Link Bait Hall of Fame

7 Bizarre Things (And 1 Bodily Fluid) People Use as Money

Cracked Magazine does it again, delivering valuable humor in an economical package, in this case a list of tokens certain peoples of the world use for commerce rather than commonplace dollars and cents (including: rocks, bottle caps, and - get this - urine). It’s tricky to find uncommon Trivia that matters to your audience. Money, being [...]

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You know! It’s a thingummy… Whatjermercallit… The everyday items with the forgotten names

This is fun: a rundown of some common items that virtually nobody know the names of. For example – “the little plastic or metal tube at the end of your shoelace” is an Aglet. Bet you didn’t know that? Neither did I. Fun little diversions from all that serious-minded web browsing we do all day is [...]

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Cyclist Takes Bed Along in Homemade Trailer

Another example of found-item link bait proving once again that you do not have to create the piece for it to serve as link bait for your site. So long as it’s either in the public domain or you give appropriate credit where it is due (possibly even linking directly to the item’s original source), [...]

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Patrick Moberg - November 4, 2008

Love this! It takes wit and a bit of illustrative skill to pull of such relevant Humor and Image oriented link bait, but when you get a winner, the rewards keep coming. I wish this political cartoon, a rough sketch of the presidential wall, inbound links for more than 1 year, more than 1 term, more [...]

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Nation Finally Sh*tty Enough to Make Social Progress

What would an election cycle be without The Onion’s 2-cents? Ah, fake news. It’s made Jon Stewart a household name. And one thing that’s so great about it (besides that everyone loves a good laugh at our own expense) is that anyone can do it. Sure, The Onion has mastered the art form. But that [...]

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Halloween Link Bait Link Dump

Happy Halloween link baiters! In the spirit of this ghoulishly delightful holiday, I decided I’d treat you to some successful Halloween-themed link bait. Only problem is, there are way too many to choose just 3. So rather than leave any good fright night link builders out, I thought I’d give ‘em all to you in one [...]

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Ann Telnaes’ Powell Cartoon on WashingtonPost.com

This is beautiful: an animated political cartoon that keeps it simple, both contentually and aesthetically. It shows a cartoon Colin Powell speaking a portion of his actual endorsement for Barack Obama, followed by the punchline, an equally spartan response from Senator McCain. Both portions of dialogue are actual snippets sampled from the actual speakers themselves. In [...]

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The 6 Most Obnoxious (And Unavoidable) Facebook Groups

Cracked Magazine does it again, proving that they know how to capitalize on pop cultures prevailing fads and trends. In this case, the subject is Web 2.0, specifically social networking stalwart Facebook. As we all know, “Best of” lists make for effective link bait and “Worst of” lists arguably more so. So try this juxtaposition in [...]

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Steal This Comic

Here we have our second piracy-related nominee (and no doubt not our last), a comic with as catchy a title (oddly familiar even to those who’ve never heard of its progenitor “Steal This Book”, as it’s already encoded in our cultural DNA) as its concept (that between piracy and DRM [Digital Rights Management] piracy is [...]

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Room With a Screw

This is fun – it’s a true-life narrative of an online correspondence of absurd proportions, the author having given an online scammer a taste of her own medicine. Now, it does run on a little long, a danger for any web page in this age of short-attention-span theater, but it is saved from obscurity by [...]

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