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How to AMAZE Your Clients With a KILLER Viral Campaign by SEO Bomb Blog
is a great study in how to get fast results for an SEO client. Though partnering with SEO blackhat, they use totally legit methods to create buzz and improve all aspects of the business and their web presence. Wow. Check out the results (I pasted more than I meant to becasue the results didn’t make sense sans context):

Now, as QuadZilla pointed out, my plan had several good points in it, but what was lacking was the one thing that would make this exceptionally remarkable.

The one thing that would make every single designer and Mac fan-boy go Ga-Ga:

Enter The Prizes
Week 1: iPod nano 2GB & iPod 30GB
Week 2: MacBook
Week 3: MacBook Pro
Week 4: Mac Pro with DUAL 30″ Cinema HD LCDs
See where we’re going at? Good.

But there’s one more thing missing: The seeders - and boy did we get seeders.

In addition to the link from Apple.com and the judges from About.com, 456Bereastreet, Mac Addict Magazine and 9Rules.com, you can view the full list of judges right here.

That, dear readers, is some serious link juice.

Crestock.com got 200,000 unique users from the contest, went on Digg, doubled their average daily traffic after the contest, got over 5000 new customers and increased their organic search engine traffic by 1258% - in one month!