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Linkbait formula: Take something that web geeks like (like Ender's Game). Then, publicly kick it in the nuts on your blog. Watch the traffic roll in.
by webwright 18y ago
Linkbait formula: Take something that web geeks like (like Ender's Game). Then, publicly kick it in the nuts on your blog. Watch the traffic roll in.
- ksvs 18y agoThen, publicly kick it in the nuts on your blog ...by comparing it to porn. That was the brilliant part.
- sfk 18y agoThis is utterly unfair. There aren't any ads on that site and the author does not market himself or his site at all.
- webwright 18y agoI disagree. Is money the only motivation? A ton of people blog for the attention, to feel smart, SEO for future endeavors etc. Forums, blogs, and blog comments are full of people tossing out trollish or evocative statements for all sorts of motivations. This post exists for the same reason that any trollish forum post exists.
- sfk 18y agoWe are both in the realm of speculation about the author's motives here. I don't like this particular essay either, in fact I think it's horrible. However, my troll detector is silent on this one. I agree with pg that the author isn't deliberately dishonest.