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A quick Google search for Kimkins, Kimkins diet, or Kimkins weight loss is all it takes to see how pervasive the Kimkins.com marketing machine is. It’s hard for low carb newbies and other dieters to make an informed decision if they don’t know about the raging controversy surrounding Kimkins and its elusive self-appointed guru, Kimmer.

You can help change this! Here are some things you can do to make sure that Internet searchers get to read more than just promotional affiliate advertising about the Kimkins diet:

1. Using the phrases Kimkins, Kimkins diet or Kimkins weight loss, link from your own websites and blogs, as well as message boards or other social websites, to URLs that contain information about the controversy such as:

   http://www.slamboard.com/category/kimkins-diet/
   
   http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=502606

   http://community.livejournal.com/kimkinssucks/

   http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=338380

   http://pinchof.blogspot.com/2007/06/okay-some-kimkins-stuff.html

   http://kimkinsexposed.wordpress.com/

   http://kimorexia.blogspot.com/

   http://kimkinsdangers.blogspot.com/

   http://kimkinssurvivors.wordpress.com/

   http://antikimkins.blogspot.com/

   http://kimkinsdangers.blogspot.com/

   http://www.kimkinscontroversy.com

   (if you know of any other relevant URLs, please let me know in the comments section so I can add them to this list)

2. Using social bookmarking sites like Digg and Del.icio.us, bookmark relevant blog posts and web pages about the Kimkins controversy. Use the phrases Kimkins and Kimkins diet in your bookmark titles and tags. On this blog, you can click on the Digg button or the Bookmark button below every post and follow the directions to bookmark a post. Anybody can do this, whether you have a website of your own or not.

Kimkins has had excellent affiliate marketing and search engine optimization, and only an organized effort will help get the word out that everything may not be what it seems at Kimkins.com. Every link and bookmark counts!

Read my series about Kimkins.com here.

The way that Technorati works, when it works, is great. I have Slamboard claimed and it pings like clockwork. After you read this go and see if you can find this post listed on Technorati. Word Press categories are supposed to function essentially like tags. I was just reading about how it is important for SEO to choose categories wisely. The PR of technorati results pages for tag searches varies. I just added the category WordPress to this post.

I have another blog that I am unable to claim and it is frustrating me.

Do Follow refers to a current trend of removing the do not follow tags from the comment sections of blogs.

Doing this encourages commenting because the commentor gets a link back to the url of his or her choice that counts.

When a everyone in a community of bloggers moves to do follow, everybody wins as far as Google PR and various traffic rankings.

Some people are choosing to comment as frequently as possible on do follow blogs and even join up with an all do follow blogroll WITHOUT actually removing their own do not follow tags.

I have downloaded a plugin that changes WP blogs to do follow. As of this writing, it is not yet on Slamboard. I have do follow operating on TotalDismay.com.

I haven’t really looked into what Authority means according to Technorati. All I know is I have some and I want more.

It’s not like ranking. A low number is less desirable than a high number when it comes to authority.

I have been having no success in claiming a couple of other blogs that I write. It is very frustrating, I can even see that one has a higher authority than this blog, but when I try to claim the blog a page comes up telling me it doesn’t exist and that maybe I don’t exist. I think that message is disrespectful and I hope it has been changed with the recent rollout on Technorati.