The Indie Virus
Overview
Personified has started a small, casual social experiment called The Indie Virus. Here’s how Pearsonified describes this experiment: The experiment, henceforth referred to as The Indie Virus, has two goals:
- To bring exposure to lesser known blogs (especially those outside of Technorati’s top 100)
- To explore the metrics behind a viral linking campaign launched by the “little guys” (less popular blogs)
The Rules
Participating in The Indie Virus is easy. All you've got to do is link
to lesser known blogs from within a post (or two, or eleventeen), but
you have to make sure that the anchor text of your link is The Indie Virus.
This is critical, because in order to track the experiment, I'll be
searching for the phrase "The indie Virus" on common engines like
Technorati, Google, and Yahoo! Oh, and also, make sure that you link
directly to a post WITH A TRACKBACK and not to the site itself - it
speaks louder!
The Picks
Heth over at From Under the Laundry Pile (a very entertaining blog; if you've never visited, you simply must darling.) To keep the virus and the experiment going I must now tag a few other blogs.
- Joe over at Play One On TV.
- Chase over at Taste The World.
- Peach over at Just Peachy.
OK, you three, don't egg my house. This is the virus you WANT to catch.
