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Imagine selling Basic Thinking is linkbait, can Robert resist the 20k?

Ernst-Jan Written on 9th January 2009                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS some text
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

BarCampBerlin3 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Germany’s no. 1 blogger Robert Basic: “I’m selling my blog!”. After a hundred blog posts, comments, a GPR increase of 2, and extra ad revenue. “Oh, you know what, I love my blog so much. I won’t sell it! Thanks for your support though”.

Whether he’s the Scoble or Arrington of Germany, one thing is for sure. Robert Basic knows how to get attention. After a few years of successful blogging – last month Basic Thinking attracted 85,000 unique visitors and served 254,000 page views -, he decided to put up his blog on eBay (expecting to receive an amount between €10k and €100k). Allegedly because he wants to “start from scratch again”.

Yet some sources believe it’s just another trick from Basic’s sleeve. Linkbaiting so you will. If that really is the case, Basic did a great job. The auction goes on for six more days, he already has coverage from major blogs (including an article from Robin Wauters on TechCrunch).

The question is, can he resist the temptation of just taking the money and run? The score already is €20.150,00. Let’s see what happens!

About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

5 comments/trackbacks to “Imagine selling Basic Thinking is linkbait, can Robert resist the 20k?”

  1. Feb 1, 2009: Blog-Einnahmen Januar 2009 « Medien-Monopoly

    [...] Veröffentlichungen, beispielsweise von alterfalter.de oder selbstständig-im-netz.de und auch Robert Basic´ Ebay-Auktiönchen ist an mir nicht verborgen [...]

  1. By Allen on Jan 9, 2009

    FYI Ernst – Techcrunch wasn’t the first american blog to report on this – we had it much earlier this week:
    http://www.centernetworks.com/.....ay-auction

    as you note, we’ve heard from several of our german readers that it could be a linkbait scheme.

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  2. By Mircea on Jan 9, 2009

    The link which goes to Robert Basic website is broken…

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  3. By Mircea on Jan 9, 2009

    This looks like Entrecard did once and I wrote about it here: http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/.....t-to-sell/ (he didn’t sell in the end, but he got coverage in the online press and generated some buzz).

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  4. By pEtEr on Jan 10, 2009

    Exclusive: Robert Basic Instinct on eBay – The Big Sellout http://bit.ly/JiKy

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