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Cool interactive games to teach link building
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Hey looking to find some cool games to teach link building when doing a presentation to people who are new to link building and to make it fun.
Any ideas?
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I'm thinking about a game which i bring in a string which represents all the traffic for a particular vertical (e.g. car insurance). And place it in the middle of the table. Then the people around it will get into groups of 4 (representing websites) and think of content/creative ideas or ways to bring that traffic to them (organic traffic)
What do you guys think?
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Hey looking to find some cool games to teach link building when doing a presentation to people who are new to link building and to make it fun.
Monopoly comes to mind.
You built your first link? Go directly to Google jail.
You built your second link? Pay poor tax of 50% of your traffic
If you are going to teach people, teach them NOT to "build" links and instead to earn links. The difference is not subtle.
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You might also want to review this post below from SEOMOZ
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Gosh, this is a somewhat crazy question, I have a few ideas, but it may help if you give us an idea of what you mean by link building? What techniques will you be using / teaching?
I am not really sure about a game, but you could easily make a lesson out of identifying link candidates for a given piece of content - something like.
- Site A has this piece of content which they want to rank for Keywords X, Y & Z.
- Currently the content has no external links but several similar pieces of content (and provide links) currently have many links
The 'game' would be to identify the links pointing to the similar content, find the social accounts of users who have posted those links using various tools and then to do some social outreach to build relationships with those users with the goal of eventually asking for a link.
Not 100% sure how you would build this into a game - it would really need some artificial content and link prospects to really work.
Hope that helps!
Marcus
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