In a simple language: You write something very unique and interesting which has not been discussed anywhere or discussed very rarely, then people start referring you (your article, by giving linkback) in their articles, posts, discussions, etc. This process of earning links (I didn't say building links ) is called Link Bait
Link Bait means that if a content on your site and you know this content is very unique and other sites links because they want to, not because you ask them. Link bait is very positive thing for SEO.
Well, Let me tell you the Example.. My website had the articles of Sachin Tendulkar getting retired.. I have write that article at February 2012 and meanwhile on June speculations were there as he will retire at July.. So i get many visitors to that articles and people started to make backlinks, Copy my articles and following to that post, Trackback using wordpress etc.... So that thing was a Bait for me... Let me know if any help needed??
Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention." Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature. The content for link baiting would be a text, image, audio or video clip and it interesting enough to catch the people’s attention.
Link Baiting is the process of creating an interesting newsworthy topic keeping SEO techniques in mind and post it on popular social media channels. This content acts as bait and encourages others to link to it. There is nothing unethical in it and hence Google won't penalize you for it.
Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link
In simple term link baiting is practice of crafting content which is designed to get other content producers to link to it.
Hello, Link Bait is a term in SEO under which a website has a specific features or a piece of content which encourage other website to link with that website; in simple meaning link bait is about anything that attracts other people towards your website to link with your site. Thank you.
In SEO, Link Baiting is a tricky practice of creating content, which is being designed to get other content creators link to it. Link baiting helps in increasing the number of inbound links to your content, thereby improving the performance in search engine results.