I love the way Scribd not only lets you embed content on your WordPress Blog but also it’s awesome ranking power particularly for low competition keywords.
As of this posts date and time it’s ranked at number 3 for the term “Dan Raine Intern”. It started at number one but then inevitably dropped below Dan’s Twitter posts (Damn).
I’m experimenting to see if this post helps it at all even though it’s a reciprocal link. Hey if you don’t test you never discover anything new right?
The trick now will bet to get it to stick and avoid the dreaded Google Dance. I’m firing a few backlinks at it but don’t want to appear spammy so I’m going slow.
I intend to do some more experiments with Scribd by embedding the documents in various posts and checking how they rank and stick over time. I’ll test reciprocal and one way linking and see if they both work.
I have a suspicion the embedded objects on a Blog may help the original document rank as per Youtube.
I’ll let you know the results in a couple of weeks so don’t forget to bookmark this Blog.
Bob Bartram AKA Young Bob
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