Link Bait Hall of Fame
Tag Archive | "Awards"
The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
Recently I highlighted a prime example of Awards link bait in action, a PC Mag piece on 2008’s best “Classic” websites (as in those that have been established in the cyber-cultural consciousness). If you checked it out, you may have seen this link for a companion piece on those 100 websites that most deserve to [...]
Continue reading...The Best Bars in America
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This is the second piece of cornerstone content from Esquire that qualifies as outstanding link bait. As anyone who watches the Super Bowl knows, America likes to drink. We’re a booze nation. So first I brought you their Drink Database (for people who like to mix it up at home) and now (for people who’d [...]
Continue reading...The Top 100 Classic Web Sites
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Itself one of the top classic web sites (as far as I’m concerned, at least), PC Mag is entitled to pass such indisputable judgment (though is it ever indisputable) on the best and worst of its industry. A highly effective type of link bait, webmasters must be cautioned that awards like this only fly if [...]
Continue reading...135 Ways to Ruin the Olympics Using Technology
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The contest is one category of link bait that you just don’t see enough of (probably because they usually involve prizes which can be somewhat costly and hard to come by). Nevertheless, Gizmodo, publisher of much Hall of Fame worthy link bait, scored a Gold medal with its recent contest in honor of the Beijing [...]
Continue reading...The Most Public Index
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Besides being a great list of some of the greatest link-builders online today, this piece doubly qualifies as a killer piece of link bait by also posting the formula and criteria used to develop the list. This gives all those opinionated voices online two subjects to debate out - winners (like Greg Verdino, Ariana Huffington, and [...]
Continue reading...NxE’s Fifty Most Influential Bloggers
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Appealing to the people actually getting the big stores of links is one fantastic way to get links yourself, as evidenced by this top list of the most influential bloggers - those web-masters who’ve made link-building their business. Besides flattering those winners in the community (i.e. Neil Patel, Elizabeth Spiers, and Kevin Rose), a list [...]
Continue reading...SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards
Monday, August 11, 2008
A great way to create link bait is to invent an award to issue, as it not only captures the interest of your readers but also of the nominees and winners, presumably big link-getters in your industry. The thing is, in order to make this type of link bait work for you, your site needs [...]
Continue reading...Time’s Person of the Year: You
Thursday, August 7, 2008
You wouldn’t expect establishment media like Time Magazine to need or use much link bait, that’s exactly what the ages-old newsmag pulled at the end of 2006 when it published its annual Person of the Year selection and it turned out to be You. Yes, you! I don’t doubt that more people who’d never read [...]
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