It’s good for the search engines, good for the SEO clan, and really good for the Intarweb. I think it can be argued that the world will be a better place if all of us spend our time trying to figure out how to make awesome stuff that people like rather than trying our best to trick the search engines into loving us.

(A quick update: Enya is singing on the Christmas special now. It turns out she sounds like a robot in person too, and one of her backup singers is a drag queen. Onward!)

And this brings me to the subject of this post – I want to show you a cool ass piece of link bait (no it isn’t Drink Bait, but that is a kick butt idea too). The bait is a little site is a little something called Websites as Graphs. Yeah…not the most exciting name. And to tell you the truth I don’t think this person really intended to make link bait, but after over a million uses, I think it is safe to call it link bait.

Websites as Graphs takes a URL and somehow spiders the site and turns it into a visual representation that looks kinda like gumdrops and toothpicks (check the picture above…that’s Marketing Punk as a graph).

I guess the reason I am writing about this is to show a good example of link bait and hopefully inspire someone (preferably who works in my office) to come up with a new, cool web thing that will draw some links.

Alright, back to Rockafeller center for me. They are going to light the giant tree that spent a hundred years getting big so it can be chopped down and die in the middle of a dirty ass city.

Yes, I’m a big old hippie.