Linkbait Swallowed

SEO guru Jason Calacanis wants to see who will take his link bait… well I’ve let it sit on a hook long enough, okay, I’ll bite.

And because it’s humorous enough, I’ll post the link bait photo as well.

Anyway, for those of you unfamiliar with Jason Calacanis, he’s been well known name in Silicon Valley for many years. He was editor and CEO of Silicon Alley Reporter Magazine as well as co-founder of Weblogs Inc. In late 2005 (about 2 years after inception) he sold the company for to AOL for something like a cool $25 million but has remained in charge of the editorial supervision as SVP in AOL ever since. Since that deal, Jason has gone on to relaunch Netscape, run a successful weblog (calacanis.com), and serves on the board of the social shopping network, ThisNext.

Jason’s Idea of link bait has been done many times and many ways before but his list of rules seems truly original. If you’re not familiar with link baiting, basically Jason is promising to return the favor of linking back to you if you post a link to his site. Well, that’s not entirely true, you have to meet some of the rule criteria he outlined.

With his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, he basically requires only flattering things (and photos) to be written about him. Well that might be an over simplification but great idea nonetheless Jason, it looks like it’s really taking off.

I’ll update this post when I get a link back from him… Who knows, he might be overwhelmed with link requests at this point. The links he posted stopped at 49 at the time of this post (crosses fingers for the magic #50).

Oh and by the way, Jason loves his bulldog, Toro (that’s him in the badge photo above).
UPDATE: It’s apparently waaaaaaaaay over 50 so I’d be surprised to get a link back at all.