Comments on: How To Get A Link On The Skittles Home Page http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/ Read from the Dream Systems Media online marketing blog covering topics related to SEO and internet business blog for ecommerce businesses and small business owners and marketers. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mat Siltala http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-902 Mat Siltala Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:34:53 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-902 <a href="#comment-901" rel="nofollow">@mr. diggles</a> well put man. When you think about it that way .... no other candy company has come close to generating the kind of "buzz" and links Skittles has got from this. It was a great job! @mr. diggles
well put man. When you think about it that way …. no other candy company has come close to generating the kind of “buzz” and links Skittles has got from this. It was a great job!

]]> By: mr. diggles http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-901 mr. diggles Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:26:42 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-901 i am with you ross. i think it was brilliant. skittles is a brand that has little to loose and much to gain - what competitor do they have to fear? i am sure they are hurting like the rest of the world, so how do you "inspire" more people to buy more skittles? pull a modern pr stunt and get every turbo nerd that is connected to the web to freak out and talk about it! q: when is the last time you linked anything that had to do with skittles? Neh... when is the last time you even socially talked about skittles? slam dunk imo. i am with you ross. i think it was brilliant. skittles is a brand that has little to loose and much to gain – what competitor do they have to fear?

i am sure they are hurting like the rest of the world, so how do you “inspire” more people to buy more skittles? pull a modern pr stunt and get every turbo nerd that is connected to the web to freak out and talk about it!

q: when is the last time you linked anything that had to do with skittles? Neh… when is the last time you even socially talked about skittles?

slam dunk imo.

]]> By: "mr. diggles - sushi + skittles + you" http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-900 "mr. diggles - sushi + skittles + you" Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:20:37 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-900 [...] posted my tweet hoping to find it on the site but instead i found my seo blog buddy matt’s reply to my tweet [...] [...] posted my tweet hoping to find it on the site but instead i found my seo blog buddy matt’s reply to my tweet [...]

]]> By: Jon Burg's Future Visions http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Jon Burg's Future Visions Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:53:44 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-898 <strong>social unplugged: have we gone too far?...</strong> Digital social media is incredibly powerful. But it is not the future of marketing, it is only one component (albeit an important one) in a larger discipline, right?I'm not here to blow a whistle or to call anyone out. But...... social unplugged: have we gone too far?…

Digital social media is incredibly powerful. But it is not the future of marketing, it is only one component (albeit an important one) in a larger discipline, right?I’m not here to blow a whistle or to call anyone out. But……

]]> By: Mat Siltala http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Mat Siltala Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:54:41 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-896 <a href="#comment-895" rel="nofollow">@Ross</a> Thanks for the comment, and I agree with you that YES, they are a major brand and Google sees that, but if someone else broke the Google rules of dup. content would they be overlooked so easily? However - Michael Gray answered this duplicated content question for me already - in a comment I made on the post where he talked about Skittles: "it’s an ajax iframe so doubt google can “see” into it, but having an empty homepage not a good long term strategy" found here - http://www.wolf-howl.com/socialmedia/skittles-twitter/ Thanks again for your comments! @Ross
Thanks for the comment, and I agree with you that YES, they are a major brand and Google sees that, but if someone else broke the Google rules of dup. content would they be overlooked so easily?

However – Michael Gray answered this duplicated content question for me already – in a comment I made on the post where he talked about Skittles:

“it’s an ajax iframe so doubt google can “see” into it, but having an empty homepage not a good long term strategy” found here – http://www.wolf-howl.com/socialmedia/skittles-twitter/

Thanks again for your comments!

]]> By: Ross http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/index.php/how-to-get-a-link-on-the-skittles-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Ross Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:42:57 +0000 http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-895 Yeah, it was a crazy night last night...word spread quick, which is very cool to see happen. As far as PR...no worries. It's a major brand (Google knows that), people are still linking to them, of course, and they'll probably increase inbound links three-fold by the time it's all said and done. EVERYONE is linking to Skittles.com today. I don't care what anyone says, even with the spammers, this was a brilliant buzz generating move. Even if they took it down right now, they are the most talked about subject on Twitter, which creates viral buzz rapidly. I'm still amazed :) Yeah, it was a crazy night last night…word spread quick, which is very cool to see happen.

As far as PR…no worries. It’s a major brand (Google knows that), people are still linking to them, of course, and they’ll probably increase inbound links three-fold by the time it’s all said and done. EVERYONE is linking to Skittles.com today.

I don’t care what anyone says, even with the spammers, this was a brilliant buzz generating move. Even if they took it down right now, they are the most talked about subject on Twitter, which creates viral buzz rapidly. I’m still amazed :)

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