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Matt responds to one of his readers, who responded to an old post with a few questions.

"Do you think that ‘baiting’ gives the term ‘linkbaiting’ a bad precedence? It seems that some people think that ‘linkbaiting’ automatically means a trap of sorts. In the same breath, does Google penalize for the term ‘linkbait’?"
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from markus941 1650 Days ago #
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Maybe we should start calling them "linkpies." Cuz honestly, who doesn’t love pies?

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from MattMcGee 1650 Days ago #
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LOL! Good one, Markus. I like it. :)

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from PocketSEO 1650 Days ago #
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That Matt Cutts "chiropractor" example is great because it shows how close he is to becoming an SEO consultant. :)It doesn’t matter if he is a good chiropractor or not...

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from dannysullivan 1649 Days ago #
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Wow, I was just talking to my wife about link bait being in regular publications offline and was thinking of doing a post just like this. Now I don’t have to!

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