Linkbaiting is An Art

February 25, 2006 by Dane | 12 Comments
In Administrivia, Blogs

I don’t normally toot my own horn but this was just too good to pass up:

And the most successful piece of link bait tool I have ever witnessed is the “How much is your blog worth?” calculator by Dane Carlson of Business Opportunities Weblog. I am sure half of you here have encountered this nifty Technorati-powered script. The little applet uses Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

The script has generated an estimated 32,247 links from 17,060 sites which basically brings the Business Opportunities Weblog to No. 2 on Technorati’s 100 most popular blogs, next to Boingboing.

Comments

Art on February 25th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

I agree that is was a work of genius. If you wanted to make it even better you could have it be dynamic, meaning that as a blog’s value increased or decreased the value would change.
Peter Cooper on February 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pm

So why isn’t it on the top 100 then..? Have I missed something? :) Is their list just slow or is it fixed in some way?
Steve Dender on February 26th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

Although this site doesn’t show up in the top 100 list, click the link and you’ll see that it’s listed currently as number three.

I think it’s not on the list because of some kind of filter against sites that rise too fast in the ranks.
Larko lobiseb on February 27th, 2006 at 11:51 am

Mina oma blogi ei müü
Karen on February 27th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

Hi, Dane! I found your blog through the applet meantioned here, which I found on Sun Comprehending Lass’s blog. I thought it was totally cool and have added it to by blog as well.
I would like to echo Art and encourage you to make it dynamic. That would be beyond cool!
And, by the way, I think we should all toot our own horns every once in a while! COngrats on the great write-up!
Brad Isaac on February 28th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

That’s a great post. Congrats Dane.
City SEO Specialist on July 7th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

Genius. Pure. Simple. Genius.
Tracy - SEO Expert on August 15th, 2006 at 8:46 pm

Nice tool but how accurate is it ?
Anyhow at least it made me to feel good for a min.

Here is an evaluation of one of my site
Your blog, http://www.turks.us, is worth $175,007.40

:) Anyone wants to buy .. :)
This site provides news feed to yahoo, msn, moreover.. It used to provide news to Google too…

Thanks
Tracy
http://www.turks.us
Lynne O'Connor on November 28th, 2006 at 7:13 am

genius. Viral marketing at its best.
Free on July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 am

Interesting
s_jenkins on November 14th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

Great article! I have a couple of questions though: a) does Google have existing penalties for the term ‘linkbaiting’ and b) what do you think of the term ‘linkbaiting’?
IT Outsourcing | Web Development on January 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 am

That’s a great post. Thanks for such a good information