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What is Viral Marketing? Viral Marketing is a marketing strategy that many successful businesses and websites use to bring attention to their services, websites, and products by sharing, giving, or selling something of value with strings attached or something people talk about and share.
Viral Marketing is marketing that is spread like a virus from person to person or website to website. Some smart marketers never refer to it as viral marketing because the words virus or viral have such a negative word association to computer viruses & disease. Some other names Viral Marketing can go by are Story Marketing, Spread Marketing, Buzz Marketing, ect. & the origination of viral marketing would have to be by word of mouth advertising.
Viral Marketing ExamplesViral Link Building Techniques Artisteer is a template design program that makes it easy for anyone to make their own custom Joomla, Druple, or Wordpress templates, without any php coding experience.
Artisteer uses Viral marketing as a link building strategy to grow their back links by hard coding a link (this template made by Artisteer) into all templates that are output by the Artisteer program. The effects of this type of marketing is that for every user who buys and uses the Artisteer Template program Artisteer receives a link back to their website that is generated on every single page of content that the user creates.
 Twitter Mosaic uses these same type of Viral Marketing Techniques in a simple tool for websites and bloggers to show thereTwitter followers or friends in there content. Viral Marketing Tip 1Create something of value that solves a problem and would simplify your users tasks. A great example of this is the Twitter Karma program which make it easy for Twitter users
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