What is Link Baiting

Discussion in 'Google' started by Renus, May 15, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi All

    Could any one help me out to understand the proper meaning of Link Baiting?
    Why it is so important now a days?
    It is good or bad in terms of SEO?

    Regards
     
    Renus, May 15, 2007 IP
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    Hi,

    linkbaiting is just another word for writing a quality content that many will link to. Linkbaiting can be writing a catchy blog post that will get on digg, del.icio.us etc. and will receive lots of backlinks from other blogs.

    It's like fishing for links with quality content on the barb :)
     
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    Thank you so much :)
     
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    link baiting means to discuss about a site or a link, the best example can be about the paid links and matt cutts, that really helped matt get a lot of traffic to his blog:)

    making people talk about a site of link, to discuss on a site!
     
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    If you have a blog or a content based site, it is fairly easier to do link baiting. But if you have an ecommerce site which only sells products it becomes harder. But if you are an entrepreneur minded person, you will always find great ways for link baiting even for your ecommerce site.

    Here's some creative ideas about Link Baiting For Ecommerce Sites.

    I hope it helps.
     
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    Link baiting term originated after the Social networking sites like digg, reddit came to picture. It is writing a top quality article or anything with a catchy phrase which will make the visitors to click on the link.
     
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    I apologize for contracting you, but I feel that link bait has been discussed since long before those social bookmarking sites became important. Matt popularized it in 2006 - but he didn't coin the phrase by any means. In the old days getting traffic was done by link trading, link bait, search engine submission and optimization (infoseek) - in that order.

     
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    Here's a great example of link baiting from shoemoney blog...

    Al Gore Get A DUI - Lots Of Other Drugs Found

    pretty shady if you ask me.... but I guess people who get $132K checks from Adsense and show them off can do no wrong...


    [​IMG]

    LOL, most of us are lucky if we can scrape $123 from adsense. I don't undertand what this guy is doing to make that knd of money... plus, his blog really sucks.... almost as bad as Matt Cutts, full of garbage and self promotion... well, the worms eat up anything...
     
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    Shoe has got it like that. More power to him. :)

    I think that link baiting is garbage. But it depends on your market niche.

    I'm waiting for Matt Cutts to start posting about Excessive Link Baiting and link baiting penalities for non-relevant link baiting.
     
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    Yeah, that might be the next Google slapdown.... otherwise, Matt Cutts is a good guy even if he's just a tool.... so's Jer from Shoemoney - after all, we're all here to make $$$ ... The almighty G! needs to take a big step back and just let things flow... IMHO....
     
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    Link baiting is not garbage. Basically what you do is make something really cool, pic, vid, article, game, ect. Something that people would share, and you get them to do the advertising for you. Its a good way to expload a site.

    Say you show 2 people, then they show two people, all of them show two people ect.

    2*2=4
    4*2=8
    8*2=16
    16*2=32

    4+8+16+32=60 and thats just showing two people.
     
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    Linkbaiting is the way you attract more customer by create a unique content that can baiting additional traffic
     
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    Link Baiting is the best and latest word in the seo world and has come to be preferred way to the preferred way to natural link building.If you can submit it to the right sort of site in the right sort of field with the right sort of audience and just find yourself with a deluge of traffic.
     
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