SEO Quick Tip of the Day —> #16

30. Mar, 2007 Categories: "How-To" SEO by Justin Smith 0 Comments

Here is Today’s Tip: 

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A popular term in the SEO industry is Link Baiting.  It is the act of trying trying to get other websites to link to yours through various means.  It could be anything from a popular story, a contest on your website,  a controversial topic… anything that will encourage other people to link to you.  It can often become viral in nature, creating a community buzz around a certain topic.

There are many creative ways to link bait… we will cover many of them in this series, but I wanted to familiarize you with the term.

One of my favorite link baiting tools is the “informational hook”.  Write about something really interesting… what are you an expert in?  Are you saavy to secrets you are willing to share in order to create some buzz and links to your site?  Some of the most common are top 10 or top 50 lists.  If you don’t have any ideas, borrow from some of your favorite blogs or news sites and redress it to make it interesting.  Lets face it… there are alot of boring blogs out there.

We’ll talk about some other ideas in the near future.

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