Link Baiting Idea
One of the best and the far most the effective way to gain links
to your website or blogs is link baiting idea.
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
href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com">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.
Generate information or ideas which will make people to talk
which will definitely a great to generate a good inbound links.
About the author:
Thomson Chemmanoor is a webmaster and a search engine
optimization expert who operates the following websites
http://www.articlenetworks.com, http://www.digitallabz.com visit
http://www.website-promotion-expert.com/link-baiting-idea.html
Written by: Thomson Chemmanoor
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