I half disagree. If you're blogging then the point is to get that blog some eyeballs on it. Otherwise you write in a journal or don't make it publicly accessible or at the very least don't help it get indexed and never link to it.
I think there's link-bait and then there's LINK BAIT! (TM). It's a fine line between the two. You have to have a catchy, preferably keyword splattered, title or you become yet another blog no one cares about. I also think there's too much focus on the title when it comes to real link-bait. The really awful kind of link-bait is the kind that links to an article with very little to no content having anything to do with the title. In this case I think the article corresponded with the title enough for it not to be link-bait-style misleading. But that's me and there is no real answer. Just interpretations.
I wholeheartedly disagree. If you are blogging ideally you are doing so because you are injecting valuable insights or information into the world at large. The value is not to you that eyeballs are on your blog but to the eyeballs themselves.
