Link Baiting – Has it Vanished?

Link baiting is a white hat technique which has been around since 2006. It has not vanished. It is, in fact, one the safest method of link building. It’s a natural method. It has viewers to link on your site perhaps because they find it interesting or worth the buzz. Although I personally no longer read a blog regarding link bait, successful companies usually implement this strategy, viewers are just not aware of the term with what they do when they link to other sites.

According to Wikipedia:

“Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Attempts to create link bait are frequently employed in the overall task of search engine optimization. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything “… interesting enough to catch people’s attention.”

So how are you going to create link bait? There are actually dozens of ways to do it, it’s not that easy, in fact you have to keep experimenting, same way as catching a fish – use the right hook and drop it at the right place. But when you succeed on this, you could make even millions of dollars. What do you think readers do when they link to a certain article on ezine to their site, or simply sharing it with others? Its link baiting, Search Engines prefer it because it’s “organic” – meaning natural, its quality vs. quantity when it comes to link popularity.

Some ideas on creating a link bait

• Writing something controversial (works all the time)
• Write a review (new gadgets, establishment or service)
• Oppose someone’s idea
• Write entertaining articles
• Provide useful list of resources
• Conduct a research on something
• Be up-to-date with what’s going on, technology, celebrity, economy etc. and share your opinion

There are far more than I can imagine, you just have to be creative and ask yourself what is your goal for creating link bait? Is it only for the link popularity or to attract a certain niche?  You always have to start with something before preparing your bait to catch a big fish.