Hacked Tweet Costs Millions – News on Crack
AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging Wall Street collided with social media on Tuesday, when a false tweet from a trusted news organization sent the US stock market into freefall. The 143-point fall in the Dow Jones industrial average came after hackers sent a message from the Twitter feed [...]
Sunday Times Rich List Provides Tasty Linkbait
Today the Sunday Times Rich list was out. I will be going through it all week plundering for tasty stories. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22233389 It makes for fascinating reading, especially the richest guy who lives in Britain, the Russian oligarch whose interests include investments in Groupon Facebook and plastic bags. Oh, and owns 30% of Arsenal. When Facebook [...]
Marajuana, Magic the Gathering and Scratch and Sniff
This headline caught my attention “Britain Goes After Pot Growers With ‘Scratch And Sniff’ Cards” From NPR For a headline to work well, it needs to contain three plot points to the narrative. Here we have “Britain”, “pot growers” and “scratch and sniff cards. Each one of these plot points has their own cultural capital [...]
Sharing Link Building articles via my Instapaper folder
I use Instapaper a lot, it’s a great bookmarking system and I can save stuff on my iPad and then read it on my desktop pc. And so I have built up quite a nice archive of link building articles and constantly adding to the list. I have now discovered a way to share the [...]
Magnetic Web Content Hangout with Yousaf Sekander from Rocketmill.co.uk
Show notes In the hangout were: Lyndon Antcliff Danny Ashton Yousaf Sekander Jim Redden socialcrawlytics.com rocketmill.co.uk
Seo Hangout with Nick Garner, Danny Ashton and Lyndon Antcliff
We try to hangout each week to discuss industry matters. And we did discuss in this video the option of making it more formal and structured. I will try and index the video when I have time as it’s rather long, but there are some very juicy bits littered throughout. Thanks to Nick Garner who [...]
Linkbait Coaching review of Donuts Episode
This is our first recorded hangout, so of course there are going to be some glitches. Although if I have time I can edit some stuff out Initially on the video is myself waiting for people to pop in, so there is a bit of waffle. Which you can forward to the more meaty stuff [...]
Sometimes your content needs to be more Xfactor than Strictly Ballroom
People often mistake the term “quality”, for “what works”. Quality is subjective, whilst “what works” is clearly definable. But when web content is sold, it’s sold as “quality content”. Look how many blog posts talk about “quality content”, repeated without thought. When what they should be talking about is content that does the job. The [...]
Linkbait Podcasts are now Going live in the members area
Image via Flickr I am now broadcasting podcasts in the members only area, if you are a member click here. It’s the first in a series of audio broadcasts that explore linkbaiting in a detailed and fundamental way. I don’t want to leave anything out and hopefully after a few months we will have a [...]