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The Art of Linkbaiting
Ever found it hard to get other bloggers to link to a new blog? Sure you have, it's not easy sometimes. Even established blogs need to expand their traffic and influence on a regular basis, and linkbaiting is one way to do it. It's not without potential perils, but the time honored tradition of being contrary, in order to get attention is well proved, and done right, it's a killer way to break into a new area. There are also safer ways of linkbaitng, they're just less fun. In order to bait a
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Link Baiting & Effective Link Building
Link baiting is merely link building with a twist: Rather than hunting out links, you are bringing the links to you through unique and popular site content.
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10 Brilliant Examples of Linkbait
Link building is the single most important aspect of SEO, and yet it is often the most difficult. It’s also where most people cut corners. One pillar of successful link building is strategic linkbait. “What exactly is linkbait?” you might ask. It’s basically anything that pulls the visitor in and begs to be linked to. “But, isn’t linkbait a shallow trick to get people to your page?” It can be, but that’s not really effective because it won’t sustain traffic or links. Effective linkbait is backed
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What is Linkbaiting?
Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it’s an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.”
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Link Bait and LinkBaiting.
On a meta-level, I think of “linkbait” as something interesting enough to catch people’s attention, and that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. There are a lot of ways to do that, including putting in sweat-of-the-brow work to generate data or insights, or it can be as simple as being creative. You can also say something controversial to generate discussion (this last one gets tired if you overuse it, though). Sometimes even a little bit of work can generate a reason for people to link to you.
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21 Keys to Link Bait Success.
"Link Bait is more or less anything you create anywhere on the Web that inspires other people to link to it. They can link to it via a Web page, a blog, social bookmark site, tagging site, e-zine, newsletter, IM, email or any other method that tells others about the bait."
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Link Bait Vs. Link Love
What is Link Bait? Link Bait is a hook. It is unique or even controversial content. Common sources of Link Bait include humorous items, accusations, controversy, or even implications. Link Bait is similar to 'shock and awe'; people cannot help but link because they are so intrigued (for good or bad). Link Bait often walks the line between acceptable and unacceptable. What is Link Love? Link Love is all about quality. In order to achieve Link Love you must establish authority and credibility.
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The Art Of Link Baiting
By now everyone should know that getting linked from other sites and blogs is the key to getting indexed by Google and other search engines. People get links in many ways, from simple link exchanges to comment spamming. What I want to talk about is something call link baiting. Link baiting looks at linking as a fishing expedition. In order to catch a fish, you need bait. In the case of site development, the fishes are other websites or blogs and the bait is your content. Well, let me restat
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Badges, gadgets and widgets = Link bait!
Badges and widgets CAN be amazing link bait. If it’s a useful widget and if it’s launched properly AND if the widget incorporates links back to your site in the right way, it can go viral and start building up your link popularity and PageRank.
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LinkBaiting
Link bait is unique and interesting content that other sites naturally want to link to. Link bait can be something orignial, it can be something first, it can be something that is contrary, it can be something that is humorous, or it can be something that is useful.
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LinkBait for BackLinks
Given the difficulty of obtaining links from other sites (backlinks), the whole issue of how to best accomplish this is ferociously discussed in SEO circles. One of the idea arising from this brainstorming is the concept of link baiting. Link what? Link Baiting is putting something compelling on your site that will attract links from other sites and particularly links from key parts of the so-called web 2.0 environment.
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