The document outlines various strategies for effective link acquisition through 'stalking' key industry figures and influencers on social media platforms like Twitter and Google+. It emphasizes setting measurable goals, utilizing RSS feeds for tracking, and engaging with the community to build genuine connections rather than simply asking for links. Ultimately, it suggests that fostering relationships is more beneficial than focusing solely on link-building efforts.

1. Stalking
How you land the links you want
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2. Become a link stalker
The easy way
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3. STOP
BEGGING
In 5 Minutes
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4. You need this:
http://bit.ly/rss-everywhere
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5. Sites w/ RSS for the takin’
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6. Step 1
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7. Target the BIG SHOTS 7

8. Influential,
doesn’t follow me
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9. Cars = Topgear guys
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10. Target Acquired
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13. iGoogle
easy? hard?
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14. Step 2
SET GOALS
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15. SET GOALS
< Measurable
< Expiration
http://bit.ly/igoogle-goals
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16. Step 3
JFDI
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17. JFDI
< Priority
< Deadlines
http://bit.ly/igoogle-todos
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18. Step 4
Twitter
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19. TWITTER
PROBLEM
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22. http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_ti
meline.rss?screen_name=thenextweb
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24. Make a twitter profile
gadget
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25. http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&u
rl=twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17795099.rss
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26. http://bit.ly/twitter-ids
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27. Step 5
News Stalking
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28. GOOGLE NEWS
Big Targets
are in the
news
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29. RSS from Google News
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32. http://news.google.com/news?q=%22seer+interactive%22&SUBMIT=Search
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34. Step 6
Blog Stalking
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35. BLOG Stalking
Stalk their
blogs
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36. Step 7
Google+ Stalking
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37. NO RSS for Google+
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38. http://bit.ly/gplus-to-rss
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39. Google+ Stalking
Stalk their G+
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40. Step 8
Stalking questions
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42. Quora Stalking
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45. Who are they following
Be more like them
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46. Who do they follow
Part #2
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47. https://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.xml
?cursor=-1&screen_name=wilreynolds
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49. Not very useful
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50. http://bit.ly/free-follower-export
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51. VS
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52. Stalking a publication
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53. Want to get in tech
news??
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54. IRL FTW
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57. Super Advanced Tip
Coming
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58. Have coffee with them
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59. When is your mark
coming to you?
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60. http://search.twitter.com/search.
atom?q=from%3Adharmesh%20p
hilly%20OR%20philadelphia
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61. And when twitter takes
that away…
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62. F em
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63. otter.topsy.com/search
date.rss?type=tweet&
q=philadelphia+from%
3Adharmesh
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65. IfTTT – send me a text
message when
Dharmesh says philly
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66. Or any other area of
expertise I have
(beer, linking, SEO)
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67. Excel Junkies
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70. RSS Feed Here
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74. Who is Miranda Miller?
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75. Wow she has been
busy lately!
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76. Someone I should know
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78. Let’s ask Quora
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79. Journalist + Question
= research for a story
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80. When she asks a
question BOOM!
GO ANSWER IT!
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81. Stalker tip…
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82. When you don’t know
the answer
RT the Question!
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83. Stalk a list of authors
in minutes
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85. F Smartsheet
F Mech Turk
F Interns
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86. MOZENDA
h/t @aimclear
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89. Mozenda vs.
scrape similar
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90. Export your followers
from followerwonk
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92. Vlookup
Target vs
Your Followers
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94. Stalker Scoreboard
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97. Who do they follow
that I know well?
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98. Who do we know in
common?
Faces make it easier
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99. Faces make it easier
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100. Stalk people who send
you GOOD traffic
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101. Pull in GA referrers
then Pull in seomoz
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103. GA in Google Docs
http://mz.cm/thanks-jamie
@jamies
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105. SEOmoz in G Docs
http://bit.ly/moz-data
@djchrisle
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106. Dirty Tip
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107. Fake it till you make it
buy followers
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108. H/t @mediadonis
drop in their bit.ly urls
and add a +
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109. Proof
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111. ME Dharmesh
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112. If you need followers
Inboxq.com
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113. 1 more ifttt recipe for
you
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114. If you think this is
about building links
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115. THEN you missed the
entire point
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116. If you try to
UNDERSTAND people
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117. & if you are there to
help them
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118. Then you make friends
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119. Stalking?
Helping?
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120. Worse case scenario
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121. Friends > Links
SEER Interactive
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