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Linkbait is the New Viral Marketing. Same principle, new buzzword. More goal oriented. The one major objective, as the name implies, is gathering a slew of editorially given backlinks for your site. There are still persistent myths going around and this article aims to debunk some of them.
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from fantomaster 1545 Days ago #
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Another Alex gem: "Linkbaiting is easy in the sense that winning the Tour de France is easy if your name is Lance Armstrong." :)

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from Gamermk 1545 Days ago #
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For some reason this may me think... what if Paris Hilton created an SEO blog? The amount of pointless linkbait created would probably cause the internet to implode.

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from TheRealTerry 1545 Days ago #
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If only it would cause Paris to implode.

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from Felipe09 1544 Days ago #
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Very nice ..... I agree with all four myths.and in the bottom you just said everyting i wanted to say... Great post...

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