‘Link bait’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Really enjoyed this SEO game. Very addictive. It made me pull my hair out in clumps sometimes. Now I have finished it I can do some proper work. Strangely, I found the most difficulty with questions that other people found easy and the ones which some people found easy took me a long time. Number 3 was the worst for me. Another good example of linkbait. We all know SharkSEO now. Update 22/03/2009: it is reported by Shark SEO guest reporting on Dave Naylor’s SEO blog, that out of the 1359 unique visitors to the page, only 20 have managed to complete…

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Excerpt: Any excuse to show a funny video should not be missed and it comes with an SEO point. The power of funny videos cannot be under-estimated as a source of link bait. Take this video of a cat riding around on a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. It is just a cat riding on a vacuum cleaner. It shouldn’t be funny but it is. For Roomba vacuum cleaners this  kind of publicity cannot be bought.  On its own,  it is a mundane product for cleaning your carpet. Stick a cat on top of it and it becomes something that you might watch…

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Excerpt: Linking As almost every SEO is aware, linking is one of the most effective ways in which to gain positions in the search engine results pages. This is unlikely to change although the value of link types will change as each new link niche becomes exploited and devalued. The most powerful links are those which are on-topic and point directly to a page on your site and these are type of links that you should be aiming to build-up. Reciprocal links, internal links and outbound links should also be used where appropriate. If you are just starting your web site then it…

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Excerpt: SEO the Game While looking at my position in Google I find that I am not number one for my own domain name, SEO the game. Which is a disappointment, but It is early days yet. In the top-spot is a site called,  ‘SEO game’. It is a first person fighting game where one must overcome opponents such as: Hidden Text Kid, Keyword Stuffer, Duplicate Content Girl, Cloking Monster, MR Redirect, Link Farmer and Spam Lord. I especially like the characters.

[/caption] It is a good demonstration of link bait. Where one thinks up an idea and hopes…