Comments on: Why This Post Is Not About 45n5’s Top 100 List

By: MindMap Linking Weekend: 15 September, 2007 by Internet Marketing Mind

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:53:15 +0000

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By: 45n5

45n5 — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:52:20 +0000

“Are your views on linkbaiting (writing content that attracts links) changing?”

I’m not sure where linbaiting gets a negative connotation, i always though writing content that people want to talk about and link to is the name of the game?

And yes I agree that list is useful for many things beyond just finding a new blog or two

thanks for the mention.

By: David

David — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:43:23 +0000

First off, thanks for the link.

Secondly, I only posted about it in passing to hopefully help it gain in popularity, so that I could gain more traffic from it. I have already received over three dozen unique visitors from being on the list, and I was down a fair bit. (I am not even in the top 100 anymore).

Lastly, it is always good to have an ego trip, just so long as it is temporary.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:08:28 +0000

Yeah I read about that Rhys… it’s bizzaire how it crashed so quickly!

By: James Blogger

James Blogger — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:54:39 +0000

Linkbait seems is becoming more and more of a legitimate marketing strategy… shame.

By: john

john — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:18:13 +0000

True! I agree 100% with that.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:35:07 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of linkbaiting. My attempted linkbait last week though resulted in a server crash. :S