April fools day is the day for link baiting
Unfortunately this year i did not have time to come up with any decent pranks. It seems like other were well prepared. Have a look at this video i saw on Youtube:
The best thing about 1st of April is that you can pretty much just come up with any kind of nonsense and get away with it. If people believe you, you can really scoop up some traffic. If not, you can always blame it on the April fool’s day. For example this year i was going to spend a bit of time photoshopping and writing up a realistic press release about a “leaked” design of the second iphone Apple is developing. I bet that story would have hit the front page of many social bookmarks in no time. I was hoping to write something controversial as well and get sued by Apple but then i realised they would not really bother with me. That would have been a great story for the media though.
Talking about link baits. I am working on a few interesting tools that some of you will find handy. I bet these will be a good link bait. You can expect to see the first tool some time this week.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Wow, I never thought of April Fools linkbait. See how much I still have to learn? Let’s make do it right next year!
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
But now i gave away my linkbait idea so i will have to think of something new.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
You’ve got a good point and I expect that next years April Fools linkbait scene could be crowded.
I have a hard time believing you don’t have another dozen or so linkbait tricks up your sleave though Ilia:-)
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
[…] But it seems those who really tried to make the most of the day were all those bloggers trying to reel in some traffic while link-baiting. […]