Building Linkbaits

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Building Linkbaits

Netscape is all about power accounts and vote velocity (not a revolutionary system). But unlike digg, building a power account isn't hard. 2 weeks of submitting stories (about 10 a day), voting (lots of votes), and commenting (10-20 a day) should build a decent account. I dumped the job on a summer student we had in the shop.

Works better if you post as a hot chick with a cute photo as your avatar and a link to a flicker account with good photos. Do that and you'll have no problem building a big friend list in under a week.

The goal is 20 votes in under an hour, that should get you to the top in most sub categories. The top 2 stories from each category will go to the home page for a max of 24 hours. Pick less competitive categories and time your submissions so that the top stories only have a few hours left and the third and fourth place stories are easy to catch.

If the site is spammy you'll get banned, any proxy vote accounts will get banned, if the same people are always the first 5-10 votes they'll all get banned, the domain will get banned, any account that posts that domain in the future will get banned. They ban real quick. Almost on a whim.

Here's the method that worked for me:

1. Only post articles from good sites (everything else is a waste of time)
2. The article can have some adsense on it but it should be small and below the fold.
3. Use a "power" account to submit the article
4. Just before submitting, vote on every friend's article, and reply to all messages with a link to your recent submissions.
5. Submit the article and then send out a "share" to all online friends, and friends who've participated recently. Don't send more than 20.
6. After 30 mins you can send another bunch of "shares", once you get near the top of a category the organic voting should push you the rest of the way.

Don't overdue the number of "self-interest" submissions, fly under the radar an you can keep your accounts live for weeks. While this isn't a definitive guide, it should save a few weeks of research.