Iphone, Saddam and Britney Spears

I've been looking at different strategies for a way to get more popular - that's what we all want, right? No, it's not like that - I just think that it would be more fullfilling if I knew that someone read what I had to say. Because these words are of course the most valuable words you will ever read.
Anyway, I signed up at Technorati to get statistics and other stuff on my blogs. And at Technorati there is a daily list of the most popular blogs and search words. So as an experiment I'm just gonna write a little bit about the some of the most popular words, just to see if that leads to more traffic on my own blog. For instance Iphone is very popular at the moment. No wonder. When the guys from Apple send something new on the street the world stands still - or at least Apples marketing department can almost make the world stand still in awe.
I guess Saddam could make the world stand still too. At least I think most of the Western World has gone into ecclipse because of Saddam and the result of his tyrannic rule in Iraq. I hope we are soon getting on with the whole thing and especially I hope Iraq will be on it's way towards peaceful times.
Britney Spears is another popular search word. I wonder why. She's been on top of all kinds of search list rankings for several years but it's not like anything new is going on. Well, yes she got out of a car and exposed something but come on... that's not new to the World.
What is cool, is that Britney Spears has managed to get her homepage on top of the search engines even though there at this moment (15th of January 2007) is nothing on her site. Just a frame saying the site is in the works. I guess there is a lot of sites linking there...

Link exchange

One thing I have learned in the past months where I have studied SEO is that links are one of the most important things about optimization of homepages. If you want to get to the top of Google you have to get a bunch of other internet sites to link to your page. This will tell the search engines that your page is relevant for the particular subject. But it's not just about links with the exact adress. You must use tagged links. That is you must find out what kind of search words you think are relevant for your page. If you are a linguist for instance and you are working with linguistics then you want to get to the top of all searches for the words linguist or linguistics. To do this your links should be Linguist and not the adress www.lingvisten.dk (ok, I admit it - I have a friend who are a linguist). Now the link is tagged and should tell the search engines that at this site you can find relevant information for the search "linguist".
Of course I using this platform to help all my friends get their homepages to the top of the search engines and I'm willing to help anybody else as long as their internet site is about the search words they claim it is about. In the near future I will set up an email-adress where you can all send me links and descriptions of your sites and then you will already have one external link to help you get moving on the Google Searches.