Link Bait Hall of Fame

10 Rare Pictures From Nissan’s Secret Zama Operations Center

There are two words in that headline that you can use to come up with some choice new link bait of your own; can you guess what they are? If you said Rare and Secret then you’re right. What makes this photo essay rise above the average photo essay is that it gives you an [...]

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The Most Memorable Athlete Meltdowns

Watching an athlete lose his (or her) cool is the American Way. It’s part of the reason why we watch televised sports in the first place. To see some action – mostly athletic, but occassionally in the form of some good old fashioned human melodrama. A born-again Chase Hilgenbrinck, Ricky Williams choosing THC over the [...]

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Pimped Out School Buses

Here’s another nominee from one of our favorite link bait sources (especially of the eye candy variety): URLesque. This is one site (and one prime example of the link bait it produces, this image gallery of school buses from another dimension) that can  give lots of would-be link baiters and internet marketers a schooling.

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Some of the World’s Strangest Fences

Everybody loves eye candy. That’s why everybody surfs to it (which in turn is why everybody links to it). This collection of some mighty odd fences is no exception. If links are brdiges, then the freaks of the fence world highlighted here – including a roller coaster fence, and a fence that’s been devoured by [...]

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A Picture is Worth…10 Brilliant Book Artists

These images are just stunning. Eye candy pieces about eye candy are the greatest because you typically get to see some of the unique wonders of the world that way. Wonders you might not ever see otherwise. Like these works of…I guess it would be called ‘sculpture’ made up of books. Talk about turning “multimedia” [...]

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Preparing to Rescue the Hubble - The Big Picture

Boston.com really knows how to generate photographic masterpieces of link bait. Some of their spreads - like the one on the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics or this one, on the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telscope - are like National Geographic treasures framed for the average person.

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50 Colorful Wallpapers: Full Spectrum Love by COLOURlovers

Eye candy makes terrific linkbait, as everyone but EVERYONE loves to get distracted by all the pretty colors. And this here is the definition of eye candy (and pretty colors). Fifty of them, actually. Courtesy of COLOUR Lovers: The Color + Design Community for Creative Inspiration. Ah, a site after our own hearts.

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135 Ways to Ruin the Olympics Using Technology

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 [...]

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Giant’s Causeway: Ancient Volcanic Eruption Creates Natural Wonder

Remember this classic musical image? Slorker already got over 1,000 Diggs for a photo-collage of the real-life geographical wonder used in the famous Led Zeppelin “Houses of the Holy” album cover, and if they had used Led Zeppelin’s name in the title, this stunning piece of link bait could have garnered five times that. It’s called [...]

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Top 10 Creative Ways to Display Time

Website enhancement will always be a subject of link bait - some great, some not so much. But as long as there are webmasters and bloggers looking to build links, there will be others like them penning and posting material on making the stickiest web pages possible. Here’s one of the more smashing efforts, courtesy [...]

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