Digg’s HD-DVD Revolt, the best Linkbait Ever?

03. May 2007 | 6 Comments

So I’m sure most of you already know that Digg’s users all went nuts yesterday posting the infamous HD-DVD Decryption code.

Ignoring the legalities of it all one can’t begin to believe the amount of links the whole escapade has generated for Digg.

Lets have a look for example at Kevin’s blog post here (this was only posted yesterday):

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link:http://blog.digg.com/?p=74%20-site:blog.digg.com

It already has over 335 (Update: The post now has 23,000 links) links showing in Yahoo alone (within 24 hours) from some huge sites such as:

Techcrunch
Slashdot
Boingboing
Reddit
Techmeme
Forbes
CNet

The list goes on & on.

Whilst the whole escapade may end up costing Digg by losing a valued sponsor & some legal action; at least they can laugh evilly at the sheer number of links they’ve generated. That is unless……they get shut down.

MuhahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

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6 Comments on "Digg’s HD-DVD Revolt, the best Linkbait Ever?"

Vlad 04. May 2007, 12:52 am

Wow! I am not sure how long ago you have posted this but I just checked Yahoo and it is showing well over 700 links.

scott 04. May 2007, 1:02 am

Yes, they did get a ton of links. But, this is Digg after all. Do links even really matter to them anymore? It’s hard to see why they’d need anymore exposure than they already have.

Just curious as to what benefit even more links could bring them.

Vlad 04. May 2007, 1:11 am

@Scott

Well if it ever comes for Digg to “die fighting” I think it would be a good idea to keep the blog going.

JT 04. May 2007, 3:46 am

When it was happening? I really, really thought hard about submitting one of my own domains up there, because I figured there would be some linkbait or traffic that would come through - especially doing a “story on the story”. But no, I figured relevant links were better in the long run.

But thanks to this blog and BlueHatSEO, I’m thinking of things like this now.

Kevin 04. May 2007, 2:51 pm

yeah i think a lot of bloggers who posted about it saw a little jump in traffic. it certainly was a crazy day for digg. i can only imagine what was happening behind the scenes

Andy 08. May 2007, 4:11 pm

Ya, it is the craziest day in Digg and a big day in web2.0