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This was originally posted in the thread: http://www.lightstalkers.org/blog-directory- but I thought we could get more eyes with a new post since this post changes the topic a bit from the original thread.
In an effort to improve our collective page ranks ( http://www.google.com/technology/ ) with google it was proposed that we work together as an organized group, to use the web and it’s technology to our advantage rather than working separately and competing with the millions of amateur photographers and their websites as well as the websites of microstock companies for search engine results.
The steps required to participate in this project/experiment are few but success will require a commitment by everyone involved. The more participation both in numbers of participants and frequency of participation, the more we all collectively benefit.
The premise is based on google’s page ranking system which is explained by google in the link above. Many of us have blogs. The idea behind this project is that we use our blogs to occasionally (but consistently) profile the work of a fellow lightstalker who is participating in this project by writing a post about his/her photography and including one or more links to their website in the post. Over time all participants will gain more links to their site which will increase each person’s page rank. As each person’s page rank improves, by receiving more links from other sites, the value of each link given to other sites goes up. Thus we raise each other up collectively.
To participate:
1. go to http://www.cafesilencio.net/lightclub and enter your lightstalker member ID and the URL for your website.
2. when you have the time to profile another member, go to the same website and click the ‘get URL’ button. a URL from the database will be randomly selected and displayed on the screen along with a button you can click to go to the site.
3. look over the website and write something about the photography on your blog, be sure to include a link to the person’s website in the blog post.
4. get yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy a feeling of satisfaction that by promoting another lightstalker member, somebody else is promoting you.
Personally I’m going try and do this once a week.
Also, on the screen of the web applet there’s a button to see all of the sites that are in the database and the number of times they’ve been retrieved from the database as a result of clicking the ‘get URL’ button. Those who get their site in early will naturally have a higher number than those who add their site 3 months from now. The URLs are retrieved randomly from the database in an effort to provide a level playing field to all participants.
I hope that this can be a long term successful project that we all benefit from.
by
Seth Bourget
at
Mon Dec 03 14:29:49 UTC 2007
(ed. Mar 12 2008)
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
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