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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Gurtie on February 01, 2013, 01:10:56 PM

Title: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: Gurtie on February 01, 2013, 01:10:56 PM
quote bottom right....

http://www.accident claims.org/
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: rcjordan on February 01, 2013, 01:28:40 PM
Bwwaaahahaha.

As linkbait goes, that's pretty entertaining.
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: Adam C on February 01, 2013, 03:23:22 PM
quite successfully

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4771956/x-rated-testimonial-appears-on-accident-claims-firms-website.html
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/01/queries-over-hacking-as-accident-claims-website-features-testimonial-from-anal-sex-injury-customer/

Looks like the story broke yesterday and the testimonial is still in place.
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: Rumbas on February 01, 2013, 03:28:19 PM
Nice! Seems like they get some press.

I would be wary putting adult terms on my site though.
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: BoL on February 01, 2013, 05:08:04 PM
spotted this on a gambling forum so it must be fairly viral at the moment.

wonder if they'll remove the quote when the links are down & press is away.
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: I, Brian on February 03, 2013, 11:09:12 AM
You'd think it would be outright blinking obvious. The Sun apparently doesn't think so. Oh, lordy...
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: IrishWonder on February 03, 2013, 02:18:11 PM
End of the world, twitter as a source of opinions...  ::)
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: rcjordan on February 13, 2013, 04:36:04 AM
Now The Register tries its hand at linkbaiting with a clever headline

New cunning linguist computer has got ancient tongues licked

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/12/rosetta_stone_system_for_protolanguages/
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: ergophobe on February 13, 2013, 11:20:40 PM
I wonder if everyone was on board with that or what was happening - I just went there at got this:

Quote
We are closed

Sorry but we aren't taking on any accident claims customers right now.


Please check back later.

And the quote in the lower right was perfectly innocuous. I wonder if they were hacked rather than linkbaiting.
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: rcjordan on February 14, 2013, 02:47:06 AM
or executing the last phase of a perfect crime
Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: BoL on February 14, 2013, 07:48:49 AM
They're #5 for "accident claims" on G for me just now.

Since they're not taking business my guess is the domain will be sold. It certainly feels staged rather than an innocent/hack slip up.

Title: Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
Post by: Adam C on February 14, 2013, 09:39:19 AM
Quote from: BoL on February 14, 2013, 07:48:49 AM
They're #5 for "accident claims" on G for me just now.


I get them at #10 now, but were #1 when I checked when this thread first went up