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Besides the fact that I love to say the word meme over and over ( Meme. See?), I love it when I get a chance to pass on something that actually helps people. You know, knock a couple of the dents out of my halo. Enter the SEO Charity link meme. Here’s some background.

The national media recently picked up on the fact that Stephen Colbert had been Google bombed to the top of the search results for the term “Greatest Living American.” Essentially this meme looks to do the same thing, only for a good cause. Several good causes in fact. The rules are simple, copy the list of charities and links (grab it from whomever tags you) and add your 5 favorite charities or non-profit organizations to the end (link to their sites with anchor text of the causes they champion). Of course finish things off by tagging 5 other webmasters/bloggers and then publishing the post or the webpage. (source)

Marty Weintraub from SEO Refugee (aimClear) tagged us so we’re going to pay it forward. Here’s the most recent list from Marty.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Lymphoma Research Foundation

These are links so far from participating SEM firms including those from SEO Refugee Blog, Search Marketing Standard, anonomous donors, and Top Rank.

Service International - Disaster Relief

Pujols Family Foundation - Children with Down Syndrome

National Alliance to End Homelessness - Homelessness

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research - Parkinson’s Research

Ecotrust - environmental conservation efforts.

Humane Society of Canada - protecting animals and the Earth.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund - searching for a cure for a deadly disease.

Room to Read - helping build schools and libraries.

Sick Kids - hospital for sick children (Canada).

The National Arbor Day Foundation

Compassion International

World Wildlife Fund

The Humane Society

Global Refuge International

The Challenged Athletes Foundation

Aids Research Alliance - Aids Research

Wildlife Conservation Society - Wildlife Protection

Cancer Research Institute - Cancer Research

Second Harvest - End Hunger

AARP Foundation - Helping Senior Citizens

Doctors Without Borders - Humanitarian Relief

American Red Cross - Emergency Preparedness

AMREF - African Medical & Research Foundation - African Health Development

DOROT - Programs for Elderly

Feed the Children - Protect Children

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Doctors without borders

Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust

National Enviromental Trust

SOS Children’s Villages

American Red Cross - disaster relief

Raleigh Rescue Mission - homeless raleigh

SOS Children’s Villages - sponsor a child

Samaritan’s Purse - emergency relief programs

St. Jude Children’s Hospital - cancer research

Medical assistance on disaster / war - Mercy

HIV/AIDS education - PT Foundation

Liver Foundation - MLF

Orphanage - Darul Izzah

Disabled association - Mobiliti

Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program - Child Healthcare

Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders - Humanitarian Relief

American Red Cross - Emergency Preparedness

AMREF - African Medical & Research Foundation - African Health Development

DOROT - Programs for Elderly

Feed the Children - Protect Children

Now our favorites not counting the ones above:

• UNICEF- Protecting and educating children all over the world
  
• Susan G. Komen- Race for the Cure
• Habitat for Humanity- Build houses for families in need
• Ronald McDonald House- Affordable housing while children are hospitalized
• United Way- Mobilizing our communities to improve people’s lives

Now pass it on:

1. Chris Garrett
   1. D’Arcy
   2. Raj
      1. Andy Boyd
      2. Brett Bumeter
      3. Sharon Sarmiento
      4. Liz Strauss
      5. Ben Yoskovitz
   3. Ahmed
   4. Mark
      1. Tomas
      2. Sara
      3. John
      4. Brendon
      5. Jelena
         1. Josh
         2. Dragan
         3. Moses
         4. Egor
   5. Adam
      1. Ashley Cecil
2. Donna Fontenot -
   1. Michael VanDeMar
   2. Barry Schwartz
   3. Aaron Wall
   4. Nathan Weinberg
   5. Andrey Milyan
      1. Joe Whyte
      2. Lee Odden
         1. Laura Thieme - Environmental Awareness & Global Warming
         2. Stephan Spencer - Changes for Good
         3. Jim Boykin
         4. Li Evans
         5. Jim Hedger
      3. Darren Rowse
      4. Kim Krause Berg
         1. Sophie Wegat
         2. Jennifer Laycock
         3. Lisa Barone
         4. Bill Slawski
         5. David Temple
      5. Andy Beal
         1. Jordan McCollum
         2. Sheila Beal
         3. David Wallace
            1. Matt McGee
            2. Barry Schwartz
            3. Chris Winfield
            4. Jennifer Laycock
            5. Stoney deGeyter
         1. Jennifer Slegg
         2. Andy Beard
3. John Chow
4. Tamar Weinberg
5. Neil Patel

1. Kamal
2. Marty Weintraub
   1. Cartoon Barry Blog
   2. SEOsk.com
   3. Search Matters (Here’s our list)
      1. Darin Carter
         
      2. SEO Black Hat
      3. GrayWolf
      4. StepForth
      5. Gord Hotchkiss
   1. SEOptimise
   2. Cornwall SEO

Now get to it…