Comments on: Linkbait - It’s a Cliché for a Reason

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By: ouchs

ouchs — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:56:25 +0000

good explaination!

By: Bloggeries

Bloggeries — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:16:34 +0000

I see what you are saying but do not totally agree. I know some people who to this day continue to build extremely great link bait. There is no “sponsorship” involved. It’s all based around writing an article that is so good or so informative that people all over the blogosphere will use it as a resoruce and link to it… FREE. Imagine if you built the 100 best widgets I used to make $10,000 a month on my blog. People will quote it, link to it do everything with it and it will result in hundreds or thousands of new links. That technique still works you just have to have a) authority and b) a great imagination as most top 10 lists and things of that genre have been done to death!!!!

By: Linkbait Cowboy

Linkbait Cowboy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:13:37 +0000

Etymologists of the world rejoice.

It doesn’t matter if you or any individual likes/dislikes a word.

And don’t me give me, “yeah but it’s a made up word”. All words are made up.

Definitions of words are not static, understanding of such words depends on your cultural knowledge, as well as technical knowledge. Multiple definitions of words co-exist until a merging is forced by it’s users.

Sure, the word has an edge, it helps cut through the crapola of marketing speak with amazing efficiency.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:33:25 +0000

Well certain words or abbreviations like SEO have survived. I feel link bait will to a point as well. Really link bait falls under a overall social media campaign anyways:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/link-baiting-and-social-media-optimization-huh/

By: Hip Hop

Hip Hop — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:26:02 +0000

ahhh how I love linkbait

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:47:20 +0000

>>It has nothing to do with “writing remarkable content”.

Really? Than why do all the blogs with remarkable content have all the links?

You’re clueless.

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By: ritchie

ritchie — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:39:11 +0000

Linkvault calls it vaultage.