Have you ever shared a house or a flat with someone? You are all sitting around the telly watching repeats of Coast and you ask one of your flat mates to nip down the shops and buy a packet of Hobnobs. There is as much chance of your slovenly flat mate putting on his shoes and coat and heading off to Lidl than there is as getting someone to link to you. The point I am … [Read more...] about Getting Links is like Getting Your Flatmates to go Down the Shops for a Packet of Hobnobs
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Finding the Most Popular Blog Posts
Been messing around with a php scriptIt looks at a number of variables and tries to sort out the best posts from a blog. I have applied it to the digg monster cracked.com. It's very useful for picking out headline ideas. … [Read more...] about Finding the Most Popular Blog Posts
What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it
An interesting nugget from the forums of Linkbaitcoaching.com "What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it." Too often I see visitor bait being created. So you got on the front page of digg, give yourself a gold medal and stick it on your ass. Who are you targeting your linkbait to? If it's the knuckle draggers on digg it's not linkbait, it's a wet fart in … [Read more...] about What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it
Fresh Linkbaiters Delivered to your Door Daily
I try really hard to say no to any client linkbait requests these days, I do the odd one here and there. But I am so busy with other projects it's difficult to give a client the time needed. I now have a solution. If you need some great linkbait work done, get yourself over to linkbaitcoaching.com and sign up (as of now there are 12 spots left), not to learn how to do … [Read more...] about Fresh Linkbaiters Delivered to your Door Daily
Even the Guardian Gets Linkbait
The Guardian has run a piece talking about linkbait as if it were an everyday thing. Has linkbait gone mainstream? Jack Schofield knows his linkbait, the piece he has referenced is a cracking piece, although as I speak it has not been submitted to digg or reddit or Stumble, what's with that? Are they awake in celebrity scandal blog world. Still, they got a link from the … [Read more...] about Even the Guardian Gets Linkbait
Linkbuilding for Dummies
Linkbait is the honey. Linkers are the bees. The honey does not solicit the bees, it just is what it is. "Long term, promotion of content that attracts relevant links from those empowered to publish will win. The act of linking is performed, unsolicited, by individual publishers." bold added Great post by Lee Odden Further commentary at Is Linkbait the Death of SEO? … [Read more...] about Linkbuilding for Dummies