Hi there, Link baiting is a new term in SEO which means "what's old is new again" You can read a good article on SEO bait by just clicking here
For example, you write a really good article with link towards to your site. And if others copyed your article and pasted it in other sites or forums, he actually added a backlink for you. So your article is a link bait.
I'm not 100% on link baiting, its something that I havent yet delved into, but I do believe it is the process of baiting others to link to your site through whatever method that you choose. This can be through writing articles, or even some more black hat methods as well.
No, not a new term, the idea has been around for some time now, some people refer to it in a different context is all, and some people dont even realize that they are link baiting.
Link bait is something you put on your hook to make people want to lnk to you - the most obvious way to do it is to be controversial so that people in blogs and forums start arguing about what you've posted on your site, and give you a link back every time they disagree with you.
Link baiting isnt a new term and Roger_Silvester WTF are you going on about you really dont now your stuff?? A link bait is any content on a website that somehow encourages viewers to place links to it from other websites. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention
Link baiting is a techniques used to attract link from high quality websites and ranking websites to your websites that called link baiting.. these techniques include unique web content, using social bookmarking, and other community websites.