Resource lists still rule the day for generating links…

by Jack Humphrey on Feb 24

Dosh Dosh wrote a great piece on linkbait through resource lists recently.

Here are some of the most linked “bait” posts I have made:

You can start to see a pattern when you check out linkbait posts that work for others.

How can you create a valuable resource list or post for your niche right now that can take off once people in your niche start linking to it?

It happens everyday. Why not make it happen for your site today?

Tagged as: creating linkbait, free targeted traffic, getting links, link bait, linkbait

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  • http://www.37tbc.com/ David Chin

    This post is an excellent example of why Jack Humphrey’s claim that his team provides you with the best WordPress platform doesn’t hold water.

    If you have Google Toolbar installed, you’ll notice that this post is NOT cached in Google at all.

    That’s because the actual content on this post is dwarfed by all that content displayed in the two sidebars on the right, and Google will see it fit to slap this post (and many, many others on this site) with a duplicate penalty, since most of the other posts display similar characteristics: post content that is dwarfed by the volume of content in the sidebars.

    Google isn’t that smart to figure out WordPress yet.

    And that is why I have reformatted some of my blogs so that content in the sidebar is displayed via Javascript.

    On the basis of my analysis, I wouldn’t recommend the $97 / month ASC membership.

  • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/cd Jack Humphrey

    David,

    You are probably wondering why I let your comment through. After all you are talking smack about my product, lol.

    It is to show people the extreme lack of understanding of what it is we do at ASC along with an even greater misunderstanding of WordPress, navigation systems, and what the search engines do when they hit a page.

    1. I can get this page back out of supp results. It’s an old post and hasn’t been linked to much.

    2. Search engines read content from left to right by nature of what’s presented first in the code. Sidebar navigation on the right side is just that, and the links verify to other pages of original content, so Google is satisfied with that. Nothing on the right is for the sake of keyword loading – it is to get people around the site reading all the content that is provided.

    3. If you click on the links above in time, before I update them, you’ll see that they all lead to 404 page not found pages. This post is old enough that it is before I changed my permalink structure and the links are not leading to actual posts. That has more to do with this page not being in Google than anything else.

    By the time you or anyone reads this I will have Web 2.0 posted this post, fixed the links, and be well on my way to having this page all over the SERPS.

    4. Despite your finding that this post isn’t ranked, I get 5000+ uniques to this site per day and get more Google traffic in a day than most sites get in 6 months. What does that say?

    On the flip side, you include a link to your blog and it has no style, no ranking, no PR, a complete lack of history or content and obviously no traffic.  Is that what the alternative?  I would have posted a link to something that supported your argument if I were you, but I think you are trying out the “guru hater” approach to try to make your name.  I’ve been doing this for 10 years friend and my reputation is impeccable for providing quality services, information, and know how about marketing online and getting traffic.  You have a long way to go before you can spam a blog and make a name for yourself against our track record which is documented everywhere you go in this market.
    5. Back to ASC

    You are like a lot of people who judge ASC and what we offer from software alone. From a publishing system alone – as if nothing else we offer has any value to you.

    If ASC were only about the actual software we use, what we do to WordPress to get more traffic than you, and nothing else, it would be worth $600 a month. Hell $1500 a month.

    Yet we have coaching (800 freakin hours of small group coaching per year) we build the sites for you, which means a lot to people who know they don’t know everything, as opposed to people who THINK they do, and more training resources than anyone could imagine from site building, SEO, content development, niche research, plugin usage, over 100 training videos on everything to do with internet marketing period…

    And that’s not even the 1/2 of it.

    You are damn right about one thing. Our system isn’t worth $97 a month. It’s worth $1500+.

    In fact, that’s just what our high end customers pay for us to do it all for them. With the traffic they are pulling down, just try telling them it’s not worth every penny and see how fast they laugh you out of the room.

    Nice blog by the way… :)

  • http://sandiblair.com tecHead

    David… David… David..

    Why do people do it to themselves?

    YOUR POST is a perfect example of WHY ASC exists, in the first place. For the purposes of ‘educating’ the masses against ‘rhetoric’ such as what you’re exuding through your couple of paragraphs.

    You’ve obviously done NO research as to ‘how’ Google’s™ bots read pages AND NO research on how Duplicate Content is recognized by them.

