linkbaiting

The term linkbaiting is a one that seems to have surfaced over the past 12 or so months and that is used by webmasters to describe a variety of practices - all of which seek to generate incoming links to a website or blog from other sites.

Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2008

I wouldn't even use the word linkbaiting to describe that.

Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2008

I personally don't like the term 'linkbaiting' on some levels as it does seem to have negative connotations.

Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2008

There is a lot of debate around both the term 'linkbaiting' and some of the practices that people talk about it incorporating.

Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2008

Another debate stretches from the fact that term 'linkbaiting' and some of the practices that people talk about it incorporating.

earlyspinblog.com 2008

In reality the term 'linkbaiting' is a new term for something that webmasters have been doing for many years.

Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2008

The term "linkbaiting", in reality is one of the new terms which describe something that have been done by the webmasters for many years.

earlyspinblog.com 2008

OK wow IGN is doing some serious linkbaiting with this article

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Top 100 comic villains of all time. 2009

Jill Whalen, perhaps playing the same linkbaiting/comment - baiting game as Rand, paints Rand as the extremist and takes the other extreme herself.

Rand v Whalen: Focus on Engines or Users? | Managing Greatness 2009

Michael Arrington is so set on linkbaiting in his rant against netbooks (I know, I'm a sucker) that he completely forgets to make a coherent argument.

November 2008 2008