Project Link for Charity! $20 for Each Link. Up to $1,000!

I have been reading up on Karen George's SEO suggestions (even though she is a loan person focusing on Arizona Loans) on increasing the number of links to my website, and specifically doing it with keyword linking (also known as anchor text).

You might have heard about link swaps, but apparently (according to Karen and others) they don't help you with search engines since Google sees two buddy sites as not being "important," so instead it likes to see INCOMING links.

And I hate going around and begging for links, so I thought I'd figure out a way to make it a charity driven event. So if you link to me, you help a charity of my choice. My main charity is the St. Bernard PR0JECT to help Katrina Relief

Here are the simple rules

1. Link to me with the proper formatting, with one of 3 formats (to change it up)
2. Email me that the link was made
3. We wait until Google indexes it
4. I tally up all the links after 30 days and I give the money to the charity above

Please let me know if this is a horrible idea or sick in your mind. I hope not.

Since I want to spread out the types of link, pick one of the three codes from inside the box below.

HTML Code for Link Option #1

• <a href="http://www.franklyrealty.com">Virginia Real Estate</a>

Looks like this: Virginia Real Estate

HTML Code for Link Option #2

• <a href="http://www.franklyrealty.com">Arlington Condos Virginia </a>

Looks like this: Arlington Condos Virginia

HTML Code for Link Option #3

• <a href="http://www.franklyrealty.com">Northern Virginia Homes for Sale</a>
  

Looks like this: Northern Virginia Homes For Sale

You can either incorporate it into a blog, Link from your Active Rain main page, you can write about this project, or link from your blogroll or main page.

So here is the donation breakdown (revised by Karen):

• $10 for even a little shout out in one of your blogs. It doesn't even need to be about this project and can be randomly at the end of middle of your blog. As long as Google grabs it!
• $15 for a blogroll link, or a link from your main Active Rain page.
  
• $20 for a link from your regular non-activerain website.
• $40 for a front page link from your website with a page rank of 3 or more! (this might be too much to ask, but I'll give more for it)

So somebody is going to ask how long do they have to keep it up there. Well I hope you like the blog and will want to keep it up but if not, no biggy. How about 3 months? And if it stays up a year, I'll make ANOTHER donation in the same amount above.

Thanks, and let me know when you have put up a link somewhere!

Frank Borges LL0SA- 

I pledge up to $1,000 with this project.