Linking to playpoi.com is a great way to help us do better in search engine results. Links from popular websites are the best, but links from your blog or discussion forums help as well. Even bookmarking playpoi.com helps! To make sure your links go a long way, here is our brief tutorial in effective linking:

The most important things is to use appropriate keywords in the anchor text (i.e. the text that is the clickable hyperlink). Example: "Hey, check out these amazing poi dancing and fire spinning videos" will work much better than, "Hey, to see some amazing poi dancing and fire spinning videos, click here." The first link tells search engines that we are about "poi dancing and fire spinning videos," while the second tells search engines that we are about "here."

Just copy and paste the following code to create the first link:

Check out the amazing <a title="poi dancing and fire spinning videos" href="http://www.playpoi.com">poi dancing and fire spinning videos</a> on playpoi.com.

Or, to customize your own link, just replace the block letters of the following code with your own wording:

<a title="PUT TITLE HERE" href="http://www.playpoi.com">ENTER HYPERLINK TEXT HERE</a>

Linking from tribe.net:

Tribe now has a "Links" module. Take a second to add playpoi.com. If you haven't activated this module, just go to "my... profile," then choose the "add modules" tab at the top, and click "links," then enter our URL: http://www.playpoi.com. You can also post one of our youtube videos by using the videos module, or you can use the del.icio.us moldule to publish your del.icio.us list.

Linking from your blog:

Your blog is a great place to link to playpoi.com, either from the content of an entry or from the sidebar or links section. If we release a video or any other content you want to share with others, remember to blog about it.

Linking from myspace.com:

You can link to us from almost anywhere in your myspace account. A simple place is to go to "edit profile," and in the "general interests" field enter the following code: <a title="poi spinning and fire dancing photos and videos" href="http://www.playpoi.com">poi</a>

This will display simply as the word "poi," hyperlinking to playpoi.

Linking from bulletin Boards like homeofpoi.com:

Discussion boards are a great place to link to playpoi.com, but please only do it when it's appropriate and relevant. "Spamming" for us will not help! Most bulletin boards don't allow HTML, so you have to use a special code called UBBC. You can use this code to make a link to playpoi: [url=http://playpoi.com]Nick's poi website[/url] .

It will have the anchor text "Nick's poi website." You can easily change the anchor text (i.e. "Nick's poi website") to anything else. It's best for us if it includes the word "poi." Note that many bulletin boards offer you buttons to make this easy.

Linking from other online profiles:

Any website where you have a profile might be a place where you can link to playpoi.com. Just try editing your profile and see if it allows you to publish HTML or UBBC code. If it does, include poi as one of you interests or find any other reason to link to us.

Linking to our About Poi section

If you ever mention poi anywhere on the internet that accepts HTML, remember that you can make the word poi link to our "About Poi" section with the following code: <a title="about_poi" href="http://playpoi.com/about_poi">poi</a>. We've worked hard to make this section informative and useful, so feel free to use it to tell people what poi is!

Using graphics when linking to us

you can also use the graphic to the right, or any graphic on our graphics page. Simply right click and choose "save image location" and then paste it into your own site or blog. Remember that text links still help us the most.

*Note that several pages on playpoi.com are "list view pages," meaning they display a series of entries of a certain subject. If you want to link to the whole list view page (for instance, the poi videos page), just copy the URL from the URL lcoator at the top of your browser. If you want to link to a specific entry, click on the title at the top of the entry, or the “read more” tag at the bottom, and copy the URL from the top of the page that contains just the entry itself (you can also right click on either and select “Copy Link Location”). Remember to link to specific sections, nodes, or blog entries whenever the opportunity arises.