What do you mean by Link Baiting?
This is a new idea born among webmasters to gain popularity
for their blogs/web page. As you all know getting attention
is an old trick, weather in real life or online. Politician
uses this often to stay in limelight. This same rule applies
to link baiting as well.
There are two different flavors in link baiting idea. Good
and bad. Good ones are those to create news first like exposing
scams and create news, which will surprise everyone. Bad
ones are those you create a controversy or attach some leading
personalities in your blogs. Think that you are trying to
gain traffic not really hurt anyone. These kinds of tricks
or ideas will bring in 1000's of website/blogs linking to
your site.
Link baiting idea is a blackhat technique that's why most
webmasters think it is not legitimate to use it. But the
effects of link baiting have profound effect and gradually
drive traffic to your blog or site. If implement properly
it can draw huge links with minimum effort from your side.
Some link expert's call that "hooks" http://performancing.com
has mentioned the 5 types of "hooks" as News, Contrary, attack
resource and Humor.
Matt Cutts the Google Engineer in his blog about SEO advice
has mentioned "LinkBait" as something interesting to catch
people's attention. He say's Linkbaiting is not a bad idea.
So creating attention is the key to that also person should
be creative in his thought to get that idea into place.
You might all have heard of Alex Tew of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
he created an idea to raise a Million $ to raise funds for
his college education by selling 1 pixel for a $ on his website.
After four months he accomplished the task. This is the kind
of news you should create to get attention. His site was
also mentioned in CNN News as well. After his idea there
are 100 of sites mushroomed over the web like one cent pixels
but they are not gaining to achieve the results Alex could
drew to his website. So be first to create news before it
gets crowded.
Actually the term "linkbait" was started by Aaron Wall of
SEO book in his post way back in August 2005. He says in
his post that if "you are in a field that can't build links
naturally create linkbait". By creating something on your
web site that's funny, controversial, informative, or creative,
it will gain natural links—which is the key to top
search engine rankings.
Andy Hagan's has come up with an idea to throw a contest
to get links. The idea is simple give Andy a link baiting
idea and if that works you will earn $1000 for that. He has
posted that on BizNicheMedia.com blog. So his idea for a
contest itself is an example of link baiting.
And generating information or ideas that people talk about
is a surefire way to generate links.
Tead Jozeph is a webmaster and a search engine optimization
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