Jul 27

Sometimes even the Truth is Link Bait

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Jul. 27th, 2006. 3 comments — voice your opinion.

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Link Bait is the hottest new fad in link building, and I keep my eyes open for obvious examples.  If it weren't on CNN, I wouldn't even believe it.  This is one of the funniest articles I have read in awhile:

"Study: More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans" 
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/26/obesity.xrays.reut/index.html (there, I linked to it)

Basically, the article states that as a result of eating too many double cheeseburgers, Americans are either not fitting into the machines, or the machines just plain can't penetrate the cheeseburger-shielding.

As a side-note, I'd never poke fun at obese people who have eating disorders or genetic diseases; but most Americans just eat too many cheeseburgers.  So I guess the moral of the story is that even real news can be link bait.

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Melanie Phung

I really dislike the phrase "link bait" - doesn't that just mean "something worth linking to"? Isn't that what the Internet is supposed to be about in the first place? … but that's neither here nor there.

I like your blog - there isn't as much quality SEO blogging going on from a develpers perspective, and I think it's important. (I myself am just a word nerd.) I'm going to add SEOEgghead to my list of public bookmarks… is there a preferred (short-sentence) description for it?

Melanie Phung

that should have read "developer's" :)

phaithful

Hahaha… I better cut back on the Micky D's :)



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