Comments on: Why it’s NOT Linkbait, Idiot!

By: Yura

Yura — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:57:01 +0000

Finally, someone has said it!

Thanks, Lyndon.

By: Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:42:51 +0000

Really well put Lyndon! Ofcourse a link bait is special, very special indeed which is meant to get the “juices” from all those big oranges out there.

By: Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog

Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:33:06 +0000

Yeah very well put indeed. Im really looking forward to the future post you mentioned at the end. I am really interested in what is classed as linkbait, whether there really is a set of ‘rules’, and what needs to go into a piece in order to make it linkbait.

I look forward to that post….soon hopefully :):)

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:09 +0000

@Moshin, but by doing that, you weaken the stuff that should actually be linkbait. Linkbait is special, it should be extraordinary. Unless everytime you write you produce extraordinary content, can you really call that linkbait.

I mean really?

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:54:00 +0000

To me, anything I write with the intention to get links, is linkbait. Sure, there may be weak linkbait and high quality linkbait, but it’s all linkbait in some sense of the word.

By: Brian Wallace - NowSourcing

Brian Wallace - NowSourcing — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:39:56 +0000

Well put, Lyndon. Linkbait is becoming the next overused and abused buzzwords as Social Media and Web 2.0. I’d say that something that happened to get links even though the creator probably didn’t have that goal in mind (think: hello my future girlfriend) is more Internet phenomenon.