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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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Revenge Porn

I found this in the blog for the online home of GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly) and Details Magazines, and the sister site of the official online home of Vogue, Which tells me that what I’m reading has been sponsored by some of the world’s premier fashionistas. And what’s the article about? Pornography, for one. Revenge for [...]

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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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Study: Social Media Transforming Our Influences on What to Buy

By itself this insightful article – on the results of a study conducted by the author itself (straight from the source – nice!) of the effect that social media on consumerism – is decent enough like bait. But by adding a 68-page PowerPoint presentation as an embed turns this from a mere summary of an [...]

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Whats Next After Web 2.0

Here’s an interesting question: What is next after Web 2.0? Looking ahead seems like such a simple concept and yet it seems so rarely employed in linkbaiting. We all know that when we come up with business ideas, we need to look beyond what’s hot now to what will follow it. What will be hot [...]

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How to Create a Mashup by Combining 3 Different APIs

Thiis piece is WAY over my head, but since mashups are a powerful form of link bait, it only makes sense that a tutorial on creating them would make great link bait too Especially when you consider the proportion of internet users that are building links! (Why do you think we created this site?) This brings [...]

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Twitter Guide: How to Do Things With Twitter

This is the first I’ve come across this site: Labnol.com - Digital Inspiration: tech a’ la carte. It works as link bait because it takes a popular resource like Twitter and teaches people how to get more from it. Note the easy-to-follow Q&A format as well. (Tips, incidentally, include how to incorporate 3rd party tools [...]

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Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game

Everyone’s trying to find new and innovative ways to capitalize on Web 2.0. At the very least, a website these days barely has a chance of success without making abundant use of social networking and bookmarking sites like Digg, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Del.icio.us, etc. But the real innovators are looking for ways [...]

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Successful Business Bloggging, Seven Simple Secrets

“Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Business Bloggers” is the headline I might have given this, but I’m no business blogger (and my success is still in transit), so what do I know? Well, I know that this nutshell encapsulation of the handful of actions that, combined, make for a successful business blogger is excellent link [...]

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The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs

Looking to cut through all the BS and get right to the blogs that will bring you the most? In March of this year, the UK paper The Guardian did all the work for you, weeding through the barrage of blogs inundating the web to bring you those 50 that are the most useful, most [...]

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