Sphinn - Matt Cutts is right about Linkbait

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Posted By: ankitrawat 143 days ago
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Category: Google SEO

Its a hot debate between bloggers if Linkbait is fine or not !! My Personal view match with matt !! Linkbait is a technique to get backlinks and visitors on your website using some BlackHat technique !!

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from pratt 143 days ago #

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...huh? Not all of linkbait is blackhat just like not all of SEO is blackhat. *shakes head*

from SlightlyShadySEO 143 days ago #

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I share the same view about excessive exclamation points.

from SpostareDuro 143 days ago #

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submitter has online theft problems. i do not trust going to his site, much less reading his content.

from ankitrawat 143 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Well I agree that everytime its not Blackhat its white hat sometimes !! But don't u guys think that Linkbait about what Matt had discussed on his blog in 2006 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-linkbait-and-linkbaiting/ was different ? and now its like a Joke !! Every 2nd day we have one !!

from SlightlyShadySEO 143 days ago #

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I'll be honest. I don't see much of a coherent argument here, so it's hard to debate or explain.
The closest I see is it's making social news/media a joke...but Google could care less about that. And it doesn't make it blackhat. And beyond that, social news+media IS(almost without exception) linkbait, and has been since it's inception.
I don't really understand how Matt Cutts even factors into this, other than the occasional commentary that is normally pretty vague. And beyond that, I completely fail to see how Matt's comments on misspelling domains has anything to do with link bait in the first place. Fake linkbait? There's possible implications, but it's still not blackhat, and it's not google's job to police the ACCURACY of information(even if they do so rarely, it will NEVER be common practice).