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Avatar Posted By: isaSuperstar 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nowpublic.com)
Category: Social Media
A (relatively) innocent marketing ploy designed to draw in backlinks for a financial services comparison website in London has stirred up media attention ranging from the front page of Digg to coverage on Fox News.
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from g1smd 141 days ago #
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You're about a week late with this story...  it's appeared a couple of dozen times before.

from AutomotiveSEO 141 days ago #
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Ya, but it's such a good story on linkbaiting it should appear once a week, every week for the next 2 years.

from Jill 141 days ago #
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This version linked here is just reputation management after the fact and a total load of crap. Gotta give them credit though for attempting to spin it this way. Many will believe this version and think it was originally posted as a hoax (it wasn't).


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