I Can Has Linkbaitz?

Written by John Cow on September 14th, 2007

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It’s the bomb this summer. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you blog about, 90% of the bloggers out there have tried or succeeded in creating a nice piece of link-bait. Some people have even accused us of having an entire blog that functions as one big link bait! Using cows for link-bait, yeah right! Since the blogosphere is one huge online popularity contest, bloggers are always looking for a scoop, a unique article that will make other bloggers elbow each other in the face, trying to be the first in line to blog about it and link to it. You never know, some of the link-baiter’s popularity might rub off on your own blog!

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Popularity means traffic and traffic means mooney. So what do you do? Chances are you’ll never find something hot online and be the first to write about it. Others are way ahead of you. What you do is create your own hot gossip! Lets for example do a top 10/50/100 list on something everyone is interested in. Yeah, who’s who in the world of money making blogs? Lets do a top 100 of money makers! It’ll take a bit of time to create it, then we need to make sure all the top blog players are informed that they’ve made it to the top100. Use their ego and vanity to our advantage!

It’s that simple, really. Bloggers are everyday people that will react to certain things the same way your IRL (in real life) everyday friends do. They’ll be more than happy to tell someone else that they got complimented about their new car or haircut. People’s vanity can be channeled into a very powerful tool. All you need to to is make sure you tell the great how great they are and you’ll most likely reap the benefits of your sucking up. :twisted:

(P.S Thanks again for including us in the list Mark, we love you!)

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19 Comments »

Comment by Israel
2007-09-15 00:04:33

goodpoint. now i am off to make my LIST!!!!!!!

Comment by 250$ Contest Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-15 06:17:20

Top 100 blogs that DON’T make money? :idea:

Comment by Word Hugger
2007-09-16 07:51:52

Wouldn’t be hard to market lol.

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Comment by Googlelady Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-16 19:47:50

another list? I think now you has to think out of the box ;)

 
 
2007-09-15 01:26:37

I agree. That was really some nice linkbait.

 
Comment by 45n5 Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-15 02:40:03

your welcome for including you, thanks for the mention.

also note this linkbait technique can be used for other niches ;-) But no you can’t have my code.

mark

Comment by Googlelady Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-17 02:10:47

just emailed you to see if you can add my blog. Thanks :)

 
 
Comment by WarriorBlog
2007-09-15 03:59:53

45n5 is brilliant! :cool:

Carlcab is one amazing kid :mad: I am jealous.

Comment by Googlelady Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-16 19:50:41

don’t be jealous just do your best and you will see that is worth than being jealous ;) think hard think think :cool:

 
Comment by Mr. Rajawang
2007-09-19 10:50:14

I don’t think he is really a kid. Must be a grown up! :evil:

 
 
Comment by Joyce Babu
2007-09-15 09:02:51

The last portion of the stat shows the graph falling down steeply. You need to make such interesting posts regularly to maintain the stats at that level.

Comment by John Cow
2007-09-15 10:06:25

That’s not really the point of linkbaiting. It’s more to get a boost of traffic, once it dies down again, you’ll more than likely have a higher amount of steady traffic after the spike.

Comment by Word Hugger
2007-09-16 07:53:05

It is about building new daily readers as well as a one time spike. I check it every other day at the moment, when I had not heard of it prior.

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Comment by Googlelady Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-16 19:54:15

That’s why a blogger should make his blog worth reading before thinking to make a linkbait like 45n5

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Comment by 2xKnight
2007-09-15 12:00:45

Mai blogz haz flavur.

Not haz linkbaitz.

 
Comment by browie
2007-09-16 21:40:19

It was a good way to get your name out there. I still don’t understand why they put shoe so high up since his money isn’t made with his blog.

 
Comment by Dee Barizo Subscribed to comments via email
2007-09-20 00:29:01

Thanks for the link :grin:

 
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