OK, who's linkbaiting?

Started by Gurtie, February 01, 2013, 01:10:56 PM

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Gurtie

quote bottom right....

http://www.accident claims.org/

rcjordan

Bwwaaahahaha.

As linkbait goes, that's pretty entertaining.


Rumbas

Nice! Seems like they get some press.

I would be wary putting adult terms on my site though.

BoL

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.

I, Brian

You'd think it would be outright blinking obvious. The Sun apparently doesn't think so. Oh, lordy...

IrishWonder

End of the world, twitter as a source of opinions...  ::)

rcjordan

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/

ergophobe

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.

rcjordan

or executing the last phase of a perfect crime

BoL

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.


Adam C

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