Before we even get started go to www.grc.com and click shields up. Follow the instructions and check the vulnerability of your pc. You’ll have to select shields up again when the list of programs is seen. Select the option “scan all service ports”. This is the test by the world trusted pc security guru, Steve Gibson. All the squares should be green on your results. If they’re not all green, you need some protection. Get a router! I’ll be discussing this in a future post.

Hi Everyone! In viral world there are some things you should know that aren’t always explained so get ready! What is a train? What is a meme? What is the purpose of them? Lets take MEME – Stands for Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment according to Answer dot com. For bloggers, the Revellian definition is: It is a replicating post that moves from blog to blog building a chain of links and relies on propagation through tagging a new list of bloggers to join in. A train is also type of meme. I will explain why neither are a good link building method. They are fun and you should do some. If you also want to build power and linkage then viral tags or a “viral” approach is needed. One is for fun and one is for power! I actually have three meme’s coming soon: One very late from Amber(sorry Amber) , a food meme from Mariuca and a blogger tips meme from the BrownBaron. Amber’s is actually a link love post for thirteen posts you like from other blogs. I already started my own series of link love posts so I will apply viral networking to it by doing a new one of my Linklove Linkericiousness posts – but I will reference Ambers post and add thirteen posts I like to it. You see? I continued her meme and added another batch to my Link love series together. If you are added to 10 link love lists think about how to use them in your viral tags or like I just showed you, to keep it part of my own series and stay focused. I want to add my series to their own e-books when done (thanks for telling me Brown Baron) as I have yet to utilize their power.

Recently I joined a feed train. What’s that? It is a list of links usually in the format below:

new adds(list 1)
john doe – subscribe to feed
john doe – subscribe to feed
john doe – subscribe to feed

older adds(list 2)
john doe – subscribe to feed
john doe – subscribe to feed
john doe – subscribe to feed
john doe – subscribe to feed

When you get on the train you move the names on the 1st list to the 2nd list. You add your new people (the people you have chosen to tag) to the now empty list 1. And the train goes on. The problem is that the people on list 2 don’t have you on their list. So essentially you have given links to them all but you only get links back from the new people you added. This is why a train is not effective for gaining back links unless you are at the beginning of it!!!!! Not to say that meme’s cannot be effective, some can. I’m saying you should harness viral power (giving 100% and being reciprocated 100%).

This is why I did my feed train differently than the way it was given to me when I was Tagged. You should take a “viral approach” to your trains. Viral means it is an ongoing, everexpanding list.
What is more effective, a train (of anykind, including the linkies lovetag train) or a viral tags matrix? The viral tags matrix is by far more effective!!!!! There are so many meme’s and trains going around and a lot of them take advantage of you. They get links from you but you end up getting crumbs in return. If you join me on my feed train, viral tags or technorati faves train you are not on a train. You are part of my permanently updated and constantly growing lists.

On the top of my blog is a linklove tab. It is the linkies love tag meme I joined in on recently. Everyone on the list has a link from me. I only received back six links from it That is why I am telling you to take a new approach. Also up top I have a viral tags matrix (my 2nd) I gave links to all on it AND I received back 100% backlinks from it. YAY! This is the difference between a train and a viral tags matrix. Now, you have to contact every link and ask each to add you to theirs. On linkies lovetags, people aren’t asking to be added in nor are they instructed to.

MY NEW PLAN OF ACTION: I am going to make feeds and faves all one list. The persons name or site and their tech fave url + feed url attached. On Memes: Am I saying not to participate in linkies love tag or fun traditional meme’s? No. Go ahead, they are fun and promote blog socializing. What I am saying is that you should have a viral tags matrix and or a viral feeds list/technorai faves list. My new plan is to take advantage of things not apparent at first glance. I am going to take all the links in my link love post (top of my blog in tabs) and one at a time add each url on the list to my viral tags matrix. I will go to every person in the list’s actual linkies love post and leave a comment like this:

Example comment of what to say:

Hi, I have given you a link in my love tags post at
http://revellian.com/revellian-linkluv/
I added your url from the list to my viral tags to build the powerful effectiveness of viral networking! Would you please add me to your lovetags or even better, create a viral tags post and add me that way. Thank you!
Revell = tag
url = revellian.com

The goal is to build a viral tags matrix that is enormous and powerful. I have 2 viral tags matrices. My second is the on I am currently building up. If you have an old viral tags post that is full, go ahead and start a brand new one. I am moving my viral tags from the tabs above to be seen as a regular post.

