Comments on: SES London – Linkbait, and When It’s Not

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:18:30 +0000

Richard,

Not being there on the day and not having your level of knowledge I hope you’ll take this one in good faith but give the guy a break. We’ve all struggled at some point standing up in front of an audience and maybe this was just a bad day at the office. 30 seconds is not much time to judge anyone and had you stayed around longer perhaps you might have been able to pass on few more words of wisdom.

Great for the high and mighty to get links from the big blogs like randfish but leave a few crumbs on the table for the little guy to pick up once in a while.

Neil.

By: TackModerator

TackModerator — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:15:11 +0000

I dont know XSEO’s CEO nor Rand, but gawd… proposing on national tele, and during a superbowl commercial??

THAT should have been the reason you got up and walked out, not becos some fella can’t speak or remember names.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:27:54 +0000

Baz

If you post anything about he session or see it covered could you send me a link please? I’m interested now in what was discussed after I beat my hasty exit

Rgds
Richard

By: Baz T Edwards

Baz T Edwards — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:03:55 +0000

yes it is difficult getting links based on just content, the concept is good and Nick made a good case – but I think it only works if you are already well known. If you aren’t then what Matt was on about was good, the idea of pushing your profile (the idea of using PPC how he described I’d never thought of) syndicating the stories was interesting, as was “lobbying bloggers” although doesn’t that come down to knowing some.
Baz

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:44:53 +0000

Hey Baz

I probably should have waited. I just didn’t feel the presentation was going the right direction.

The whole idea of link bait is fantastic in theory, but much harder to implement in reality. Great when you get it right though, there’s no doubt.

Would have liked to see the QandA but c’est la vie.
Rgds
Richard

By: Baz T Edwards

Baz T Edwards — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:53:26 +0000

You should have stuck around – Matt was the only one on the session who explained how to get links is you are not a “superstar blogger” (his words)
Especially linked the QandA when Nick was preaching the “linkbait” and you’ll never have to buy links again, while Dave and Matt were arguing the real world.
Baz

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:08:47 +0000

Hi Rand

Just to say congratulations and very best wishes for the future.

Rgds
Richard

By: randfish

randfish — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:53:13 +0000

Richard – thanks for the vote of confidence. I forgive Matt for being a bit off his game; I think it was his first time speaking, and that’s always nervous business. My proposal was certainly seen by some folks as a marketing move, but you’re right to assume that it isn’t linkbait – it doesn’t fulfill any of the necessary qualities (particularly since the links didn’t point to a site I controlled)

Hope to meet you sometime in the near future!