Link Bait Hall of Fame

The Spare Change Challenge

This financial management game is such a cool piece of link bait that I was halfway done “playing” it before I realized that it was a glorified advertisement (a cheeky synonym for link bait - if you ask me) for Quicken, Intuit’s flagship personal finance software. Answer questions about your spending habits in 14 smart [...]

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SEO Generations

Games are fun. And if well-done they can also make for great SEO. Which is why an SEO-themed game seems like a choice candidate for induction into the Link Bait Hall of Fame. This one pits various page-rank seekers (Count Zero of BlackHatSEO.com, Jim Boykin, Link Assistant) one against the other in a seemingly unending [...]

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Desktop Tower Defense

The little game that could, Desktop Tower Defense is the perfect variation on a classic video game theme tweaked for the cubicle set. So many bored office workers have latched onto this favored time-waster, in fact, that it’s already on its 3rd version (and its 24,000th+ link). The only real question about this game’s inclusion [...]

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Language Trainer’s Group: LT Accent Game

This fun little game that has you guessing a woman’s country of origin based on her accent as she reads Rudyard Kipling’s “If” is enough to entice visitors who don’t even have any intention of taking a language class. It may even be enough to get some of those visitors to consider acutally signing up [...]

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