    Here, educate yourself…
    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

    Ya know the age old adage; “Too many Chef’s in the kitchen”? Well, hopefully after you read information from “the source”; you’ll step out of the kitchen and go back to serving webpages to your best ability and leave the cooking and preparations to those who actually do their research before attempting to feed the mass public. :)

    Just a thought.

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  • http://2012mac.com Benny

    Hey, hey, hey Jack. I have always admired your style of writing and the content presented with great aplomb. But what I cannot understand is rolling out a tank to squash a fly?

    David Chin is talking out of his limited level and that make be the way he values your work and efforts. What you don’t do is engage in meaningless criticism. You have to understand this.

    My father used to say, “It’s not every fight you take on because some were designed to wear you out. The decision to engage or not to is entirely your.” I rarely every respond to things like these but you seemed a very genuine guy reading your work. My advice is that you shouldn’t take any offense, because David has only expressed his right of opinion. If this was because of his scoffs at your valuation of $97, it’s not worth the fight.

    Personally, I may not have used your services but I am very impressed with your FREE 2007 Authority Black eBook download. Infact it was what brought me here. His comments won’t deter people like me from using your services in the future. People have paid more for less services and will continue to do so. Such comments as nothing but distractions. For me I’m learning my way on the internet.

  • http://www.trishjones.com The Blogging Queen

    I don’t usually respond to arguments on the web, but I have to disagree with you Benny …

    People do take notice of comments about people’s products online, particularly when you’re talking about a monthly payment of $97 … People are usually looking to justify the payment and our cynacism makes us look for the negative.

    The other point I would make is that David Chin is teaching Internet Marketing on his site – even if only by way of reviews. For that reason, Jack has a right to protect people who may well listen and take heed to David’s comments.

    My experience is that people all to often fail online because they look for the cheap and cheerful rather than paying for what works and a comment like the one David made WILL lead some to believe he’s an authority and follow him.

    Just my thoughts …

    Trish

    The Blogging Queen’s last blog post..Blog Vs. Website?

  • http://maxlowe.net Max Lowe

    Hmmm….

    An older post, but a goodie nonetheless.

    I’m with The Blogging Queen on this one. I’m glad Jack ‘rolled out the tanks’ so to speak to address what David brought up. While David has every right to criticize (‘everyone’s entitled to their own stupid opinion’), Jack has a reputation to protect.

    Sure, Jack Humphrey is the guru of gurus. I know that. You know that. But if this were the only site I’d landed on and read David’s comments, I’d probably go looking elsewhere.

    In my opinion, you’ve got to counter every argument and overcome every objection, particularly when they’re unfounded and baseless that David’s.

    Keep the good work coming, Jack!

    Max Lowe
    http://maxlowe.net

  • http://www.jaguarmarketingrevealed.com Len Estrada

    Hey Jack,

    Was just reading the ABB 2008 and it lead me here. Quite unsurprisingly, Mr. Chin’s blog still has no PR, even a year later.

    I agree with Max Lowe. I’ve rather enjoyed flaming people who knock my products. If they have a legit gripe, so be it. It’s just those ignorant, wannabe authority bloggers that incite the beast within.

    Get’em Jack.

  • http://www.bigticketdeals.net Martin Paul

    Hey Jack
    found this page from your awesomem BlackBook. Chin’s site is dead.
    New readers…do yourself a favor and subscribe to Jack’s blog and services. His expertise has been very helpful to me in my fledgling on line business.

    Martin Pauls last blog post..Jonas Brothers book November concerts, look toward 2009 world tour

  • http://JamesArtre.com James

    Never ceases to amaze me, when someone, anyone, believes that $97 is a lot of money when it comes to building a serious, professional business.

  • http://www.ravioliroller.com Elvis Predley the Ravioli Roller

    Hello Jack, Well, I’m very glad I found you…previous posts notwithstanding. I have a question on tweaking wordpress…is it better to use .php or .html at the end of permalinks? Does it make any difference to the search engines?

    Thank you :)

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      Elvis – no, I can’t conceive of a way that Google or any others would want or need to make a distinction. They’d never tell you though. Because if they found out that people who use .php are statistically more likely not to be sploggers, they’d make it a difference that would count. And that would quickly be picked up by guys like Nathan Anderson who watch such things like a hawk. And Nathan hasn’t called me about it. :)

  • http://johnatch.com john atchue

    Hey Jack,

    I just downloaded the blackbook, thanks. It’s great, my only comment is some of the plugins look like they are not compatable with wp 2.7 but it really rocks. I have one quick question, assumung your still watching this post. There are so many plugins for tags and such. I installed headspace2, do I need the others like all in one, simple tags, etc….

