Comments on: Link Bait Sucks, Users Are Not Fish

By: onreact

onreact — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:01:16 +0000

Hey Ellie,

thank you for the kind and very specific feedback. I moderate my comments quite closely so that only the useful comments stay online but I also try not to quarrel in the comment section.

Also indeed I live off SEO and business blogging.

Last but not least I’m in fact bilingual or rather tri, as I’m a Pole living in Germany but writing in English.

By: Ellie K

Ellie K — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:16:18 +0000

This is the third post on your SEO 2.0 blog I’ve read. I’d been clicking around for about an hour here, reading posts and sometimes hundreds of comments. I really liked the recent (Dec 2010) post about the issue of UTM’s in URL’s!

I am not trying to pander or be obsequious, but you should consider a subheading: “Ethical SEO” or “SEO with Compassion”. The nice, no- banner, no-ad style is so soothing. I like your user feedback heading “This thing has X Comments” or trackbacks. No BackType reaction stream from the Twitterati either! I love Twitter, so I’m not knocking it in general.

And you know what? The evidence that “one receives in equal measure what one gives” is apparent in the comments. That’s partly due to your willingness to acknowledge mistakes, and your good etiquette! But I noticed that comments are generally polite, even when critical. You respond to those that aren’t so polite. And surprise surprise! The person replies to your reply in an agreeable or conciliatory way!

A few comments have URL’s, but only about services or resources directly relevant to your post. They’re mostly for free or open source sites/ projects too!

You mention this is a hobby blog only. I DO hope this style of SEO, or whatever you do for a living, yields a good income. You deserve it!

P.S. I had the impression from one of the comments back in 2008 that you are either bi-lingual, or English is not your first language. That makes this site doubly impressive! I have not noticed grammar, spelling nor even usage errors. You posts are very clean, better than most English language blog sites, regardless of whether the author speaks English as a first or secondary language!

May you have much luck and prosperity in 2011!

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By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:07:44 +0000

i think this post is kind a link bait only

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:07:27 +0000

Interesting read, thanks. This has given me some ideas on different ways to implement “link bait” then I would normally consider.

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By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:38:31 +0000

Good question. The difference is, I do not lure anybody just for the sake of traffic. As you see this blog is made just for fun, not even for the ad money.
OK, if you deem any action to make your blog, website or content known unethical you can close your site down, somebody might read it. Make sure then not to link it anywhere!

If you fulfill the wishes of your (potential) readers your readers will read your site ;-)
It's a myth that good content will spead by itsself. If nobody knows you you have to make the first step.