About ViralLinks, ViralIcons and Viral[Generic]

I've been blogging around a bit and wanted to get some tips on getting more visitors, better google rank etc, and I found lots of tips about ViralLinks, ViralIcons and other Viral things. It resembles the banner exchange programs that was popular back in the 90's and I don't remember them being that successfull. They worked a bit like a pyramid game, the earlier you joined, the better outcome you got.

I might be the same thing here with Viral[Whatever], for the early top ten it probably works fine, but as the list grows I'd guess that the google search engine will decrease the rating of the links: link-pages aren't that high ranked in google.

My experience is that it is almost always better to create an article about something, post it in some link-sites that are about specialized in that subject, and wait. Specialised link sites hold content that are relevant to the visitor and hence it gets a higher score than simple viral link lists. Moreover, specialized link sites are copied over and over by people starting new link sites, so you don't even have to work to get more links over time.

One page I posted three years ago on one site now have 10000 links to it on google, and I didn't do anything else than the initial post.

Do you agree or disagree with me?

By the way, look at a really interesting blog 49things to do - Microsoft Surface and Apple IPhone Parody for some laughs (you might allready have seen them though, but my other blog is pretty fun).