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Linkbait
This Article Is Miley Cyrus Link Bait
By Jason Lee Miller - Fri, 05/02/2008 - 5:42am. 5 comments
Actually, this article is more of a commentary on collective mental illness, exploitation and mountains made of molehills—no, that's not a boob joke. It's also about invented controversy for the sake of ogling eyeballs and links at the expense of a teenage girl who will be lucky if she's not in rehab on her 18th birthday.
Scientology Turns Into A Traffic Magnet
By Doug Caverly - Tue, 01/22/2008 - 1:38pm. 8 comments
We know you want to stay on topic; we know you don't want to resort to tabloid-style tricks. But we know you also want linkbait, and an excellent example of it has been identified in a new Hitwise post.
SMX Rewind
By Navneet Kaushal - Thu, 10/18/2007 - 11:25am.
So much covered, seen and happened in just two days. From FaceBook to Wikipedia and everything about social media in between. Finally, we wind up and take a dekko at all that we and everyone else from the SEM community have covered:
SMX: Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic...
By Navneet Kaushal - Wed, 10/17/2007 - 12:36pm.
Attracting visitors on social media sites involves using the right bait — linkbait. Compelling content is best. Added benefit: it appeals to bloggers too. Do it right and they'll link to you, enhancing the prominence of your brand and driving traffic to your site. This session explains linkbaiting and provides examples and ideas to help you craft your own bait.
SMX Social Media: Hi, Linkbait Chum
By David A. Utter - Tue, 10/16/2007 - 1:36pm.
At the SMX Social Media conference in New York City, panelists discussed the murky topic of social media sites, and how to draw traffic from them to your site.
Getting Links Without Trying
By Matt Bailey - Wed, 04/25/2007 - 1:45pm.
Linkbaiting is a hot topic right now. However, one of the funniest definitions of creating linkbait was to “forget linkbait, think about the user first, and develop content for them.” Sounds noble enough, yet I find it extremely humorous. Mainly because of the language involved.
Easy Social News Links
By Aaron Wall - Wed, 04/25/2007 - 8:50am.
Social news sites come to prominence largely over the controversies associated with people gaming them, and without people gaming them few would ever garner a critical mass. Marketers spamming a social news site is part of the growth cycle.
Andy Hagans highlighted 17 social sites that send traffic.
Is Linkbait On Its Last Legs?
By Joe Lewis - Thu, 04/05/2007 - 10:23am.
Many popular optimization strategies center on the practice of link baiting, which is SEO slang for developing content with the express purpose of luring in a large number of inbound links. As companies like Google continually tweak their algorithm to prevent the system from being gamed, analysts are beginning to wonder if linkbaiting has much of a future.
The Linkbait Bashing Circuit
By Michael Gray - Thu, 03/22/2007 - 12:07pm.
Lately it seems to be quite fashionable to be on the linkbait bashing circuit. I came across a story on Digg which ties into my belief that you can make practically anything cool if you try hard enough.
