Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'linkbait'

Many blogs are abuzz with the news about a recent fake piece of linkbait that ended up capturing the eyes and ears of many big traditional news outlets and bringing the originating story thousands of backlinks. After the community went...

Posted on May 23, 2008 9:44 AM

I didn't know that being electrocuted by solar panels was even possible, but apparently it is. Solar Dave made a really cute video about how it all went down: The idea behind the video, as Dave explains, was to illustrate...

Posted on May 21, 2008 10:56 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread has a story of an SEO who got himself in a mess. The mess is that he has to get his client 20 PR6 links all for the price of $475. Yea, read that again. The...

Posted on September 5, 2007 7:05 AM

SEO, Meet SMM Moderated by Danny Sullivan Presented by: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz Cindy Krum, Blue Moon Works Inc. Todd Malicoat, Stuntdubl Neil Patel, ACS/Pronet Advertising Danny introduces the session. He mentions that while this is a relatively advanced conference, there...

Posted on June 4, 2007 5:13 PM

gabs, moderator of the Search Engine Roundtable Forums, discovered a blog posted by an individual who apparently lost not one but two Labradors in the same day. He finds that there's a lot of potential for linkbait opportunity with...

Posted on May 16, 2007 10:35 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread asks "But Is The Traffic Any Good?" Meaning, is Digg or social media traffic, quality traffic? Administrator, projectphp, explains that it is a huge benefit for a site selling ads based on a CPM basis. I...

Posted on March 1, 2007 7:28 AM

Last year we had our Traffic Building - Link Building for 2006 and I have spotted a thread that asks about link building strategies for 2007. The thread is at Search Engine Watch Forums where link building queen, Debra Mastaler...

Posted on January 3, 2007 7:09 AM

There are two recent threads that I found at forums I typically do not cover much on the topic of pay per post reviews. The posts are at HighRankings Forums and at SEO Refugee Forums. I am going to pull...

Posted on December 27, 2006 2:04 PM

A slow but very interesting WebmasterWorld thread asks, "Is Googe Devaluing "Social Content" Links?" Tedster, WebmasterWorld Admin, said; It's not a big secret. Webmasters looking for a ranking boost have been using "web 2.0" tactics for quick link building. Even...

Posted on December 20, 2006 8:04 AM

This morning ShoeMoney.com (be careful visiting that site now, may have malicious code on it) was hacked, I reported it over at Cartoon Barry. ShoeMoney.com currently looks like; View Large Image Just do not go to the site, it will...

Posted on October 12, 2006 9:19 AM