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Hi all you bitcoin webmasters. I am putting together a group of respected bitcoin sites to start a SEO linking campaign. Too many news sites that are really just advertising bad news about bitcoins are taking up the front pages of major searches and I would like to get us coordinated to improve our page ranks via in-links.

Please post your site if you would like to be considered for this and I should have it all up and running within the next couple days.

Thanks in advance and I hope we can get this going.

-Think

http://startbitcoin.com

best of luck on your venture

I'm not going to link to anyone, but my tool is useful and you can link to it if you want.

FirstBits.com

Depending on how classy it's done (i.e. text links vs uglyass banner ads) I might be interested in linking to others, I'm definitely interested in being linked to.

http://www.bitcoinreference.com

Hmmm... don't know if that's really in the spirit of things.

I'm open to it as well:

http://www.BitcoinTraining.com (http://www.BitcoinTraining.com)


Trader Steve

Sounds good to me consider me in:

http://bitstarter.co 

 :)

Cool idea!

Yes, Good Idea... I'm Interested.

See my sig :)

please feel free to link to my site, in sig.  :)

I could have a "SFW" landing page set up for this purpose.

http://bitcoinporn.tumblr.com (http://bitcoinporn.tumblr.com)

I do keep my site ad free, however I would definitely put in a link list/exchange of sorts on the front page if no one minds.

Please link to me!

http://virtualfaqs.com/forum/

Thanks!

Thanks!  ;D  we are re-vamping the site but we already have some awesome projects! stay tuned...

Great idea, but a link from me would not help Bitcoins image.

It's great to hear someone DOING something about PR rather than just complaining that people "don't understand".

Please add Bitcoin Venture Capital http://www.btcvc.com/ as well. He sent me a PM with the information and I want to make sure that everyone includes them in their links.

OK!!! I really think this will be a good boost to the bitcoin community. If you check my site at http://startbitcoin.com You will see all of your links posted on the sidebar of my page. I hope that everyone that contributed their site to this list will do the same by posting all of our links to their page. On the sidebar of every page would be preferred (like how I set mine up) but a minimum of a link page containing all of them would be the minimum.

There are a lot of great sites on this list that I have never seen or heard of before and this is a great opportunity to show that the bitcoin community is strong and has a lot to offer. We all have to do our part and post links to all the other sites or we will not increase our page rank.

Also, if you hover over the links on my page you will notice that they all have a description and every description includes the word "bitcoin". That will be key to increasing SEO. I put the work in for all of you, please return the favor.

-Think

Hey....I'm not afraid to say it...I spent days of screwing around with the GUIminer program and couldn't get it to work. I'm not exactly an advanced user, but I finally understood how to set it up correctly after finding your website the other day  ;D I like how well your site is coming along.

Not everyone is an expert when it comes to these things. I'm trying to make the bitcoin community something that everyone can get into and on top of that, they can learn some new things in the process. I'm glad you got what you needed from my site and I hope you enjoyed it.

-Think

Nice idea... let me know if I can help:
our site http://www.youtipit.org (http://www.youtipit.org) for rewarding online with bitcoin tips.

I would love to be a part of this!

http://tiptopgem.com/ (http://tiptopgem.com/)

Why not? You run a legal business and the fact that you earn money with it proves that you offer services which are obviously deemed useful by people.

Seriously - you provided numerous insightful posts to many threads in this forum and seem to be committed to the Bitcoin project. You are surely a valuable member of the Bitcoin community and I don't see why your site shouldn't be linked to just because some parts of the society might not approve of your business.

We need diversity - Bitcoin is not just for a small niche of society anymore - it is a superior form of money and by itself unpolitical. You yourself said that we should stop trying to sell our own political agendas with Bitcoin. Ironically you're doing just that with not wanting your website linked to - even though I understand you do it out of concern for the Bitcoin project. That is just so noble that I felt compelled to speak up :D

I strongly vote against overly zealous censorship - we all have our cultural/ideological/religious backgrounds but in the end its our diversity that makes us strong. Bitcoin is people's money, so it really should reflect mankind in all its facets!

(sorry for drifting off-topic)

Having said that, I really like the idea of the SEO campaign - keep up your good work thinkweis! I'll contact you once my own site is up.

Oh it IS a legal business, but even in this forum with reasonably literate members there are a dozen posts assuming it is prostitution and illegal. Some people incorrectly perceive my business to be illegal, so associating Bitcoin with it at this point would not be helpful. I can't say "perception does matter, you can't just say they are stupid" and then say "except for my business" LOL. It's my choice, I've suggested the same for a few friends in the Adult industry- that crypto-currency stands the best chance if we accept it, but don't paint the logo on naked women LOL.

