Viral Marketing is that in which large number of people promote something to large number of their friends and link bait is making a website interesting to attract visitors.I hope this will help you.
hi In my opinion, these two types of online promotion are almost the same, except for one big difference: the end goal. In a Viral Marketing campaign, the main goal usually is to reach as much people as possible to deliver them a positive brand message. When you’re link baiting, you can be aiming at the same people, but the end goal usually is to attract as much (ideally relevant) links as possible, to eventually increase search engine ranking
They're the same thing. Link bait - is creating articles that generates links - which is the same as viral marketing - as viral marketing is the spreading of your site - which is, word of mouth, and getting natural links. Link bait = natural links.
In that time there is the most popular buzz words in the online marketing realm right now are link baiting and viral marketing. These two tactics are a great way to build links and to build branding when constrained by small marketing budgets, but there are several things you need to remember when planning these types of campaigns.
Link bait is all about getting links. Viral marketing is about getting people to talk about your brand.
Link baiting is just using content to try and get links. For example, I might tweet a link to a new article at someone who runs an authoritative site and hope they use it on their site. This is link baiting but it's not viral. You can make viral content in hopes that people will link to it, so that's using viral marketing for the purpose of link baiting.