products which remind us of the equivalent of beta-communities: loads of good ideas, but not thought through. datadirt just started a new blog carnival inquiring the high- and lowlights of 2008. Geeks, what’s your gadget experience?

Blog-Carnival: Best and worst gadget 2008

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The Austrian elections are an excellent example of how not to harness the power of the web. While some of the smaller parties simply lack the power of scaling to mobilize enough people, the big parties exclusively relied on display-ads and one way communiation.

Some Austrians even claimed that those parties were actually misusing if not raping services like Twitter and Facebook. A succesful viral campaign needs to anticipate the reaction of its target group. And more than that, it needs to adopt to those reactions and change accordingly – and this has just not happenend. Another chance passed by, better luck next time.

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A look at Austria might prove pretty instructive these days: since the government announced re-elections this fall, all the political parties have gone hysterical over the short period of time: how do you organise and manage a campaign in the short timeframe of only two months?

While the two big parties will probably rely on classical, agency-based campaigning, some members of the green party have started thinking aloud about a “crowdsourcing” campaigen: User are asked to design sujets, and my guess is that a lot of green politicians will start twittering all of a sudden. How can the power of direct communication be harnessed during these times? The next weeks will show if Austrian politicians make good use of Youtube, Facebook and Co. to reach out for the teenagers. This seems more useful than ever, considering that .at just lowered the age barrier: this is the first election where 16-year-olds are granted a vote.

“The Website Marketing Mind Map: Internet Marketing Made Easy” is the title of a rather extensive meme-map of our trade. It’s available over at SEObook and I’m pretty sure it took the author a while to compile all those buzzwords into one giant map.

And it’s instructive, too: despite the first impression that one won’t learn too much from a simple heap of words connected by lines is – plain wrong. Maybe not the most apt poster for your daily morning meditation, but definitely worth a look . I bet you never expected online marketing to consist of so many different sub-areas.

Check it out, jacks of trade: the map is available in different file formats.

In the last month, I’ve quite irregurlarly posted news on viral marketing affairs. The site has been properly indexed by now, so it’s time to start the real deal: I live in Austria, I’ve been blogging in German for quite some time now and as much as I enjoy it, there are definitely audience limits for a non-English blog. So I decided to publish my casual ramblings about viral marketing *and* the blogosphere (there goes the slight change of focus) on this very blog – in English and effective immediately.

Pls excuse my grammar mistakes, my written English is a bit rusty, but I promise I’ll do my best to polish it up. Since my Austrian blog has reached to top position amongst Austrian blogs last week, I think it’s definitely time to try something new. I’ve also been working as a music – or I should rather say – poop journo for over a decade, so the casual netlables story might drop in from time to time as well. So bear with me – you won’t be disappointed

Aight, before I forget to mention it: my main blog is datenschmutz.

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For the last couple of weeks, Subvertandprofit has been awkwardly silent. The last thing we heard was that the mystery founders of the world’s first Digg- and Stumble-Upon influence tool planned on moving to a new server. Everyone was expecting technical problems, the truth a is a lot sadder though.

I just received the following note via e-mail:

With deep sadness, the Subvert and Profit team brings you news of a tragic accident last month that took the life of one of our founders. [...] As we are celebrating the life of one of our brilliant undercover marketing pioneers, we are uplifted to know of your support, and we are at your service to assist you in high-rank placements and content voting assignments.

Luckily for all online marketeer, it’s not the end of a promising project. The remaining team will continue operations within a week:

Last month we moved to a new dedicated server. The move was successful, and we apologize to those of you who may have thought that we spent the last month figuring out the new server, when in fact we spent it figuring out how to move on in the face of tragedy. We will be opening account access again within the next week, and we will send out another announcement when that happens. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Yep, yep, yeah – it’s that time of year again. The Halloween Costumes situation is knockin’ at your door and you don’t wanna be the big loser like last year? Basically, there’s only one thing you can do: Dress up like a NFL star.

Have you ever considered before that NFL Uniforms from Franklin Sports make great Halloween Costumes? My son has been buying Stuff from NFL since he turned 14 – lucky, now he owns his own credit card. Everybody knows that there ain’t nothing scarier in the whole world than a good bunch of drunk NFL players. And nothing sexier than a cute blonde with a large NFL helmet.

Halloween originated under the name of Samhain as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Nobody knows for sure if those guys liked to wear NFL uniforms as well. Other western countries have embraced the holiday as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century. So get your costume right away!

Halloween, known in Scottish Gaelic as “Oidhche Shamhna”, consists chiefly of children going door to door “guising”, i.e., dressed in a disguise (often as a witch or ghost) and offering entertainment of various sorts. If the entertainment is enjoyed, the children are rewarded with gifts of sweets, fruits or money. There is no Scottish ‘trick or treat’ tradition; on the contrary, ‘trick or treat’ may have its origins in the guising customs. And then, there’s grown ups guising and gulling, but that’s a totally different stiggedy-story.

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