What is Link Baiting?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by intizam, Mar 13, 2012.

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    Some SEO service provider says they are expert in linkbait. I dont know about it. Please explain how can I use it and what are its advantages?
     
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    master-yoda Well-Known Member

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    Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link to the website. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention. Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature. The term often has a negative or dismissive connotation. The content for link baiting would be a text, image, audio or video clip and it interesting enough to catch the people’s attention.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait
     
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    Hi,

    Link bating has a role within SEO, but it should already be considered as part of the Marketing side of the SEO campaign. While the SEO Marketers are looking for ways to improve conversions, they should also be thinking about how to "link bait" others into linking to their site. It might be a one-time only thing, or maybe they can come up with a significant link bait every few months, but either way, doing what any good marketer does should be a form of link bait in itself. :eek:
     
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    It is simply a piece of content placed on the website in order to encourage others to link with your site.
     
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    Link baiting is the best tactics that is create to be greatly efficient in building better number of high value one way links that are recognized in a normal way. It is also used in search engine optimization, as it is an authoritative tool and can useful a site that has less famous keywords than natural.
     
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    Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.
     
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    Link building is a pretty general term used to describe anything you do to build links to a website.
     
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    ...just to give you a hands-on example: Say you are kidnapped by aliens and and you luckily got your smart phone in your pocket - as soon as you escape, you upload that clip and post it on your homepage. Add a catchy title (Video Proof: Aliens mistake me for Steve Jobs!!!) and watch what happens... the clip should spread all over the place and people will link to the site where the clip is posted. My example with those aliens might sound a lil weird :rolleyes:, but I think you get my point. Link baiting will get you backlinks (probably lots of them if done right) and the best part about it is...you don#t have to pay people to link to you...they will do it out of curiousity.
     
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    Linkbait is a word that gets passed round a lot in SEO - but it's not a massively used or understood term, and a Google search only yields a few specialist sites based on SEO. Some describe it as a technique; others dismiss it as a by-product of producing quality content.


     
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    Link Baiting is a technique or you can say a way to seduce other bloggers or writers to give you backlinks for your specific content creation. There are lots of ways for link baiting but yes, as Jaya has said that it's not massively used as it as it is tough technique.
     
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    Linkbaiting is one of SEO methods, when you create unique and attractive content and people come to your sites by themselves. However it is tough to create such a content.
     
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    Link baiting is one of the proven strategies that are found to be highly effective in building good number of high value one way links that are established in a natural way.
     
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    Link baiting is about writing content in a website, which arouses the interest and curiosity of others. It is such a content which other sites love to link because they feel that it should be linked and not because you are asking them to link it. Link bait helps SEO in many ways mainly by link building. Link bait helps to get more links to your website and it increases the chance of your website getting indexed by search engines.
     
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    Link baiting is one of the proven strategies that are found to be highly effective in building good number of high value one way links that are established in a natural way.
     
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