Jason Calacanis And Link Baiting

Jason Calacanis has posted a set of link-baiting rules on his blog. In his post, he lists the nine best strategies for posting about him and obtaining a link from him in return.

Never being one to turn down an offer of a link from a high-profile blogger, I decided to take this opportunity to give Stuffr a workout while posting about Jason and his rules.

The first strategy is to post a short bio about him. Why? Doesn't everyone on the planet already know who he is? Maybe not, however, my readers seem to be quite selective about what they read here on my site, so if they don't know who he is, they probably aren't reading this post anyway. I could be mistaken though.

Strategy number two is simple. Don't start the post by flaming him. Jason can rest assured that I am not going to flame him, and I also have no plans to add him to my morons list either. Well, not yet anyway.

His third strategy is to mention an older post he has done. Truth be told, I just started reading his blog a few months ago, so I have no favorite old post to share with you all. Unless of course some of you consider posts from two months ago to be "old", which means your sense of time is pretty skewed and you probably won't be reading this until November anyway.

Fourth in the list is "slamming someone he doesn't like or has had a beef with". Now now, why would I take sides when I have no dog in the fight? Then again, he is spot on when it comes to PayPerPost, isn't he?

The fifth strategy for link baiting is picking a favorite quote from his podcast. I've been so damned busy lately I totally forgot he had a podcast. Okay, so I didn't really forget, I'm just backlogged. In fact, as of this post I have 29 podcasts to catch up on, three of them are his. I know, I suck.

Strategy number six. Posting a picture of him when he wasn't fat. Fat? Does he even know what fat is? He's got to be kidding. Does he really think I am going to take time out of my day to find a picture where he doesn't look fat? Puhleaze.

The seventh strategy is to lie and say we hung out one night back in the Silicon Alley days. Why would I want to lie to my readers? Isn't that what PayPerPost wanted their bloggers to do? Either way, I hang out all day, every day with Jason. Sure. It's on Twitter, but I do hang out with him every day. That is no lie.

The eighth strategy is flaming him in paragraph five. Oh crap. I missed it. That was so five paragraphs ago. Now what do I do? How stupid is that rule anyway? The fifth paragraph. Hmmf. What does he know anyway? He could be wrong on that one.

Ninth on the list is linking to a Flickr photo of his, a digg story about him, or one of the many other sites, like Twitter, where you can find him.

So there you have it. Jason Calacanis' link baiting rules. Aren't you glad you stayed for the show? Your reward? A free copy of Stuffr. Go grab it. You earned it. ;)

Update: Upon checking Jason's follow up post to the link baiting rules, I noticed a nice Link Biter badge. Of course I had to grab it and slap it up here. You can never have too many badges to show what you'll do for a link from one of the "big guys".