Talk:Methods of website linking

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Contents 1 Regarding the Massive Article Merge 2 The Title Is Wildly Inaccurate, For Starters 3 Expert: Please Help With Cleanup. 4 Link bait as viral. Yes?? Why so?

[edit] Regarding the Massive Article Merge

• Yes, I didn't merge the old discussion pages. The majority of the old articles had none, or were deletion/spam reports on content since changed.
• I do believe link popularity belongs in this article (the focus of all these linking methods), but if you can put it in a better context, please do.
• I did try to fix redirects from the older merges to the best of my ability.

Cwolfsheep (talk) 02:09, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Title Is Wildly Inaccurate, For Starters

There is only one "method" of website linking, and that is with the anchor tag <a href>. What this entire article and every section in it are discussing are methods of getting people to link to you, which can collectively be referred to as "Link building". The article does not pertain to "methods of hyperlinking to/of different websites", it pertains, for the most part, to ways of convincing others to link to a particular website. "Link building" currently redirects to "Search engine optimization", but by all rights should actually be this article. This is all as a complete aside to the very poor quality of the article and need for cleanup there. Mvandemar (talk) 13:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Expert: Please Help With Cleanup.

Mvandemar, please help with cleanup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R33c3 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Link bait as viral. Yes?? Why so?

Article says: "Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature."
It's not obvious to me that link bait is viral in nature (or for that matter that it isn't).
Could somebody please add a brief explanation here of why, or cite a source that explains this? Thanks. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 14:24, 22 March 2008 (UTC)