April Fools Day YouTube RickRoll and Angry Commenters
Posted by Christopher Penn | Filed under Blog, Uncategorized
I had a short post musing about YouTube rickrolling for April Fool’s Day on my blog, and got an angry anonymous comment (which was later swept out of the living room) about how everything isn’t a conspiracy, and that it’s just a joke. Joke or no joke, the value of rickroll blogging should be obvious from these two pictures:
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That blog post was never about rickrolling. It was entirely about meme-jumping, which is linkbait for SEO. Meme-jumping is practically an occupation in SEO nowadays – find or know what’s going to be hot, and have your grappling hooks ready as the meme flies by. The ride is worth it.
As for the commenter? No link juice for you!
Happy April Fool’s Day, rickrollers!
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April 1, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Further research on meme-jumping and SEO.
April 1, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I knew it was coming….but clicked anyway!
April 7, 2008 at 8:47 am
as always great cast …. can you elaborate on the emailing tools? i’m using vertical response and while it great for some basic stuff im looking to get into auto response for some photography courses..
advice on best/most econoical way of getting sarted???
cheers
The boffin
April 9, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Thanks Mark, I’ll add that to our show list for the week of the 17th.
July 26, 2008 at 3:03 pm
[...] While a relatively small group of Twitterers were sharing their #ramday experiences, I wrote this blog post: “What the Hell is #ramday?”. It was an attempt to jump on the coattails of the #ramday meme and vault the blog post as high as possible in Google. Christopher S Penn had a similar meme-jumping experience with Youtube and Rickrolling. [...]