I wanted to do a small posting on link magnets because there seems to be a ton of people out there trying to figure out how to build links. I must state that I did not get this idea on my own, but I heard it from Bruce Clay. Just making sure credit is given where credit is due. Link Magnets are things on your site that inspire large amounts of links. A great example are the tools from seochat.com. How many people do you think are linking to those tools....A TON! Another example is on bruceclay.com. Look at his search engine relationship chart or their code of ethics. Those are both great examples of link magnets. I would bet those two things along built 10s of thousands of links for that site. If your site is new you may have to go into forums and add some valuable content with a link to your link magnet in your signature. Because people will not just find your stuff on a brand new site - it's going to take a little promoting. I hope you are starting to see what I am talking about and I truly hope this gets some people focusing on building higher quality stuff on their site instead of paying some guy to do directory submissions or something like that.
Does anyone else have any examples of what a link magnet is or ideas on how to create them? Trying to get a bit of a discussion going if anyone is interested.