Link baiting is the latest news or we can say latest trend in the Search Engine Marketing World. Link bait is the content, special report, etc. on your site to which other sites link or that attract quality one way back links for your web site or web page, because they wish to, not because you request them to. Conventionally, links are tough to get, but with this latest technique (link baiting), you "bait" your content and sit back and wait.
So many articles have been written on Link Bait that are naturally attracting back links, in this you just create something or we can say a list of unreachable resources, any special report or any thing that naturally catch the attention of people and attract backlink for your page by getting people to discussing on it, talk about it, posting it on social networking websites, blogging about it and linking to it from their website. It also attracts quality traffic.
In order to bait links, you require a hook. Hooks come in range of flavors. The easiest, and safest is the nice hook, few of them are and examples of each hook:
- News hook
it’s a genuine scoop so first collect any important news or depict a story for a scam, or to be blemished. You must have to know your theme to do that , but links flood like water if you can expose a popular mimeme
- Divergent Hook
- Be the only one in your niche to find something to not like about a story, or like about a story/product.
- On the same theme, post "Why
is WRONG about..."
- Attack Hook
This is quite similar to the divergent hook as you need to be much, much ruder, and it works same as the divergent hook, though it is hard to be so rude as it could land me in hot water. But I can’t help because my main aim is to get more and more traffic and sometimes it’s absolutely killer and can gain you credibility and reputation overnight. But be careful with that one. It can just as easily go the wrong way.
- Resource Hook
- A wide-ranging directory of web blogs in your niche - link out, and links will come in, I guarantee. Or you write on A How to based on your niche.
- A practical/useful or even fun tool related to your niche
- A compilation of news stories on a theme. Sprinkle a little analysis in there, and you're good to go.
- Humor Hook
These kinds of hooks are just too easy. You can look for flicker, photoshop a out of the ordinary pic of your subject and write about 10 or more things I love about or hate about but I think, I hate about would work better
Funny thing is, those things always get links, it's like people never seem to tire of them.
Give and thou wilt receive...
All of the above is completely useless without being seen by your peers though. Link to them in your post, then click those links if you have absolutely no traffic. You need to get their initial attention.
Send emails, post to delicious, myweb2 etc - just make sure that at least one prominent blogger in your niche reads and links to you and the rest will follow.
Now, what I want to listen to is this: What other types of link bait do you use? So Please comment if you have more info on link bait.
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