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      I just use All in 1 SEO plugin for SEO and now the native tagging for WordPress 2.7 which replaced simple tags for me.

  • http://www.music-cafe.org Music Man

    Is it my imagination or has wordpress become way slower with the last 2 updates? My site seems to drag in the admin panel like it never did with earlier releases.

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  • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/cd Jack Humphrey

    David,

    You are probably wondering why I let your comment through. After all you are talking smack about my product, lol.

    It is to show people the extreme lack of understanding of what it is we do at ASC along with an even greater misunderstanding of WordPress, navigation systems, and what the search engines do when they hit a page.

    1. I can get this page back out of supp results. It's an old post and hasn't been linked to much.

    2. Search engines read content from left to right by nature of what's presented first in the code. Sidebar navigation on the right side is just that, and the links verify to other pages of original content, so Google is satisfied with that. Nothing on the right is for the sake of keyword loading – it is to get people around the site reading all the content that is provided.

    3. If you click on the links above in time, before I update them, you'll see that they all lead to 404 page not found pages. This post is old enough that it is before I changed my permalink structure and the links are not leading to actual posts. That has more to do with this page not being in Google than anything else.

    By the time you or anyone reads this I will have Web 2.0 posted this post, fixed the links, and be well on my way to having this page all over the SERPS.

    4. Despite your finding that this post isn't ranked, I get 5000+ uniques to this site per day and get more Google traffic in a day than most sites get in 6 months. What does that say?

    On the flip side, you include a link to your blog and it has no style, no ranking, no PR, a complete lack of history or content and obviously no traffic.  Is that what the alternative?  I would have posted a link to something that supported your argument if I were you, but I think you are trying out the “guru hater” approach to try to make your name.  I've been doing this for 10 years friend and my reputation is impeccable for providing quality services, information, and know how about marketing online and getting traffic.  You have a long way to go before you can spam a blog and make a name for yourself against our track record which is documented everywhere you go in this market.
    5. Back to ASC

    You are like a lot of people who judge ASC and what we offer from software alone. From a publishing system alone – as if nothing else we offer has any value to you.

    If ASC were only about the actual software we use, what we do to WordPress to get more traffic than you, and nothing else, it would be worth $600 a month. Hell $1500 a month.

    Yet we have coaching (800 freakin hours of small group coaching per year) we build the sites for you, which means a lot to people who know they don't know everything, as opposed to people who THINK they do, and more training resources than anyone could imagine from site building, SEO, content development, niche research, plugin usage, over 100 training videos on everything to do with internet marketing period…

    And that's not even the 1/2 of it.

    You are damn right about one thing. Our system isn't worth $97 a month. It's worth $1500+.

    In fact, that's just what our high end customers pay for us to do it all for them. With the traffic they are pulling down, just try telling them it's not worth every penny and see how fast they laugh you out of the room.

    Nice blog by the way… :)

  • http://www.3500cashmiracle.com Jay Ortega

    Hey Jack..

    I’m a super-wet newbie regarding Blogs, but I heard you were the best.. Your Blackbook is awesome and I’m learning so much from it..

    I’m just grateful since I want to learn about blogging, that you’re the teacher…

    Cheers!

    Jay Ortega

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      @Jay – thanks for stopping by man! Here’s to your beginning adventures in blogging and internet marketing. Don’t be a stranger!

  • http://www.drfitnessnow.com Jeff

    Hey Jack,

    Just starting to take this blogging seriously and “stumbled” (it seems alot of people in IM are clutzy :) across your blackbook and just started reading it today.

    Just wanted to say, so far so good, and I look forward to the other gems that are sure to be buried inside.

    I’ll be checking back here often to tell you of my progress.

    Thanks a million!

    Jeff “DRFitness” Lane

  • http://theguruhub.com Gregg Zban@ internet marketing, email marketing

    It is refreshing to hear more than just the good comments about something. Although I think it could have been done in a more tasteful manner on Davids part, I think it ads to your credibility to let some of the objective comments come through and answer them.

    I hope David learned not to bring a knife to a gun fight -:)
    .-= Gregg Zban@ internet marketing, email marketing´s last blog ..The Fine Art of Reciprocation =-.

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