Linkbaiting as a theory is still a mystery, many people have heard of the word “linkbaiting†but very few actually understand what it means or how to roll out a good linkbaiting campaign. Linkbaiting is a new buzzword around SEO circles; the point of starting a great linkbaiting campaign is to generate as many links as possible from many different sources. Roll out a linkbaiting campaign correctly and your website will literally explode with traffic and you will gain more backlinks in a week than you could get in a year of traditional SEO. To create some linkbait you need to have one core ingredient and that is to have something that is interesting. It needs to catch a reader’s eye; particularly bloggers eye’s to be exact. With the proliferation of blogs on the Internet it is possible to create huge hype and buzz about a website or product. Once it has been spread around the Blogging world, word should spread and your website should have a linkbaiting success story.
either it has to be very useful for people or very interesting. most people fail because its hard to come up with ideas like that.
Linkbaiting certainly doesn't work in all cases - in fact it is effective in a very narrow area anyway. I don't see how it can be used as a mainstream way to get backlinks especially if you are starting out. Instead of building a positive reputation, linkbaiting tries will only bring you down, so it is no point trying and failing.
Link baiting is very useful and come sometimes be a lot better than the usual link building. Check out my post on Linkbaiting here in this forum: Why Linkbaiting is Better than Link Building