Comments on: Dude, Where’s the Mental post gone?

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:16:19 +0000

Wait! – is this linkbait?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:26:03 +0000

Great job.

Makes you wonder – I mean what kind of numpty thinks EVERYTHING they read on the Internet is true.

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Some marketers are prostitutes : MediaVision Blog : Search Engine Marketing — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:37:25 +0000

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By: George

George — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:21:24 +0000

Good work sir. I thought the piece was well-written and fairly obviously not true, so I don’t see the big deal. Says more about Fox News than anything else.

If people really want to see this post, try using the cache on a SE that is slower to update than Google (*cough*Live*cough*).

@hobo: I think you mean moot point.

By: Lenen

Lenen — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:09:51 +0000

I think you did a great job.

1. you gained a lot of links for your client
2. you started good discussion

By: Truth and lies in media marketing : Internet Business

Truth and lies in media marketing : Internet Business — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:05:33 +0000

[...] Recently Lyndon Antcliff announced that he had produced a piece of linkbait for online media, only for offline media to take it up in spades. [...]

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:40:57 +0000

I like Tim Nash’s comment :D.

Besides that, I’d like to know how you 301 forward a blogpost? Did you use htaccess or is there a simpler way to do it?

Also, consider this a trackback:

Email Marketing for Linkbait – It’s the Distribution Stupid although now I think the trackback may be to nothing much.

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Hoaxbait - The Fencesitter's Opinion | SEOpsCentre — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:03:33 +0000

[...] And that seems to be the sole measure of success and the basis for Lyndon’s statement, “I have little interest in discussing the ethics of linkbait, as far as I am concerned if it w… Considering the fact that the majority of these links will be using the article’s title, [...]

By: seo

seo — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:11:23 +0000

Your blog posts are interesting and very helpful. Got your blog from the search engine and totally hook on it right now..

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:57:04 +0000

@hobo, I agree, ethics are for philosophical discussions then last till the wee hours.

@Julie, you meant I wasn’t before? Cool, thanks, may see you at SES August if you are going.

@todd, yes I planned the whole thing, right to where Howard Stern talks about it, I am that good, lol. Sorry mate, I’m just making this up as I go along. But I do think I have a few things I can teach people.

@mo, ah the benefit of Google cache, that’s cool, people have scraped and stolen it for their websites anyway, whaddya gonna do. Not forget that’s one thing I wont be doing.

@brian, thanks, yeah they do seem to have a lot of time to chatter don’t they.

@danny, plenty more where that came from ;)

By: Hobo

Hobo — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:37:25 +0000

ha ha exactly Lyndon. To be honest, i had questioned what good it would do long term to discuss this piece of linkbait.

PS – There’s very little ethics in linkbait in my opinion, so its a mute point, but there’s plenty of sour grapes it seems ha ha (hic)

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:52:56 +0000

You are truly my new favourite person, now that I’ve seen Adam Ant cry in the video for “Wonderful.” This was absolutely brilliant sir.

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:13:14 +0000

OK I get it…the whole reason you published the story you just pulled was to get people interested in your upcoming subscription coaching service. Very smart…

You are definitely the master of the art of linkbaiting.

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:23:00 +0000

Read the post via Googles’ cache – and it is brilliant! I read this story, spoke to my wife about it a few people at work even mentioned it. Just incredible! Am I upset that it was fabricated? Nope – not at all. Truly it shows the power of having something go viral.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:21:21 +0000

I heard it on the Howard Stern show also

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:39:16 +0000

Thanks for all the kind words, I have had so much praise about this from respected peers that my head has gone huge.

Suffice it to say my order book is full for the next few months.

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:07:16 +0000

To be honest, Lyndon, I think you did the right thing – unfortunately, one of the problems of being successful in marketing is often having to keep it to yourself – or else face unwelcome, even hostile, attention from armchair critics.

Keep up the good work, and let the chattering masses move on. :)

By: Sam I Am

Sam I Am — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:52:51 +0000

Legendary, exactly why I’ve been subscribed to this blog whilst dropping most others…

By: Danny Ashton

Danny Ashton — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:15:47 +0000

Thanks to Twitter, I had an heads up that something big was coming.

Just thought I would mention that the “missing” post has probably been one of the most interesting and useful that I have read all year.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:39 +0000

I am truly evil, yeah this was all a cunning plan and not my usual make it up as I go along ;)

@jammit, I didn’t pull because of the discussion, I have no problem defending my corner.

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:59:44 +0000

First you trick all those highly ethical journalists, now you pull a bait & switch. Have you no morals?!

;)

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:58:19 +0000

so you built up a crowd, then you whip the content away and then you release the course.

Just taking notes for my next project ;)

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:02:05 +0000

Yeah the discussion was interesting and it’s not why the post went, those who know me know I will argue even if it means losing a nights sleep. But I have a business to run and must be grown up sometimes.

But, anyone wants to continue the discussion here are welcome to do so.

By: Jaamit

Jaamit — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:53:03 +0000

Shame you decided to remove the post. Aside from the fact that it was becoming a great piece of linkbait in itself (it went hot on sphinn and thats how I saw it – now the link is broken), the fact is that this discussion will be taking place around linkbait and you had put yourself in the centre of that discussion which was only going to raise your profile as a linkbaiter. I understand that the discussion went a bit crazy but couldn’t you just have switched off comments? IMHO taking down the post is a bit of an own goal.

By: Link-Fest for Friday May 15th 2008 | SEOpsCentre

Link-Fest for Friday May 15th 2008 | SEOpsCentre — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:43:16 +0000

[...] blog. Update: Lyndon has now removed the post mentioned above from his blog and put up a new one explaining his decision to remove the original post. What’s really interesting though is the debate that’s developing on the story’s [...]

By: Jeka

Jeka — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:29 +0000

I was at first disappointed that I missed the post but then the almighty crawling entity smiled upon me. That was utterly brilliant. I too saw it at the buzz stage and sensed that something was up but still had a glimmer of hope that it was the truth. It’s amazing how far it went.