Link Bait Hall of Fame
Tag Archive | "SEO/SEM"
The Top 100 Classic Web Sites
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...15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Competing with a niche-leading site like Copyblogger (which Thou Shall Blog with its tag-line of “Blogging Tips for Beginners” is clearly doing) is not easy. In such cases, quality link bait posts are more essential than ever. Highlighting under-utilized tools and resources for your niche (i.e. SEO plugins like Robots Meta, Technorati Incoming Links, and [...]
Continue reading...The Future of Search
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Google starts a blog. “Insights from Googlers into our product, technology, and the Google Culture.” And one of their first postings was this one-of-a-kind piece of cornerstone content and link bait rolled into one (the best kind, if you ask me). Giving us “outsiders” such a insider’s panoramic view of this landscape that is internet [...]
Continue reading...The Spare Change Challenge
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Just the headline alone is killer linkbait, not to mention the brilliant bullet-point encapsulation of what every web marketer needs to know. It’s no wonder this comes directly from an SEO site: SearchEngineGuide.com. With categories like Design Considerations, Architectural Issues, Content, Checkout Process, and Site Search, it’s bound to become the seminal webmastering cheat-sheet in [...]
Continue reading...Content and Marketing Lessons Learned from The Dark Knight
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Capitalizing on someone else’s sweeping success (in this case, Hollywood’s) is a killer way to create an effective piece of link bait, as evidenced by this handy SEO guide from SearchEngineMarketingVox.com that takes a lesson (10 actually) from the latest Batman installation. Tips include: focusing on stellar content instead of dazzling effects, being topical, and [...]
Continue reading...The Million Dollar Homepage
Thursday, August 14, 2008
With 43,000 inbound links and counting, this is a deceptively simple website that is an unreal piece of link bait in and of itself. A unique and innovative juxtaposition of advertising and link resource, this Million Dollar page looks and feels somewhere between eye-candy and sensory overload, with anyone who wants to (including you) paying [...]
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...The Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Dofollow and Nofollow blogging is getting quite a bit of internet airtime these days. To catch those of you up who don’t know what I’m talking about, Nofollow is the Wordpress default for comments. It prevents the search engines from following links on reader comments, helping stave off “link bleed”. But while Nofollow is good for [...]
Continue reading...The Ira Glass Guide to Link Bait
Friday, August 1, 2008
This is a stellar example of link bait within link bait: A YouTube video in which Ira Glass, host of NPR’s “This American Life” discusses… why, link bait of course. And once Copyblogger got a hold of it, the guide became the near-overnight buzz of the blogosphere like every good textbook case of link bait [...]
Continue reading...© 2008 Link Bait Hall of Fame. Powered by Wordpress.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
0 Comments