It's a personal choice though, I have no problem with Adult business owners who feel otherwise. There are valid points to be made for either side. If I choose to openly accept Bitcoin again I would put it on a single page with search engines blocked until it had much wider adoption.


Oh, not censorship- if anyone tried to prevent Adult businesses from participating I would speak out very strongly. It's discretion. Even legal Adult businesses are used to this, we don't just have to abide the law- we have to be VERY good neighbors because the authorities can always find a reason. You don't open near a church/school and then fight it in court- you open someplace else, you don't exercise your right to have loud parties- you keep a low profile. Your staff does not come and go in a working class neighborhood wearing $400 high heels and designer handbags- you make sure they wear college sweatshirts and carry backpacks.

For Adult businesses, discretion when operating in the mainstream is the cost of doing business, it's the same for us with Bitcoin.

More links added to my site. Please link back.

http://tweetforum.com/bitcoin
http://twitter.com/bitcoinforum

i have a few projects planned.. i could be interested

I've posted the links on http://www.BitcoinTraining.com (http://www.BitcoinTraining.com). If I missed anyone just PM me and we can reciprocate.

Trader Steve

Thanks a lot Trader Steve! I haven't had time to check to see who all put links up but I will probably be making a list of all the people that are participating by putting the links on their site so we can make sure everyone is getting a fair exchange of links.

bittalk.tv

Atom and I just started a Bitcoin podcast today. Your linking would be appreciated.

I added you and am listening to your podcast right now. I thought if was going to be so nerdy I would listen all the way through for a laugh but it's actually really good and I intend to continue to listed. I think this will be really good for the community.

bitcoinprofits.us (http://bitcoinprofits.us) is where I will be launching an info product about bitcoins, for marketers.  "Make money with bitcoins" kinda stuff.  But first, they must know what it is, and what it isn't.

Added - Make sure you make a links section to add everyone to your site.

Will do.

EDIT: I cut my finger yesterday. really bad. I have to type with 1 finger on my strong hand.  It's also my clicking finger.  So, I cheated and just copied your links' source code into a text widget.

It gave me an idea... maybe someone can host a "bitcoin-links.html" page and keep it updated, and we can just frame it in a widget. It will always be up to date, and include everyone.  Just a thought.

I'm already working on that. I just have to come up with the php to do it. And to make is so it's scale-able over many sites without messing up the aesthetic of their site.

Why php? Maybe because if it gets too big, it might "break" someone's design? Yeah, I can dig it.

As far as aesthetics, leave that to the site's CSS.  Just add a class to the beginning, and use cannonical style commands.

for example:

Why not? Bitcoin Classifieds, a place where you can sell your stuff for Bitcoins!

http://www.bitcoinclassifieds.net

Hi, this is a really interresting idea. there's still directories that people did (paid or not paid) only for bitcoin.

http://bitcoindirectory.net/
http://www.bitcoindir.com/
http://www.bitcoindirectory.com/
http://bitcoinlinks.com/

are four of them.

Probably articles directories and others SEO friendly websites like that will start to pop.

Btw if you want to consider my link: BTCrow.com - Bitcoin Escrow Service

Ok,

It took some doing because I've never worked with JS before but I went ahead and made up a solution so you don't have to do much work. Just insert


into your page or if you have wordpress the adsense or advertising widget and then go to

http://startbitcoin.com/bitcoinlinks/bitcoinlinks.rar and the bitcoinlinks.css will be in that rar.

This is easier for everyone because there now is a centralized list and it is easy to remove people who are on it but not reciprocating the links.

From the time of this post everyone on the list has 1 week to put this on their site or I am going to have to remove them to make way for people who want to be on the link exchange.

I have dedicated a fair amount of time to getting this working in a way that won't mess up your current designs and also is customizable so please donate for the effort. 1HbdRpinMDQ2cgUWsKiMPDN2icC8rNpS1i

www.bitcoinfeedback.com
www.bitcoinforums.net

I will respond by posting up the links on those sites when I get a chance.  Will do it on a links page though, not in a sidebar.

I will put your site on the list as soon as you put the links up to be fair to all the people that have already posted links.

www.bitcoinborsen.dk (http://www.bitcoinborsen.dk)
Bitcoin Support in Denmark

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