Most successful link bait ever…

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief February 4, 2006 · 1 min read

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Linkbaiting is an art.

And the most successful piece of link bait tool I have ever witnessed is the “How much is your blog worth?” calculator by Dane Carlson of Business Opportunities Weblog. I am sure half of you here have encountered this nifty Technorati-powered script. The little applet uses Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

The script has generated an estimated 32,247 links from 17,060 sites which basically brings the Business Opportunities Weblog to No. 2 on Technorati’s 100 most popular blogs, next to Boingboing.

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Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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