I recently found an amazing service called Tynt and to be quite honest I can’t believe I haven’t found it before. Tynt uses a simple piece of JavaScript to add a link to any content that is cut & pasted from your website (see the example ‘Read more:’ link below copied from our top 10 link building tips).
Link building is an absolute must in order stay competitive on the SERP’s. Whether people are voluntarily linking to you, or you are going out and getting the links, you must constantly increase the number of inbound links to your site. An inbound link (with anchor text) is still recognized as one of the most important search engine ranking factors.
Read more: http://www.emarketing-newsletter.com/#ixzz0Y7kprXcE
Adding Javascript to add links to images has been a standard practice for years now (here is one of the best sample scripts available here) but this is the only Javascript I have seen that adds a link when when text is copied.
Tynt Insight monitors copy and paste behavior on billions of page loads per month across hundreds of thousands of web sites . Consider this – data shows that up to 6% of page loads results in a user copying content! On a site that has 20 million page views per month – content leaves that site about a million times each month. Currently, without the use of Tynt content owners have no way of benefiting from this normal user behavior.
According to Tynt:
Each time a user copies content from your website and pastes into an email, blog or website, we automatically add a URL link back to your site’s original content. When someone clicks that URL, they are directed back to your site and see the original content.
Tynt Insight drives incremental traffic when people click on the Tynt Insight attribution link from content copied from your site. While it can increase the traffic across all pages, Tynt Insight particularly generates higher traffic to niche content, which may be missed otherwise. Sites using Tynt Insight have seen double the amount of traffic to individual pages
If you are looking for specifics on how to install Tynt on your website or blog, check out these helpful steps here. It is basically an extremely simple process – copy a short snippet of code onto each page of your website and start tracking!
What are your thoughts? Have you used Tynt? Would you recommend it?
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Tynt! We are working with over 200,000 web sites globally right now, tracking over 6.5 billion page views every month. We are always looking for suggestions and ideas to continue to increase the value we add. If you and your readers have any ideas, please be sure to let us know!
The idea is great, and I use Tynt… I manage a large site and the Tynt dashboard informs me that its generated thousands of links back to my content… This is great, but when I investigate those links, a great majority of them are coming from forum posts–that is, message board users seem to love to quote my content and obviously I’m now getting all of those links.
My concern is that wouldn’t Google think I suddenly started spamming all these forums when thousands of link-drops start showing up leading back to my site?
Please advise
Hello Chad!
I came by searching about Tynt review in google. Actually I was very excited as within a month of starting my two site’s I got PR2 & Pr3 and traffic was booming with the use of Tynt’s one month trail . But within two weeks my visitors got vanished. I was surprised that what happened. Later I got know that it was too much fast linkings to my site and this happened cause of it. I even not losted my normal highest search position of that keyword from google’s second page, google kicked me out from the search too for that keyword.
Now as I left the use of Tynt it is coming in the normal position but very slowly. I losted my too much time & money cause of getting the links too fast with tynt. I highly not recommend this, although go to the normal linking and SEO.
Goodluck.
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