Comments on: What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

By: Link Building this Week (25.2008) | Wiep.net

Link Building this Week (25.2008) | Wiep.net — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:26:58 +0000

[...] During conference season, you always see lots of (link building related) interviews pop up left and right, and apparently, it’s that time of the year already. Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts (and Brent D. Payne ‘translated’ the interview), Jason Billingsley captured Stephan Spencer on video and Patrick Altoft asked Lyndon Antcliff some interesting questions about linkbait. [...]

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:27:00 +0000

As an aside, I’m wondering why my post here brings up a photo avatar from mybloglog of someone else who works at my company, High Rankings? Weird!

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:16:35 +0000

The post wasn’t really intended to be inspiring or to promote any debate about the issue.

I just had a few questions for Lyndon and thought people might want to read the questions and his responses.

By: website design

website design — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:52:09 +0000

if you think this was controversial or not I love the creativity

By: Weekly Link Roundup - June 9, 2008

Weekly Link Roundup - June 9, 2008 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:22:41 +0000

[...] hoax linkbait story that stirred huge controversy in the industry. Patrick Altoft of BlogStorm interviews Lyndon about his linkbaiting experiences. If you’re interested, Lyndon is launching his Linkbait Coaching program this Monday – [...]

By: Kimota

Kimota — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:57:45 +0000

Sorry, Patrick. Not your most inspiring of posts and certainly beneath your normally excellent analytical standards. Reads more like a puff-piece for a mate who’s found himself in hot water than a real analysis of the question posed by the title. No hard questions asked. Nothing except the most basic scratching of the surface. Even the links out of the post to demonstrate the debate are only to Lyndon’s own site, thereby failing to fully disclose both sides of the debate for new readers. Incredibly one-sided and therefore lacking in any value.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:24:34 +0000

Hard to really grasp the masterfulness of making something up to get links.

Actually writing something real that gets links…now THAT would be masterful. One can only hope that it’s the latter that Lyndon is teaching in his course, and not the former.

By: Peter Berk

Peter Berk — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:17:02 +0000

All of the links to the hooker article have been discounted, so what’s the point in that? BBC or CNN or the damn Whitehouse, they all don’t count.

Lyndoman’s linkbait was hyper successful for a while and then it screwed the site. At the end of the day this fell flat on it’s face and took the site with it as collateral damage.I bet the guys a money.co.uk wish they had never hired him? T will tell if they release a statement of some sort.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:02:09 +0000

But if getting on the front page of Digg gets you a link from the BBC or CNN they can’t ignore that.

They have to count *some* links.

By: Doug Heil

Doug Heil — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:06:10 +0000

LOL Total bullocks. Sorry Patrick.

LyndBait wrote:
“So, although I did write something specifically designed to push the buttons of a specific social tribe, I think the resultant kerfuffle was more to do with a collective need for a debate on the subject.”

Push the buttons? How about lie and cheat and deceive and con people into reading and believing?

A need for a debate about this? Heck no; lying and deceiving needs no debate. Those who praise this are just as unethical as the person who wrote this and stuck this on a financial website which USE TO BE TRUSTED by the public. Doing all of this for the incoming links in order to cheat Google.

yeah, good stuff indeed.

I’ll make a prediction; The major se’s will greatly discount, if not totally start ignoring all social type sites and other so-called news found on them for any link value. They will do this within 6 months time. People like Lyndon will be out of a job, and none too soon.