FYI: On Wordspress blogs you have both posts and pages (pages are the top tabs and also in the side bar). On blogger you only have posts. Pages are a little different than posts in that they live outside the normal lifecycle of posts. They stay there and don’t get archived. They also don’t have backtracks. Hence my reason for moving my viral tags to a post. I will change the timestamp of my viral tags post every month so it stays in my last 10 posts and is listed on the front of my blog. DON’T LET YOUR VIRAL TAGS BECOME ARCHIVED. Like I said just change the timestamp on it and your system will always list it a a recent post. If it is archived it has it’s links but it is dead. KEEP A VIRAL TAGS AND VIRAL FEED LIST ALWAYS IN RECENT POSTS, NEVER IN ARCHIVE. IT STAYS NEW AND IS TO BE GROWN AND NURTURED.

People, what this is about is all of us taking the wheel in our web lives and harnessing it’s power as a collective force of friends throughout the world. You can buy linkage or do what a lot of money bloggers do and ignore viral tags (some money blogs love viral tags like Jimmy from the Founders Cafe – he is the one that launched and created the tags) This is a way for all of us to gain real connective power. Not everyone knows that the mass public of bloggers is THE untapped source of link power. Some bloggers only link to big, high authority blogs. I AM THE OPPOSITE. I LINK TO EVERYONE ELSE. If we normal non-technical bloggers who write for the love of it take a little initiative we could change the world. The power we as the masses of the world are unused! One giant reason for my approach to viral networking is to PROMOTE WORLD PEACE AND FIGHT RACISM. It is time for you as a blogger to realize just how much power you actually have at your disposal. This is what I am all about. This is the reason for all these posts about viral networking. To write a great blog with imaginative stories and inspiring insights is fine but you should also take part in the viral culture of linking using link love! It’s not that much to do. You just maintain a viral tags and a viral feeds post (and or technorati faves post) in addition to what you normally do.

WANT TO MOVE FROM BLOGSPOT TO WORDPRESS? When I did my first tags matrix I moved from blogspot to my own domain. I lost all of my technorati authority. Over the past month I built my new domain’s authority from absolute 0 to 220 (todays figure)…now this is one month. I’d be in the top 10k right now if I hadn’t moved. There is a way around it I wish I had known before I had moved. So I will tell you how: Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices This post will explain how to move your blogspot blog to your self-hosted Wordpress blog and keep your authority. It’s the easiest to understand post I’ve seen.

Tags: blogging tips

Ok, for those of you who don’t know anything and never read tech blogs because their too technical. You don’t understand feeds and are lost. Welcome home.The first thing to do is join Technorati and Feedburner. Read about and know your Feedburner feed url. Mine is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Revellian
On Mybloglog you need to enter it in as the full feed url of your site. Actually, it is the permanent url to your feed.

To read and your feed join Bloglines It’s fast and works great. Must have! Also join Delicious It is a bookmarking site. HERE’S the deal. You need 3 things to make you a viralfriend and evolve with the web not just watching it go by. You need a Viral Tags Post. A feedburner Feed Post and a Technorati fave post. These posts aren’t trains, they’re viral matrices. Trains go by, these stay. These are posts you should maintain regularly.

If you are new here, Welcome to our Viral-Friend subculture. It is the golden age of the links, or linking to another is how you give link love. Everyone I know living virally are worth knowing. Society’s perception of viral links varies widely but it has become something else entirely. Don’t fear the viral link, embrace it. It forces us to work together, for eachother thus uniting us in peace. While governments plot wars the people living there are all of our friends. I know people from every place on Earth, and I have no enemies.

So, Lets link and Feed and Fave

Tags: blogging tips