by Jonathon Blakeley
What is a link Ninja?
Well there has evolved many approaches to SEO in the last 10 years. Link builders, Link Baiters and Link ninjas. Essentially the difference is this
- Link builders – SEO through attrition – building back links through persistent commenting with back links.
- Link Baiters – SEO through temptation/attraction – creating hot keyphrases (Baits) and titles that others pick up on pass on.
- Link Ninjas – SEO through Memetics – creating ethically balanced link wheels and viral content.
What qualities make a Link Ninja?
- Ethical
- Empathic
- Stealthy
- Intelligent
- Integrated
- Min Force/Max Result
- Subtle
- Elegant
- Win/Win
- Synergistic
The difference is some people are happy just to buy 100-1000 back links off a company with not many questions asked. As long as they get to the “top of the search engines”. Some clients don’t care how they get to the top of the search engines, but Link Ninjas care. They care because sharing info should not be a trick, a bait. Sharing is at its best a WIN/WIN process.
The Ninja has a more long term strategic view of the web rather than the quick fix get to the top approach. The link ninja is more like a gardener, a web site gardener, he builds links organically & naturally. He grows websites and users are encouraged to clone links or snippets from the mother website. Link ninjas are masters of creating viral content and building quality back links. One quality link is worth 1000′s of low quality links.
The Link ninjas are masters of Memetics, meme splicing and synthesis.
Here is some relevant meme quotes from various sources: -
Memes, self reproducing mental information structures analogous to genes in biology, can be seen as the basis for an explanatory model of cultural and psychological behaviour. Their properties and effects are evolutionary conditioned and ultimately seeks to promote their replication.
Applied memetic engineering
“the concept of currency or money is considered a meme developed by early bankers.”
