This latest post by Silva is pretty amazing, and not in a good way. We’re all aware of how Silva link whores his own personal website every chance he gets, and he attempts to drive google traffic by using the names of well known theologians, authors, and ministers (which is why he can’t mention Nathan Neighbours without also mentioning McManus). But this latest post may be the greatest example of that. So I’ve come up with a formula to determine what is the greatest example of link whoring.

Simply take the number of names not focused on the point being made, add to it the number of times a personal website is mentioned and/or linked to from a different blog, and divide by the number of words in a post (you can copy/paste to word to do the word count automagically). So this particular post gives us a link whore rating of .066 (he mentioned Kimball, McLaren, Apprising “Ministries” mentioned once, Apprising “Ministries” linked 4 times, Haggee and Warren X2 divided by a word count of 151).

So there it is people, if you can beat a link whore index rating of .066 I’ll give you some sort of totally sweet shout out.

****Updated****
I messed up the math. There were 4 additional links to Apprising “Ministries” I missed the first time through thinking they were links to the websites of the people being mentioned to add to google traffic, so the total has been adjusted up to .066, raising the bar for everyone out there.

***Updated 2***
And just like that Silva out link whores himself in his very next post. This post garners a link whore index rating of .074 (no less than four links to Apprising “Ministries” in only 54 words). Congratulations to Silva on his outstanding work in the field of link whoring.